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unanimously elected provost of the University of PennsylviinJii. He served that institution for five years, resigning in ls:W, after having raised the roll of students from 21 to T-T). to hofoine assistant rector of St. Peter's church, Pliihuiel- phia. the venerable Bisliop White continuing rector of the three pjirishes, the churches then separating under independent assistant rectors. In li<i6. on the deiitli of Bishop White, he be- came rector of St. Peter's. In 1839 he was elected bishop of the newly created diocese of Western New York, and was consecrated at Auburn. N.Y., May \). is;», by Bisliops Griswold, H. U. Ouderdouk. B. T. Onderdonk and G. W. Doane. He made his residence at Geneva, N.Y., which was near the centre of his diocese. In 1852, in response to an invitation from the Arcli- bishop of Canterbury. Bishop de Lancey and Bishop McCoskry of Michigan were sent by the house of bishops as delegates to the celebration of the 1.30th anniversary of the Society for the proiKigation of the gos^jel in foreign parrs, held that year in London. This event marked the first representation of the American church, by its bishops, officially to the Anglican churcli. The services were held in St. Paul's cathedral and Westminster Abbey. In a subsequent visit to England in ISoQ, Bishop de Lancey acted as a consecrator in Westminster Abbey of an English bishop, the first American bishop to be so lionored. He saved Geneva college (afterward Hobart) from extinction by procuring for the institution through personal efforts an endow- ment of §6000 annually from Trinity church, New York. He was instrumental in the found- ing of De Veaux college at Niagara, by Judge De Veaux. and also founded the Diocesan train- ing school at Geneva, N.Y., which after his death bec^ime the De Lancev' Divinity school. Bisliop de Lancey's friends in Philadeli)hia and we-stern New York erected the beautiful stone memorial church of St. Peter on the grounds of the school, as a monument to its founder. He was married in 1820, to Frances, daughter of Peter Jay Monro of Mamaroneck, N.Y. He was a tru-stee of Hobart, 1839-65. Yale con- ferred upon him in his thirtieth year the degree of D.D. in 1828; Union college that of LL.D. in 1847; and the University of Oxford, England, the degree of D.C.L. in 1852 His published works include many official reports, miscella- neous pamphlets, sermons and addres.ses. He died at Gf-neva. N.Y., Aj.ril 5, 1865.

DELAND, Ellen Doug;las, author, was l)orn at I--ikp MahofMic, N.Y.. Sei)t. 3, I860; daughter of Thorndike and ElizaV)eth (Rawle), grand- daughter of Thorndike and Mohitable (Batch- elder), great-granddaughter of Thorndike and Elizabeth (Osgood), great* granddaughter of

(Jeorge and Abigail (Proctor), great' grand- daughter of (ieorge and Bethia (Peters), and greaf granddaughter of Benjamin and Katherine (Hodges) Deland who were married in Salem, Mass., in 1681. On her mother's side slie descended from Francis Rawle, who came to Philadelpliia in 1686 and was one of Penn's councillors. She was educated at a private school in New York city, and in 1878 removed to Pliiladelphia, where in 1888 she began to con- tribute short stories to periodical literature. Her published books, which consist of stories for young people, include Oaklei{/h (1896); 3Ial- vern (1896); In the Old Herrick House (1897); A Successful Venture (1897;; Alan Hansford (1898); Kalrina (1898).

DELAND, Margaretta Wade (Campbell), autlior, was born at Allegheny, Pa., Feb. 23, 1857; daughter of Sample and Margaretta (Wade) Campbell, and granddaughter of Major William Wade. On her mother's death in 1857 she was taken into the family of her uncle in Pittsburg, and was educated there and at Pelham Priory, New Rochelle, N.Y. She took a course in art at the Cooi^er institute, and from 1878 to 1880 was teacher of indus- trial art in the Nor- mal college of the city of New Y'ork. She was married, May 12, 1880, to Lorin F. De- land of Boston, and removed to that city, devoting her time chiefly to literary y^ ^r\.

work. Her published /liCVi^COuTAJCut44^i\^ writings include: An

Old Garden, and Other Verses (1886'): John Ward, Preacher (1888); Florida Days (1889); Sidney (1889); The Story of a Child {\S92); Mr. Tommy Dove, and Other Stories (1893): The Wisdotn of Fools (1897); Old Chester T<des; besides many sliort stories for periodicals. Of Joliu ]]'((rd. Preacher, 60.00 r^opies liad been sold in 1899 in America, and more than 100,000 in England.

DELANO, Columbus, statesman, was born at Shoreham, Yt., June 5. 1809; son of James and Lucinda (Bateman) Delano. In 1817 he settled m Knox county, Ohio, where his boyhood was I)assed on a farm. He was left without a natural protector in 1819, and went to Lexington, Ohio, where he worked in a woolen mill. He entered the law office of Homer Curtis at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in 182H; was admitted to the bar in 1831, and began practice in that town. He was prose-