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Elected. Albert Hall Harris, director of fourscore companies, to be chairman of the executive committee of the New York Central R. R. Co.; to succeed, in duties but not in title, the late chairman of the board of directors, Chauncey Mitchell Depew...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell (Miss Mary Catherine Hughes) a son, on the sixty-sixth birthday of his grandfather, Charles Evans Hughes; at Manhattan...
...Republican Party owed thanks to Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business...
...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...Died. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 93, Chairman of the New York Central Railroad, of pneumonia; in Manhattan...