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...Willard's career as a railroad executive manager is no more drawing to a close at his present age, than that of Mr. Chauncey Depew of the New York Central, Mr. E. P. Ripley of the Atchison, Mr. J. R. Kenly of the Atlantic Coast Line, Mr. Milton Smith of the Louisville and Nashville, and many other eminent illustrations, who reached an unusually ripe old age before relinquishing management of their great interests. Mr. Willard is not only in sound and virile health, but he is more than favorably comparable in that respect with troops of other...
...game with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. This occurred in a hotel room in Hannibal. Mo. When Mr. Lincoln heard his steamboat whistle blow, he yielded the game. Oldest Yale graduate is now Dr. Virgil Maro Dow, 97, of New Haven (class of 1856, to which the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew belonged...
Yale is to be congratulated on the $2,000,000 bequest in the wills of C. F. Depew, Sr. and C. F. Depew, Jr. This gift should be particularly timely in view of the progressive Eli program exemplified by the Quadrangle system, now in the process of construction, and the recently announced reorganization of the curriculum. If this policy is to be continued it is probable that money will be needed to remedy the first dislocating effect that often is the inevitable corollary of progress...
...like a complete New Englander. Edward Tuck was born in Exeter, N. H., the son of Congressman-Banker Amos Tuck, traditionally the man who picked the name of the Republican Party. A member of the Class of 1862, Edward Tuck is to Dartmouth what the late loquacious Chauncey Mitchell Depew was to Yale-honorary Grand Old Man. Sent to Paris by his father's friend Mr. Lincoln, he returned to New York and in 1867 entered the banking house of Munroe & Co. He retired with an enormous fortune in 1881, went with his wife to spend the rest...
Left. By Chauncey Mitchell Depew. who died in April. 1928: $15,954.249 net. Bequests: to Yale University, $1,000,000; to Peekskill, X. Y.. $100.000: to widow, son, nieces, most of the residue...