DEPEW 327 DE PROFTJNDIS ture of bricks, pottery, writing paper, boilers, gasoline engines, yachts, woolen goods, etc. It is the seat of St. Norbert's College. In the neighborhood are im- portant limestone quarries. There is a considerable trade in cattle, grain, and hay. The river is spanned by a bridge 1,600 feet long. Pop. (1910) 4,447; (1920) 5,165. DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, an American lawyer; born in Peekskill, N. Y., April 23, 1834, of Huguenot and Puritan ancestry; was graduated at Yale College in 1856, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1860 he worked for the election of Lincoln; 1861-1862, was a member of the New York Assembly, and served some time as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and as acting speaker; 1863, elected Secretary of State of New York; 1865, declined a re- nomination, and 1866 was commissioned collector of the port of New York by President Johnson, who afterward tore up the commission in a quarrel. He was appointed United States Minister to Japan, and after holding the commission a month declined, and began his career as a railroad official as attorney for the New York and Harlem Railroad. He was made attorney and director of the consoli- dated Hudson River and New York Cen- tral Railroads in 1869; general counsel of the whole Vanderbilt system in 1875; second vice-president of the reorganized New York Central Railroad in 1882, and president in 1885. His political career since 1866 embraces his unsuccessful can- didacy as lieutenant-governor on the Lib- eral Republican ticket in 1872; his elec- tion by the Legislature as a regent of the State University in 1874; his candidacy for United States Senator to succeed Thomas C. Piatt, in which he withdrew his name after 82 days of balloting in 1881 ; his declination of the United States senatorship tendered by the Republicans of the Legislature in 1884; his candidacy for the presidential nomination in the na- tional convention in 1888; and his elec- tion to the United States Senate 1899 — 1911. In 1905 he was involved in the investi- gation of the New York life insurance companies and repaid a loan obtained from the Equitable, for a concern in which he was interested. At the same time he resigned his directorship in the Equitable. Two volumes of his orations and after-dinner speeches have been pub- lished. DE PEYSTER, JOHANNES, a New York merchant; bom in Haarlem, Hol- land, in 1600; was one of the early set- tlers of New York; and became promi- nent in public affair^ during the Dutch possession; was one of the last to swear allegiance to the crown after the English succeeded to the government; served sev- eral times as alderman and deputy mayor. One son, Abraham, became chief- justice, president of the king's council, and acting governor; another, Johannes, mayor; a third, Isaac, member of the Legislature; and a fourth, Cornelius, first chamberlain of New York. He died in New York about 1685. DEPHLOGISTICATED AIR, an old name for oxygen, which chemists re- garded as common air deprived of phlo- giston. DEPILATORIES (I pull out the hair) , chemical agents employed for removing superfluous hair from the skin. DEPONENT, a term in Latin grammar applied to verbs having a passive form but an active signification. They are so called because they, as it were, lay down (Lat. depono) or dispense with the signi- fication proper to their form. Deponent is also used in law for a person who . makes a deposition. DEPOSIT, in law, something given or intrusted to another as security for the performance of a contract, as a sum of money or a deed. In commerce, a de- posit is generally either money received by banking or commercial companies with a view to employ it in their business, or documents, bonds, etc., lodged in security for loans. DEPOSIT, in geology, a layer of mat- ter formed by the settling down of mud, gravel, stoues, detritus, organic remains, etc., which had been held in suspension in water. DEPOSITION, the evidence or state- ment of a witness on oath or afllirmation, signed by the justice or other duly au- thorized official before whom it is given; an affidavit. DEPOT (da'po or dep'o), a French word in general use as a term for a place where goods are received and stored ; hence, in military matters, a magazine where arms, ammunition, etc., are kept. The term is now usually applied to those companies of a regiment which remain at home when the rest are away on foreign service. In the United States it is the common term for a railway station. DEPRIVATION, the removing of a clergyman from his benefice on account of heresy, misconduct, etc. It entails, of course, loss of all emoluments, but not the loss of clerical character. D-R PROFUNDIS. in the liturgy of the Roman Catholie Church, one of the
