My Memories of Eighty Years (Esprios Classics)

Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23 1834 - April 5 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests president of the New York Central Railroad System and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. After graduating from Yale Depew entered the office of Edward Wells a lawyer in Peekskill as a student. Depew then read law with William Nelson of Peekskill New York from 1856-58. He was admitted to the bar in March 1858; opened an office and practiced in Peekskill until 1861. For a few months Depew engaged in the brokerage business in New York City as a member of the firm Depew and Potter but then resumed his law practice in Peekskill.