Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System.
Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Depew, Yale College Class of 1856 album.
Chauncey M. Depew in 1901
"When Depew goes to the Senate" by Homer Davenport, 1899
Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, 35 miles (56 km) north of New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point in Rockland County. The population was 25,431 at the 2020 U.S. census, up from 23,583 at the 2010 census. It is the third-largest municipality in northern Westchester County, after Cortlandt and Yorktown.
Downtown Peekskill
First page of Ryck's patent with the name of Sachem Sirham, chief of the Sachoes.
Eastern redoubt on Fort Hill Park
South Street in 1908