Born: Ju­ly 24, 1869, Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 24, 1940, South Or­ange, New Jer­sey.

Depew at­tend­ed Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, and served as or­gan­ist and choir­master of the First Pres­by­ter­ian Church in De­troit, Mi­chi­gan. Around 1904, he moved to New York, where he played the or­gan at the John Wan­a­mak­er Au­di­tor­ium; Ply­mouth Church, Brook­lyn; St. Ni­cho­las Col­le­gi­ate Church; and the Cap­i­tol and Strand The­a­ters. His works in­clude:

• Lead, Kindly Light, a can­ta­ta
• Jersey, Home of the Fir, Elm, and Myr­tle

Music

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