Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Victor DU PONT
Du Pont, Victor, lawyer, was born at Louviers, Del., May 11, 1828; son of Charles Irénée Du Pont by his first wife, Dorcas Montgomery Van Dike, and grandson of Victor Marie Du Pont de Nemours.
He was graduated at Delaware college A.B. in 1845, and A.M. in 1848. He entered Harvard in 1845 and graduated there A.B. in 1816. In 1849 he was admitted to the bar and established himself in Wilmington, Del., where he soon took a leading position in the community and in the practice of his profession. Although he could have commanded any political preferment in the gift of his native state, he refused to hold any office except that of presidential elector, to which he was elected in 1864. He was for many years president of the Union national bank of Wilmington, and of the Farmers' mutual fire insurance company of the same city. He was married in 1851 to Alice Hounsfield. He died in
Wilmington, Del., May 13, 1888.
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