Rash's Surname Index
Notes for James Laird DE VOU
Mr. de Vou, in cooperation with the late Joshua T. Heald, was engaged in banking, brokerage and real estate and was actively identified with the early development of Wilmington. He was long a member of Delaware Historical Society, and was a Captain of the Lincoln "Wide*Awakes", whose activities did much to arouse sentiment for the first election of Lincoln.
He was one of 300 in Delaware who voted for the Free Soiler, John C. Fremont for the presidency of the U. S., as candidate of the Republican Party in 1856; Fremont receiving the vote of eleven states. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he lent financial assistance to the government in its equipment of the First Delaware Regiment. He was one of a committee appointed to visit the Battlefield of Gettysburg to see to the welfare of Delaware soldiers after the battle. Was member of a Committee also, appointed to meet President Lincoln at the State line when he was enroute to Philadelphia to make one of his great war time speeches. Was on various important committees on many other occasions, and was a member of the Union League in Wilmington, opened March 19, 1863.
Mr. de Vou was one of a party of public spirited citizens of Wilmington who visited the stricken City of Charleston following the earthquake of 1886, and by the subscriptions which they raised, assisted greatly "to the relief of the sufferers", as attested by an engraved testimonial" voted unanimously in City Council 28th December, 1886".
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