DE VINNE, Daniel, clergyman, born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1 February 1793; died in Morrisania, New York, 10 February 1883. His family immigrated to the United States before he was a year old, settling in Charleston, Montgomery Co., New York, where he lived till eleven years of age. In 1819 he became a bainister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and filled appointments in Louisiana and Mississippi for five years. In 1825 his dislike of slavery caused his transfer to the New York conference, in which connection he remained until his death. He was a frequent contributor to the religious press, and published in book form "The M. E. Church and Slavery" (Boston, 1844); " Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry" (1869): and the " Irish Primitive Church" (1870).

His son, Theodore Low, printer, born in Stamford, Connecticut, 25 December 1828, left school at fourteen years of age, and in 1844'8 worked as a printer in the office of the Newburgh, N.Y., "Gazette." He went to New York in 1849, entered the employ of Francis Hart, and in 185(,) became his partner. Mr. Hart died in 1877, and in 1883 the firm name became Theodore L. De Vinne and Company. In his own office, and as a member of the Typothetae, the Grolier club, and the Authors' club, Mr. De Vinne has been active in efforts to improve typography. His style of book composition and his presswork of woodcuts have given him a wide reputation in this country and abroad. He has printed " St. Nicholas" since its beginning in 1873, and the "Century" since 1874. In 1886 he removed to a new building in Lafayette place specially designed by him. He has contributed to current literature on books and printing, and has published the "Printers' Price List," an office manual (New York, 1871); "Invention of Printing" (1876); and "Historic Types" (1886).