DELAND, MARGARETTA WADE (CAMPBELL) (1857– ), American writer, was born at Allegheny, Pa., Feb. 23, 1857. She studied in private schools and at Cooper Union in New York, and for a time taught drawing. In 188o she married L. F. Deland, of Boston. She attracted attention with her first novel, John Ward, Preacher (1881), which dealt with reli gious and social questions after the manner of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Her books include The Story of a Child (1892) ; The Awakening of Helena Richie (1906) ; The Iron Woman (191I) ; The Rising Tide (1916) ; and The Vehement Flame (1922). She is most popularly known for her sympathetic studies of village life and character, Old Chester Tales (1899) and Dr. Lavender's People DE LAND, a city of Florida, U.S.A., loom. S.S.E. of Jack sonville, on the St. John's river, I 8m. from the Atlantic ocean; the county seat of Volusia county. It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and by river steamers to Jacksonville. The population was 5,799 in 1925 (State census) ; and it was 5,246 in 193o. It is in a region of beautiful hills, pine groves and lakes, where winter truck-farming and the growing of citrus fruits are important. Ponce de Leon springs are I om. north. De Land is the seat of the John B. Stetson university, established as an academy in 1884 by the founder of the town, and re-named in 1889 after John Batterson Stetson, a Philadelphia hat-manu facturer, who gave it nearly $5oo,000. The town was founded in 1876, by Henry A. De Land, a manufacturer of Fairport, N. Y., who built a public school in 1877, a high-school in 1883 and the academy mentioned above in 1884.