Clarence Deming (S&B 1872)
Journalist. Editor. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He was a close student of political affairs, and deeply interested in economic subjects, especially railroad matters, for many years being an editorial writer and associate editor of the Railroad Gazette, later called the Railroad Age-Gazette Lately he had written aseries of seven articles on American railway themes for the London Times Several years ago he wrote “The End of the Game,” a poem of the ball player.
He was a fearless leader in many efforts for political reform He was nominated by Governor Morris (BA Yale 1854) for state insurance commissioner, but the senate declined to confirm the nomination. His integrity and fair-mindedness were recognized in his selection twice in recent years as the representative of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the arbitration of its differences with its employees of the subsidiary Connecticut trolley lines.
Dec 1887, After leaving this paper, he resumed editorial writing for the Evening Post, and continued as its general Connecticut correspondent and Yale correspondent to the close of his life He was also for years one of the local contributors to the Associated Press, a frequent contributor to the Yale Alumni Weekly, particularly of financial and historical articles, and an occasional writer for The Outlook and other periodicals. A number of his outdoor papers, chiefly on fishing, appeared in Outing.
10 Jun 1886 - Married again, in New Haven, , Mary Bryant Whiting, daughter of Nathan C. and Mary Stone (Bryant) Whiting She survives him with a son (B.A Yale 1911) and two daughters, the elder of whom is a graduate of the Yale Music School, and the younger a member of the classof 1914 at Vassar. Mr Deming’s eldest brother graduated from the Medical School in 1856, and a sister of his father married Charles Perkins (BA Yale 1813), one of whose daughters was the wife of Professor James Mason Hoppin (B A Yale1840) His classmates, Charles C. and Henry C. Deming, sons of Hon. Henry C. Deming (BA Yale 1836), werehis cousins.
During the next six years he was an assistant editor of the New York Evening Post, and for three years following was traveling correspondent of the same paper, visiting Europe, Newfoundland, the West Indies, and the Mississippi valley, writing from Ireland of the “outrages” in 1882. Two years later selections from his letters to the Post from various places were printed in avolume, “By-ways of Nature and Life”.
In 1884 - he became editor in chief of the New Haven Morning News, an independent paper published by a com-pany of which Professor Henry W Farnam (B A Yale).
10 Nov 1879 - He married in Brooklyn, N Y , AnnaBattell Humphrey, daughter of James and Urania (Battell) Humphrey. She died December 3, 1880
1875 to 1881 - Assistant news editor and editorial writer for the New York Evening Post.[3]
Feb 1874 - He became night editor of the New Haven Palladium, the following spring went abroad for three months, then resumed his position upon the Palladium, remaining till February, 1875 ) was president, and for the last year of his service, after an absence during” which his classmate Bacon was editor, had entne charge of the paper.
1872 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 8 Mar 1913, While dictating copy to his son for his weekly article forthe Saturday edition of the Evening Post the illness from acute indigestion from which Mr Deming had been suffering for two weeks returned, and he died at his home in New Haven. Age 64
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 99 / On the page 430
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