Tuscola-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Deming, Daniel P. 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DANIEL P. DEMING, M. D. This prominent citizen of Cass City, was born in Oakland
County, this State, on the 18th of December, 1844, and is a son of Orin E. and
Lydia A. (Winslow) Deming. His mother was born and brought up in New York, and
his father in the same State near the head of Seneca Lake, the latter being a
carpenter and joiner, although he also had a farm upon which our subject was
reared until he reached the age of sixteen years. Some seven generations back
the Deming family came from France, but the mother's ancestors were from England.

  During early life our subject attended the common district school in the
county of Oakland, but at the age of sixteen he left home for army life,
enlisting in the fall of 1861 in Company I, Tenth Michigan Infantry. The
regiment was ordered to report to Gen. Halleck at Pittsburg Landing, where they
fought in that conflict and became a part of the Army of the Cumberland, first
under Gen. Rosecrans, and then under Gen. Sherman. He served for three years and
nine months and was one of those who took part in the march from Atlanta to the
sea. He was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Ga., and remained in the service
until June, 1865, when at the close of the war he returned home.

  After his return to Oakland County the young man now twenty-one years of age
entered the intermediate department of the High School at Clarkston, graduating
from that institution in 1869. He then taught for three terms in Ottawa County
and began the study of medicine at St. John's under Dr. O. C. Joslyn and in 1871
entered the university at Ann Arbor, taking a two years' course. He then
returned to St. John's and practiced medicine with Dr. Joslyn for one year,
after which he took a supplementary course at the Long Island College in
Brooklyn, N. Y., completing that course in 1883.

  In the fall and winter of 1873 Dr. Deming had located at Cass City, and he
called it his home from that time on except while engaged in his studies, and
since that time he has devoted himself to his practice here. He was married on
the 18th of October, 1877, to Miss Clara A. Armstrong, of Cass City, daughter of
James and Ordell, (Thomas) Armstrong, who came hither from the State of Indiana.
This lady was born August 25, 1857, and is now the mother of three children:
Harriet C, Irene H., and Charles Orin. Irene H. died December 26, 1883, and the
others are at home.

  In politics Mr. Deming has ever been a Green-backer since he came out of the
army, but now he belongs to the People's Party. He has acted as examining
surgeon for the Government for the past two years, and for six years he was
engaged in the drug business at Cass City. He owns one fine farm which he
carries on by the assistance of his brother, keeping the management in his own
hands.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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