Notes for: Richard Deming
His obituary, published as a news item in the New York Times on March 5 1937, p. 21:
RICHARD DEMING DIES; INSURANCE EXECUTIVE
Vice President of the American Surety Co. and Others Is Stricken in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif., March 4 (AP) - Richard Deming, construction engineer and first vice president of the American Surety Company, died today of complications following an operation. His age was 73.
He was preparing to return to his home in Short Hills, N. J.., when stricken.
Born in Providence, R. I., Mr. Deming entered the shipping business as a young man. One of the largest projects with which he was connected was the Galveston, Texas, breakwater.
Richard Deming was educated in the public elementary and high schools at Providence. He began his business career in the employ of the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company, serving from 1881 to 1895. He was with Harland & Hollingsworth Company and the United States Shipbuilding Company until 1906.
Mr. Deming was connected with the American Surety Company of New York, of which he was first vice president for the last twenty-five years, since 1906. He also was vice president of the New York Casualty Company and of the Amsuco Securities Company. His office was at 100 Broadway.
From page 20313, "The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families," Vol. 3, by Edmund Janes Cleveland, published in 1899:
"Mr. Richard Deming resides in the village of Sing Sing, N. Y., 1896. Mr. Deming is agent in New York of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington, Del., builders of iron steamships and steamboats; also car manufacturers. A subscriber for this Genealogy."