DEMING, Wilbur Stone. Boston, Mass. 13.3. or 24.10.1889 — Bridgeport, Conn. 31.10.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Miner Rudd Deming and Mary Frances Losey. After Revere and Sharon High Schools (graduated 1906) studies at Boston and Brown Universities (graduated 1912). Ph.D. From 1912 member of American Maratha Mission. Superintendent of High School in Ahmednagar (1924). Married 1918 Elsie Cox Smith (1888–1980), two sons, one daughter.
Publications: Rāmdās and the Rāmdāsīs. 15+223 p. The Religious Life of India. Calcutta & L. 1928 (first a dr. diss. at Hartford Seminary Foundation).
– Eknath. A Maratha Bhakta. 8+117+10 p. Bombay 1931.
– Selections from Tukārām. 238 p. Madras 1932.
– Later works on the church history of Connecticut.
Sources: This is a combination of stray notes: an advertisement of Eknāth book gives Stone as second name, an American book on local church history the birth 1889 for Wilbur Stone D., and a tombstone directory the dates for Wilbur S. Deaming born in 1889; parents and marriage in ancestors.familysearch.org. Further information found in 2025 from The Boston Globe 14.9.1912 (newspapers.co,) with photo.
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