William C. Deming came to Wyoming in March, 1901, from Warren, Ohio, to assume the editorship of the Wyoming Daily Tribune. From the time of his arrival, he took a broad view of state affairs and began to make the Tribune a state paper rather than a local institution.
    In November, 1902, the first general election after his arrival in Wyoming, he was elected a member of the seventh legislature and was an active member of that body. He was chairman of the committee on education and did a great deal toward revising and improving laws affecting public schools. His most important bill was that for a state depository law, which although defeated, became an issue in succeeding elections. Mr. Deming carried on an educational campaign and brought about the enactment of the law in 1907. Under the act all state, county and city funds draw interest.
    He was appointed by Governor De Forest Richards a member and secretary of the Wyoming commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. He held the same position by the appointment of Governor B. B. Brooks at the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland in 1905.
    In 1906, in addition to his duties as editor of the Tribune, he began a propaganda for the settlement of the semi-arid lands in Wyoming by farmers and the cutting up of big ranches into farms. He spoke and wrote about it frequently. The movement has succeeded beyond the expectations of the most hopeful and removed the last lingering doubt of the skeptics. Due to the local committee of which he was chairman, which made experiments on land owned by himself and fellow members near the city, has grown up the department of farming and agriculture in Wyoming. Mr. Deming is regarded as the "father of the dry farming" movement in this state. His faith, persistence and the years of publicity he gave it overcame both doubt and prejudice and made arid farming secure.
    In 1907 he was appointed receiver of public moneys in the United States land office at Cheyenne by President Theodore Roosevelt, was reappointed by President William H. Taft and served three months under President Woodrow Wilson. This brought him in close daily touch with the new farmer.
    After retiring from this office, he made an extensive trip abroad, returning to Cheyenne, where he resumed the editorship of the Wyoming Tribune and the Wyoming Stockman-Farmer, the latter a stock and farm paper with a large circulation in Wyoming and adjoining states.
    W. C. Deming was born at Mount Olivet, Kentucky, on December 6, 1869, his father being Osmer S. Deming, a native of New York and a prominent lawyer. His mother, Leona Rigg Deming, was a native of Kentucky.
    Mr. Deming combines in himself many of the characteristics of both sections. He is a descendant of John Deming, the "Settler'' who came to Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1635. He is a graduate of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, having received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He has been admitted to the bar both in the state of Kentucky and Wyoming and was editor of the Warren Daily Tribune at Warren, Ohio, several years before coming west. He is still the president of the company which owns and publishes that paper. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Arts Club of New York city.
    He organized the Deming Realty Company and the Tribune Building Company, which own and conduct valuable real estate holdings in the city of Cheyenne. He has been identified with every active movement looking toward the growth of Wyoming and its capital city for eighteen years. His greatest achievement, however, is that which resulted in the converting of Laramie county from a grazing, cattle and sheep pasture to the sections of beautiful farms.
    Through his personal influence and editorship, Wyoming has adopted much progressive legislation, notably a primary election law, workmen's compensation act, public utilities statute and an independent judiciary.
    Mr. Deming is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
    At Warren, Ohio, in June, 1907, he was united in marriage with Zell P. Hart.