From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Dearing entered The University of Georgia in 1869. He and Arthur Henry Gray were likely initiates #6 and #7 for the newly established Kappa Deuteron Chapter.
Dearing was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1872, though he is not named among the 32 graduates of that class. In writing of his death, The Athens Banner newspaper noted: “Mr. Dearing was educated at the University of Georgia and was one of the most popular young men who ever attended that institution.”
A brother of L. S. Dearing, Alfred Long Dearing, Jr., was also a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.
Brother Dearing was a son of Alfred Long Dearing who was a son of Gen. William Edward Dearing, president of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company and for whom the city of Dearing, Georgia in McDuffie County was named.
Brother Dearing was a bookkeeper at the Athens Cotton Mills, Athens, Georgia, and at least by 1906, according to the university catalogue, he was a fruit grower in Florida. Dearing was a member of the Odd Fellows. Episcopalian.
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THE DEARING AND KENNON FAMILIES AND KAPPA DEUTERON
A brother of Alfred Long Dearing, Sr., William Edward Dearing, Jr., had a son William Pleasant Dearing who married Emma Kennon in 1867 in Newton County, Georgia. The Kennon family name plays a prominent role in the history of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter, with two Kennon men who were Brothers of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia (Benning Moore Kennon and William Augustus Kennon) and other men with Kennon family relationships, such as Brother Henry Bradford Walker who married Virginia H. (Mary/Mamie?) Kennon and the father of Brother Churchill Goree, who married the widow of Xenophon Kennon.
Dearing was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1872, though he is not named among the 32 graduates of that class. In writing of his death, The Athens Banner newspaper noted: “Mr. Dearing was educated at the University of Georgia and was one of the most popular young men who ever attended that institution.”
A brother of L. S. Dearing, Alfred Long Dearing, Jr., was also a member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.
Brother Dearing was a son of Alfred Long Dearing who was a son of Gen. William Edward Dearing, president of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company and for whom the city of Dearing, Georgia in McDuffie County was named.
Brother Dearing was a bookkeeper at the Athens Cotton Mills, Athens, Georgia, and at least by 1906, according to the university catalogue, he was a fruit grower in Florida. Dearing was a member of the Odd Fellows. Episcopalian.
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THE DEARING AND KENNON FAMILIES AND KAPPA DEUTERON
A brother of Alfred Long Dearing, Sr., William Edward Dearing, Jr., had a son William Pleasant Dearing who married Emma Kennon in 1867 in Newton County, Georgia. The Kennon family name plays a prominent role in the history of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter, with two Kennon men who were Brothers of Phi Gamma Delta at Georgia (Benning Moore Kennon and William Augustus Kennon) and other men with Kennon family relationships, such as Brother Henry Bradford Walker who married Virginia H. (Mary/Mamie?) Kennon and the father of Brother Churchill Goree, who married the widow of Xenophon Kennon.
