Age 56, Professor St. Louis Medical College.
He came to Lafayette in 1833. He was a doctor and concerned with teaching medicine.
Dr. William Mayo was his apprentice. Dr. Deming was also very active in the Masons, and a State Grand Master for four years. 1847-51.
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Elizur H. Deming
Elizur H. Deming arrived in Lafayette from Ohio. He is listed in Sanford Cox (Old Settlers) as an early physician of Lafayette. There is a sketch of him in the 1878 Atlas (p. 41). He was a member of the first county medical society from 1847-48. He placed an ad in an early Lafayette paper listing himself as Physician and Surgeon with an office on the east side of Mississippi Street, near the Episcopal Church. Dr. Deming trained several local physicians, including W W Mayo, of Mayo Clinic. In 1850, he was a professor of theory and practice at the Indiana Medical College in Lafayette ("Did You Know That" Lafayette Journal and Courier 2 July 1927). Sanford Cox reports that he served one term in the Indiana Legislature and afterward he served as Chair of Theory and Practice at the Medical University of Missouri, at St. Louis.

Age 56, Professor St. Louis Medical College.
He came to Lafayette in 1833. He was a doctor and concerned with teaching medicine.
Dr. William Mayo was his apprentice. Dr. Deming was also very active in the Masons, and a State Grand Master for four years. 1847-51.
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Elizur H. Deming
Elizur H. Deming arrived in Lafayette from Ohio. He is listed in Sanford Cox (Old Settlers) as an early physician of Lafayette. There is a sketch of him in the 1878 Atlas (p. 41). He was a member of the first county medical society from 1847-48. He placed an ad in an early Lafayette paper listing himself as Physician and Surgeon with an office on the east side of Mississippi Street, near the Episcopal Church. Dr. Deming trained several local physicians, including W W Mayo, of Mayo Clinic. In 1850, he was a professor of theory and practice at the Indiana Medical College in Lafayette ("Did You Know That" Lafayette Journal and Courier 2 July 1927). Sanford Cox reports that he served one term in the Indiana Legislature and afterward he served as Chair of Theory and Practice at the Medical University of Missouri, at St. Louis.