12 Facts About Clarence Day

Clarence Day's father owned a Wall Street brokerage firm and was a banker, a railroad director, and Governor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Clarence Day became a member of the Yale Club of New York.

In 1897, Clarence Day joined the New York Stock Exchange, and became a partner in his father's Wall Street brokerage firm.

Clarence Day enlisted in the US Navy in 1898, but developed crippling arthritis and spent the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid.

Clarence Day soon returned to New York City and began publishing the Yale Alumni Weekly and contributing essays and drawings to various publications.

Clarence Day was a vocal proponent of giving women the right to vote, and contributed satirical cartoons for US suffrage publications in the 1910s.

Brendan Gill's memoir Here at The New Yorker reprints a cartoon by Clarence Day originally published in that magazine.

Day's brother George Parmly Day was the longtime treasurer of Yale University and co-founder, with Clarence, of the Yale University Press.

Clarence Day's brother Julian Day was a stockbroker and soldier who served in the British Army during World War I, serving at Gallipoli and Palestine.

Clarence Day rose to the rank of major in the Imperial Camel Corps, was wounded in battle in 1918 and received the Military Cross and Order of the Nile.

Clarence Day died in New York City of pneumonia shortly after the publication of Life with Father, after it became a best-seller but before its success on Broadway.

Clarence Day was survived by his wife Katherine Briggs Dodge Day and their daughter Wendy.