Duniway, C. A. (Clyde Augustus), 1866-1944

Clyde Augustus Duniway was born in 1866 in Albany, Oregon, to Benjamin Charles Duniway and Abigail Jane Scott. Duniway received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1892 and an A.M. in 1894 and a Ph.D. in 1897 in Political Science from Harvard. An expanded version of his dissertation was published in 1906 as The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts . He taught for eleven years at Stanford University before serving as president of the University of Montana in Missoula from 1908 to1912. He next served as the president of the University ofWyoming in Laramie and then as president of Colorado College. In 1923 he served as director of the British Division of the American University in Europe. He next was appointed professor of history at Carleton College, where he remained until his retirement in 1937.

Duniway married Caroline Cushing in 1901. By 1912 the couple had three sons, John, Ben, and David. C. A. Duniway died December 25, 1944, in Stanford, California.

From the guide to the C.A. Duniway correspondence, 1908-1912, (University of Montana-Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections)