Dean, New York University School of Law
Centurion, 1900–1916
Born 4 July 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts
Died 26 January 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by William A. Keener and Wheeler H. Peckham
Elected 7 April 1900 at age forty-eight
Century Memorial
Clarence Degrand Ashley had a considerable law practice when, in 1891, he entered upon his true vocation as a teacher of law. He was the principal organizer of the Metropolis Law School, and when that united with the New York University Law School, he became a professor and subsequently its dean, a position filled by him for the last twenty years. In pursuance of his vocation, he compiled a book of Cases on Contract, and made a treatise on the same subject.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook