Background

Kiser, Clyde Vernon was born on July 22, 1904 in Bessemer City, North Carolina, United States. Son of Augustus Burton and Minnie May (Carpenter) Kiser.

Education

AB (Mangum medal 1925), University North Carolina, 1925. AM, University North Carolina, 1927. Doctor of Philosophy (Richard W. Gilder fellow 1930-1931), Columbia University, 1932.

Career

Research fellow, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1931-1933; research associate, member technical staff, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1933-1962; senior member technical staff, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1962-1969; vice president for technical affairs, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1969-1970; statistical consultant, United States Public Health Service, 1936; visiting research associate, senior research demographer, Office Population Research, Princeton, 1942-1975; Adjunct Professor sociology, New York University, 1945-1956. Consultant Pan American Health, 1967. Member Census Advisory Committee, 1965-1971, National Com.on Vital and Health Statistics, 1965-1969.

Chairman local arrangements committee New York City, International Population Conference, 1961. Member standing committee Public Health Conference Records and Statistics, Division Vital Statistics, Department Health, Edition and Welfare, 1958-1964, chairman subcommittee fertility measurement,1963, chairman subcommittee on population dynamics, 1968-1969.

Achievements

• Clyde Vernon Kiser has been listed as a noteworthy demographer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Fertility of American Women

    (NY 1958 Wiley. A Volume in the Census Monograph Series. H...)

  • Group differences in urban fertility, a study derived from the national health survey,
  • Forty Years of Research in Human Fertility
  • The Milbank Memorial Fund, its leaders and its work, 1905-1974
  • Group Differences in Urban Fertility: a Study Derived from the National Health Survey
  • Kiser-Carpenter Chronicle. The Anscestors and Descendants of Larkin and Frances Carpenter Kiser and of Sylvanus and Rebecca Carpenter Carpenter. Based Largely on Unpublished Records Collected By Augustus Burton Kiser 1878-1967.

Membership

Board of directors Gallaudet College, 1968-1981. Fellow American Statistical Association. Member American Eugenics Society (president 1963-1969), Population Association American (president 1952-1953), Eastern Sociological Society (vice president 1959-1960, Chairman of Commission social statistics 1960-1968), International Union Science Study Population (chairman United States national committee 1958-1961), American Public Health Association (com.on vital and health statistics monographs), American Sociological Association.

Connections

Married Louise Venable Kennedy, February 24, 1934 (deceased March 1954).

Father:

Augustus Burton Kiser

Mother:

Minnie May (Carpenter) Kiser

Spouse:

Louise Venable Kennedy