Henry Deering

Cincinnati Police Department — Cincinnati, OH

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch March 24, 1902

Age 57

Tour of Duty 11 yrs 3 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 105

Incident

Station House Keeper Henry Deering succumbed to injuries suffered when he was struck by a streetcar in front of 3855 Eastern Avenue. He had been on duty at the District Six station house when he was summoned to the Probate Court to serve as a court officer. He heard the approach of the westbound streetcar and ran out to catch it, but ran into the path of an eastbound streetcar and was fatally injured. Keeper Deering was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War and served with the Cincinnati Police Department for over 11 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and five children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Station Keeper Deering gave the Cincinnati Police Department 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cincinnati community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Cincinnati Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Platform Identity cincpd.hamilton.oh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 24, 1902

Tour of Duty 11 yrs 3 mo

Age 57

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Henry Deering served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Station Keeper Henry Deering is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In OH, 318 of 991 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.1% of this state's fallen. That is 32.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Cincinnati Police Department, 32 of 106 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.2% of this agency's fallen.

Cincinnati Police Department

of 106 officers

30.2% Accident

OH — Statewide

318

of 991 officers

32.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Accident