Almost certainly named for Clarence Casper Cummings (1881-1968) as his parents George and Sacramenta owned the land on which Clarence Street was laid out in 1894. (See Cummings Street for more on the family.) Clarence was born and raised in Boyle Heights, one of six surviving Cummings children. As his family owned significant land and livestock outside of Tehachapi, Kern County – it would be known as Cummings Valley – they were all living there full-time in 1903, the year George perished in a hotel fire. A couple of brothers eventually went back to Los Angeles but Clarence stayed on in Cummings Valley, tending to the family cattle and raising chickens. The lifelong bachelor lived with his older brother Edward and family.
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