ID
2229
Nationality
American
Occupation
Teacher
Summary
Deafened at 8 months by scarlet fever. After failing hearing public schools, was privately tutored, then entered the New York school for the deaf. Discovering talent for art in that school, she was made a pupil-teacher at half pay, then recruited for the art department of the New Jersey School for the deaf. In 1894, added kindergarten classes to her teaching responsibilities. Married George Sidney Porter in 1892.
References
Representative Deaf Persons [first edition], p.144-145; Peeps into the Deaf World, p.13; Representative Deaf Persons [second edition], p.159-160.
Dates
fl. 1896