ID
2825
Nationality
American
Occupation
Teacher
Family member
Summary
Born deaf at Monticello, near Charlottesville, VA; great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson; graduated the New York School for the deaf, 1855; teacher at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 1855-1890. Somewhere along the way, studied for a year in France. First wife was Ellen D. S. Lyman; after her death, remarried to Sophia K. Knabe. Active in the Clerc Literary Association of Philadelphia, the Episcopal Church, and the Conference of American Instructors of the Deaf. Died suddenly from "obstruction of the bowels".
References
Notable Deaf Persons, p.19-21; American Annals of the Deaf, v.35 no.3, July 1890, p.223; The Frat, vol.35 no.10, May 1938, p.3.
Dates
1828-26 April 1890