Rider, Henry C.

ID
2326
Nationality
American
Occupation
Newspaper editor
School founder
Educational administrator
Summary
Deafened at age 4 by scarlet fever; student at the New York School for the deaf, 1846-1855; owned and edited the Deaf-Mutes' Journal, 1875-1879; instrumental in founding and first superintendent of the Northern New York School for the deaf at Malone; died at Syracuse, NY.
References
Notable Deaf Persons, p.13-14; The Frat, vol.35 no.6, Jan. 1938, p.3.
Dates
14 December 1832-16 May 1913