Morehouse, Philetus Edgar

Probably the first deaf person to become a postmaster, in 1856 when he took that position in Menasha, WI. Postlingually deafened in childhood; graduated the New York School for the deaf in 1853; newspaper correspondent for the Radii and the Deaf-Mutes' Journal. After 6 years as postmaster, left in 1862; mostly unheard of after that, although he was still alive in 1914. A variant name he used was Edgar P. Morehouse, and at least one other reference calls him P.E. Moorhouse.