Roberts, Marshall O.

ID
2341
Nationality
American
Occupation
Clerk
Government employee
Summary
Born on a Louisiana farm. Deafened at 17 by typhoid fever; at 18, entered the Minnesota School for the deaf, graduating 3 years later. Followed a trade for 2 years, then went to Gallaudet College, leaving after 2 years to take a clerking position in the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, in Washington DC.
References
Representative Deaf Persons [first edition], p.38-39.
Dates
fl. 1896