Smith, Michael John

ID
2585
Nationality
American
Occupation
Newspaper editor
Summary
Deafened at age 4; graduated (1872) from the Pennsylvania School for the deaf; co-founder, newspaper owner and editor of The merry world (Pueblo, CO), 1887-1893; then to Denver to work as a smelter and newspaper contributor; buried in Fairmount Cemetery at Denver.
References
Notable Deaf Persons, p.87-89; Gallaudet Encyclopedia, vol.2 p.171; The Frat, vol.38 no.9, April 1941, p.2-3.
Dates
ca. 1855-17 December 1896