ID
2271
Nationality
American
Occupation
Teacher
Summary
Born deaf at Pittsburgh; first was a bookbinder in Pittsburgh, then a teacher at the Pennsylvania School for the deaf. Lecturer and author; instrumental in the founding of the Clerc Literary Society of the Deaf and All Souls' Church for the Deaf; died in West Philadelphia.
References
Notable Deaf Persons, p.27-29; The Frat, vol.36 no.2, Sept. 1938, p.3; American Annals of the Deaf, vol.23, p.260.
Dates
30 July 1811-16 August 1878