Brown, Philip H.

Deafened by brain fever at age 7; 11 years in the Rochester School for the deaf, graduating 1889. Graduated Gallaudet College in 1893. Tried to find work as an architect, but was stymied by a business depression, and went into teaching, briefly at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and then in the Louisiana School for the deaf. In 1902, resigned the Louisiana School to teach literature and carpentry at the Montana School for the Deaf.