ID
0310
Nationality
American
Occupation
Newspaper editor
Author
Summary
Deafened and blinded in one eye at age 4 by cerebrospinal meningitis. Student at the American School for the Deaf, 1828-32, teacher there 1832-39. Recorder for Jones County, Iowa, 1842-48, then joined the California Gold Rush, 1849-56. Editor and owner of the Anamosa (IA) Eureka; honorary M.A. from Gallaudet, 1880. His son was Frank Walworth Booth (q.v.). A pamphlet biography of him is Edmund Booth, Forty-Niner (1953) and a full-length book biography is Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer (2004).
References
Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences, p.45-47; Great Deaf Americans, The Second Edition, p.52-57; Notable Deaf Persons, p.8-9; Gallaudet Encyclopedia, vol.1 p.143-144; Deaf Heritage, p.67; Discoveries, p.5; The Frat, vol.35 no.2, Sept. 1937, p.9; Silent Worker, Jan. 1963, p.6; Representative Deaf Persons [first edition], p.11-16.
Dates
24 August 1810-29 March 1905