Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer

Harry G. Lang

Drawing from the prolific correspondence and material available, Harry Lang tells the remarkable story of Edmund W. Booth, a deaf pioneer. Born in 1810, in Massachusetts, he was left partially sighted and deaf by illness at the age of five. He was educated in a Connecticut school for the deaf where he later became a teacher in 1832. In 1849 he left for the California 'Gold Rush' which he describes most interestingly through a deaf person's eyes. In 1854, he bought a newspaper which he ran until his retirement in 1895. Booth was involved in the Illinois School for the Deaf, and later established a State School. In 1880, he helped to found the National Association of the Deaf Paperback 216 pages 2004

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