Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer


Edmund Booth was born on a farm near Springfield, Massachusetts in 1810. Some of the

"hats" he wore during his lifetime were farmer, teacher, activist for the deaf, pioneer settler, 49er,

journalist, and politician.

The consistent theme in Booth's life, one to which he always returned, was his commitment to the

deaf: working for the rights of all deaf people in this country, including education of deaf children.

Booth's interest in deaf issues was very personal since he himself had lost all of his hearing by the

time he was eight years old, he was struck down during an outbreak of "spotted fever"

(cerebrospinal meningitis). After he recovered, he discovered he was partially deaf and totally

blind in one eye. The same epidemic killed his father.

At age seven or eight, after he and a friend spent an entire day playing in a local pond, Booth

discovered he could not hear at all. Luckily, in between the two......

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