Deafened by illness as a child, she entered the Missouri School for the Deaf when she was 15 years old and learned sign language, graduating in 1858, writing an address and “farewell poem ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A deaf student from the University ... “I was the only deaf person in my school, so I was already an outcast from the start. So I was like, you know what, I might as well ...