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Chapter Four: Mary Ann Walworth Booth - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Four:
Mary Ann Walworth Booth
Chelsee Patterson
April 21st 2021
Mary Ann Walworth Booth
American deaf pioneer 19th century
Married Edmund Booth; met at American School for the Deaf (student)
Feb 23 1817 - Jan 25 1898
Deaf from Scarlet Fever
Julia Booth Letter
Lewis Perkins Letter
Henry Booth Letter
Baby Fever Letter
Deaf Children: Harriet (1846) only lived a year; Thomas - oldest child
Moved with:
Julia Booth / Henry Booth
(Fall 1850) Gideon Ford - Wapsipinicon House
(11-12/1850) Lewis Perkins
Linus Osborn
(1851) Moved into new house
Thomas (son) = Mary's interpreter
& children communicated in sign language fluently
$90 for 5 acres; $150 for house
Sold cows;
bushels 15 cents, waiting for 25 cents a piece before selling
Accountant, business woman, head of household, mother
Had to beg Edmund to come home
Edmund Booth
Active in deaf politics, served as editor of local newspaper
Anamosa Eureka
Married Mary Ann; met at American School for the Deaf (Classics teacher)
Prospecting Gold in California 1849-1854
Sent money home to family for house and Thomas' books
History
Left behind
Edmund Booth: Forty Niner
book for historians
Main, First, Booth, South Ford Streets outline house Edmund and Mary Ann built; Burned in 1881
Pioneering family life
Pioneering woman life
Pioneering deaf life
Pioneering Deaf woman life