Laura Redden Searing
Laura Redden Searing was a deaf poet and journalist. Her first book of poetry published was Idyls of Battle, and Poems of the Rebellion . Her pseudonym is Howard Glyndon. Significantly, the town of Glyndon, Minnesota was founded in 1872 and named in honor of the writer.
Laura Catherine Redden was born to Littleton John Redden and Wilhelmina Waller Redden in 1840. In 1851, she lost her hearing at agedue to the illness spinal meningitis. In 1855, she enrolled in the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri. She learned sign language and the American Manual Alphabet.
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