About Henry Winter Syle
Lived 1846 – 1890 (aged 43). Henry Winter Syle was an American anglican priest.
Henry Winter Syle (November 9, 1846 – January 6, 1890) was the first deaf person to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Henry Winter Syle was born in Shanghai, China; Syle was a student and parishioner of Thomas Gallaudet. He was deaf from an early age. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, St. John's College in Cambridge, England, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Syle was encouraged to become a priest by Gallaudet. Ordained on October 14, 1883, he became the first deaf clergyman in the United States.
He died on January 6, 1890, and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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American episcopal priest
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Henry Winter Syle was born on 9 November 1846 in Shanghai.
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Henry Winter Syle died on 6 January 1890 in Philadelphia.
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Henry Winter Syle was an anglican priest.
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