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Thomas Jefferson Trist
- Find A Grave Memorial ID # 95097362
- https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/320538
- https://www.mydeaf.blog/2020/11/09/thomas-jeffersons-great-grandson...
- https://liblists.wrlc.org/biographies/53223
Trist was born deaf at the family home (Monticello) of his great-grandfather, United States President Thomas Jefferson. He was the son of U.S. diplomat Nicholas Philip Trist and Virginia Jefferson Trist (Randolph)
City and County of Philadelphia Death Certificate # 2080496, services were held at All Souls' Episcopal Church for the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and burial at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton County, Massachusetts.
He was an instructor at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.
Gallaudet University Library Index to Deaf Periodicals:
Spouse: Eleanor Dorothy Strong Trist (Lyman), 1825 - 1881
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Born deaf at Monticello, near Charlottesville, VA; great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson; graduated the New York School for the deaf, 1855; teacher at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 1855-1890. Somewhere along the way, studied for a year in France. First wife was Ellen Dorothy Strong Lyman; after her death, remarried to Sophia K. Knabe. Active in the Clerc Literary Association of Philadelphia, the Episcopal Church, and the Conference of American Instructors of the Deaf. Died suddenly from "obstruction of the bowels".
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Thomas Jefferson Trist's Timeline
| 1828 |
November 13, 1828
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Monticello Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
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| 1874 |
June 1874
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Illinois, United States
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| 1890 |
April 26, 1890
Age 61
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
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