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Samuel Thomas Greene was
Ontario's first Deaf teacher and he was described as "a born teacher". Greene was the trailblazer in Deaf Education in Ontario and he is known for his reputation through his Deaf education and leadership efforts in the deaf community. He was one of the founding fathers of the
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Government wrote a report on Greene's performance in 1877 and an excerpt from the report states that Greene recognizes that Deaf students need a good foundation to build their education. He was a strong believer of bilingual education and using American Sign Language with his students.
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Greene and his friends went on a leisure ice yacht trip on the Bay of Quinte on
February 3, 1890. Due to the rapid speed and miscommunication, Greene was thrown out from the boat and flew ten feet through the air and hit his head on the ice with a strong force. In the following evening, he fell into
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A street in the west end of
Belleville was named after Greene in his honor. The Ontario Heritage Foundation unveiled a commemorate plaque to honor Greene's achievements during the 125th anniversary celebration of Sir James Whitney School of the Deaf on July 1, 1995. Greene was mentioned in the City
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Education in North America in the 1800s was sparse and limited. Greene was taught by several notable Deaf educators when he received his formal education at the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb from 1855 to 1866. Because of the formal education, Greene
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Caroline Campbell Howard on April 9, 1871. Caroline was a granddaughter of the pioneer Belleville settler, Elijah Wallbridge who settled at Meyer's Creek in 1800, which later became the City of Belleville. The couple has five children, four girls and one boy, and all of them were
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Samuel Thomas Greene was born on June 11, 1843, in
Portland, Maine to hearing parents, Jacob and Sarah Greene. He had four other siblings, one of whom was also Deaf. Greene's parents, Jacob and Sarah, were huge believers of education and religion. Before starting the formal education, Greene began
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Ontario Association of the Deaf, along with Greene's friend and artist Ambrose W. Mason, unveiled and donated a forty-four inches by fifty-four inches portrait of Greene to Sir James Whitney School of the Deaf in July 1924 where the portrait currently hangs at the cafeteria building.
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reading and writing at an early age and he also managed to acquire some of
American Sign Language (ASL) from his Deaf sister, Sarah Abbott Greene, who attended to the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, currently known as the
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Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb (Sir James Whitney School of the Deaf) on October 20, 1870. He was considered a first-rate teacher and he has his own memoir,
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unconsciousness and died fourteen days later on February 17, 1890. The news of his death devastated many people in Belleville, especially the staff members and pupils at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
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The Ontario Institution held the funeral service for him two days later on February 19, 1890, and everyone at the school wore badges to pay their respect for the memory of him. He was buried in
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