Background
Henry Winter Syle was born in Shanghai, China. Syle was a student and parishioner of Thomas Gallaudet.
Henry Winter Syle was born in Shanghai, China. Syle was a student and parishioner of Thomas Gallaudet.
He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Saint John"s College in Cambridge, England, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
He was deaf from an early age. 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 established a congregation for the deaf in 1888.
Review Syle struggled with poor health his whole life. He died of pneumonia on January
6, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is commemorated along with his teacher, Thomas Gallaudet on August 27 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.