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Im not good at this because I am from another country. I am in college now. Please help this..I wasn't sure if Im right about this.
John Robert Gregg was born at Rockcorry, County Monaghan, in Ireland, on
June 17, 1867.He lived with his family in Ireland, but moved to Chicago in the late 1920�s.His mother named Margaret and his father didn't mention his name. His father was very serious about education and had a high expectation for his sons and daughters. He also wanted his children to have a successful life. John was the youngest child of his five siblings. His older sisters and brothers were very brilliant in their school work, but unfortunately they had no interests in any subjects John's was well focused student in school. John was five years old, when his teacher "crashed" both him head and his classmate's head to cause him to become deaf. Despite his condition, he didn't up on his value of education because he wanted to be successful for his dream. He did well in school from age five to eighteen years old. Gregg mastered several shorthand systems then popular in Great Britain and also studied century. When he was twenty years old, he published five hundred copies of his system in twenty-eight pages, called "Light-Line Photography!" He became famous to publish Gregg Shorthand books. He developed his writing system which doesn�t stop. He was fluent in thirteen languages like French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Irish, Gaelic and Esperanto.90 percent of present shorthand instruction in the U.S. uses Gregg�s system, and it has made some progress in Canada and the United Kingdom. Gregg's contribution to commercial education has received wide recognition. President Hoover appointed him a member of the American delegation to the International Congress on Commercial Education at Amsterdam, Gregg was elected chairman of the American Delegation and Vice President of the Congress in Holland
He died on February 23, 1948 in Cannonade, Connecticut at the age of eighty caused by a heart attack. John Robert Gregg's skills and determination helped him create shorthand books. If he didn't invent or write for the deaf world then it would be not the same as today. In another way that I am very happy that he is deaf because I want everyone to notice him as �the great shorthand.� Not many people know of deaf culture and deaf world. We owe great appreciation to him in our life for his great shorthand books. :oops: :oops:
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