By Terrie Todd Born on January 4, 1850, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, Charles
Frederick Fraser was whittling a stick with a pocketknife at the age of seven
when a splinter flew into one of his eyes, permanently blinding it. By age thirteen,
he was losing vision in his other eye. At the time, it was believed to be
over-use. A failed surgical procedure led to his enrollment at the Perkins
Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Bo…
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