SEARING, Laura Catherine (Redden), author, born in Somerset county, Maryland, 9 February, 1840. She became deaf about the age of ten, through an attack of spinal meningitis, and her education was consequently carried on in a somewhat irregular manner. Though she also lost the power of speech, being unable to make herself understood, she retained her memory of sounds and her appreciation of rhythm. She early began writing verse, and contributed both prose and poetry to the press, while attending the Missouri state institution for the deaf and dumb, her parents having removed to St. Louis. In 1860 she became a writer for the "Republican" of that city, adopting the pen-name of " Howard Glyndon." Subsequently she was sent to Washington, D. C., as war correspondent for the same journal. She went abroad in 1865, and resided in Europe until the end of 1868, perfecting herself in French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Oil her return she severed her connection with the New York "Times," for which she had corresponded, and for the next eight years was employed on the "Mail" in the same city. Meantime she was taking lessons in articulation from various teachers, among them Alexander Graham Bell, with marked success. In 1876 she married Edward W. Searing, of the New York bar, and in 1886 they removed for her health to California, where she now (1888) resides. Besides being a frequent contributor to periodical literature, Mrs. Searing has published "Notable Men of the Thirty-Seventh Congress," in pamphlet-form (Washington, 1862); " Idyls of Battle, and Poems of the Rebellion" (New York, 1864); " A Little Boy's Story," translated from the French (1869); and " Sounds from Secret Chambers" (Boston, 1874).