I think he was too, but he lied about being able to read things from the institute, and spitting out information. he lies ALOT.
I don't really care about Deacon. The Railroad was barely even a piece of the story to me, as I took the Minutemen ending. Worse ending out of the three(four?).
Well, I am a mighty wealthy farmer because of my delicious corn! Soon every one you could meet had heard about my yum yum corn. Soon my corn became exclusive to the people with lots o Cha Ching$$$. My corn was very valuable. I knew I had to protect it at all cost. So... I put up over 100 rocket turrets :D My defense was through the roof. That is the story about how I became a stalk of corn in my game. Fin
When I first seen him I thought he was some creeper, and not my kid, so I blew him away with my Gatling gun.