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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Male 1787 - 1851  (63 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 
    Birth 10 Dec 1787  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 Sep 1851  Hartford Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I363368  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2002 

    Father Peter Wallace Gallaudet,   b. 21 Apr 1756   d. 16 May 1843 (Age 87 years) 
    Mother Jane Hopkins,   b. 8 May 1766   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F143944  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Thomas Gallaudet   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Edward Miner Gallaudet
    Family ID F143945  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2002 

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  • Notes 
    • American educator, who devoted his life to the welfare and education of the deaf.
      Educated at Yale College (now Yale University) and Andover Theological Seminary.
      He became interested in the teaching of the deaf and went to Europe to learn the methods, including sign language, used there. After studying at the Institut Royal des Sourds-Muets in Paris, he returned to the United States in 1816 with a French teacher, Laurent Clerc. Helped by a land grant from Congress, the two founded the first free public school for the deaf in the U.S., the American Asylum for Deaf-Mutes (now the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut). Some of the people Gallaudet trained went on to lead similar institutions and gave a strong impetus to the previously neglected education of the deaf.
      Gallaudet retired in 1830 and devoted himself to various educational causes; he advocated establishing public schools for teacher training and providing higher education for women. He died in on September 10, 1851.
      His two sons, Thomas Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet, continued his work as teachers of the deaf.

      Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins," Microsoft. Encarta. Online Encyclopedia 2000
      http://encarta.msn.com ) 1997-2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.



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