Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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1787 – 1851
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Who was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D., was a renowned American pioneer in the education of the deaf. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1787
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D.
- T. H. Gallaudet
- Spouses
- Sophia Fowler Gallaudet
(1821/08/29 - )
- Sophia Fowler Gallaudet
- Children
- Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Andover Newton Theological School
- Lived in
- Hartford
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Sep 10, 1851
Hartford
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on July 23, 2013
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