Thomas Gallaudet (priest)
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Thomas Gallaudet, an American Episcopal priest, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was the renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States. His mother, So
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Laurent Clerc
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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf history. He was taught by Abbé Sicard and
Thomas Gallaudet (priest)
…infancy, named Laurent Clerc Gallaudet. He was most certainly named after the man his father brought back from France to help start his deaf-mute school, Laurent Clerc. Following in his father's footsteps, in 1852, Gallaudet established St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes in New York City…
Teacher, co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in North America