Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he bec
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet circa 1842
The school founded by Gallaudet in Hartford is now the American School for the Deaf
Sophia Fowler
The Gallaudet Memorial at Gallaudet University
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet
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Sophia Fowler Gallaudet was the wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. As the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University, she played an important role in deaf history, even playing a ke
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
…American School for the Deaf (ASD), in 1817. Young Alice was one of the first seven students at ASD. In 1821, he married one of his former students, Sophia Fowler and they had eight children together. After resigning directorship of his school for the deaf in 1830, Gallaudet wrote educational and religious texts…
Gallaudet in the 1850s