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| | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet |
 | | GALLAUDET, Thomas Hopkins, educator, born in Philadelphia, 10 December 1787; died in Hartford. |
 | | Gallaudet made himself familiar with the methods in use at both establishments, and, returning to the United States in 1816, he brought with him as assistant Laurent Clerc, a deaf-mute, and pupil of Sicard, in the following year, his arrangements having been completed, he began work in Hartford, Connecticut, with seven pupils. |
 | | She gave hearty aid both to her husband and to her son, Edward M. Gallaudet, in the schools of which they respectively had charge.--Their son, Thomas, clergyman, born in Hartford, Connecticut, 8 June, 1822, was graduated at Trinity College in 1842. |
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