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  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787–September 10, 1851) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gallaudet's wish to become a preacher was put aside when he met Alice Cogswell, the nine-year-old deaf daughter of a neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell.
Impressed with the manual method, Gallaudet studied teaching methodology under Sicard, learning sign language from Massieu and Clerc, who were both highly educated graduates of the school.
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 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787–September 10, 1851) was born in (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) Philadelphia.
Gallaudet's wish to become a preacher was put aside when he met Alice Cogswell, the nine-year-old deaf daughter of a neighbour, Dr. Mason Cogswell.
Cogswell asked Gallaudet to travel to (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe to study methods for teaching deaf students, especially those of the Braidwood family in England.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_hopkins_gallaudet.htm   (433 words)

  
 American Sign Language University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787.
Thomas graduate from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1814 and was ordained as a Congregation minister.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787 in Hartford, Connecticut.
www.lifeprint.com /asl101/pages-layout/gallaudet-thomas-hopkins.htm   (3864 words)

  
 Thomas Gallaudet (1822-1902) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Gallaudet (June 3, 1822-August 27, 1902), a famous American Episcopal priest, was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
One of Thomas Gallaudet's students, Henry Winter Syle, became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church.
Gallaudet is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Gallaudet_%281822-1902%29   (168 words)

  
 The History of Gallaudet University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gallaudet's goal, to serve as an itinerant preacher, was put aside when he met Alice Cogswell, the 9 years old deaf daughter of a neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell.
Gallaudet served as principal of the school from 1817 to 1830.
Gallaudet University may be the only university in the nation with statues of both father and son on the same campus.
pr.gallaudet.edu /GallaudetHistory   (516 words)

  
 Thomas Gallaudet & Henry Winter Syle
Thomas Gallaudet was born in 1822, in Hartford, Connecticut.
His mother, Sophia was deaf, and his father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was the founder of the West Hartford School for the deaf, which was the principal institution for the education of the deaf in America from 1806 to 1857 (the year of the founding of Gallaudet College in Washington, DC).
Gallaudet encouraged him to become a priest, and in 1876 he became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church in the United States.
www.satucket.com /lectionary/Gallaudet&Syle.htm   (261 words)

  
 Gallaudet University - Inside Gallaudet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Linsay Darnall, Jr, Student Body Government president) and Laurent Clerc (Adam Jarashow, SBG director of community relations) look on as SBG vice president, Tawny Holmes speaks about the invaluable contributions to deaf education made by these men at the revived annual celebration of their birthdays.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who the University is named for, is known as the “father of deaf education” because of his efforts to establish a school for deaf children after meeting a young deaf neighbor girl, Alice Cogswell.
Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787 in Philadelphia, Penn. and died in 1851.
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 Encyclopedia: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Modern New England, the six northeastern-most states of the United States, indicated by red The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country.
Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917), son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was a famous early educator of the deaf in Washington, DC.
Gallaudet University was the first school for the advanced education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Hopkins-Gallaudet   (870 words)

  
 GALLAUDET - LoveToKnow Article on GALLAUDET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There are three accounts of his life, one by Henry Barnard, Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudel (Hartford, 1852); another by Herman Humphrey (Hartford, 1858), and a third (and the best one) by his son Edward Miner Gallaudet (1888).
His son, THOMAS GALLAUDET (1822-1902), after graduating at Trinity College in 1842, entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry, settled in New York City, and there in 1852 organized St Annes Episcopal church, where he conducted services for deaf mutes.
The Gallaudet College (founded in 1864 as the National Deaf Mute College and renamed in 1893 in honor of Thomas H. Gallaudet) and the Kendall School are separate departments of this institution, under independent faculties (each headed by Gallaudet), but under the management of one board of directors.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GALLAUDET.htm   (297 words)

  
 Biography: Thomas Gallaudet, priest (27 August 1902) Henry Winter Syle, priest (6 January 1890)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Gallaudet was born in 1822, in Hartford, Connecticut (41:45 N 72:42 E).
His mother, Sophia was deaf, and his father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was the founder of the West Hartford School for the deaf, which was the principal institution for the education of the deaf in America from 1806 to 1857 (the year of the founding of Gallaudet College in Washington, DC, 38:55 N 77:00 W).
One of Gallaudet's students and parishioners was Henry Winter Syle, deaf from an early age, who had attended Trinity College (Hartford, Conn), St John's (Cambridge, England, 52:12 N 0:07 E), and Yale (New Haven, Conn., 41:18 N 72:55 W).
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 American Sign Language University
Gallaudet was a brilliant student and entered Yale University at the age of 14.
Perhaps the event that put Gallaudet University on the map and many individuals remember as the civil rights movement for the deaf was the events that started on March 9, 1988.
Gallaudet may be remembered by the world because of the events of March 9, 1988 but the students that graduate from the University will always know it as their alma mater.
www.lifeprint.com /asl101/pages-layout/gallaudetuniversity.htm   (624 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (10 Dec. 1787-10 Sept. 1851), educator of the deaf, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Peter W. Gallaudet, a merchant, and Jane Hopkins.
As principal, Gallaudet made a number of noteworthy contributions to the education of the deaf, not the least of which was his continuing advocacy of the use of sign language.
Gallaudet himself wrote several articles on the education of the deaf that were published in the American Annals of the Deaf, the American Annals of Education, and the Christian Observer.
www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpXII/Thomas%20Gallaudet.htm   (997 words)

  
 DHM: Library - Contract Between Thomas Gallaudet And Laurent Clerc (Document)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gallaudet; and shall also have provision made for his washing, fires, lights, and attendance.
Gallaudet shall pay to him before his departure, to indemnify him for the expense of going back, the sum of one thousand five hundred francs, in addition to what has already been promised.
Gallaudet, as head of the Institution, will take charge of all matters of religious teaching which may not be in accordance with this faith.
www.disabilitymuseum.org /lib/docs/689.htm   (828 words)

  
 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.
famousamericans.net /thomashopkinsgallaudet   (1153 words)

  
 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas was born with a sickness which we now call a very bad case of asthma.
Gallaudet was thrown a party at the age of 60 by his first students at the school for the deaf.
Gallaudet died at the age of 63 in 1850.
www.ahisd.net /campuses/cambridge/heights/MOM/Gallaudet/gallaudet.htm   (296 words)

  
 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Biography / Biography of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Biography
Thomas Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 10, 1787.
When Gallaudet returned to the United States in 1816, accompanied by one of Sicard's assistants, he began seeking financial support for a school for the deaf and mute which had already been incorporated by the Connecticut Legislature.
Gallaudet turned down offers to join university faculties or to lead other special schools so that he could devote himself to writing books for young children and promoting popular education.
www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-hopkins-gallaudet   (498 words)

  
 Gallaudet University Professional Education -- NCATE ANNUAL REPORT 2000
Gallaudet University is scheduled for a reaccredidation visit from NCATE in spring of 2002.
Gallaudet’s NCATE Steering Committee (made up of representatives from each of the Departments or Programs of the Unit), in conjunction with colleagues in Arts and Sciences, spent much of Fall, 2000 analyzing the NCATE 2000 Standards and developing a preliminary Conceptual Framework to guide our program improvement processes.
Within Gallaudet the Department of Educational Foundations and Research DEFR is a pioneer department in the integration of technology in its teaching.
gspp.gallaudet.edu /ncate/2000anrpt.html   (2828 words)

  
 Edson F. Gallaudet
Gallaudet, who is well known in banking and social circles, had been successfully flying about the field, and rose to make another flight.
Gallaudet had been working for some time on his new monoplane, which is of the Neuport type, with three rear controls.
Filip A. Bjorklund was the test pilot for the Gallaudet D-1 and he also was an instructor in the C-1 and C-2.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gallaudet was or­dained to the di­a­co­nate June 16, 1850, and be­came an Epis­co­pal priest in 1851.
He al­so founded the Gal­lau­det Home for Deaf-Mutes, near Pough­keepsie, New York, in 1885.
Note: Gallaudet is oft­en con­fused with his fa­ther, Dr. Thom­as Hop­kins Gall­au­det, found­er of the first Amer­i­can school for the deaf.
www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/g/a/gallaudet_t.htm   (93 words)

  
 Notable Gallaudets in American History
Thomas Gallaudet founded the first church for the Deaf in America: St. Ann's Church for Deaf-mutes in New York City.
Thomas was attending the Andover theological Seminary in Hartford when his next door neighbor, an eminent surgeon with a deaf daughter, asked Thomas if he would go to England and learn to educate the deaf which Thomas agreed to do.
Gallaudet University is the only university devoted solely to the deaf and hearing impaired in the world.
www.gallaudet.com /notable_gallaudets.htm   (504 words)

  
 A FATHER, A SON, AND A UNIVERSITY: THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET 1787-1851 Info to Go, Gallaudet University
Gallaudet helped her write it: A-L-I-C-E. As excited as he was, Gallaudet only got more excited as he watched the doctor's face.
Alice Cogswell and six other deaf students entered the school that would become the American School for the Deaf, (From 1819 to 1895, the school was known as the American Asylum at Hartford for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb) the oldest school for deaf students in the United States.
Gallaudet retired from his job as principal of the school for deaf children in 1830.
clerccenter.gallaudet.edu /InfotoGo/751.html   (1312 words)

  
 A FATHER, A SON, AND A UNIVERSITY: THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET 1787-1851 Info to Go, Gallaudet University
Gallaudet was ready to give up on the idea of a college for deaf people when he got a letter from Washington, D.C. The letter was from Amos Kendall, a man who had started a school for deaf and blind children near his home in Washington.
Worse, Gallaudet was only 20 years old—far too young to be the head of an important school in the nation's capital.
Gallaudet and his mother moved to their new home, and Gallaudet began repairing the buildings where the new school would be.
clerccenter.gallaudet.edu /InfoToGo/752.html   (1463 words)

  
 Carroll County Times Article for 18 July 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Theodore, the son of Octavius Gallaudet, a French Huguenot, and brother of Thomas Gallaudet, the founder of the Deaf and Dumb Institute in New York, came to Westminster from Washington before the Civil War.
Gallaudet entered the room and calmly looked at his wife, and quoted: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Blessed be the name of the Lord.' Mrs.
Gallaudet died in Westminster and was buried in Greenmount Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland.
www.carr.org /hscc/research/yesteryears/cct1999/990718.htm   (739 words)

  
 ASLinfo.com » Deaf Culture - Information and resources related to American Sign Language (ASL), Interpreting and ...
Thomas Gallaudet was the founder of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, which was the first public residential school for children in the US.
On March 6-13th, 1988, Gallaudet University was the place of a significant event in contemporary deaf history.
Out of the 3 final candidates for the Gallaudet presidency one was hearing, and had little knowledge of the deaf or sign language unlike the other two candidates.
www.aslinfo.com /gallaudet.cfm   (575 words)

  
 Learning Amid The Silence
The school, the brainchild of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was dedicated to the use of the "natural language of signs" in the education of its charges.
Thomas Braidwood, a mathematics teacher, accepted the assignment of teaching the deaf son of a wealthy merchant in 1760.
Thomas Braidwood seemed the logical choice to head such an enterprise, but the young Scotsman with an eye for his best chance declined.
www.connerprairie.org /historyonline/silence.html   (1957 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet[gal´´udet´, gO´lu–] Pronunciation Key, 1787–1851, American educator of the deaf, b.
In England and France he studied methods of education in schools for the deaf, and in Hartford, Conn., he founded (1817) the first such free school in the United States.
His oldest son, Thomas Gallaudet, 1822–1902, was ordained (1851) as an Episcopal priest.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gallaude.html   (221 words)

  
 DPN: A history-Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Her father, Mason Cogswell, a wealthy doctor, subsequently financed Thomas' trip to Europe since there were no schools for deaf children in the United States at that time.
Gallaudet later married one of the graduates of the school, Sophia Fowler, and they had eight children.
Gallaudet University is named in honor of Edward's father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
clerccenter.gallaudet.edu /DPN/issues/history/thg.html   (392 words)

  
 Skull & Bones Society Controls Education: Look-Say Reading Method, Phonics, John Dewey, Columbia University
Thomas H. Gallaudet was the eldest son of Peter Wallace Gallaudet, descended from a French Huguenot family, and Jane Hopkins.
Gallaudet's original intention was to use the look-say method only for deaf mutes who have no concept of a spoken language and are therefore unaware of phonetic sounds for letters.
The youngest son of Thomas Hopkins and Sophia Gallaudet was Edward Miner Gallaudet.
www.sntp.net /education/sutton_look_see.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Deaf History Unveiled: Chapter Five   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet always believed that the deaf people who were his students at the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb should be treated like his own children: with a father's kindly watchfulness and firm authority.
During the winter of 1816 while he was in Edinburgh, Scotland, preparing to become administrator of the American Asylum, a homesick Gallaudet wrote to his friend Dr. Mason Cogswell: "I long to be in the midst of my deaf and dumb children, for such I mean to consider them" [italics added].
In his role as guardian to younger children, paternalism may have been appropriate; but Principal Gallaudet also maintained this posture toward former pupils who grew up, graduated from school, took jobs, married, and established families of their own.
gupress.gallaudet.edu /excerpts/exDHUfive.html   (236 words)

  
 Gallaudet University - Visitors Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A Legacy and a Promise: A brief history of Gallaudet University that includes a timeline of significant events, the institution's name evolution, and a list of our former presidents.
Edward Miner Gallaudet: A brief description of the life of the university's first president.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: A brief description of the life of the university's namesake.
pr.gallaudet.edu /VisitorsCenter/GallaudetHistory   (220 words)

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