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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 neighbour, Dr. Mason Cogswell.
		Cogswell asked Gallaudet to travel to Europe to study methods for teaching deaf students, especially those of the Braidwood family in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hopkins_Gallaudet (352 words)

	Gallaudet University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gallaudet University was the first school for the advanced education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
		The university was named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a notable figure in the advancement of deaf education.
		Gallaudet athletes and teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) in the disciplines of baseball, basketball, cross country, football, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gallaudet_University (417 words)

	American Sign Language University
		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)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Thomas Gallaudet
		Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (1787-1851), American educator, who devoted his life to the welfare and education of the deaf.
		In 1817 an Episcopalian minister, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and Mason Cogswell, a philanthropist with a deaf daughter, founded the first American...
		Gallaudet University, private, coeducational institution for students who are deaf or hearing-impaired, located in Washington, D.C. It was founded in...
	encarta.msn.com /Thomas_Gallaudet.html (135 words)

	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Wikipedia
		Dieser bat Gallaudet, in Europa nach Unterrichtsmethoden für taube Kinder zu forschen, insbesondere derer der Familie von Thomas Braidwood in Edinburgh.
		Gallaudet wirkte als Schuldirektor bis 1830, als er sich zurückzog um wieder Kinderbücher zu schreiben und sein Amt als Prediger wahrzunehmen.
		Sein jüngster Sohn Edward Miner Gallaudet gründete 1857 in Washington, D.C., mit dem Philanthropisten und US-Postminister Amos Kendall die "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind", die später nach seinem Vater in Gallaudet University umbenannt wurde.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hopkins_Gallaudet (475 words)

	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		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.
		Gallaudet died in (The state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business) Hartford in 1851.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_hopkins_gallaudet.htm (442 words)

	Thomas Gallaudet, Priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/48.html (287 words)

	Gallaudet University - Inside Gallaudet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
	news.gallaudet.edu /article.asp?ID=3939 (464 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.
	www.famousamericans.net /thomashopkinsgallaudet (1153 words)

	DHM: Library - Life Of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Document)
		Gallaudet when this possible "universal language" demanding "neither types nor paper" was realized in the language of signs which played so important a part in his work of teaching the deaf.
		Gallaudet's successor as principal of the institution for deaf-mutes at Hartford.
		Gallaudet, from time to time, succeeded in imparting to her a knowledge of many simple words and sentences, which were much enlarged by members of her own family, and especially by her first teacher, Miss Lydia Huntley [afterwards well-known as the poetess Lydia H. Sigourney].
	www.disabilitymuseum.org /lib/docs/1739.htm (782 words)

	Gallaudet University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The university was named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a notable figure in the advancement of deaf persons education.
		Student strikes at Gallaudet University starting March 9, 1988 revolutionized the perception and education of Deaf people as a culture.
		Deaf students were outraged at the selection of another in a line of university presidents who were hearing, finding it patronizing, marginalizing, and inappropriate for such an essential part of the Deaf community.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/g/ga/gallaudet_university.html (145 words)

	A FATHER, A SON, AND A UNIVERSITY: THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET 1787-1851 Info to Go, Gallaudet University
		Gallaudet had been away—first as a college student at Yale University, then as a salesman, then as an apprentice lawyer.
		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.
		Gallaudet retired from his job as principal of the school for deaf children in 1830.
	clerccenter.gallaudet.edu /InfoToGo/751.html (1312 words)

	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Biography / Biography of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Biography Biography
		Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), American educator, founded the first free school for the deaf in America.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-hopkins-gallaudet/index.html (499 words)

	GALLAUDET - LoveToKnow Article on GALLAUDET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	American Sign Language University
		Gallaudet University is named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who was born is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787.
		Gallaudet was a brilliant student and entered Yale University at the age of 14.
		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)

	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Essay
		Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Thomas' family consisted of nine children and Thomas was the oldest of the children.
		Thomas was born with a sickness that caused him limitations on his physical abilities.
	www.bookrags.com /essays/story/2004/5/23/20118/0831 (213 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.
		When Gallaudet arrived in England, he went to the Braidwood family which had a monopoly on deaf education in England but was rebuffed because, most likely, of his french name.
	www.gallaudet.com /notable_gallaudets.htm (504 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)

	Brief History of ASD
		Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (below, right) was born in Philadelphia on December 10, 1787, to French Huguenot parents.
		Gallaudet was familiar with the work of the French School, and had even met with the abbe at the beginning of his visit to England, but it was not until he had despaired of reaching his goal with the English that he turned to the French.
		Gallaudet attended one of the lectures, met with the abbe and his assistants, and accepted their invitation to enter the teacher preparation program at the French school.
	www.asd-1817.org /history/history-asd.html (604 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)

	Encyclopedia: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speakers thoughts.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Hopkins-Gallaudet (870 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)

	hopkins retired (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hopkins is named for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who brought the manual, or sign language method from Europe to the United States in the early 1800 s.
		Gallaudet founded the Hartford (Connecticut) School for the Deaf in 1817, and his younger son founded Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University) in Washington, D.C. in 1864.
		Hopkins coin has a "2" on it, because he is telling Pumpkin, "I love you, too!" Pumpkin and Hopkins wish that Halloween were more like Valentine s Day, that is, a time of friendship and warm feelings.
	www.gift-hunter.com /5073hop.html (133 words)

	Deaf History Unveiled: Chapter Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	Historic People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet helped found the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in 1817, known today as the American School for the Deaf.
		Thomas Gallaudet, a Hartford resident and traveling preacher, studied at the Royal Institute for the Deaf in Paris from 1815-1816 and served as the Headmaster of the American School for twelve years.
		Following his retirement, Gallaudet served as a prison chaplain, preached at the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and at Central Church, and wrote more than a dozen's children's books.
	www.ctosh.org /history_vintphotos/hp_tgallaudet.htm (134 words)

	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
		Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia on December 10, 1787, and educated at Yale College (now Yale University) and Andover Theological Seminary.
		Some of the people Gallaudet trained went on to lead similar institutions and gave a strong impetus to the previously neglected education of the deaf.
		Gallaudet retired in 1830 and devoted himself to various educational causes; he advocated establishing public schools for teacher training and providing higher education for women.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nnnotables/zthg.html (277 words)

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		In 1817, the American School for the Deaf was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and the deaf teacher, Laurent Clerc in Hartford, Connecticut.
		The Reverend Thomas Gallaudet, elder son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was a friend of the Lathrop family.
		Gallaudet was a teacher at the New York Institution (Fanwood) with Harvey Prindle Peet.
	www.rit.edu /~comets/pages/lang/rochhertimelines.html (1994 words)

	Deaf Place Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The University itself is named for a hearing person, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in America (1817, in Hartford, CT).
		Although not named for a deaf person, and no longer in existence, this short-lived town is worthy of note for being named in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in America.
		A small river north of Timmons, Ontario, is named for Dr. Donald J. Kidd (1922-1966), a deaf Canadian geochemist and Gallaudet College professor, in honor of his contributions to the discovery of metal ores and establishment of metal mines in the area.
	library.gallaudet.edu /dr/faq-deaf-place-names.html (4084 words)

	Deafbase - Thomas H. Gallaudet - A hearing man and a deaf university (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), who suffered from poor health throughout his life, discovered the world of the deaf when he met young Alice Cogswell, a deaf child with no language.
		A Father, A Son, A University: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - This long biography, written for younger readers, is pleasant to read and well-illustrated.
		The History of Gallaudet University - This page has a relatively short biography and is illustrated with full-length photos of both the Gallaudet statue and a statue of Thomas' son, Edward.
	www.deafbase.com /article128.html (441 words)

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