Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet American School for the Deaf

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Click for full size #1 Click for full size #2 First American School for the Deaf was Founded in 1817 in Hartford Connecticut by TH Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. James H. Wells was on the Supporter and on the Board of the Hartford Asylum (w the deaf were taught prior to the ASD). Hand Written Note declining a dinner invitation with James H Wells, signed TH Gallaudet 1850, Founder of first American School for the Deaf. This is one of 3 of these dinner notes signed by Thomas Gallaudet, about one year before his death in September 1851. I also have a letter signed by Laurent Clerc 1838 to James H. Wells. One of many signficant historical documents from the James Henry Wells papers 1820-1890 (provenance). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Founder of the first American School for the deaf in Hartford Connecticut. One of many historical documents. James H Wells along withTH gallaudet were on the board of the Asylum in Hartford and also the School for the Deaf (as I have some extracts of the period discussing one of the students that was one of the original six entered into the school for the deaf); which is another story... Look for my future auctions of historical Hartford Connecticut and Brattleboro Vermont documents. 1785 Trainband enlistment document signed by general and governor of Vermont, Griswold and Wyllis Sec. of State. Many many Autographs and letters including ASD and asylum for the insane which Gallaudet supported. Letter listing names and amount of funding for first students at ASD circa 1816. Receipts for coal, spectacles, chicken plucking and feather combing. Page of candle snuffers circa 1800 and shipping document (not filled in). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Painting by George F. Wright in 1851. Born December 10, 1787 (1787-12-10 ) Died September 10, 1851 (aged 63) Hartford , Connecticut Occupation Minister , educator , co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in North America. Religion Christianity Spouse(s) Sophia Fowler Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D. , (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was a renowned American pioneer in the education of the deaf . He helped found and was for many years the principal of the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America. When opened in 1817, it was called the "American Asylum for Deaf-Mutes" in Connecticut, but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf . Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He attended Yale University , earning his bachelor's degree in 1805, [2 ] graduating at the age of seventeen, and then earned a master's degree at Yale in 1808. [4 ] [ 5] He wanted to do many things such as study law, engage in trade, or study divinity . In 1814, Gallaudet became a preacher following his graduation from Andover Theological Seminary after a two-year course of study. However, Gallaudet's wish to become a professional minister was put aside when he met Alice Cogswell , the nine-year-old deaf daughter of a neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell. [7 ] He taught her words by writing them with a stick in the dirt. Then Cogswell asked Gallaudet to travel to Europe to study methods for teaching deaf students, especially those of the Braidwood family in Edinburgh, Scotland . Gallaudet found the Braidwoods unwilling to share knowledge of their oral communication method and himself financially limited. At the same time, he was not satisfied that the oral method produced desirable results. While still in Great Britain , he met Abbé Sicard , head of the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets � Paris , and two of its deaf faculty members, Laurent Clerc and Jean Massieu . Sicard invited Gallaudet to Paris to study the school's method of teaching the deaf using manual communication . 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... read more

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