Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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 became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
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Birth Place
United States of America, Pennsylvania
Date of Death
September 10th, 1851
Died Aged
-118
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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