Thomas Gallaudet

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1787

Birth Place: Philadelphia

Death Date: 1851

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: American pioneer in the education of the deaf. When his school opened in 1817 in Hartford, 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. Trained in the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary.

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