Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins găl˝ədĕt´, gô´lə– [key], 1787–1851, American educator of the deaf, b. Philadelphia, grad. Andover Theological Seminary. 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. He was interested also in many other philanthropies.
See biography by his son, E. M. Gallaudet (1888).
His oldest son,
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