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See also:GALLAUDET, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:HOPKINS (1787–1851) , See also:American educator of the See also:deaf and dumb, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, of See also:French Huguenot ancestry, on the loth of See also:December 1787. He graduated at Yale in 1805, where he was a See also:tutor from r8o8 to 181o. Subsequently he studied See also:theology at See also:Andover, and was licensed to preach in 1814, but having determined to abandon the See also:ministry and devote his See also:life to the See also:education of deaf- mutes, he visited See also:Europe in 1815–1816, and studied the methods of the See also:abbe See also:Sicard in See also:Paris, and of Thomas See also:Braidwood (1715–1806) and his successor See also:Joseph See also:Watson (1765–1829) in See also:Great See also:Britain. Returning to the See also:United States in 1816, he established at See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, with the aid of See also:Laurent Clerc (1785-1869), a deaf See also:mute assistant of the abbe Sicard, a school for deaf mutes, in support of which See also:Congress, largely through the See also:influence of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay, made a See also:land See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant, and which Gallaudet presided over with great success until See also:ill-See also:health compelled him to retire in 1830. It was the first institution of the sort in the United States, and served as a See also:model for institutions which were subsequently established. He died at Hartford, Connecticut, on the 5th of See also:September 1851.
There are three accounts of his life, one by Henry See also:Barnard, Life, See also:Character and Services of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet (Hartford, 1852); another by Herman See also:Humphrey (Hartford, 1858), and a third (and the best one) by his son See also:Edward Miner Gallaudet (1888).
His son, TxoMAS GALLAUDET (1822-1902), after graduating at Trinity See also:College in 1842, entered the See also:Protestant Episcopal ministry, settled in New See also:York See also:City, and there in 1852 organized St See also:Anne's Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, where he conducted services for deaf mutes. In 1872 he organized and became See also:general manager of the Church See also:mission to deaf mutes, and in 1885 founded the Gallaudet See also:home for deaf mutes, particularly the aged, at Wappingers Falls, near See also:Poughkeepsie, New York.
Another son, EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET (b. 1837), was born at Hartford, Connecticut, on the 3rd of See also:February 1837, and graduated at Trinity College in x856. After teaching for a See also:year in the institution for deaf mutes founded by his See also:father at Hartford, he removed with his See also:mother, See also:Sophia See also:Fowler Gallaudet (1798–187 7), to See also:Washington, D.C., where at the See also:request of See also:Amos See also:Kendall (1789-1869), its founder, he organized and took See also:charge of the See also:Columbia Institution for the deaf and dumb, which received support from the See also:government, and of which he became See also:president. This institution was the first to furnish actual collegiate education for deaf mutes (in 1864 it acquired the right to grant degrees), and was successful from the start. The Gallaudet College (founded in 1864 as the See also:National Deaf Mute College and renamed in 1893 in See also:honour of Thomas H. Gallaudet) and the Kendall School are See also:separate departments of this institution, under See also:independent faculties (each headed by Gallaudet), but under the management of one See also:board of See also:directors.
End of Article: GALLAUDET, THOMAS HOPKINS (1787–1851)
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