biography
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Gallaudet, Edward Miner
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| male
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| lived:
| (1837–1917)
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| biography:
| Educator, born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. The son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he was a founder and superintendent of Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Washington, DC (1857–1910) (renamed Gallaudet College for his father in 1894). There he introduced a combined manual and oral method of teaching the deaf and established the first US college programme for the deaf. |
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