Gallaudet

Edward Miner, an American educator; born in Hartford, Conn.; Feb. 5, 1837; son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet; was graduated at Trinity College in 1856. He organized the Columbia Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in Washington, D. C., in 1857, and from it developed the Gallaudet College for the Deaf, in 1864 becoming its first president.; Gallaudet, Thomas, an American clergyman; born in Hartford, Conn., June 3, 1822; a son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet; was graduated at Trinity College in 1842; teacher in the New York Institution for Deaf Mutes in 1843-1858; ordained in 1851; founded and became rector of St. Arn’s Church, New York, for deaf-mutes in 1852; appointed general manager of the Protestant Episcopal Church Mi ion to Deaf-Mutes in 1872; oecr of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd in 1869; chaplain of the Midnight Mi ion in 1871; founded the Gallaudet Home for Deaf- Mutes, near Newburg, N. Y.,