Edward Miner Gallaudet
Edward Miner Gallaudet (* 1837 , † 1917 ) was an American educator .
Gallaudet, son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founded the National Deaf-Mute College in Washington, DC in 1864 with the philanthropist and former US Postal Secretary Amos Kendall . It was the first college for deaf students, renamed Gallaudet College after his father in 1894 .
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- Edward F. Fay: Edward Miner Gallaudet . In: American Annals of the Deaf, 62,5 (1917) pp. 399-403
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| SURNAME | Gallaudet, Edward Miner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1837 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1917 |