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Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876) [1] was an American physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution .
The Gridley–Howe–Faden–Atkins Farmstead, also known as Brookside Farm, in Kimball County, Nebraska near Kimball, is a historic, well preserved farmstead.It has buildings and structures dating from 1899 when Henry H. Howe built a 38-by-38-foot (12 m × 12 m) one-story limestone house until 1947 when the last structure on the property was built.
Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876) was a medical doctor and an early champion of support for the physically handicapped. He was a founder and the first head (for 44 years) of what is now called the Perkins School for the Blind. In 1843 he married Julia Ward (1819–1910), the daughter of a wealthy New York City banker.
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.
Samuel Gridley Howe, the first director of the New England Asylum for the Blind (now Perkins School for the Blind), studied tactile printing systems in Europe and developed his own system of raised type called Boston line letter. Howe's system was similar to raised letters designed by James Gall in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1820s. [1]
The Howe Building Tower from afar on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. Founded in 1829, Perkins was the first school for the blind established in the United States. [4] The school was originally named the New England Asylum for the Blind and was incorporated on March 2, 1829. The name was eventually ...
The Secret Six were Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George Luther Stearns.All six had been involved in the abolitionist cause prior to their meeting John Brown, and had gradually become convinced that violence was necessary in order to end American slavery.
Howe and his secretary also traveled to Canada West, where thousands of former slaves had settled after gaining freedom in Canada. He visited their communities, interviewed freedmen and government officials, and noted their progress in a free country where they were enfranchised and their rights protected by the government.