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Alice Cogswell and six other deaf students (George Loring, Wilson Whiton, Abigail Dillingham, Otis Waters, John Brewster, and Nancy Orr) entered the school that would become the American School for the Deaf in April 1817. She died at the age of twenty-five on December 30, 1830, thirteen days after the death of her father. [2]
Cogswell is a surname, derived from the town of Coggeshall in Essex. [1] Notable people with the surname include: A. E. Cogswell (1858–1934), British architect; Alice Cogswell (1805–1830), deaf American, daughter of Mason Fitch Cogswell; Bryce Cogswell, computer expert; Charles A. Cogswell (1844–1908), American state senator
When it opened in 1817, there were seven students enrolled: Alice Cogswell, George Loring, Wilson Whiton, Abigail Dillingham, Otis Waters, John Brewster, and Nancy Orr. [8] The original name of the school was: The Connecticut Asylum (at Hartford) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons.
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Just days before his death, Gallaudet received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Western Reserve College of Ohio. [16] Gallaudet University was named in honor of him in 1894. A statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell created by Daniel Chester French sits at the front of Gallaudet University.
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Alice Cogswell, the first deaf student at American School for the Deaf. Robert R. Davila, the ninth president of Gallaudet University; Pierre Desloges (1742–?), French deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book; Gilbert Eastman (1934–2016), American educator, actor, playwright, author, and television host