Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
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.
Alice Bemis Taylor (October 15, 1877 – June 22, 1942) was a philanthropist and was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2010. For her significant contributions to Colorado College , Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Colorado Springs Day Nursery and other organizations, she was named "Lady Bountiful" by the press.
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
Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761–1830) [1] was an American physician who pioneered education for the deaf. Cogwell's daughter, Alice Cogswell , was deaf after the age of two, prompting Cogswell to jointly establish the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut .
Death and the Sculptor (1893) in Boston French's statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell (1889) at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Justice (1900) adorns the pediment of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State in Manhattan. Law, Prosperity, and Power (1880–1884) in West Fairmount Park in Philadelphia [22]
The 1889 statue depicts Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sitting in a chair and Alice Cogswell standing at his side. Creation and unveiling. The memorial in 1898.