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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]
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.
A sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell located on the Gallaudet University campus. In 1812 in New England, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet met a little girl named Alice Cogswell, who inspired him to create a school for the deaf in the United States.
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]
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 .
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
Alice was named in honor of Alice Cogswell, the daughter of Dr. Mason Cogswell and first deaf pupil of the American School for the Deaf. Gallaudet University , which specializes in the education of deaf persons, was founded by the elder Gallaudet's son, Edward Miner Gallaudet .