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The Gallaudet University Alumni Association gives the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund Alice Cogswell Award to people for valuable service on behalf of deaf citizens. [4] [5] Cogswell is known as a remarkable figure in the history of deaf culture, illustrating a breakthrough in deaf education. She showed that the deaf are capable of being taught and ...
Thomas Gallaudet path in life was altered when he met Alice Cogswell, on May 25, 1814, the nine-year-old deaf daughter of a neighbor, Dr. Mason Cogswell. [9] Gallaudet had returned to his parents' home in Hartford to recuperate from his seminary studies. On that day, as he observed Alice playing apart from other children, he wanted to teach her.
The house holds historical significance as the residence of Judson Moss Bemis, founder of the J.M. Bemis Company, and his wife Alice Cogswell Bemis. Judson Bemis, a philanthropist and business leader, played a vital role in the community, contributing to Colorado College and establishing the School of Business Administration and Banking.
He met his future wife Alice Cogswell in 1802 and they married in 1805. Her cousin of the same name was the inspiration for the founding of the first school for the deaf in the United States. Fisher and his wife had six children. She died in 1850.
The house was built in 1885 and became the permanent home of Alice Bemis and their daughter, Alice; Judson Moss Bemis lived in the home several months a year and conducted business and lived the rest of the year in Boston. He was the founder of J. M. Bemis Company. [4]
Anderson met his wife, Karen, when he was a student at New York University. ... Alice Cogswell Award for valuable service to Deaf people 2007 Lifetime Achievement ...
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 .
The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, [1] an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. [1]