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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]
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.
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
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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.
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 (surname), a list of people Cogswell K. Green (1809–1889), American lawyer and politician Cogswell Thomas, pen name of Theodore L. Thomas (1920–2005), American short story writer
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]