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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Deaf Mutes, education of. As early as 1793 Dr. W. Thornton published an essay in Philadelphia on Teaching the dumb to speak, but no attempt was made to establish a school for the purpose here until 1811, when the effort was unsuccessful. A school for the instruction of the silent that proved successful was opened in Hartford, Conn., by Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet (q. v.) in 1817, and was chartered under the name of the New England Asylum for the deaf and dumb. Congress granted for its support a township of land in Alabama, the proceeds of which formed a fund of about $340,000. Other asylums have since been established, numbering thirty-six in 1870, and a national deaf mute college was established at Washington in 1864. In 1876 there were about 4,400 pupils in these institutions. At the close of the school year 1898 the total number of schools for deaf mutes reporting to the United States bureau of education was 105, with 1,100 instructors and 10,878 pupils. There were fifty-o