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Visit to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
They said they taught their students to not speak, because nothing can be more unearthly than the sound of someone who has lost the organ of hearing. -
Visit to the Orphan Asylum; Visit to the Asylum for Poor Widows.
Children were taken care of and educated until they were twelve years old. You pay thirty dollars of entrance money, to get admittance to a comfortable home for the rest of her life. -
Visit to the Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents; Visit to the Eastern Penitentiary
The Refuge is an asylum for juvenile delinquents. The Penitentiary contained hard labour is combined with solitary confinement, which is known as a “separate” system. -
Meeting Laura Bridgeman at the Blind Asylum
At age two she lost her sight and hearing by a severe illness, although deaf, dumb, and blind, she shows more intelligence and quickness of feeling than many girls of the same age who are in full possession of all their senses. -
\Asylum for the Insane; Treatment of the Mental Patients.
They work, read, and play at skittles. They work in a garden or a farm, they work with spades, rakes, and hoes. -
Treaty of Wanghia began.
Its was a diplomatic agreement between the Qing Dynasty of China and the United States. -
Seneca County Courier
Mary H. Hallowell and Sarah Hallowell Willis were elected secretaries of the Women’s Rights Convention. Abigail Bush was elected President of the Rochester convention -
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The first women to be ordained in the US by a mainstream denomination. -
Election James Buchanan vs. John Fremont vs. Milard Filmore
Winner Buchanan received only about 45% of the popular vote. -
Abraham Lincoln became 16th President
He pledged that he would, if at all necessary, act with the conviction of Andrew Jackson in the nullification crisis almost 30 years earlier.
