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He was a Minister, educator, and co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America. and attended Yale University in 1805 getting a Bachelors degree. graduating at the age of seventeen, with highest honors, and then earned a master's degree at Yale in 1808.
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Alice Cogswell is born
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Two years later she Loses her speech and hearing due to Spotted Fever
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Alice meets Thomas because they are neighbors
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Pennsylvania school for the deaf is founded
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dies at the age of 25
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet died in Hartford on September 10, 1851, aged 63, and was buried in Hartford's Cedar Hill Cemetery. There is a residence hall named in his honor at nearby Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. There is also a residence hall named in his honor at the University of Hartford in West Hartford.
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In 1864 the Columbia Institute’s college division (the National Deaf-Mute College) opened. This was the first college for the deaf.
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His youngest child Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837–1917) founded in 1864 the first college for the deaf, which, in 1986, became Gallaudet University. He was president for 46 years. The university also offers education for those in elementary, middle, and high school.
