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Laura Searing

Laura Redden Searing - Born February 9, 1840, in Somerset County, MD. Died August 10, 1923; Last home address site: San Mateo, CANewspaper correspondent who once interviewed President Lincoln, Civil War generals and soldiers using pad and pencil.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison - Born February 11, 1847, in Milan, OH. Died October 18, 1931; Last home address site: Orange, NJ.Inventor and scientist who received 1,093 patents and who said his deafness helped him concentrate on his experiments and research.

Kendall School

February 16, 1857 -- Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, known as Kendall School, opens. Founded by Amos Kendall Now a part of the Laurent Clerc Center of Gallaudet University.

Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown - Born February 25, 1804, in Henniker, NH; also his last home address site. Died March 23, 1886. First deaf American grassroots leader and a NAD seed planter in 1850s.First deaf politician in New Hampshire Organized the first deaf convention in America on September 26, 1850.

Edwin Hodgson

Edwin Allan Hodgson - Born February 28, 1854, in Manchester, England. Died August 13, 1933; last home address site: New York City.Second president and one of the three co-founders of NAD. Known as the driving force behind the founding of the NAD. Editor of Deaf Mutes’ Journal, one of the most popular, influential and widely […]

Deaf History Month begins

Deaf History MonthMarch 13-April 15, since 1997 To commemorate the three most important deaf cultural dates in American historyMarch 13, 1988: The victory of the Deaf President Now movement at Gallaudet University located in Washington, D.C. when the first deaf person was selected to become president of this 124-year-ole institutionApril 8, 1864: Charter signed by […]

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet - Born March 20, 1798, in Guilford, CT. Died May 13, 1877; her last home address site: Hartford, CT.Influential advocate to the US Congress on behalf of education of deaf people in the 1860s and who was known as "Queen of the Deaf Community" Deaf wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and mother […]