GALLAUDET, THOMAS HOPKINS (r787-185I) , American educator of the deaf and dumb, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., of French Huguenot ancestry, on Dec. Io, 1787. He graduated at Yale in 1805, was a tutor there, studied theology at Andover, but determined to devote his life to the education of deaf-mutes. He visited Europe and studied the methods of the abbe Sicard in Paris, and of Thomas Braidwood and his successor Joseph Watson in Great Britain. Returning to the United States in 1816, he estab lished at Hartford, Conn., a school for deaf-mutes, in support of which Congress, largely through the influence of Henry Clay, made a land grant. Gallaudet presided over the school with great success until ill-health compelled him to retire in 1830. It was the first institution of the sort in the United States. He died at Hartford on Sept. Io, 1851.
His son, THOMAS GALLAUDET (1822-1902), was born in Hart ford, on June 3, 182 2. After graduating at Trinity college in 1842, he entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry, settled in New York city, and there, in 1852, organized St. Anne's Episcopal church, where he conducted services for deaf-mutes. In 1872 he became general manager of the church mission to deaf-mutes, and in 1885 founded the Gallaudet home for deaf-mutes, near Poughkeepsie, New York. He died on Aug. 2 7, Another son, EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET (1837-1917), was born at Hartford, Conn., on Feb. 5, 1837, and graduated at Trinity college in 1856. After teaching for a year in the institution founded by his father at Hartford, he organized and took charge of the Columbia Institution for the deaf and dumb in Washington, District of Columbia. This institution was the first to furnish actual collegiate education for deaf-mutes. After 1911 Gallaudet was president emeritus of the college. He died on Sept. 26, 1917.