Thomas Gallaudet (1822–1902)

Thomas Gallaudet (June 3, 1822 - August 27, 1902), an American Episcopal priest, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was the renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States.
After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Gallaudet accepted a teaching position in the New York Institution for Deaf-mutes, where he met and married Elizabeth Budd, who, like Gallaudet's mother Sophia, was deaf.
Following in his father's footsteps, in 1852, Gallaudet established St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes in New York City; in 1885, he established the Gallaudet Home for Deaf-Mutes near Poughkeepsie.
One of Thomas Gallaudet's students, Henry Winter Syle, became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church. Both Gallaudet and Syle are listed in the Episcopal Church's Calendar of Saints for August 27.
Gallaudet was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.
==External links==
*Mission St. Clare: Thomas Gallaudet
*Cyber Hymnal: Thomas Gallaudet
Category:1822 births
Category:1902 deaths
Category:American educators
Category:Anglican saints
Category:People from Hartford, Connecticut
Category:People from Dutchess County, New York
Category:19th-century Christian saints
Category:American saints
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