Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
The Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D.,( December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American educator.
Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal.
When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the" Connecticut Asylum( at Hartford) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet( March 20, 1798 – May 13, 1877) was the wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
As the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University, she played an important role in deaf history, even playing a key role in lobbying US congressmen in the effort to establish Gallaudet( then the" National Deaf- Mute College").
She was appointed to be the first matron of the Columbia Institution on May 30, 1857 and held the position for nine years, until August 1, 1866.
Jeffrey Stuut
Jeffrey Stuut( born 25 May 1995) is a Dutch para- alpine skier.
He represented the Netherlands at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
He also won bronze medals at the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in both the Downhill and Super- G events.
Peter Wallace Gallaudet
Peter Wallace Gallaudet( April 21, 1756 – May 17, 1843) was a personal secretary to US President George Washington in Philadelphia.
He married Jane" Jeannette" Hopkins of Hartford, Connecticut in 1787.
Gallaudet lost both parents by the age of 18 and went to live with his uncle, Elisha Gallaudet, who was the engraver of the first US coin, the 1776" Continental Dollar".
Gallaudet enlisted as a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and took part in the Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776.
After Gallaudet's wife died in 1818, he went to work as a commission merchant.
In 1824, he moved to Washington, DC to work in the Register's Office at the United States Treasury.
In 1834, he organized a board of directors and received papers of incorporation to start a manual labor school and orphan asylum in Washington, DC.
Money was raised for this purpose, but the money was held in reserve and the school was never built.
Gallaudet and his friend Michael Nourse, who also worked at the Treasury Department, raised$ 2,000 by selling a booklet titled" A facsimile copy of the Accounts of General Washington's expenses during the Revolutionary War, also a copy of a line of march proposed by him for the British army in the expedition of 1758 against Fort Du Quesne."
In 1838, a pamphlet was authorized for publication by the board of directors of the manual labor school organization which was written by Gallaudet Wallace Gallaudet titled:" A System of Education, on the Principle of Connecting Science with Useful Labor."
The main essay of the pamphlet is dated September 30, 1829 and was originally published by G. Gallaudet in circa 1829.
In the essay, G. Gallaudet supports the educational philosophy of Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, a philosophy which, he explains, was based partly on the educational philosophy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
As mentioned on page 241 of the biography of Gallaudet's son, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, written by Gallaudet's grandson, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet had also become acquainted with the educational philosophy of von Fellenberg and, in 1833, visited a manual labor school in Greenfield, Massachusetts which followed von Fellenberg's philosophy.
By 1860, seventeen years after Gallaudet's death, his grandson Edward Miner Gallaudet had become superintendent of a school for the deaf.
Edward made arrangements with the directors of the corporation of the manual labor school that was never built, and together they approached Congress to obtain permission to dissolve the corporation and cede the funds to the school that Edward had helped establish, the Columbia School for the Deaf, which was the school which, in 1864, added a collegiate department and became Gallaudet College( 1894) and then Gallaudet University( 1986).
Gallaudet was the father of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, the co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in North America, the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Gallaudet was the second of six children.
His siblings' names were: Edgar( 1753–1790); Thomas( 1758–1759); David( 1760 – 1761); Thomas( b. 1762); and Catherine( 1766 – 1786).
Ollie Hopkins
Oliver Thomas Hopkins( 15 November 1935 — 14 April 2014) was an English footballer who played as a centre half.
Eleanor Sherman Font
Eleanor Sherman Font( May 31, 1896- Sept. 8, 1982) was hired as prints curator at the Hispanic Society of America before expanding into iconography.
She was one of six women chosen by Archer Milton Huntington to deepen their knowledge in art curation for the Society after graduating from library sciences programs.
Her great- grandfather is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford.
She was deaf and volunteered for deaf causes throughout her life.
During her life, she participated in services at St. Ann's Church for Deaf- Mutes, where she" sang" in American Sign Language with others in the choir.
Edward Miner Gallaudet
Edward Miner Gallaudet( February 5, 1837 – September 26, 1917), son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, was a famous early educator of the deaf in Washington, DC.
Thomas Hopkins (gymnast)
Thomas Hopkins( born 1903, date of death unknown) was a British gymnast.
He competed in nine events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Thomas Gallaudet (Episcopal priest)
The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D.D.( June 3, 1822 – August 27, 1902), an American Episcopal priest, was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
His father, the Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D. was the renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States.
His mother, Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, who was deaf, was the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University.
After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Gallaudet accepted a teaching position at the New York Institution for Deaf-mutes, where he met and married a deaf woman, Elizabeth Budd.
They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy, named Laurent Clerc Gallaudet.
He was most certainly named after the man his father brought back from France to help start his Deaf- Mute School, Laurent Clerc.
Following in his father's footsteps, in 1852, Gallaudet established St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes in New York City.
In 1872 Gallaudet, Jane Middleton, and the Church Mission to Deaf- Mutes established the Home for Aged and Infirm Deaf- Mutes in a brownstone located at 220 East 13th Street in New York City.
Jane served as the first Superintendent and Matron of the home from 1872 until her death in 1885.
In 1886, after years of hard work and fund raising, the Home was moved to Poughkeepsie and was renamed the Gallaudet Home for Deaf- Mutes.
Gallaudet was also instrumental in the work of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd, a group of women engaged in urban ministry in and around New York City.
One of 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 is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.
Alice Cogswell
Alice Cogswell( August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
At the age of two, Alice became ill with" spotted fever"( cerebral- spinal meningitis).
This illness took her hearing and later she lost her speech as well.
At the time, deafness was viewed as equivalent to a mental illness, and it was widely believed that the deaf could not be taught.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet moved into the house next door to hers when she was nine years old.
He soon noticed that she was n't interacting with the other children, and when he asked why, he was informed that she was deaf.
Intrigued, he decided to teach her to communicate through pictures and writing letters in the dirt.
He and Alice's father, Dr. Mason Cogswell, decided that a formal school would be best for her, but no such school existed in the United States.
Gallaudet went to Europe for 15 months, bringing Laurent Clerc back with him upon his return.
During the time of his absence, Alice attended a hearing school and somewhat furthered her education, though the situation was not ideal.
She was very lively, and enjoyed reading, sewing, and dancing.
She was reportedly very good at mimicking others, and was fascinated by the concept of music.
Alice Cogswell and six other deaf students entered the school that would become the American School for the Deaf in April 1817.
Cogswell died at the age of twenty- five on December 30, 1830, twenty days after the death of her father.

Question: Did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Jeffrey Stuut have the same nationality?
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