Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins

US educator of the deaf

Eponym of Gallaudet University

1802 - Thomas Gallaudet goes to Yale College at the age of 14.

1805 - Thomas graduates from Yale at the age of 17.

1812 - After meeting a deaf child, Alice Cogswell, he decides to teach deaf children.

1816 - Goes to England to learn some teaching methods that he read about, comes back with another teacher to help him.

1817 - Thomas opens a school for deaf children.

1821 - He marries one of his former pupils, Sophia Fowler.

1830 - Thomas retires from his school.