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 GALLAUDET

GALLEHER

was graduated at Trinity college, Hartford, in 1843, and was a teaclier in tlie New York insti- tution for deaf mutes, 1843-58. In 1845 he mar- ried Elizabeth R. Budd, a graduate of the N.Y. institution for deaf-mutes. They had seven chil- dren. They celebrated their golden wedding July 15, 1895. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in June, 1850, and priest in June, 1851. In October, 1853, he founded St. Aiin"s church for Deaf Mutes in New York city, and a church and rectorj' were purchased on Eighteenth street, near Fiftli avenue, in 1859. He was made rector emeritus in 1893. He was pastor of the sisterhood of the Good Shepherd at St. Barnabas house from 1869; chaplain of the Midnight missions, 1871-74; general manager of the Church Mission to deaf mutes from 1872, and director of the Gallaudet home for deaf mutes, which he foimded in December, 1885, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His work in behalf of deaf mutes extended to all the larger cities in Amer- ica, and his methods and experience directed the building of schools and asylimis in several places. He attended the munerous conventions held in the United States, also one in Milan in 1880, and another in Brussells in 1883. In 1898 there were 51 state, 20 public daj-, and 16 private schools for the deaf in the United States, emploj'ing 957 in- structors and ministering to 10,246 pui^ils. When St. Ann"s and St. Matthew's churches were con- solidated in 1897, Dr. Gallaudet became rector emeritus of the new St. Matthew's chui-ch and in 1898 vicar of the new St. Ann's church for Deaf- mutes exclusively, New Y'ork city, built and sup- ported by St. Matthew's church. He was a trustee of Trinitj' college. Conn.. 188.S-87, and re- ceived from that institution the degree of D.D. in 1862. He wrote and published the annual reports of the Church mission to deaf-mutes from its organization, and contributed occasionally to the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. He died in Ne«- York City, Aug. 27, 1903.

GALLAUDET, Thomas Hopkins, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 10, 1787. His parents were Huguenots, and when he was a child they removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was prepared for college. He was graduated at Yale in 1805, received his A.M. degree in 1808 and was tutor there, 1808-10. He was graduated at the Andover theological seminary in 1814, when he was licensed to preach. He visited Europe, 181,5-16, to make a study of the methods employed in the education of deaf mutes. He brought from France as an assistant in his pro- jiosed new field of education. Lawrence Clerc, a deaf mute and pupil of Sicard. In 1817 lie opened a school in Hartford with seven pupils. His school rapidly increased, was incorporated as the Deaf and diunb asylum, and his success attracted

pupils from all parts of America. He remained president of the institution until 1830, when ill health compelled him to resign, but he continued as a director up to the time of his death. He was ordained, Sept. 33, 1834, and was chaplain of the Connecticut retreat for the insane, Hartford, 1837- 50. He was married to Sophia Fowler, a deaf-mute and one of his pupils. She be- came an able assistant to her husband and afterward to their son, Edward Miner Gallaudet, in con- ducting the eduia- tion of deaf muti-^. She died in Wash- ington, D.C., May 'I 13, 1877. He wasH given the honorary ^ degree of LL.D. by Western Reserve the oallaudet statue. college in 1851. He published: fiermons Preached to an English ConyregntUm in Paris (1818) ; Bible Stories for the Young ; Child's Book of the Soul ; Toutlrs Book of Natural Tlieology ; and edited An- nah of the Deaf and Dumb. His biography was published by his classmate in Yale, Dr. Herman Humphrey (1858). In 1889 a bronze group by Daniel Chester French was erected at the Colum- bian institution for deaf-mutes, representing Dr. Gallaudet and his first pupil, Alice Cogswell. He died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1851.

GALLEHER, John Nicholas, third bishop of Louisiana and 124tli in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Washington, Ky., Feb. 17. 1839. He was prepared fori college in the schools of Maysville, Ky., and was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1859. He taught one year at Lake Providence, La. , and served in the Confederate army in the command of General Buckner, receiving promotion to staff positions, as assistant adjutant-general, adjutant-general, chief-of-staff and lieutenant-colonel. After the close of the war he attended the law school connected with the Washington and Lee univer- sity, Va., 186.5-00. He practised in Louisville in company with Col. Robert Wooley; and then deciding to enter the ministry he studied at the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, 1867-68, was ordained deacon, June 7, 1868, and priest. May 30, 1809. He was assistant minister at Christ church, Louisville, K}-., in 1868; rector of Trinity church. New Orleans, La., 1869-71; of St. John's Memorial church, Baltimore, Md., 1871-73, and of Zion church. New York city, 1873-80. He was elected to the bishopric of Louisiana as successor to the