Peter Wallace Gallaudet
Peter Wallace Gallaudet (April 21, 1756 – May 17, 1843) was a personal secretary to US President George Washington in Philadelphia.[1] He married Jane "Jeannette" Hopkins of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1787.[2]
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".[3]
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
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).[7]
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).[8]
Sources
Gallaudet, Peter Wallace. 1838. A System of Education, on the Principle of Connecting Science with Useful Labor. Re-published by Order of the Trustees of Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum. Washington: Printed by Peter Force.
See also
"Sesquicentennial of T.H. Gallaudet Observed With Short Chapel Rites", Buff and Blue, Friday, Dec. 17, 1937, pp. 1, 3.
References
- ^ Boatner, Maxine Tull, "Voice of the Deaf Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine," p. 1
- ^ "Gallaudet - The Third Generation". Archived from the original on January 14, 2004. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
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- ^ Google Books
- ^ American Memory collection of the Library of Congress
- ^ E.M. Gallaudet. 1888. The Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, p. 241.
- ^ "Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet--Founder of Deaf-Mute Instruction in America" by Edward Miner Gallaudet, 1888, pp. 6–9. (Download book: http://saveourdeafschools.org/life_of_thomas_hopkins_gallaudet.pdf)
- ^ Boatner, Maxine Tull. 1959. Voice of the Deaf, p. xiv, citing Virginia W. Somerville.