Show First to to Teach Deaf Mutes The first American institution for tor forthe forthe the e education of 01 the deaf deal and w was wag funded In In 1917 by J Thomas H. H Gallaudet who was born In m Philadelphia years ago He a is educated at Yale and at Andover Ando Theological seminary and It wu wa hIs hla Intention to enter the min Before l leaving n Andover however however how how- ever he had decI decided ed to devote hl his bin life ife to the Instruction of deaf mutes tor tor or whom no provision had be been n made anywhere In America He remained at the head of af the Hartford Institution institution tion UOn from 1817 until 1830 when ill health forced his hla retirement ret The first systematic attempt to Instruct the deaf deat and dumb In Europe was made In 1570 by Pedro de a Benedictine monk of Spain The first British Int Institution of this kind was waa opened In Edinburgh In 1773 1713 |