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Show Founder of Gallaudet College Edward Miner Gallaudet was born at Hartford, Conn., in 18:37, the son of T. TI. Gallaudet. He was graduated at Trinity college In ISi'iO and taught In his father's Institution Institu-tion for deaf mutes in Hartford, lS-"G-57. In 1S57 lie organized the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and P.lind at Washington, D. C. He developed from It the Gallaudet Gal-laudet college, of which he became the first president, serving from 1S04 to 1911. He died In 1917. |