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Last Years of Gallaudet's Life - Coggle Diagram
Last Years of Gallaudet's Life
1) Hartford Retreat for the Insane
Gallaudet became chaplain at the Retreat and was listed as one of the thirty founding directors when it opened in 1824
Like the Asylum before, the Retreat wanted white, upper-class clientele.
The Retreat's official view on "insanity" was that it did not come from God but Gallaudet felt there was a moral or divine element involved
Gallaudet felt fatherly towards the inmates and held "family prayer" every night
He taught inmates the finger alphabet and took them on field trips to the Asylum
He suggested knew activities like knitting and sports to alleviate boredom
2) Thomas Gallaudet Jr. & Other Family Drama
In a journal of Gallaudet's, he listed all of his children and their religious standpoints. His oldest son, Thomas was left out though, due to his religious rebellion
Thomas was sent to an Episcopal school, Washington College, and converted to the church which horrified his parents
Gallaudet sent him to teach at the New York Institution, where he would be under the supervision of an orthodox Congregationalist. But, Thomas secretly did a private study for the Episcopal priesthood
Thomas fell in love will one of his pupils at the New York institution, who belonged to an Episcopalian family. When Thomas wrote his father about these events in New York, Gallaudet responded saying they were "a great disappointment to us"
By 1847, Gallaudet changed his tune and did include Thomas into his journal entries as well as his wife, Elizabeth, an "intelligent and amiable deaf-mute"
Eventually, one of Gallaudet's daughter's, Caty fell in love with Elizabeth's brother, Bern and in his journal entry about it, he replaced both of their names with blanks out of shame or disappointment
Caty and Bern got married one year after Gallaudet passed away
3) Gallaudet's Death
In July of 1851, Gallaudet and his wife Sophia became sick with dysentery as well as their son Eddy
Rather than fighting the infection with proper hydration, Gallaudet was given Brandy by the spoonful because that was believed to help
Sophia later in life remembered how he communicated through signs during his sickness
Gallaudet's last words were "I must go to sleep" and he died shortly after with Sophia and his daughter Alice with him
4) After Effects
A month after Gallaudet's death, thirty "prominent residents" met in the Center Church to talk about the need for continuing public recognition of his life
They organized a memorial service and all proceeds would go to his wife Sophia
A year after Gallaudet's death, Thomas established St. Ann's Church for Deaf Mutes in New York
The first ever recorded instance of simultaneous interpreting happened at he unveiling of Gallaudet's monument at the Asylum in 1854
Edward Miner Gallaudet was offered superintendency of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. In 1864, the school was given authorization to grant college degrees and in 1885, when E.M. was serving as president, it was renamed Gallaudet College
In 1960, a Gallaudet College professor, William Stokoe published
Sign Language Structure
which stated the shocking thesis that American Sign Language was an actual language