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Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Personal name headingHowe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876
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Variant(s)Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801-1876
Birth date1801-11-10
Death date1876-01-09
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathMassachusetts
AffiliationPerkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind
Brown University
Harvard Medical School
Profession or occupationSoldiers
Surgeons
Abolitionists
Found inLCCN 9-7786: Sanborn, F.B. Dr. S.G. Howe, 1891 (hdg.: Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801-1876)
NUCMC data from Perkins School for the Blind Archives for His Collection, 1820-2011 (Samuel Gridley Howe, 1801-1876, was the founding director of the Perkins School for the Blind. He attended Brown University and Harvard Medical School and was a soldier and surgeon in the Greek War of Independence. He is best remembered for his work with Laura Bridgman, a pupil at Perkins who was deafblind and one of the earliest individuals with deafblindness to learn language, and the first American to do so. Howe was a prominent leader in the field of blindness, printing for the blind, and other social justice and educational reform movements in the United States. He was married to Julia Ward Howe, suffragist and author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
English Wikipedia website, viewed Oct. 3, 2014 (Samuel Gridley Howe (Nov. 10, 1801--Jan. 9, 1876) was a nineteenth century United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution; Born: Nov. 10, 1801, Boston, Mass.; Died: Jan. 9, 1876 (aged 74), Massachusetts; occupation: physician; abolitionist)