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Laurent Clerc

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Laurent Clerc

Co-Founder, American School for the Deaf

    Laurent Clerc

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 26 Dec 1785 
    • Birth Location:
    • La Balme, Cremieu, Isere, France 
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    • Death Date:
    • 18 Jul 1869 
    • Death Location:
    • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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    • Notes: 

    • Co-Founder of the American School for the Deaf, the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States.

  • Marriages for Laurent Clerc

    • Spouse:
    • Eliza Crocker Boardman
    • Marriage Date:
    • 3 May 1819
    • Marriage Location:
    • Cohoes Falls, near Waterford, Saratoga, New York

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  • Sources for Laurent Clerc

    • 1 Barnard, Henry, Tribute to Gallaudet: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, Hartford: Brockett, Hutchinson and Co. (1854), 102-112.
    • 2 Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf . . ., Washington: Government Printing Office (1899), 279.
    • 3 Hinman, Royal R., R. R. Hinman's Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1852), 279-280.
    • 4 Kingsbury, Frederick John and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1905), 234.