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Mason Fitch Cogswell and
His Beloved Daughter, Alice
Cogswell Family Crest
Mason Fitch Cogswell
September 28, 1761 - December 10, 1830
• Born in Canterbury, CT.
• Age 11: Mother dies.
• Yale, 1776 - 1780: youngest
member of his class.
Graduated with highest
honors, Valedictorian.
• April 13, 1800 married
Mary Austin Ledyard.
• Church Choir Director.
• Five children
Mason Fitch Cogswell
(Con’t)
• Army surgeon during
Revolutionary War.
• Hartford 1789: began
practice.
• A prominent physician and
surgeon. He introduced
cataract and carotid artery
surgery.
• First Chairman of Yale
Medical School’s Dept. of
Anatomy & Surgery.
• School of education for deaf
people.
• The days before his death
crowds gather outside home.
• Died of pneumonia typhodes
• His wife, Mary Austin, lived
many years after him.
Alice Cogswell
August 31, 1805 - December 30, 1830
• Third daughter; four siblings.
• 2 years old - contracted
cerebrospinal meningitis
(spotted fever) causing her
deafness.
• Her development fell behind
despite her family’s efforts.
Father wanted her to have
same opportunities as
hearing children.
• 1814, Thomas Gallaudet
taught first two words, “hat”
and “Alice.”
Alice Cogswell
• An eager student, Alice ask
Lydia Huntley Sigourney,
teacher, “Please teach Alice
something.”
• First student of Connecticut
Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb.
• Graduated 1823.
• Father dies. “My heart is so
grown to my father that I
cannot live without him.”
• Thirteen days later, she dies.
WORKS CITED
“Alice Cogswell. ” Gallaudet Encyclopedia of DEAF PEOPLE AND
DEAFNESS. Ed. John V. Van Cleve. 3 vols. 1987.
Bacon, Rev. Leonard. Postscript. “Old Times in Connecticut.” The
New Englander New ser. Vol. 5. Jan. 1882: 1-31. American
Periodical Series 1800 - 1850 19 (1971) : Reel 910
Carroll, Cathryn. “A Father, A Son, and a University: Thomas
Hopkins Gallaudet.” National Information Center on Deafness
File 751. Written: 1993. Updated: 28 April 1998. Gallaudet
University. <http://www.gallaudet.edu/~nicd/751.html>
Works Cited (Con’t)
Cogswell, Pat. March 1999 - Prominent Cogswells in History.
Cogswell Family Association. Updated 17 May 2000
<http://www.cogswell.org/Prom_399.htm>
Gannon, Jack. Prologue. Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf
America. By Gannon. Ed. Jane Butler and Laura-Jean Gilbert.
Silver Spring: National Association of the Deaf, 1981.
Herringshaw, T.W. Herringshaw’s national library of American
biography. 5v. (1909-14): 110-127. American Biographical Index
2 (1998): I 324.
“History of Alice Cogswell.” Location 28 on Map Page. 18 July
2000. <http://www.gallaudet.edu/~webadmin/map/loc28.html>
Mason Fitch Cogswell and His
Beloved Daughter, Alice
Presented by:
Gloriael Charles
&
Elandra Moran-Eigel
July 24, 2000