GALLAUDET
GALLEHER
was graduated at Trinity college, Hartford, in
1843, and was a teaclier in tlie New York insti-
tution for deaf mutes, 1843-58. In 1845 he mar-
ried Elizabeth R. Budd, a graduate of the N.Y.
institution for deaf-mutes. They had seven chil-
dren. They celebrated their golden wedding
July 15, 1895. He was ordained deacon in the
Protestant Episcopal church in June, 1850, and
priest in June, 1851. In October, 1853, he founded
St. Aiin"s church for Deaf Mutes in New York
city, and a church and rectorj' were purchased
on Eighteenth street, near Fiftli avenue, in 1859.
He was made rector emeritus in 1893. He was
pastor of the sisterhood of the Good Shepherd at
St. Barnabas house from 1869; chaplain of the
Midnight missions, 1871-74; general manager of
the Church Mission to deaf mutes from 1872, and
director of the Gallaudet home for deaf mutes,
which he foimded in December, 1885, near
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His work in behalf of deaf
mutes extended to all the larger cities in Amer-
ica, and his methods and experience directed the
building of schools and asylimis in several places.
He attended the munerous conventions held in
the United States, also one in Milan in 1880, and
another in Brussells in 1883. In 1898 there were
51 state, 20 public daj-, and 16 private schools for
the deaf in the United States, emploj'ing 957 in-
structors and ministering to 10,246 pui^ils. When
St. Ann"s and St. Matthew's churches were con-
solidated in 1897, Dr. Gallaudet became rector
emeritus of the new St. Matthew's chui-ch and in
1898 vicar of the new St. Ann's church for Deaf-
mutes exclusively, New Y'ork city, built and sup-
ported by St. Matthew's church. He was a
trustee of Trinitj' college. Conn.. 188.S-87, and re-
ceived from that institution the degree of D.D.
in 1862. He wrote and published the annual
reports of the Church mission to deaf-mutes from
its organization, and contributed occasionally to
the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb.
He died in Ne«- York City, Aug. 27, 1903.
GALLAUDET, Thomas Hopkins, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 10, 1787. His parents were Huguenots, and when he was a child they removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was prepared for college. He was graduated at Yale in 1805, received his A.M. degree in 1808 and was tutor there, 1808-10. He was graduated at the Andover theological seminary in 1814, when he was licensed to preach. He visited Europe, 181,5-16, to make a study of the methods employed in the education of deaf mutes. He brought from France as an assistant in his pro- jiosed new field of education. Lawrence Clerc, a deaf mute and pupil of Sicard. In 1817 lie opened a school in Hartford with seven pupils. His school rapidly increased, was incorporated as the Deaf and diunb asylum, and his success attracted
pupils from all parts of America. He remained
president of the institution until 1830, when ill
health compelled him to resign, but he continued
as a director up to the time of his death. He was
ordained, Sept. 33, 1834, and was chaplain of the
Connecticut retreat for the insane, Hartford, 1837-
50. He was married
to Sophia Fowler, a
deaf-mute and one of
his pupils. She be-
came an able assistant
to her husband and
afterward to their
son, Edward Miner
Gallaudet, in con-
ducting the eduia-
tion of deaf muti-^.
She died in Wash-
ington, D.C. , May 'I
13, 1877. He wasH
given the honorary ^
degree of LL.D.
by Western Reserve the oallaudet statue.
college in 1851. He published: fiermons Preached
to an English ConyregntUm in Paris (1818) ; Bible
Stories for the Young ; Child's Book of the Soul ;
Toutlrs Book of Natural Tlieology ; and edited An-
nah of the Deaf and Dumb. His biography was
published by his classmate in Yale, Dr. Herman
Humphrey (1858). In 1889 a bronze group by
Daniel Chester French was erected at the Colum-
bian institution for deaf-mutes, representing Dr.
Gallaudet and his first pupil, Alice Cogswell.
He died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1851.
GALLEHER, John Nicholas, third bishop of Louisiana and 124tli in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Washington, Ky., Feb. 17. 1839. He was prepared fori college in the schools of Maysville, Ky., and was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1859. He taught one year at Lake Providence, La. , and served in the Confederate army in the command of General Buckner, receiving promotion to staff positions, as assistant adjutant-general, adjutant-general, chief-of-staff and lieutenant-colonel. After the close of the war he attended the law school connected with the Washington and Lee univer- sity, Va., 186.5-00. He practised in Louisville in company with Col. Robert Wooley; and then deciding to enter the ministry he studied at the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, 1867-68, was ordained deacon, June 7, 1868, and priest. May 30, 1809. He was assistant minister at Christ church, Louisville, K}-., in 1868; rector of Trinity church. New Orleans, La., 1869-71; of St. John's Memorial church, Baltimore, Md., 1871-73, and of Zion church. New York city, 1873-80. He was elected to the bishopric of Louisiana as successor to the
