Volume 1

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    In the year 1833 a memorial was presented to the legisla- ture of Georgia, by John J. Flournoy, a semi-mute, of Jackson county, praying for the establishment of an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb. This memorial was referred to the Governor, Hon. Wilson Lumpkin, with a request that he obtain full information and report to the next meeting of the general assembly; so in November, 1834, the Governor, who had become much inter- ested in the subject, laid before the legislature all the infor- mation he had secured, expressing himself as particularly in- debted to Governor Fort, of Connecticut, and to Lewis Weld, principal of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, Connecticut. In the latter part of the year 1834, Mr. Weld, accompanied by two deaf-mutes, Edmund Booth, of Massachusetts, one of his assistant teachers, and Thomas S. Perkins, of Connecticut, one of his pupils, who was then a lad of about twelve years of age, visited the capital of Georgia, and Mr. Weld says of this visit: We reached Milledgeville on the thirteenth of December, and I lost no time in introducing myself and my pupils to Governor Lumpkin. The Governor received me and my pupils with marked affability and kindness, and expressed himself as much gratified that we had come on without waiting for his letter, which he sent for to the post-office and handed me himself. He informed me that the committee of the Senate to whom my communication of last September had been referred, with other deaf and dumb documents from here and from other places, had made a report aud offered certain resolutions providing for the educa- tion of the indigent deaf-mutes of Georgia; that this report had been favorably received and, though not acted on at all in the lower house, there was reason to hope it might pass in both, especially if a favorable impression should be made by an exhibition of my pupils. * * * ^i^q impression produced by my pupils was evidently very favorable before their public exhibition. This took place on Monday evening, the fifteenth, in the Kepresentative room, and was, I believe, very satis- factory. The board of directors of the American Asylum, in their nineteenth report, use this language : The reception of our delegation by the executive and legislature of Georgia was also very gratifying to the board, and particularly the pas-