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Civil war hospital danville kentucky12/28/2023 John Addison Jacobs, only eighteen years of age at the time, and attending Centre College, agreed to travel to Hartford, Connecticut, to qualify himself under the famous Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc who, themselves, had been qualified in Paris, to establish the first school for the deaf in America. The first man appointed was dismissed within a year as being “incompetent.” Mr. The trustees experienced great difficulty in securing a properly qualified man to take charge of the educational department. (From The Advocate-Messenger, Danville, Kentucky, 26 November 1978)Įducating the deaf in America was still in its infancy at the time. At the time, the superintendent received no salary but only such profits as might remain from the State appropriation and all sums received from paying pupils, after he had boarded them, and provided all necessary supplies for the school.Ī Building on Second Street Became Part of the Original KSD Campus. The boarding department, for a period of twelve years, was under separate management from the education department of the institution. Merry and his wife were engaged as superintendent and matron of the boarding department. A frame building on the southwest corner of Fourth and Main streets in Danville was secured and fitted for the reception of the pupils. In early 1823, the trustees met to set the school in operation. The act appointed trustees of Centre College to be the trustees of the institution, it limited the number of pupils to be admitted to twenty-five, and the length of time each could attend the school to three years. Barbee’s daughter was the first pupil of the school. This “act” was drawn up by Judge Rowan and presented before the Kentucky Legislature by General Elias Barbee of Green County. The act incorporating the “Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb” bears the date of 7 December 1922. At the time, there were three other schools for the deaf but these were all supported privately. The Kentucky School for the Deaf holds the title of being the first state-supported school for the deaf in America. (From The Advocate-Messenger, Danville, Kentucky, 26 November 1978) Main Street in Danville, Kentucky during the 1800s.
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