Gallaudet
EDWARD MINER (gal-a-det'), an American educator; born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 5, 1837, son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet; was graduated at Trinity College in 1856. He organized the Columbia Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in Washington, D. C., in 1857, and from it developed the Gallaudet College for the Deaf, in 1864, becoming its president. His publications include "Manual of International Law" (1879), and "Life of Thomas Hopkins a Gallaudet" (1888). He died in 1917.