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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 | 184 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 50 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 | 35 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays | 20 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 19 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 13 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life | 10 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , Julia Ward 1819 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe , Samuel Gridley 1801 -1876 (search)
Howe, Samuel Gridley 1801-1876
Philanthropist; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1801; graduated at Brown University in 1821; became a physician; and sympathizing with the Greeks in their struggle for independence, went there in 1824, and served at of an institution for the blind in Boston.
The Pekin Institute was the result.
It was put in operation in 1832, with Dr. Howe at its head.
In that institution, through the unwearied efforts of Dr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, a deaf, dumb, and blind giDr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, a deaf, dumb, and blind girl, became educated.
Dr. Howe, while in Europe, preparatory to opening the institution, engaged a little in politics, and was in a Prussian prison about six weeks. He was ever active in every good work.
He went to Greece again in 1867, as bearer ofDr. Howe, while in Europe, preparatory to opening the institution, engaged a little in politics, and was in a Prussian prison about six weeks. He was ever active in every good work.
He went to Greece again in 1867, as bearer of supplies to the Cretans in their struggle with the Turks.
In 1871 he was one of the commissioners sent by the government of the United States to Santo Domingo to report upon the annexation of that island to the American Republic.
He died in Boston
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Societies, religious and benevolent (search)
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)