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Deaf: Alice Cogswell
Alice COGSWELL (1805-1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the now American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
At the age of two years, she become ill with 'spotted fever' (cerebra-spinal meningitis). This illness took her hearing and later she lost her speech as well. She was met, at age 9, by Gallaudet, who seized the opportunity to teach the deaf girl. He and Alice's father, Doctor Mason Cogswell, decided that a formal school would be best for her, but no such school existed in the United States.
Alice Cogswell and six other deaf students entered the school that would become the American School for the Deaf in April of 1817.
She died at the age of twenty-five on 30 December 1830, just thirteen days after the death of her father.
On the campus of the present American School for the Deaf at Hartford stands a beautiful statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell. A second statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell stood in front of Gallaudet University campus as Gallaudet sit on chair and Alice stood next to him to share their communication of A in fingerspelling. A third statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell is at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Library.
♦ Doctor Mason Fitch COGSWELL (1761-1830) and Mary Austin LEDYARD (1764-?)
♦ Reverend Doctor James COGSWELL (1720-1807) and Alice FITCH (1725-1772)
♦ Anna MASON (1669-1753) and Samuel COGSWELL Jr (1677-1752) [see below]
♦ Abigail FITCH (1650-1676) and Captain John MASON (1646-1676)
♦ Abigail WHITFIELD (1622-1659) and Reverend James FITCH (1622-1702)
♦ Reverend Henry WHITFIELD (1597-1657) and Dorothy SHEAFE (1600-1669)
♦ Mildred Fortune MANNING (1560-1627) and Thomas WHITFIELD (1545-1629)
♦ Henry MANNING (1500-1594) and Catherie KIRKENER (1535-1593)
† John MANNING (1480-1543) and Agnes PETLEY (1502-1553)
♦ Samuel COGSWELL Jr (1677-1752) and Anna MASON (1669-1753)
♦ Samuel COGSWELL Sr (1651-1700) and Susanna HAVEN
♦ John COGSWELL Jr (before 1622-1653) and ?
° John COGSWELL Sr (1592-1669) and Elizabeth THOMPSON (1594-1676)
Alice Cogswell Kinships
FARMER - Cogswell
MERRIMAN/OSMOND - Manning
At the age of two years, she become ill with 'spotted fever' (cerebra-spinal meningitis). This illness took her hearing and later she lost her speech as well. She was met, at age 9, by Gallaudet, who seized the opportunity to teach the deaf girl. He and Alice's father, Doctor Mason Cogswell, decided that a formal school would be best for her, but no such school existed in the United States.
Alice Cogswell and six other deaf students entered the school that would become the American School for the Deaf in April of 1817.
She died at the age of twenty-five on 30 December 1830, just thirteen days after the death of her father.
On the campus of the present American School for the Deaf at Hartford stands a beautiful statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell. A second statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell stood in front of Gallaudet University campus as Gallaudet sit on chair and Alice stood next to him to share their communication of A in fingerspelling. A third statue of Gallaudet and Cogswell is at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Library.
♦ Doctor Mason Fitch COGSWELL (1761-1830) and Mary Austin LEDYARD (1764-?)
♦ Reverend Doctor James COGSWELL (1720-1807) and Alice FITCH (1725-1772)
♦ Anna MASON (1669-1753) and Samuel COGSWELL Jr (1677-1752) [see below]
♦ Abigail FITCH (1650-1676) and Captain John MASON (1646-1676)
♦ Abigail WHITFIELD (1622-1659) and Reverend James FITCH (1622-1702)
♦ Reverend Henry WHITFIELD (1597-1657) and Dorothy SHEAFE (1600-1669)
♦ Mildred Fortune MANNING (1560-1627) and Thomas WHITFIELD (1545-1629)
♦ Henry MANNING (1500-1594) and Catherie KIRKENER (1535-1593)
† John MANNING (1480-1543) and Agnes PETLEY (1502-1553)
♦ Samuel COGSWELL Jr (1677-1752) and Anna MASON (1669-1753)
♦ Samuel COGSWELL Sr (1651-1700) and Susanna HAVEN
♦ John COGSWELL Jr (before 1622-1653) and ?
° John COGSWELL Sr (1592-1669) and Elizabeth THOMPSON (1594-1676)
Alice Cogswell Kinships
FARMER - Cogswell
MERRIMAN/OSMOND - Manning
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Comment by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on July 27, 2009 at 5:55pm
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I'm descended of John Cogswell (1650-1724) and his wife Margaret Gifford (b. abt 1653) who lived in Ipswich (now Essex), Massachusetts. He is the brother to the Samuel Cogswell who married Susanna Haven.
Gen 1. John Cogswell and Margaret Gifford
Gen 2. John Cogswell and Sarah Brown
Gen 3. Martha Cogswell and John Andrews
Gen 4 James Andrews and Lucy Presson/Preston
Gen 5. Orpha Andrews and Joseph Allen
Gen 6. Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears
Gen 7. Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder
Gen. 8. Stanley Elmer Allen and Gertrude Matilda HItchings (my grandparents)
The interesting thing about this lineage is that every generation lived in Ipswich, or the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich which became the town of Essex up until my Mom, who was born there in the 1930s!
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