Mr. Le Clerc [Laurent Clerc]
(signed in by Ger. [Gerard] S Ralston)
Thursday February 5, 1818
Nicholas Dufief
South East Corner, Carpenters Alley and Chestnut Streets, 2nd Floor
Education & Scholarship
Occupation: Educator
Residence: Hartford [Connecticut]
(signed in by Ger. [Gerard] S Ralston)
Thursday February 5, 1818
Nicholas Dufief
South East Corner, Carpenters Alley and Chestnut Streets, 2nd Floor
Education & Scholarship
Occupation: Educator
Residence: Hartford [Connecticut]
RECORD OF STRANGERS IMAGE
Volume 1
Louis Laurent Marie Clerc, December 26, 1785 - July 18, 1869
Laurent Clerc was a pioneer in the education and public perception of deaf and nonverbal individuals in the United States. Although he was born and lived in France until 1815, he has been called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America". Clerc founded the oldest existing school for the deaf in North America, now known as the American School for the Deaf, in Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to 1821, the school was known as The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, as indicated by the note accompanying Clerc's entry in the Record of Strangers. Clerc himself was deaf, and was also without a sense of smell.
