NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 LBT ID: JoBridg1889 VIAF ID: 27977901 LOC ID: nr92000517 | B/BAP: 1829-12-21 DIED: 1889-05-24 |
SOURCES: ANB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
The first deaf-blind child in America to be taught to write; she was a student of Dr.
Samuel Gridley Howe at the Perkins Institution for the Blind at Boston. | |
REFERENCES TO Laura Bridgman [née Dewey]: Charles Sumner to Samuel Rogers, 1 November 1843 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
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