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Laura Bridgman [née Dewey]
(1829-1889)

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)
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