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Born November 10, 1801 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died January 9, 1876 (aged 74) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Family Members daughter Laura E. Richards

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William Moon
British activist
Laura Bridgman, 1878.
Laura Dewey Bridgman
American educator
Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan
American educator
Samuel Heinicke
German educator
Caroline Yale, 1927.
Caroline Yale
American educator
Harriet Burbank Rogers
American educator
Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard
French physician
Juan Pablo Bonet
Spanish educator
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron, Abbé Sicard
French abbot
Ponce de León, Pedro
Pedro Ponce de León
Spanish Benedictine monk
Emma Garrett
American educator
Mary Garrett
American educator
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Maria Stewart
Maria Stewart
American author
Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
Helen Parkhurst
American educator
Christopher Columbus Langdell
American educator
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss educator
Louis Braille
Louis Braille
French educator
Lee Shubert
American theatrical manager