Pictured above is Alice Cogswell in one of the only recorded portraits of her. Alice Cogswell lost her hearing at the age of two from an illness. This did not stop her or her friend Thomas Gallaudet from showing the world that deafness was not a mental illness. Gallaudet went to England to find the best methods for deaf education and would not stop […]
Benjamin Whorf was a linguist and a fire prevention engineer. Benjamin Whorf was born on April 24, 1897, in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Benjamin had been an intellectual from the start, it seems. He would conduct experiments with chemicals from his father’s photographic equipment. He was also an avid reader, interested in botany, astrology, and Middle American […]
William Beecher Scoville was a descendent of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was born in Philadelphia in 1905 to Samuel and Catherine (Trumbull) Scoville. His mother was a descendant of Thomas Gallaudet. He attended Loomis School, received his undergraduate degree at Yale University and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He established the first […]