Samuel R Howe

Proceedings at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth; November 11, 1901

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Two noble lives. Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe

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The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl

The resurrected story of a deaf-blind girl and the man who brought her out of silence. In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-blind seven-year-old, the daughter of New Hampshire farmers. At once he resolved to rescue her from ...

Samuel Gridley Howe: Social Reformer (Harvard Historical Studies)

This readable book is the first authoritative biography of Samuel Gridley Howe, the remarkable Bostonian who actively participated in most of the major reform movements of the nineteenth century. He founded the Perkins School for the Blind which quickly became the foremost institution of its type i...

The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform

A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (1801–1876) led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. M...

Allyn and Bacon General Science

Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe

An Essay on Separate and Congregate Systems of Prison Discipline