Volume 2

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    MICHIGAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. The Constitution of the State of Michigan, adopt- ed in 1850, contains the following provision: Insti- tutions for the benefit of those inhabitants who are cleaf, dumb, blind, or insane, shall always be fostered and supported. Previous, however, to the adoption of the Con- stitution the State had taken steps to establish such institutions. As early as February, 1848, at the suggestion of the Governor, Epaphroditus Ran- som, a joint resolution was adopted by the Legisla- ture directing the senators of the state in Con- gress, and requesting the representatives, to use their efforts to procure a grant of land from the general government sufficient for the erection of buildings for these purposes. Believing doubtless that the gods are most likely to help those who help themselves, the same Legislature, without waiting for action by Congress, in April of the same year passed an act establishing the Michi- gan Asylum for Educating the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind and a hospital for the insane, and appropriated eight sections of State salt-spring lands for the erection of buildings. At several successive sessions of the Legislature