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LAURA BRIDGMAN

Laura Bridgman was an American heroin. She was born in 1829 at Hanover, New Hampshire and died in 1889. Until the age of two years she was a bright, active child, when a severe illness deprived her of the senses of sight, hearing, and smell, and partly also of that of taste. She was put under the care of a Dr. Howe of Boston, and the history of the methods by which she was gradually taught to read, write, and eventually perform most of the ordinary duties, and even some of the accomplishments, of life, became famous. She became herself a teacher of persons similarly afflicted, and much to the surprise of ordinary people at the time led an active and almost ordinary life.
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SAMUEL HOWE

Samuel G Howe was an American writer. He was born in 1801 and died in 1876. He founded a school for the blind in 1833 subsequently called the Perkins Institution, of which he was superintendent until 1876, and at which Laura Bridgman was educated. From 1851 to 1853 he edited the Commonwealth. When commissioner to Santo Domingo in 1871 he advocated annexation to the United States. He was author of an 'Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution', in which he had participated.
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EDWARD SOTHERM

Edward Askew Sothern was an English actor and play producer. He was born in 1826 at Liverpool and died in 1881. He remained fairly unknown until he appeared in Tom Taylor's 'Our American Cousin' at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York in 1858 playing the role of 'Lord Dundreary'. He later produced the play at the Haymarket, London in 1861 when it ran for 496 consecutive nights.
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