Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . mill? on one hundreddollars for an asylum for the deaf the spring following tliry lirought \\rvrWilliam Willard. a teacher in the Ohu) insti-tute for the deaf and dumb and he opened aprivate school, in which there were sixteen pu-pils the first year. On January 15, 1844, thelegislature established the institute for the deafand dumb, and made trustees for it the Ctov-ernor. Secretary and Treasurer of State, Henr\ and thirty acres of land ueie jiurchased. The: ame year the school
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . mill? on one hundreddollars for an asylum for the deaf the spring following tliry lirought \\rvrWilliam Willard. a teacher in the Ohu) insti-tute for the deaf and dumb and he opened aprivate school, in which there were sixteen pu-pils the first year. On January 15, 1844, thelegislature established the institute for the deafand dumb, and made trustees for it the Ctov-ernor. Secretary and Treasurer of State, Henr\ and thirty acres of land ueie jiurchased. The: ame year the school was removed to the Kin-der block, a three-story brick building on thesouth side of Washington near Delaware. Hereit remained until the completion of the newstate building in 1850, at a cost of $30,000,anrt it is still being occupied while a newiiwtitution is being constructed north of theeity. ^[r. Willard was superintendent until1S45, when James S. Brown succeeded him andMrved until 1853. Thomas Mclntvre was thenappointed and served until 1879. He was atrained instructor, and made the value of the. OLD SUPREME COURT AND STATE OFFICES. (From a cut.) Ward Beecher, IMiiueas D. Gurley, Love , Livingston Dunlap, and James Mor-rison, of Marion County, and ^[atthew Simp-son of Putnam County. The trustees prac-tically adopted the Willard school, under theirdirections to rent a room and em])loy teachers,first locating it in a large frame residence onthe southeast corner of Mai-yland aiul Illinoisstreets. The act piovided tliat nothing in itshould be construed to make any permanentlocation of the asylum for the deaf and dumbat Indianapolis, but in is HI a site was selectedat the eornir of WashiiiLrtun and State streets institution ]ilain to everyone. His successor,l>r. Wm. Cilenn, served till 1885, when Eli succeeded, and served till 1889. (). Johnson, the jtresent efficient su-|ierintendent, has been in charge siiu-c additions were made to
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