. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . iss L. Kuglers School for the Deaf, St. Louis, Mis-souri, was a j^iivate oral school, never numbering more thanfive pupils. Miss Kugier died December 18, 1892, and theSchool had been broken up by her illness some weeks beforeher death. Mr. Bartletts Family School forYoung Deaf-Mute Children, New York City (1852), FisHKiLL Landing, New York (1853), POUGHKEEPSIE, NeW YoRK (1854-1860), Hartford, Connecticut (1860-1861), 1852-1861. BY THE EDITOR. MR. BARTLETTS FAMILY SCHOOL FORDEAF-MUTE CHILDREN. YOUNG Until the opening of th
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . iss L. Kuglers School for the Deaf, St. Louis, Mis-souri, was a j^iivate oral school, never numbering more thanfive pupils. Miss Kugier died December 18, 1892, and theSchool had been broken up by her illness some weeks beforeher death. Mr. Bartletts Family School forYoung Deaf-Mute Children, New York City (1852), FisHKiLL Landing, New York (1853), POUGHKEEPSIE, NeW YoRK (1854-1860), Hartford, Connecticut (1860-1861), 1852-1861. BY THE EDITOR. MR. BARTLETTS FAMILY SCHOOL FORDEAF-MUTE CHILDREN. YOUNG Until the opening of this School in 1852 pupils were notreceived into the American schools for the deaf until they wereten or twelve years of age. In most of the schools twelve wasthe lowest age at which they could be admitted at the expenseof the State. Parents often brought their children hundredsof miles and pleaded for their admission, but in vain. Thechildren had to return to their homes, and lose in idleness theprecious years best adapted to the acquisition of DAVID ELY BARTLETT, M. A. Mr. David Ely Bartlett, a graduate of Yale College, fortwenty-four years an instructor of the deaf in the Hartford andNew York Institutions, a man of remarkable energy, vigor, en-thusiasm, and devotion, became convinced, in the course of hisexperience as a teacher, that the exclusion of young deaf chil-dren from instruction was a great loss and injury to them, anddetermined to try the experiment of a school to which theyshould be admitted at as early an age as their parents werewilling to entrust them to his care. Accordingly, in February,1852, he issued the following circular: The undersigned, having been for more than twenty j^ears engaged inthe instruction of the deaf and dumb at the American Asylum for theDeaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn., and at the New York Institution forthe Deaf and Dumb in the city of New York, has had abundant opportu- 4 Mr. BartletCs Family School. nity for fiDding out and lear
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