Laura Dewey Bridgman was born in New Hampshire in 1829. At the age of two, she became ill with scarlet fever and lost her sight.

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Laura Dewey Bridgman was born in New Hampshire in 1829. At the age of two, she became ill with scarlet fever and lost her sight, hearing. sense of smell, and almost all her sense of taste. She had her sense of touch. She started the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1837. The director, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, worked with her and eventually, she took on household duties there and taught other pupils. Helen Keller's mother heard of Bridgman and she hired Anne Sullivan, a pupil of Perkins to teach Helen. Bridgman died in 1889.

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