Memoir Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race (1883) / Chapter Skim
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CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I
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UPON T H E MATERIALS F O E T H E FORMATION O F A D E A F V A R I E T Y O F T H E HUMAN R A C E A T PRESENT EXISTING IN AMERICA. The first diflflculty encountered in the inquiry is that the published reports of our institutions for the deaf and dumb contain very little information bearing upon the subject, but, judging from the questions that are asked of the parents or guardians of the pupils, there must be among the unpublished records of our institutions an immense collection of valuable facts relating to heredity at present inaccessible to the public.
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Names occurring 17 times Brown Names occurring 13 times Campbell, Davis Names occurring 12 times White Names occomng 11 times Clarke, Johnson, Lovejoy Names occurring 10 times Small Names occurring 9 times Fuller, Green, West, Williams, Wood Names occurnng 8 times Bailey, Bartlett, Perkins, Richardson, Rogers, Wright Names occurring 7 times Derby, Jack, Marsh, Martin, Merrill, Thomas Names occurring 6 tunes Berry, Butler, Hawley, Marsh.iU, Mayhew, Morse, O'Brien, Rowe, Rus sell, Stevens, Swett, Taylor, Tripp Names occurring 5 times Andrews, Ball, Barnard, Blizzard, Chapman, Cook, Curtis, Dennison, Fisk, French, Holmes, Howe, Jackson, Kimball, Meacham, New combe, Packer, Parkei, Pease, Porter, Reed, Slocum, Sullivan, Til ton, Webster, Wilson, Young Names occurring 4 times Baker, Bennett, Bigolow, Bishop, Buibee, Chandler, Ellis, Emerson, Fahy, Fishor, Foster, Gilbert, Hammond, Hill, Holt, Hulett, Hull, Jellison, Jones, Kendall, Kennedy, Ladd, Luce Man, Mayberry, Miller, Morgan, O'Neill, Page, Parsons, Prior, Quiun, Robbins, Ryan, Scovell, Stone, Strong, Stuart, Thompson, Turner, Wake field, Ward, Welch, Wells, Wiswell Names occurnng 3 times Abbott, Achesou, Allard, Atkins, Badger, Baldwin, Barnes, Barrett, Blakely, Bliss, Boardwin, Briggs, Bruce, Burnham, Canulon, Car penter, Carter, Clossen, Clough, Cobb, Cummins, Dauiels, Dennison, Drown, Dudley, Edw.ards, Fish, Frank, Goodrich, Gray, Haley, Haskell, Holden, Hunter, Ingraham, Joidan, LafTerty, Laihbert, Larabee, Livingston, Lombard, Lyman, Macomber, Mahoney, Mann, McCarty, Mitchell, Mocre, MoiTison, Mowiy, Murphy, Nelson, New ton, Noyes, Osgood, Palmer, Perry, Piatt, Pratt, Prescott, Randall, Reynolds, Robertson, Sage, Sawyer, Sherman, Sloane, Stebbins, Stevenson, Taft, Titcombe, Town, Trask, Wardman, Watson, Wentworth, Wheeler, Whitcomb, Wilkins, Wiuslow, Woodward Names occurring 2 times These are too numerous to be quoted here There are two huudrcd and fourteen of them The following tables show that the pupils referred to above constitute more than 63 per cent, of the total number of pupils admitted:' T A B L E II. -- Recurrence of surnames among ilie pupils of the American Asylum for deaf-mutes, Mart ford, Conn. (1877 Report.)
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Names occurring 16 times Brown Names occuiring 10 times Anderson, Miller Names occurring 9 times • Edwards, Wdson Names occurring 8 times Johnson * AB the American Asylum and Illinois Institution may be taken as representative institutions, I present m an appendix a critical analysis of all the cases recorded in the reports referred to.
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Names occumng 3 tunes Ammons, B.ikor, Ballard, Boyd, Brasher, Brooks, Buckley, Campbell, Carroll, Chamberlain, Conn, Copher, Crawford, Darnell, Doyer, Ford, Fuller, Gibson, Goodner, Goodwin, Gortschalg, Gray, Haqier, Hill, Keil, Kennedy, Laughhn, McFarland, McG |
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See "The sixty-first annual repoit of the directors and oBBcers of the American Asylum, at Hartford, for the education and instruction of the deaf aud dumb," presented to the asylum May 15, 1877, pp.
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1 pupil had one or more gieat-graudparents deaf aud dumb 5 pupils had oue or more grandpaieuts deaf aud dumb 47 pupils had one or more paients deaf and dumb 29 pupils had one or more children deaf and dumb 593 pupils had one or more brothers or sisters deaf and dumb 100 pupils had oue oi more cousins de.af and dumb 38 pupils had one or more uncles or auuts deaf and dumb 1 pupil had oue or more great-uncles or aunts deaf and dumb 48 pupils had one or more distant relatives deaf and dumb T A B L E X. -- Deaf-mute children of the pupils. (American Asylum for Deaf-Mntes Report for 1877 )
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Indiana " Catalogue of the pupils of the ludiana Institution from its commencement in 1843 to November 1, 1853 " American Annals of the Deaf aud Dumb, Vol VI, pp 162-169 3 New York "List of pupils of the New York Institution, &c , complete from May, 1818, to January, 1854 American Annals ot the Deaf and Dumb, Vol VI, pp 195-2^5 4 Texas " List of pupils in attendance at the Texas Institution (1881^ " See Exhibit A, twenty-fifth annual report of the superinteudeut of the Texas Institution for the Deaf aud Dumb Austin, Tex , November 1, 1881 5 Illinois "List of pupils of the Illinois Institution admitted between 1846 and 18-) 2 " Twenty-hrst biennial report of the trustees, superintendent, and treasurer of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deal and Dumb Jacksonville, 111 , October 1,1882 t The number is probably greaiei, even exceeding twelve thousand, as will be seen further on.
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I t is important, then, to arrive at some idea of the numbers of the deaf and dumb who are deaf from birth. The Compendium of the Tenth Census of the United States shows us that there were living m this country on tbe 1st of June, 1880, no less than 33,878 deaf mutes, and that "mote than onehalf" were congenitnlly deaf.» The proportion can be obtained more exactly from an address delivered in Jacksonville, 111., on the 29th day of August, 1882, before tlie tenth convention of America:i instructors of the deaf and dumb, by the Rev.
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I American Asylum 1,040 131 12.6 i New York Institution. 432 74 17.1 I Ohio Institution 268 32 11.9 Indiana Institution .
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Peet states, as the result of his researches,* that the hearing brothers and sisters of a deaf-mute are about as liable to have deaf children as the deaf-mute himself I t IS only reasonable to assume that a tendency towards deafness exists in a family containing more than one deaf-mute, so that if hearing persons belonging to such families were to intermarry, or were to marry deaf-mutes -- or if a consanguiueous marriage were to take place in such a family -- we would not be surprised if some of the offspring should be deaf In addition therejore to the 20,474 deaf-mutes referred to above, we must include the hearing and speaking members of their families before we can form an adequate conception of the numbei of persons who possess a predisposition toioat ds deafness.
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