Deaf and Dumb Asylum

Metadata
Citation
Documents
Download

Creation Date

1823-04-10

Entity Type

Organization

"Deaf and Dumb Asylum" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00012449, (accessed May 13, 2024).

Download XML

Public educational institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Created by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on April 10, 1823. Governed by the Board of Trustees of Centre College until 1870. Civil War-era superintendents: John Adamson Jacobs (1835-1869).

JoAnn Hamm, "History of Kentucky School for the Deaf," Kentucky School for the Deaf, https://www.ksd.k12.ky.us/content/history (accessed April 27, 2020).
John W. Hudson, Jr., "Kentucky School for the Deaf" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 511-512.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction