Laurent clerc family history

French-American educator (1785–1869)

For the Swiss sprinter, see Laurent Clerc (athlete).

Laurent Clerc
Teacher, co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in North America
Born	(1785-12-26)December 26, 1785 La Balme, France
Died	July 18, 1869(1869-07-18) (aged 83) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Spouse	Eliza Crocker Boardman (1792–1880)

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (French:[lɔʁɑ̃klɛʁ]; 26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American deaf history.

He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, on April 15, 1817, in the old Bennet's City Hotel, Hartford, Connecticut.

The school was