Sarah Fuller

American educator
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Born:
February 15, 1836, Weston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:
August 1, 1927, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts (aged 91)

Sarah Fuller (born February 15, 1836, Weston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 1, 1927, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts) was an American educator, an early and powerful advocate of teaching deaf children to speak rather than to sign. Fuller graduated from the Allan English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts, and then became a schoolteacher. From 1855 to 1869 she taught in Newton, Massachusetts, and then in Boston. In 1869 she studied for three months under Harriet B. Rogers at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to prepare for her new post of principal of the Boston ...(100 of 324 words)