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to attend the Hall Private School as a lad,
and lived for a time at Ellington, Con-
necticut, where the school was located.
He was later graduated from the Connecticut
Literary Institute at Suffield, and
about 1862 married Louisa M. Ward, a
daughter of Charles Austin Ward, of
Salem, Massachusetts. Practically all of
his business life was spent in the coal
business, at first in the employ of Beckwith
& Tyler as a bookkeeper, and with
their successors, Hatch & Tyler and E.
S. Tyler. Later Mr. North formed a
partnership with Geo. E. Hatch under
the name of Hatch & North, and this
concern was still later incorporated under
the name of the Hatch & North Company.
This concern, of which Mr. North was
treasurer, was one of the largest in its
line in this part of Connecticut. Some
years before his death Mr. North sold his
interest in the company and retired from
active business life. He was a prominent
figure in the fraternal life of Hartford and
was past noble grand of Charter Oak
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows. He was universally recognized
among his fellow citizens as a man of
sterling integrity, and his friends knew
him to be genial in his contact with his
fellow-men and strongly domestic in his
tastes. Mrs. Bishop was his only child.
While Mr. North was not a politician in
any sense of the term, he took an extremely
active interest in public affairs
and did his duty as a citizen in every way,
supporting such worthy causes as were
undertaken for the advancement of the
common weal and generally exerting a
wholesome influence upon civic affairs.
His father was Albert William North,
who married Jeanette Woodruff, a native
of Farmington and a sister of Sylvester
Woodruff. Mr. North, Sr., was a descendant
of John North, who came from
England to the colonies in 1635 in the
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good ship "The Susan & Ellen" at the
age of twenty years. He landed in Boston,
and his name appears in 1640 as one
of the original proprietors of Farmington,
Connecticut. His land was entered to
him in 1653, and he was one of the eightyfour
original landholders among whom
were divided in 1676 the unoccupied lands
of Farmington. His death occurred in
1691. He married Hannah Bird, a daugh-
ter of Thomas Bird, and they were the
parents of nine children.
GALLAUDET, Edward Miner,
Educator, Author.
A distinguished scholar of international
repute, Edward Miner Gallaudet was
born in Hartford, February 5, 1837. He
was the son of Thomas Hopkins and
Sophia (Fowler) Gallaudet. His father
was the first principal of the American
School at Hartford for the Deaf, and
founder of the education of the deaf in
America ; his mother was one of his father's
earliest pupils. He inherited from
his father a keen intellect, a rare gift of
persuasion, and a philanthropic spirit;
from his mother a vigorous constitution,
personal comeliness, practical sagacity,
and radiant vitality.
He was graduated from Trinity College
at the age of nineteen, and even before
graduation began his life work as a teach-
er of the deaf in the Hartford School.
His purpose, formed while he was still
a student in college, was to establish an
institution in which the deaf might have
equal opportunities with hearing youth
for receiving the higher education. How
that was to be accomplished he did not
know ; the only way that then seemed
feasible to him was to induce some phil-
anthropic millionaire to endow the proposed
college with the necessary means
of support; but the desired millionaire