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    Jeremiah Woodhull Conklin

    Birth: 3-18-1818

    Death: 1-27-1878

Biography

He meets FMS in Albany when he was around sixteen years old (1834) and apparently this was their second meeting as FMS met him in the spring of 1833.In 1834, he and 7 other deaf and dumb pupils visited Albany to attend exhibitions. FMS describes him as an "very amiable affectionate and intelligent boy – says he will write to me this Summer and to use his own language which is very touching and simple – he is “very sorry to depart” from me" 

Conklin was born congenitally deaf and used ASL to communicate. He was employed as a teacher at New York. His writings appeared in the American Annals for the Deaf and Dumb:

https://books.google.com/books?id=YcUjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Conklin+deaf+mute&source=bl&ots=j1dBTg9Zk1&sig=8LkwrEuz6fytaguLplQoYh1rzyw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqq-GUgsXSAhWEJCYKHZKRCKUQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Conklin%20deaf%20mute&f=false

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Biography: 
He meets FMS in Albany when he was around sixteen years old (1834) and apparently this was their second meeting as FMS met him in the spring of 1833.In 1834, he and 7 other deaf and dumb pupils visited Albany to attend exhibitions. FMS describes him as an "very amiable affectionate and intelligent boy – says he will write to me this Summer and to use his own language which is very touching and simple – he is “very sorry to depart” from me" Conklin was born congenitally deaf and used ASL to communicate. He was employed as a teacher at New York. His writings appeared in the American Annals for the Deaf and Dumb: https://books.google.com/books?id=YcUjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Conklin+deaf+mute&source=bl&ots=j1dBTg9Zk1&sig=8LkwrEuz6fytaguLplQoYh1rzyw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqq-GUgsXSAhWEJCYKHZKRCKUQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Conklin%20deaf%20mute&f=false
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Also see the census where it says he is "Deaf/dumb" http://interactive.ancestrylibrary.com/7667/4236630_00700?pid=47137009&backurl=http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DRpG1751%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26gss%3Dangs-g%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3DJeremiah%2520Woodhull%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dconklin%26gsln_x%3D0%26MSAV%3D0%26msbdy%3D1818%26catbucket%3Drstp%26uidh%3Dif4%26pcat%3DROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3D47137009%26dbid%3D7667%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D3&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=RpG1751&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true
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