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<\/a>Born on this day in 1801 to a prosperous Boston family, Samuel Gridley Howe<\/a>, graduated from Harvard Medical School. Immediately upon graduation along with so many other young idealists of his generation he traveled to Greece and threw himself into their revolution<\/a>. Later he continued his medical training in Paris where he also embroiled himself in the July Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Returning home he cast about for a way to make his mark in history.<\/p>\n
Howe found it when he was recruited to the directorship of a newly formed asylum for the blind.<\/p>\n
Except for an occasional foray into politics, he would be involved in the Polish revolution, was a fervent abolitionist and one of the Secret Six<\/a>, he would devote the rest of his life to what would come to be called Perkins School for the Blind<\/a>.<\/p>\n Without a doubt Howe\u2019s most remarkable contribution to human civilization was developing a system to educate the deafblind. After formulating his principles he cast about for a likely candidate who turned out to be Laura Bridgman<\/a>, a young girl in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n A member of Boston\u2019s Unitarian intelligentsia, Howe brought all the strengths and the weaknesses of that perspective to a life that did indeed change the world.<\/p>\n Many years later when Mrs Keller despaired for her daughter<\/a>, she stumbled upon Charles Dickens\u2019 account<\/a> of his visit to Perkins, wrote them, and they sent her Anne Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Howe was married to the remarkable Julia Ward Howe<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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