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History Of The United States Of America;
Harvey Prindle Peet
Egbert, Bourne & Co., 1869
Elementary Lessons: Being A Course Of Instruction For The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1...
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Elementary Lessons: Being A Course Of Instruction For The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1
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Harvey Prindle Peet
D.Van Nostrand, 1865
Language Arts & Disciplines; Sign Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Sign Language; Study Aids / Civil Service
On the legal rights and responsibilities of the deaf and dumb
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Harvey Prindle Peet was an American educator of the deaf.
Background
Harvey Prindle Peet was born on November 19, 1794 in Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. He was a descendant of John Peet who emigrated from England to America in 1635. The son of Richard Peet, a minute-man in 1776, and of Johannah (Prindle) Peet, widow of Zachariah Brinsmade. Harvey spent his early years on a farm among the rough and beautiful hills of northwestern Connecticut, in Bethlehem, Litchfield County.
Education
Though his first educational opportunities were limited to the country school, he learned rapidly and became a teacher in the district schools at the age of sixteen. Later he taught at the private school of Dr. Azel Backus in Bethlehem and then in that of Dr. Daniel Parker in Sharon, Connecticut. Saving his scanty means and adding to them by farm work during the summer, he entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, in 1816, and Yale College in 1818, graduating from the latter in 1822 among the first ten in his class.
Career
In the fall of 1822 Harvey Prindle Peet was invited by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet to become a teacher in the American School for the Deaf at Hartford, Connecticut. Here he spent over eight years, in association with Laurent Clerc, Lewis Weld, and other brilliant educators of deaf children. Such was his success and energy that he was soon put in charge of the entire business affairs of the institution and, with his wife, was given the care of all the children outside of school hours. In 1831 he moved to New York, accepting a call to take charge of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Here he labored practically all the rest of his life with the greatest success, building up the school from an enrollment of eighty-five to 439 in his thirty-six years of active management.
With great foresight Harvey Prindle Peet brought about the advantageous sale of the old school site in the city, arranged the purchase of a beautiful new site on the Hudson River at 162nd Street, and erected a then model establishment to accommodate 500 pupils, which was occupied in 1856. He soon sold a small part of the new site at an advanced price, and thus was able to pay off the whole building debt of the new school within a few years. He studied, at first hand, methods of instructing the deaf followed in European schools as well as in American institutions and was a regular attendant and forceful speaker at educational gatherings for instructors of the deaf wherever they were held.
Harvey Prindle Peet felt that his pupils were unfitted for life unless they were equipped as Christian workmen to take their places in the world. He was a strict disciplinarian but took a father's interest in all the children under his care. He was a prolific writer on the subject of the deaf, their condition, legal status, number, and education. His Course of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb was used with much success throughout the country. He also wrote a school history of the United States to be used by deaf children. His literary contributions appeared mainly, however, in the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, in the management of which Harvey Prindle Peet assisted for many years.
Harvey Prindle Peet retired from active charge of the New York Institution in 1867, having built it up from a small and poorly equipped school to the largest and best equipped establishment for deaf children in the United States. He continued to reside on the grounds of the school and to give advice to his son and successor, Isaac Lewis Peet, until his death. He died on January 1, 1873.
Achievements
Harvey Prindle Peet was a distinguished educator. He devoted his life to the education of deaf and dumb children. Peet was a president Of The New York Institution for the deaf and dumb. He published a series of elementary text-books for the use of deaf-mutes, and wrote numerous papers on deaf-mute education and kindred topics.
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Personality
Harvey Prindle Peet was a man of great vigor, strong convictions, and deep religious feeling. During his declining years he became blind, but recovered his sight through a skilful operation.
Connections
Harvey Prindle Peet was married three times: first to Margaret Maria Lewis, November 27, 1823, who died on September 23, 1832, leaving three sons, all of whom became teachers of the deaf; second in 1835, to Sarah Ann Smith, who died December 30, 1864; and third, January 15, 1868, to Mrs. Louisa P. Hotchkiss.