Fay, Edward Allen

Hearing. B.A., 1862, and M.A., 1865, from the University of Michigan; Ph.D., 1881 from Johns Hopkins University. Instructor at the New York Institution for the deaf 1862-1866. Third professor to be appointed to the Gallaudet College faculty, 1865-1885, and vice-president of the College 1885-1920. Editor of the American Annals of the Deaf, 1870-1920. The best-known of his several writings is his pioneering genealogical study, Marriages of the Deaf in America (1898). Died at Washington, DC. Fay House on the Gallaudet University campus was originally named for him, but later this was altered to honor his deaf wife Helen Bradshaw Fay instead. His eldest son was Allan Bradshaw Fay (q.v.).