Rogers, Harriet Burbank

Hearing. Founded the first U.S. oral school for the deaf in 1863, when she accepted a deaf child, Fanny Cushing, as a private pupil in her home. Self-taught as a teacher of the deaf, her pupils included Mabel Hubbard, who later became Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell. Mabel Hubbard's lawyer father founded the Clarke School for the Deaf by moving Roger's school to Northampton, MA, in 1867. Rogers was the Clarke School's first teacher and instructional leader, remaining with that school until retirement in 1886.