Samuel Akerly ( – ) was an American physician and founder of the
New York Institute for the Education of the Blind.
Samuel Akerly was born in . He graduated from
Columbia College Columbia College may refer to one of several institutions of higher education in North America:
Canada
* Columbia College (Alberta), in Calgary
* Columbia College (British Columbia), a two-year liberal arts institution in Vancouver
* Columbia In ...
in 1804. He contributed to medical and scientific periodicals, was active in establishing institutions for the education of deaf people, and published an ''Essay on the Geology of the
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between Ne ...
'' (1820) and ''Observations on Deafness'' (1821). Akerly died on 6 July 1845 in
Staten Island
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1785 births
1845 deaths
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