Massachusetts incorporates its school for the mentally challenged

Samuel G. Howe, detail
04/04/1850
The Massachusetts School for the Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth incorporates. Founded under the influence of Samuel Gridley Howe and established by Massachusetts legislation earlier, in May, 1848, the school has already been in operation for seven months under a state grant.
Source Citation
 
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 564.

Record Data

Date Certainty
  Exact
Type
  Cultural
Relevance
  Personal

People

Places

Images

Thu, 12/13/2007 - 4:07pm — osborne