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tlie rei)orts of the Ainericuii AsyUiin to liave had " ;i gi'iiiKifather, fathiu', and '■> children deaf and 

 dumb." There are other families of deaf-nuite.s of the same name which are obviously connected. 

 (See Fig. 7.) 



The Ouat family, of Illinois. — Two members of this family entered the Illinois Institution in 

 1859 and 1862. It was recorded of them in the 1882 report that there had been deafness in the 

 family for five generations. No particulars, however, are given. 



O Indicates a hearing person 

 ^ Iiulic.ites a (leaf-mnte. 

 = Iiidieates marriage. 



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{GaZlUiit' Co.Sranch.) 



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Slount, 





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 the descendants^ 



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 descenda/Us.^ 



Fig. 2. — The Hoagland family of Kentucky. 



The Hoagland family , of Kentiicly (Fig. 2.) — This is one of the most remarkable of the deaf-mute 

 families of America. In the above diagram I have attempted to show the family connections 

 so far as they are known to me. In 18."i;3 this family was stated to consist of a father, himself deaf 

 and dumb, with 7 de, if mute children. lie had 2 deaf mute nephews, one of whom was married 

 and had two deaf-inute children. He also had a hearing s'ster who luui two deaf-mute sons, one 

 of whom had 3 children, all deaf mutes.* 



The priucii)al of the Kentucky Institution has kindly furnished ine with the following addi- 

 tional particulars concerning this family. He says: 



'•In 1822 two bnjthers, Thomas and William Hoagland, entered our institution. Thomas 

 never married, but William married a deaf mute. He had a son and two daughters, all of whom 

 were mutes and married mutes. Jesse, the son, has five children, all of whom can hear. Mrs. 

 Blount, the eldest daughter, has one son, a mute; Clara, the other daughter, is childless. This 

 may be called the Lexington branch, as their homo was there. Another, the Gallatin County 

 branch, contained seven deafmutes. In another branch, the Iiee<ls, the father and his three 

 children are nintes. Only a part of all these mutes have been at school, and it is difficult to trace 

 n the scanty records the exact relationship between the ditterent branches." 



The Adkin.s family, of Kentucky. — This family was stated in 18.13 to contain nine deaf-mutes.t 



Thq Orisson family, of Kentucly. — I am indebted to the princii)al of the Kentucky Institution 

 for the following very instructive particulars concerning this family: 



"There were three or four deaf-mute brothers and sisters of this family who were pupils here 

 (Kentucky Institution) about the year 1828; one of them, William, married a deaf-mute lady and 



* American Auuals of the Deaf aud Dumb, vol. vi, p. 255. 



t Americau Amials uf the Deaf and Diiiuli, vol. vi, p. 250. 



