Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, January 3, 1923
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
Length: 03:00
While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.
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Mabel Gardiner Hubbard died today, January 3, 1923
While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed your life.
Scarlet fever at age five left Mabel Hubbard spelled M A B E L completely, permanently deaf.
A special school in Germany did little for her speech, though she was a more-than-able lip reader. So her father convinced the Massachusetts state legislature to finance the first oral school in the U.S., the Clarke School, where deaf students would learn to speak.
He also hired young Aleck Bell ... an inventor and teacher of speech to deaf students, whose own mother had been deaf. He didn’t make a good first impression on Mabel. "I did not like him, she recalled. Though he was tall and dark with black hair and eyes, she thought he dressed badly and carelessly in an old-fashioned suit ... and she said, “he seemed hardly a gentleman."
But by...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billie's Tune | Jonathan Stratman | audiosparx | 2006 | 04:05 |
