James Smedley Brown

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James Smedley Brown was a nineteenth-century educator of the deaf who is credited with the publication of the first dictionary of American Sign Language. He attended Oberlin College, and died in 1863.

Career[]

Teacher at the Ohio School for the Deaf (1842–1845) Superintendent at the Indiana School for the Deaf (1845–1852) Superintendent at the Louisiana School for the Deaf (1853–1860)

Sign-language dictionaries[]

Brown published "A Vocabulary of Mute Signs" in 1856, as well as "A Dictionary of Signs and of the Language of Action, for the Use of Deaf-Mutes, their Instructors and Friends; and, also, designed to facilitate to members of the Bar, Clergymen, Political Speakers, Lecturers, and to the Pupils of Schools, Academies, and Colleges, The Acquisition of a Natural, Graceful, Distinctive and Life-Like Gesticulation" in 1860.

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