John B. Hotchkiss
Biographical details | |
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Born | Seymour, Connecticut | August 22, 1845
Died | November 3, 1922 Washington, D. C. | (aged 77)
Alma mater | Gallaudet |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1883 | Gallaudet |
John Burton Hotchkiss (August 22, 1845 – November 3, 1922) was an American football coach and professor. He was deaf since the age of 9, and attended Gallaudet University, where later he was the first coach of the Gallaudet Bison football team. He is the namesake of their football field. Hotchkiss was also a writer; one of the founders and editors of the Silent World, a short-lived paper for the deaf.[1][2] Hotchkiss taught English and history.[3]
John B. Hotchkiss signing Memories of Old Hartford (1913)
Early years[]
Hotchkiss became deaf due to meningitis or scarlet fever. He attended the American School for the Deaf in Hartford,[4] the first permanent school for the deaf in the country.[5]
References[]
- ^ Gallaher, James Ernst (1898). Representative Deaf Persons of the United States of America. p. 37.
- ^ "John Burton Hotchkiss" (PDF).
- ^ John V. Van Cleve (1989). A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. p. 74. ISBN 9780930323493.
- ^ Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor (11 February 2009). The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. p. 493. ISBN 9781444305999.
- ^ Susan Burch (November 2004). Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 100 to World War II. p. 43. ISBN 9780814798942.
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Categories:
- 1845 births
- 1922 deaths
- Gallaudet Bison football coaches
- People from Seymour, Connecticut
- Coaches of American football from Washington, D.C.
- Deaf people from the United States
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1880s stubs