Historical Origins

Famous Alumni and Staff

• Hannah Babcock - Music Director 1876 - 1914
• James Boorman, Our first benefactor
• Grover Cleveland Teacher at NYI
• Fanny Crosby, famous student/teacher poetess
• S. H. DeKroyft, her account of 1849 visit by Indian chief
• Harry C. Farrar: How my house got its name?
• Harvey Fuller, student 1856-1860
• Alice A. Holmes: student and poet.
  Read her account of NYI life in 1838
• Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863)
  Writer of "T'was the Night before Christmas"
• Dr. Edward M. Van Cleve
  Speech on education and the nature of NYI
• William Bell Wait, pioneering leader 1863-1916
• Other past Alumni and Staff

Obituaries

• Gordon Chipman Dewey (1923-2002)
  President of the Board NYISE
• Merle E. Frampton(1903-1998)
  Director of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind 1935-1971
• Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)
  Student, Teacher, Poetess, Author, Hymnist
• John Dennison Russ, M. D., (1801-1881)
  First teacher of the blind in the United States