** NOTED EDUCATOR OF THE DEAF **
Mary Caroline McClelland Tate was born in Fulton, Missouri around 1858 but was raised in Kentucky. It is thought her father was killed in the Battle of Vicksburg. Her mother, a nurse, died about the same time, near the same place. She became a ward of Thomas Nesbit. Mary attended Sayer Institute in Lexington, KY and Fulton Female Seminary.
She became a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1871 and was assigned to the newly created position of articulation teacher. In October, 1872 Mary traveled with Supt. William Dabney Kerr to the Illinois School at Jacksonville. There she received instruction from Miss Cornelia Trask, an unusually skilled speech teacher who was expert in the use Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech symbols. (Mr. Bell was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.) She returned to MSD and organized rotating classes in articulation. She taught speech and lipreading exclusively. Mary worked with selected pupils who came to her from their regular classes at scheduled times. Back in their classrooms, her pupils continued to receive instruction through sign language. This field was so new that it was necessary for her position to be approved by the Legislature.
On August 15, 1878 she married James Nolley Tate who succceeded William Dabney Kerr as superintendent of MSD. The Tates left Fulton in 1896 for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault.
SOURCE Historic MSD: The Story of the Missouuri School for the Deaf, Richard d. Reed, 2000, Fulton, Missouri
Mary Caroline McClelland Tate was born in Fulton, Missouri around 1858 but was raised in Kentucky. It is thought her father was killed in the Battle of Vicksburg. Her mother, a nurse, died about the same time, near the same place. She became a ward of Thomas Nesbit. Mary attended Sayer Institute in Lexington, KY and Fulton Female Seminary.
She became a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1871 and was assigned to the newly created position of articulation teacher. In October, 1872 Mary traveled with Supt. William Dabney Kerr to the Illinois School at Jacksonville. There she received instruction from Miss Cornelia Trask, an unusually skilled speech teacher who was expert in the use Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech symbols. (Mr. Bell was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.) She returned to MSD and organized rotating classes in articulation. She taught speech and lipreading exclusively. Mary worked with selected pupils who came to her from their regular classes at scheduled times. Back in their classrooms, her pupils continued to receive instruction through sign language. This field was so new that it was necessary for her position to be approved by the Legislature.
On August 15, 1878 she married James Nolley Tate who succceeded William Dabney Kerr as superintendent of MSD. The Tates left Fulton in 1896 for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault.
SOURCE Historic MSD: The Story of the Missouuri School for the Deaf, Richard d. Reed, 2000, Fulton, Missouri
** NOTED EDUCATOR OF THE DEAF **
Mary Caroline McClelland Tate was born in Fulton, Missouri around 1858 but was raised in Kentucky. It is thought her father was killed in the Battle of Vicksburg. Her mother, a nurse, died about the same time, near the same place. She became a ward of Thomas Nesbit. Mary attended Sayer Institute in Lexington, KY and Fulton Female Seminary.
She became a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1871 and was assigned to the newly created position of articulation teacher. In October, 1872 Mary traveled with Supt. William Dabney Kerr to the Illinois School at Jacksonville. There she received instruction from Miss Cornelia Trask, an unusually skilled speech teacher who was expert in the use Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech symbols. (Mr. Bell was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.) She returned to MSD and organized rotating classes in articulation. She taught speech and lipreading exclusively. Mary worked with selected pupils who came to her from their regular classes at scheduled times. Back in their classrooms, her pupils continued to receive instruction through sign language. This field was so new that it was necessary for her position to be approved by the Legislature.
On August 15, 1878 she married James Nolley Tate who succceeded William Dabney Kerr as superintendent of MSD. The Tates left Fulton in 1896 for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault.
SOURCE Historic MSD: The Story of the Missouuri School for the Deaf, Richard d. Reed, 2000, Fulton, Missouri
Mary Caroline McClelland Tate was born in Fulton, Missouri around 1858 but was raised in Kentucky. It is thought her father was killed in the Battle of Vicksburg. Her mother, a nurse, died about the same time, near the same place. She became a ward of Thomas Nesbit. Mary attended Sayer Institute in Lexington, KY and Fulton Female Seminary.
She became a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1871 and was assigned to the newly created position of articulation teacher. In October, 1872 Mary traveled with Supt. William Dabney Kerr to the Illinois School at Jacksonville. There she received instruction from Miss Cornelia Trask, an unusually skilled speech teacher who was expert in the use Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech symbols. (Mr. Bell was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.) She returned to MSD and organized rotating classes in articulation. She taught speech and lipreading exclusively. Mary worked with selected pupils who came to her from their regular classes at scheduled times. Back in their classrooms, her pupils continued to receive instruction through sign language. This field was so new that it was necessary for her position to be approved by the Legislature.
On August 15, 1878 she married James Nolley Tate who succceeded William Dabney Kerr as superintendent of MSD. The Tates left Fulton in 1896 for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault.
SOURCE Historic MSD: The Story of the Missouuri School for the Deaf, Richard d. Reed, 2000, Fulton, Missouri
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