Harriet Burbank Rogers

Harriet Burbank Rogers (born April 12, 1834, North Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 12, 1919, North Billerica) was an educator and pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf in the United States. After graduating from Massachusetts State Normal School (now Framingham State College) in 1851, Rogers taught at several schools in Massachusetts. Her prominence as an American educator began in 1863, when she accepted a deaf girl for private instruction. Rogers had read...