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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc

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Birthplace: La Balme-les-Grottes, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
Death: July 18, 1869 (83)
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Joseph-François Clerc and Marie-Élisabeth Clerc
Husband of Eliza Crocker Clerc
Father of Elizabeth Victoria Beers; Sarah Deming; Francis Joseph Clerc and Charles Michael Clerc

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About Laurent Clerc

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" by generations of American deaf people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc

More biographical information here: http://books.google.com/books?id=QFgCn73ROF8C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq...

One of his direct descendants is the actor James Spader.

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Laurent Clerc's Timeline

1785
December 26, 1785
La Balme-les-Grottes, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
1820
March 25, 1820
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
1828
August 12, 1828
1869
July 18, 1869
Age 83
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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