Samuel Akerly

Samuel Akerly
BornMay 1785 
DiedJuly 6, 1845  (aged 59–60)
Staten Island 
Alma materColumbia College (BA, MA) College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD)
OccupationPhysician 

Samuel Akerly (May 1785 – July 6, 1845) was an American physician, superintendent of the New York Institution for the Deaf from 1821 to 1831, and co-founder and president of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind from 1831 to 1842.

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