Rev. Jacob M. Koehler (1860-1932)
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Founder in 1882 of the institute that became the Scranton State School for the Deaf. An ordained minister who was deaf, he was concerned for this state's uneducated deaf children and was a leading advocate of compulsory education of the deaf. President, National Association of the Deaf, 1896-1900. Twice president, Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf.
U.S. representative to the World Congress of the Deaf (Paris), 1889.
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