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Rae, Luzerne

educator, was born Dec. 22, 1811, in New Haven, Conn. In 1831 he became instructor of the deaf and dumb in the Hartford asylum, which office he held until his death. He was editor of the Religious Herald from 1843 till 1847, and of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb from 1848 till 1854; and published anonymously numerous poems, which were collected and printed privately under the title of Text and Context. He died Sept. 16, 1854, in Hartford, . Conn.

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