Samuel Gridley Howe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Gridley Howe

American abolitionist

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1801

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1876

Profession: physician, surgeon

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876) was a nineteenth century American physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind.
He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution. An abolitionist, in 1863, he was one of three men appointed by the Secretary of War to the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, to investigate conditions of freedmen in the South since the Emancipation Proclamation and recommend how they could be aided in their transition to freedom.
In addition to traveling to the South, Howe traveled to Canada West (now Ontario, Canada), where thousands of former slaves had escaped to freedom and established new lives; he interviewed freedmen as well as government officials in Canada.