John B. Hotchkiss Explained

Birth Date:	22 August 1845
Birth Place:	Seymour, Connecticut, U.S.
Death Place:	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma Mater:	Gallaudet
Coach Years1:	1883
Coach Team1:	Gallaudet

John Burton Hotchkiss (August 22, 1845  - November 3, 1922) was an American football coach and professor. He was deaf since the age of 9, and attended Gallaudet University, where later he was the first coach of the Gallaudet Bison football team. He is the namesake of their football field. Hotchkiss was also a writer; one of the founders and editors of the Silent World, a short-lived paper for the deaf.^{[1] [2]} Hotchkiss taught English and history.^[3]

Early years

Hotchkiss became deaf due to meningitis or scarlet fever. He attended the American School for the Deaf in Hartford,^[4] the first permanent school for the deaf in the country.^[5]

External links

• Memories of Old Hartford, Hotchkiss on video

Notes and References

1. Book: Representative Deaf Persons of the United States of America. 37. Gallaher. James Ernst. 1898.
2. Web site: John Burton Hotchkiss.
3. Book: A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. 74. John V. Van Cleve. 1989. Gallaudet University Press . 9780930323493.
4. Book: The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. 493. 9781444305999. Kouwenberg. Silvia. Singler. John Victor. 11 February 2009. John Wiley & Sons .
5. Book: Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 100 to World War II. Susan Burch. November 2004. 43. NYU Press . 9780814798942.