Son of Elias and Hester (Wright) Ely, he graduated from Yale in 1862. He served in the 27 Connecticut Infantry, Co. I., rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In 1863 he accepted a teaching position at the Ohio State School for the Deaf in Columbus. In 1870 he accepted the position of principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick which had been established in 1868. He remained in this position until his death in 1912.
On October 24, 1867 at Columbus, Ohio he married Mary Darling of Elyria, Ohio. They had five children, Charles, Grace, Robert, Mabel and Richard. Grace was a teacher at the Maryland School for the Deaf. Charles had a long career at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and was principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf during 1912-1913.
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CHARLES WRIGHT ELY, son of Elias Sanford and Hester Maria (Wright) Ely, was born March 14, 1839, at Madison, Conn. He was prepared for college at Lee Academy there and at Guilford (Conn.) Institute.
While in college he joined with others in regular military drill, and a month after graduation [Yale University, Class of 1862] enlisted for nine months in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and serving as first sergeant until March 13, 1863, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. He was ill with typhoid fever for three months, and then being mustered out of service went home to recuperate.
Owing to the persuasion of his classmate, Edward Collins Stone, whose father, Rev Collins Stone (B A Yale 1832), had just gone from Ohio to be at the head of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn, he decided to devote himself to the education of the deaf, and in October, 1863, began teaching in the Ohio School for the Deaf at Columbus, where his classmate was also teaching. After seven years of successful work there he accepted the principalship of the recently opened Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick City. During his service there of forty-two years he had under his care more than six hundred boys and girls, who were warmly attached to him, and with whom he always kept in friendly touch.
He was the author of "The Deaf and Dumb," 1880, "History of the Maryland School for the Deaf," 1883, and since 1881 had edited The Maryland Bulletin, a bi-weekly paper published in the interest of the deaf.
When the Board of Health was organized in Frederick City he was appointed chairman, and he was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also a member of the board of visitors of Frederick College. In June, 1906, he was appointed by the governor upon a commission for improving the condition of the adult blind in the state. Of this he was chosen chairman. For many years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was a delegate to the General Assembly.
In 1908 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Gallaudet College.
He attended the fiftieth reunion of his Class in New Haven, in June, 1912, went afterward to the convention of the Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, in Providence, and then spent his vacation on the old farm at East River, near Madison, Conn, which he had bought for a summer home. Soon after returning to his work he went to Baltimore on business, and going from there, spent the night with his son in Washington, where he died suddenly of heart trouble the following morning, October 1, 1912, at the age of 73 years
He married, October 24, 1867, Mary Grace, daughter of Solomon Russell and Elizabeth (Carey) Darling, of Elyria, Ohio, but at the time a teacher in the Ohio School for the Deaf. Two sons and two daughters, with Mrs. Ely, survive him, one son having died in infancy. The elder son, Charles Russell Ely, Ph D (BA Yale 1891), formerly Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet College, succeeds to his father's position at Frederick City. The younger son, Richard Grenville Ely (B A Amherst 1906), received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1907.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
On October 24, 1867 at Columbus, Ohio he married Mary Darling of Elyria, Ohio. They had five children, Charles, Grace, Robert, Mabel and Richard. Grace was a teacher at the Maryland School for the Deaf. Charles had a long career at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and was principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf during 1912-1913.
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CHARLES WRIGHT ELY, son of Elias Sanford and Hester Maria (Wright) Ely, was born March 14, 1839, at Madison, Conn. He was prepared for college at Lee Academy there and at Guilford (Conn.) Institute.
While in college he joined with others in regular military drill, and a month after graduation [Yale University, Class of 1862] enlisted for nine months in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and serving as first sergeant until March 13, 1863, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. He was ill with typhoid fever for three months, and then being mustered out of service went home to recuperate.
Owing to the persuasion of his classmate, Edward Collins Stone, whose father, Rev Collins Stone (B A Yale 1832), had just gone from Ohio to be at the head of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn, he decided to devote himself to the education of the deaf, and in October, 1863, began teaching in the Ohio School for the Deaf at Columbus, where his classmate was also teaching. After seven years of successful work there he accepted the principalship of the recently opened Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick City. During his service there of forty-two years he had under his care more than six hundred boys and girls, who were warmly attached to him, and with whom he always kept in friendly touch.
He was the author of "The Deaf and Dumb," 1880, "History of the Maryland School for the Deaf," 1883, and since 1881 had edited The Maryland Bulletin, a bi-weekly paper published in the interest of the deaf.
When the Board of Health was organized in Frederick City he was appointed chairman, and he was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also a member of the board of visitors of Frederick College. In June, 1906, he was appointed by the governor upon a commission for improving the condition of the adult blind in the state. Of this he was chosen chairman. For many years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was a delegate to the General Assembly.
In 1908 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Gallaudet College.
He attended the fiftieth reunion of his Class in New Haven, in June, 1912, went afterward to the convention of the Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, in Providence, and then spent his vacation on the old farm at East River, near Madison, Conn, which he had bought for a summer home. Soon after returning to his work he went to Baltimore on business, and going from there, spent the night with his son in Washington, where he died suddenly of heart trouble the following morning, October 1, 1912, at the age of 73 years
He married, October 24, 1867, Mary Grace, daughter of Solomon Russell and Elizabeth (Carey) Darling, of Elyria, Ohio, but at the time a teacher in the Ohio School for the Deaf. Two sons and two daughters, with Mrs. Ely, survive him, one son having died in infancy. The elder son, Charles Russell Ely, Ph D (BA Yale 1891), formerly Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet College, succeeds to his father's position at Frederick City. The younger son, Richard Grenville Ely (B A Amherst 1906), received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1907.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
Son of Elias and Hester (Wright) Ely, he graduated from Yale in 1862. He served in the 27 Connecticut Infantry, Co. I., rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In 1863 he accepted a teaching position at the Ohio State School for the Deaf in Columbus. In 1870 he accepted the position of principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick which had been established in 1868. He remained in this position until his death in 1912.
On October 24, 1867 at Columbus, Ohio he married Mary Darling of Elyria, Ohio. They had five children, Charles, Grace, Robert, Mabel and Richard. Grace was a teacher at the Maryland School for the Deaf. Charles had a long career at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and was principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf during 1912-1913.
*****
CHARLES WRIGHT ELY, son of Elias Sanford and Hester Maria (Wright) Ely, was born March 14, 1839, at Madison, Conn. He was prepared for college at Lee Academy there and at Guilford (Conn.) Institute.
While in college he joined with others in regular military drill, and a month after graduation [Yale University, Class of 1862] enlisted for nine months in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and serving as first sergeant until March 13, 1863, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. He was ill with typhoid fever for three months, and then being mustered out of service went home to recuperate.
Owing to the persuasion of his classmate, Edward Collins Stone, whose father, Rev Collins Stone (B A Yale 1832), had just gone from Ohio to be at the head of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn, he decided to devote himself to the education of the deaf, and in October, 1863, began teaching in the Ohio School for the Deaf at Columbus, where his classmate was also teaching. After seven years of successful work there he accepted the principalship of the recently opened Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick City. During his service there of forty-two years he had under his care more than six hundred boys and girls, who were warmly attached to him, and with whom he always kept in friendly touch.
He was the author of "The Deaf and Dumb," 1880, "History of the Maryland School for the Deaf," 1883, and since 1881 had edited The Maryland Bulletin, a bi-weekly paper published in the interest of the deaf.
When the Board of Health was organized in Frederick City he was appointed chairman, and he was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also a member of the board of visitors of Frederick College. In June, 1906, he was appointed by the governor upon a commission for improving the condition of the adult blind in the state. Of this he was chosen chairman. For many years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was a delegate to the General Assembly.
In 1908 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Gallaudet College.
He attended the fiftieth reunion of his Class in New Haven, in June, 1912, went afterward to the convention of the Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, in Providence, and then spent his vacation on the old farm at East River, near Madison, Conn, which he had bought for a summer home. Soon after returning to his work he went to Baltimore on business, and going from there, spent the night with his son in Washington, where he died suddenly of heart trouble the following morning, October 1, 1912, at the age of 73 years
He married, October 24, 1867, Mary Grace, daughter of Solomon Russell and Elizabeth (Carey) Darling, of Elyria, Ohio, but at the time a teacher in the Ohio School for the Deaf. Two sons and two daughters, with Mrs. Ely, survive him, one son having died in infancy. The elder son, Charles Russell Ely, Ph D (BA Yale 1891), formerly Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet College, succeeds to his father's position at Frederick City. The younger son, Richard Grenville Ely (B A Amherst 1906), received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1907.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
On October 24, 1867 at Columbus, Ohio he married Mary Darling of Elyria, Ohio. They had five children, Charles, Grace, Robert, Mabel and Richard. Grace was a teacher at the Maryland School for the Deaf. Charles had a long career at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and was principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf during 1912-1913.
*****
CHARLES WRIGHT ELY, son of Elias Sanford and Hester Maria (Wright) Ely, was born March 14, 1839, at Madison, Conn. He was prepared for college at Lee Academy there and at Guilford (Conn.) Institute.
While in college he joined with others in regular military drill, and a month after graduation [Yale University, Class of 1862] enlisted for nine months in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and serving as first sergeant until March 13, 1863, when he was commissioned second lieutenant. He was ill with typhoid fever for three months, and then being mustered out of service went home to recuperate.
Owing to the persuasion of his classmate, Edward Collins Stone, whose father, Rev Collins Stone (B A Yale 1832), had just gone from Ohio to be at the head of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn, he decided to devote himself to the education of the deaf, and in October, 1863, began teaching in the Ohio School for the Deaf at Columbus, where his classmate was also teaching. After seven years of successful work there he accepted the principalship of the recently opened Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick City. During his service there of forty-two years he had under his care more than six hundred boys and girls, who were warmly attached to him, and with whom he always kept in friendly touch.
He was the author of "The Deaf and Dumb," 1880, "History of the Maryland School for the Deaf," 1883, and since 1881 had edited The Maryland Bulletin, a bi-weekly paper published in the interest of the deaf.
When the Board of Health was organized in Frederick City he was appointed chairman, and he was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also a member of the board of visitors of Frederick College. In June, 1906, he was appointed by the governor upon a commission for improving the condition of the adult blind in the state. Of this he was chosen chairman. For many years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was a delegate to the General Assembly.
In 1908 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. from Gallaudet College.
He attended the fiftieth reunion of his Class in New Haven, in June, 1912, went afterward to the convention of the Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, in Providence, and then spent his vacation on the old farm at East River, near Madison, Conn, which he had bought for a summer home. Soon after returning to his work he went to Baltimore on business, and going from there, spent the night with his son in Washington, where he died suddenly of heart trouble the following morning, October 1, 1912, at the age of 73 years
He married, October 24, 1867, Mary Grace, daughter of Solomon Russell and Elizabeth (Carey) Darling, of Elyria, Ohio, but at the time a teacher in the Ohio School for the Deaf. Two sons and two daughters, with Mrs. Ely, survive him, one son having died in infancy. The elder son, Charles Russell Ely, Ph D (BA Yale 1891), formerly Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet College, succeeds to his father's position at Frederick City. The younger son, Richard Grenville Ely (B A Amherst 1906), received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1907.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
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Born in Madison, Connecticut. Graduate of Yale. Soldier in the Union Army and for forty-three years honored and beloved principal of the Maryland School for the Deaf.
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