Editing Samuel Gridley Howe (section)

{{Short description|American educator and abolitionist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Samuel Gridley Howe
| image              = Samuel Gridley Howe.jpg
| caption            = 
| birth_date         = {{birth date|mf=yes|1801|11|10}}
| birth_place        = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1876|1|9|1801|11|10}}
| death_place        = Massachusetts, U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]]
| known_for          = 
| children           = {{hlist|[[Julia R. Anagnos|Julia]]|[[Florence Howe Hall|Florence]]|[[Henry Marion Howe|Henry]]|[[Laura E. Richards|Laura]]|[[Maud Howe Elliott|Maud]]|Samuel Jr.}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Julia Ward Howe|Julia Ward]]|April 23, 1843}}
| education          = {{unbulleted list|[[Brown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])|[[Harvard Medical School|Harvard University]] ([[M.D.|MD]])}}
| alma_mater         = 
| occupation         = Physician, [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]
}}

'''Samuel Gridley Howe''' (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876)<ref name="brown.edu" /> was an American physician, [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]], and advocate of education for the [[blindness|blind]]. He organized and was the first director of the [[Perkins School for the Blind|Perkins Institution]]. In 1824, he had gone to Greece to serve in the revolution as a surgeon. He arranged for support for refugees and brought many Greek children back to Boston with him for their education.

An abolitionist, Howe 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.