found: Gallaudet University Web site, Apr. 29, 2005 (Gallaudet University had its beginnings in 1856 when Amos Kendall established a school for the deaf and blind children (incorporated 1857 by Congress as Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind); Congress authorized the National Deaf Mute College in 1864; college renamed Gallaudet College, 1894; became Gallaudet University, Aug. 4, 1986; Public Law 420 of the 83rd Congress changed the name of the entire institution to Gallaudet College)
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