Iowa School for the Deaf

found: Iowa School for the Deaf WWW site, August 11, 2015(Edmund Booth (1810-1905) and William E. Ijams (1830-1893) are the founders of Iowa School for the Deaf, Ijams opened a private school for the deaf in Iowa City when on January 24,1854 Senate File No. 51 passed and the Iowa Institute for the Deaf and Dumb [no publs. in LC] was born ; the school was opened in "Goose Town," a Bohemian section of Iowa City in 1855; the school moved to Council Bluffs in 1870)

found: Iowa School for the Deaf page on RootsWeb WWW site, August 11, 2015(The school had originally been known as the Iowa Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, but in 1892 was renamed the Iowa School for the Deaf.)