Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (1809–1889)

US educator who was known for his work in teaching deaf and dumb people. He was president of Columbia College from 1864 until his death. He developed the institution into a major university, admitting women in 1883.

Barnard was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts. After graduating from Yale University in 1828, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to teach those with hearing and speech impediments, and later worked at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (1832–37).