Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Akerly, Samuel

AKERLY, Samuel, physician, b. in 1785; d. on Staten Island, 6 July, 1845. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1804. He contributed to medical and scientific periodicals, was active in establishing institutions for deaf mutes, and published an "Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River" (1820) and "Observations on Deafness" (1821).