Sarah Warren Keeler

Sarah Warren Keeler (3 May 1844 – 13 September 1899) was an American educator and teacher who founded and was principal of a school for the deaf-mute in New York.

Early life and education Keeler was born at Candor, Tioga County, New York in 1844. She graduated from the state normal school at Albany at the age of 17. She also graduated at the Woman's Law School. She graduated in June 1899 from the New York Law School.

Career She spent several years in teaching at various schools for young women. She next went to teach in the School for Improved Instruction of Deaf-Mutes in New York from 1875 to 1885 taught by herself and her small staff, run in connection with her school for young women at various locations in New York before settling at 27 East Forty-Sixth Street.

Personal life and death She was a member of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

She went to Nyack to visit a pupil for the summer. She fell from her wheel and sprained her foot and knee, came back to New York for treatment, and had a paralytic stroke that rendered her speechless and paralysed her right side. She died at the Post-Graduate Hospital on September 13, 1899. She was buried at Candor, New York.