Edmund Clark Sanford (1859 - 1924) was a prominent early American psychologist. He earned his PhD under the supervision of Granville Stanley Hall at Johns Hopkins University, and then moved with Hall to Clark University in 1888, where he became the professor of psychology and the founding director of the psychology laboratory. Clark University is a private University and Liberal arts college in Worcester Massachusetts. He is best known for his 1887 Writings of Laura Bridgman and for his 1897 textbook, A Course in Experimental Psychology. Laura Dewey Bridgman ( December 21, 1829 - May 24, 1889) is known as the first Deaf-blind American child to gain a significant He was present at the creation of the American Psychological Association in 1892 and was the cousin of another early psychologist, Milicent Shinn. The American Psychological Association (APA is a professional organization representing psychologists in the U Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858 - August 14, 1940) was a child psychologist who was the first female to receive a doctorate from the University of California Berkeley [1]