Perkins Institute for the Blind Lamson worked at the Perkins Institute for the Blind under superintendent
Samuel Gridley Howe. In 1841, Lamson replaced
Lydia Drew as the primary teacher and companion of
deafblind student Laura Bridgman, a position which she held until her marriage to Edwin Lamson in 1846. When Lamson left her position at the Perkins Institute, Howe wrote that Lamson was an "able and excellent teacher...Indeed, to Miss Swift and Sarah Wight|Miss [Sarah] Wight belong, far more than to any other persons, the pure satisfaction of having been instrumental in the beautiful development of Laura's character." == Private life ==