Seeing-Eye Dog (1927)

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   OED basically nails this entry, and the 1930 and 1938 citations are pretty good.
   This is from the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 10 September 1946, pg. 4, col. 5:

_Dorothy Harrison Eustis Dies,_
_Breeder of the Seeing-Eye Dog_
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Development of German_
   _Dogs Led to Service_
   _of Guides for the Blind_
   Mrs. Dorothy Harrison Eustis, sixty, founder of The Seeing Eye, Inc., of Morristown, N. J., the non-profit organization that trains dogs to serve as guides for the blind, died Sunday at her home at 134 East Fortieth Street.
(...)
   In 1927 she became interested in work being done in Germany in training dogs to guide blinded war veterans.  She established at Fortunate Fields an experimental school which she called l'Oeil Qui Voit.  In 1928, she wrote an article describing the dogs' accomplishments for "The Saturday Evening Post."
   The article was read to twenty-year-old (Col. 6--ed.) Morris Frank, of Nashville, Tenn., a Vanderbilt University student who had been blind since he was sixteen.  He wrote to Mrs. Eustis, and went to Vevey at her invitation.
   For nearly a year they worked together with Buddy, a German shepherd.  Then Mr. Frank returned to this country and tested Buddy in metropolitan traffic conditions.  Buddy came through with flying colors, and Mr. Frank cabled Mrs. Eustis to come to Nashville and start a school there.  She came with Mr. Humphrey (A Swiss geneticist--ed.) and three dogs, and the school was founded in 1929.  Three years later it was moved to Morristown.

("THE SEEING EYE," by Dorothy Harrison Eustis, was in the SATURDAY EVENING POST, 5 November 1927, pg. 43.  I didn't see the full "seeing-eye dog," but OED should cite the article--ed.)