Eleazar Wheelock
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1711 – 1779
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Who was Eleazar Wheelock?
Eleazar Wheelock was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in Lebanon, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Samson Occom, a Mohegan who became a Presbyterian minister and the first Native American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock had founded and run the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of English colonists.
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- Born
- Apr 22, 1711
Windham - Children
- Education
- Yale University
- University of Edinburgh
- Yale College
- Died
- Apr 24, 1779
Hanover
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on July 23, 2013
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