Eleazar Wheelock
President of Dartmouth College
Died when: 68 years 2 days (816 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Eleazar Wheelock (April 22, 1711 – April 24, 1779) 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 founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans.The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists.
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