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Eleazar Wheelock
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Eleazar Wheelock

American Congregational minister, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College

Eleazar Wheelock (April 22, 1711 – April 24, 1779) was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in present-day Columbia, 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 second Native American to publish writings in English.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Eleazar Wheelock (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Apr 22, 1711, died Apr 24, 1779.1

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Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. From 1750 to the early 1770s forty-nine Native American boys and eighteen Native American girls were educated at the school, while it sometimes catered to the sons of poor colonists. As a slave owner he converted numerous slaves to Christianity.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eleazar Wheelock, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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