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 American colonists.
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Male
Date of Birth
April 22nd, 1711
Age
315
Birth Place
United States of America, Connecticut
Date of Death
April 24th, 1779
Died Aged
68
Star Sign
Taurus
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