American Congregational minister, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College
The Reverend
Eleazar Wheelock
Portrait by Joseph Steward
1st President of Dartmouth College
In office 1768–1779
Succeeded by
John Wheelock
Personal details
Born
(1711-04-22)April 22, 1711 Windham, Connecticut Colony, British America
Died
April 24, 1779(1779-04-24) (aged 68) Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Alma mater
Yale College (1733)
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. 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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research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by EleazarWheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the...
protest. This marked the first time a Dartmouth president was ever censured. Wheelock Succession Beilock, S. L. (2010). Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain...
John Wheelock (January 28, 1754 – April 4, 1817) was the eldest son of EleazarWheelock who was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College; John...
Hampshire: "The Wheelock Succession". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. December 1969. pp. 31–33. Retrieved 6 August 2022. "EleazarWheelock". The Wheelock Succession...
Ralph Wheelock (1600–1684) and Rebecca Clarke (1610–1680), were also the great-grandparents of EleazarWheelock. Obadiah's third cousin (Eleazar's son)...
years of his life. Eleazar Wheelock was born to Ralph and Rebecca at Medfield. One of Eleazar's grandchildren, also named Eleazar, would go on to become the...
Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. Retrieved 2007-11-09. "EleazarWheelock". The Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth Presidents. The Office of the President...
Charity School, a secondary school started in 1754 by Dartmouth founder EleazarWheelock. Dartmouth considers its founding date to be 1769, when it was granted...
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died. The appointment of Ernest Fox Nichols as the 10th president in the Wheelock Succession could be seen as both a reflection of the times and a tribute...
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