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

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Born Apr 22, 1711, died Apr 24, 1779.¹