Eleazar Wheelock
Eleazar Wheelock was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in Lebanon, Connecticut, foryears 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 Moors Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of English colonists.
Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Connecticut, to Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Huntington, who had a prosperous farm of 300 acres. He is the greatgrandson of the first teacher of the first free school in the United States , the Rev. Ralph Wheelock. In 1733, he graduated from Yale College, having won the first award of the Dean Berkeley Donation for distinction in classics. He continued his theological studies at Yale until he was licensed to preach in May 1734.
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