Eleazar Wheelock
Eleazar Wheelock | |
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Portrait by Joseph Steward | |
| 1st President of Dartmouth College | |
| In office 1768–1779 | |
| Succeeded by | John Wheelock |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 22, 1711 Windham, Connecticut Colony, British America |
| Died | April 24, 1779 (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.