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Eleazar Wheelock

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Gender Male
Death245 years ago
Date of birth April 22,1711
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Windham
Connecticut
United States
Date of died April 24,1779
DiedHanover
New Hampshire
United States
Place of burialDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Children John Wheelock
Abigail Ripley
Theodora Young
Parents Deacon Ralph Wheelock
Ruth Wheelock
Education Yale University
The University of Edinburgh
Yale College
Grandchildren Eleazer Wheelock Ripley
Elizabeth Abigail Ripley Dana
Davenport Phelps
BooksA Plain and Faithful Narrative of the Original Design, Rise, Progress and Present State of the Indian Charity-school at Lebanon, in Connecticut
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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.

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