Eleazar Wheelock
1711
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1779
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Yale College
occupation: educator, philanthropist, Christian minister
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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