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Eleazar Wheelock

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April 22, 1711, Windham, Conn. [U.S.]
Died:
April 24, 1779, Hanover, N.H., U.S. (aged 68)

Eleazar Wheelock (born April 22, 1711, Windham, Conn. [U.S.]—died April 24, 1779, Hanover, N.H., U.S.) was an American educator who was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College. Wheelock graduated from Yale in 1733, studied theology, and in 1735 became a Congregationalist minister at Lebanon, Conn. He was a popular preacher throughout the period of the Great Awakening. When a free school he founded to educate both Indians and whites failed for lack of funds, the governor of New Hampshire offered him a township (36 square miles [93 square km]) of land. With about 30 students, he and other ...(100 of 137 words)

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