Eleazar Wheelock
American minister and orator
Eleazar Wheelock 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... Wikipedia
Born: April 22, 1711, Windham, CT
Died: April 24, 1779 (age 68 years), Hanover, NH
Education: Yale University, The University of Edinburgh, and Yale College
Children: John Wheelock and Abigail Ripley
Grandchildren: Eleazer W. Ripley, Davenport Phelps, and Elizabeth Abigail Ripley Dana
Parents: Deacon Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Wheelock