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Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (born 1711)
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Eleazar Wheelock
American Congregational minister, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College
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 minister and the second Native…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dartmouth College
Private college in Hanover, New Hampshire, US
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Emerging into national prominence at the turn…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)