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 American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. From 1750 to the early 1770s forty-nine Native American boys and eighteen Native American girls were educated at the school, while it sometimes catered to the sons of poor colonists.
- Occupation
- educator, philanthropist, Christian minister
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 22, 1711, 1711
