WHEELOCK, ELEAZAR

ĕlēāˈzər hwēˈlŏk, 1711–79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth College, b. Windham, Conn., grad. Yale, 1733. He became (1735) the pastor of a Congregational church in the part of Lebanon, Conn., that is now Columbia. Here he became interested in Native American education, and he founded and conducted (1754–67) a school for Algonquin and Iroquois youth. One of his first students, Samson Occom, went to England and helped to raise funds for the project, and when an endowment of some $50,000 had been collected, Wheelock moved to what is now Hanover, N.H., and established (1770) Dartmouth. He became its first president and guided the college through the early days of the American Revolution.

See biography by J. D. McCallum (1939, repr. 1969).

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Biographical Dictionary of American Educators - Vol. 3
Book by John F. Ohles; Greenwood Press, 1978
Subjects: Educators--United States--Biography--Dictionaries
WHEELOCK, Eleazar. B. April 22, 1711, Windham...1779, Hanover, New Hampshire. Eleazar Wheelock was graduated from Yale College in...WWW H ; F. Gardiner F. Bridge, "Eleazar Wheelock: A Voice in the Wilderness...
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The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America
Book by Joanna Brooks; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Indian Civic Leaders--New England--Biography, Indians Of North America--Missions--New England, Indians Of North America--New England--Religion, Mohegan Indians--Biography, Occom, Samson--1723-1792--Correspondence, Occom, Samson--1723-1792--Diaries, Preaching--Early Works To 1800
...of Stonington, Connecticut. Wheelock, Eleazar (17n-I779): Yale-educated...of James Davenport; married Eleazar Wheelock in 1735. Wheelock, Theodora (1738 Daughter of Eleazar Wheelock and his wife, Sarah Davenport...
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Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in Protestant Church Archives and Other Repositories
Book by William Henry Allison; Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910
Subjects: United States--Church History--Sources--Bibliography
...Wheeling, W. Va., church paper of, 143 Wheelock, Eleazar, letters and papers of and relating to, 70 - 78 , 80 , 139 Wheelock, Mrs. Eleazar, letters to, 74 Wheelock, James, letter of, 77 Wheelock, John...
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Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism
Book by Randall Balmer; Baylor University Press, 2004
Subjects: Evangelicalism--Encyclopedias, Evangelicalism--United States--Encyclopedias
...urged evangelical unity on the matter of missions. Wheelock, Eleazar (1711 1779) Born in Windham, Connecticut, Eleazar Wheelock graduated from Yale College in 1733, was licensed the...
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Diary of Thomas Robbins, D. D., 1796-1854 - Vol. 2
Book by Increase N. Tarbox; Thomas Todd, 1886
Subjects: Congregationalists--New England--Diaries, Robbins, Thomas--1777-1856--Diaries
...Wheeler, John, D.D., 890 . Wheeler, Miss, 976 . Wheeler, Mr., 959 . Wheelock, Eleazar, D.D., President, 423 . Wheelock, James, 423 . Wheelock, Rev. James Ripley, 169 , 423 , 424 . Wheelock, Texas, 528 . Whelpley, Rev...
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Extending Root and Branch: Community Regeneration in the Petitions of Samson Occom
Journal article by Caroline Wigginton; Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 20, 2008
Subjects: Archives & records, Christianity, English language, Literacy, Missionaries, Native women, Political leadership, Politics, Religious missions, Sovereignty, Whites
...his mentor and former teacher, Eleazar Wheelock, demonstrates his use of simulation...letter in which he angrily censures Wheelock for moving his Connecticut "alma...than in Occoms private letters to Wheelock. Yet despite the humble tone...
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Recovering Recovery: Early American Women and Legacy's Future
Journal article by Theresa Strouth Gaul; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 26, 2009
Subjects: American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works
...As read by Hilary E. Wyss, Sarah Simons letter to Eleazar Wheelock reveals a sharp critique of failing efforts to Christianize...Broadview, 2000. Wyss, Hilary E. "Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Womans Response to Colonial Christianity...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Mentor at Harvard: Professor Levi Frisbie, Jr
Journal article by Gerald F. Vaughn; Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, 2007
...college by studying under Congregationalist pastors Eleazar Wheelock and Joseph Bellamy. Levi, Sr. studied at Yale College for three years beginning in 1767. When Wheelock founded Dartmouth College in 1770, Levi, Sr., transferred...
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The Polymath from Vermont
Journal article by Peter Bridges; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 75, 1999
Subjects: Diplomatic & consular services, Marsh, George Perkins, Personal profiles, Politicians, Public officials, Scholars
...Hampshire legislature amended the old royal charter to set up a rival "University" controlled by the descendants of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouths founder. All but a handful of the students remained faithful to the college and its young President...
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Awakened to the Holy: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Ritualized Context
Journal article by Stephen Richard Turley; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 57, 2008
Subjects: Sermons--Criticism and interpretation, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Theological work)--Criticism and interpretation
...Enfield provided perhaps the ideal setting for an awakening sermon. The contemporaneous perception provided by Eleazar Wheelock characterizes the inhabitants of Enfield as remaining "very secure, loose, and vain" in the midst of religious...


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The Case for Higher University Fees
Magazine article by David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner; New Statesman, Vol. 139, June 14, 2010
Subjects: College costs--Management, Dartmouth College--Services, Higher education costs--Management
...education. Dartmouth College, named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was established in 1769 by the Rev Eleazar Wheelock in New Hampshire for "the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land ... and also of...


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encyclopedia articles on: Wheelock Eleazar  - 3 results

 
 
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Wheelock, Eleazar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WHEELOCK, ELEAZAR elea z r hwe lok, 1711 79, American clergyman, founder of Dartmouth...project, and when an endowment of some $50,000 had been collected, Wheelock moved to what is now Hanover, N.H., and established (1770) Dartmouth...
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Dartmouth College
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...DARTMOUTH COLLEGE at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar ). Originally a mens college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. The school is actually a small university...
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Great Awakening
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Awakening also resulted in an outburst of missionary activity among Native Americans by such men as David Brainerd , Eleazar Wheelock , and Samuel Kirkland ; in the first movement of importance against slavery; and in various other humanitarian undertakings...


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