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Eleazar Wheelock, a Presbyterian minister, founded the school in 1769, naming it after the second earl of Dartmouth, its sponsor and benefactor.
* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )
Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as missionaries.
It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to Eleazar Wheelock in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created " for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of Learning ... as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; and also of English Youth and any others.
The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.
Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
The county was officially organized on January 5, 1833, and is named after Brigadier General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, a soldier who served with distinction in the War of 1812.
* Eleazar Wheelock ( 1711 – 1779 ), Congregational minister, orator, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College.
* Eleazar Wheelock ( 1711 – 1779 ) a Congregational minister, orator, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College, was born in town.
In 1766, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth promised Eleazar Wheelock a grant of a township on which to build Dartmouth College.
Poage and his family laid out the town of Staunton in 1812 ; it was renamed in 1816 to honor General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, an American officer of the War of 1812,.
The decision declared the Legislature's acts unconstitutional as interferences with the obligations of a contract, whether that contract was seen as the one that existed between College founder Eleazar Wheelock and the Crown, the one between the school's various benefactors and the Crown, or between some other combination of parties.
Dartmouth College originated from a school founded by Eleazar Wheelock for Native Americans and colonists in 1748, and Wheelock had been inspired by Brainerd's example of Native American education.
The American Ivy League school Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, was named for the second Earl by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock.
Lord Dartmouth was a large donor to and the leading trustee for the English trust that would finance the establishment of the Indian Charity School, in Lebanon, Connecticut by Eleazar Wheelock to educate and convert the Indians.
Kirkland began his missionary work as a protégé of Reverend Eleazar Wheelock in Connecticut at his Moor's Indian Charity School ( later relocated to New Hampshire as Dartmouth College ).
Eleazar Wheelock ( April 22, 1711 – April 24, 1779 ) was an American Congregational minister, orator, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College.
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