Eleazar Wheelock, a Presbyterian minister, founded the school in 1769, naming it after the second earl of Dartmouth, its sponsor and benefactor.

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.

Wheelock founded Moor's Indian Charity School in 1755.

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, who arrived in 1770 and founded Dartmouth College.

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.

John Wheelock was born in Lebanon, Connecticut on January 28, 1754, the son of Eleazar Wheelock, the director Moor's Indian Charity School ( founded 1754 ), and Mary Brinsmead Wheelock.

Though he began his higher education at Yale, Wheelock followed his father to Hanover, New Hampshire when his father founded Dartmouth, and completed his studies there, where he was a member of the College ’ s inaugural graduating class in 1771.

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock.

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.

" However, Wheelock primarily intended the College to educate white youth and the few Native students that attended Dartmouth experienced much difficulty in an institution ostensibly dedicated to their education.

* April 22 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College ( d. 1779 )

* April 24 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

* 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.

The town is named for Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Through an old provision of the college, any full-time resident of Wheelock who is accepted as an undergraduate at Dartmouth may attend the school free of tuition.

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.

* Dartmouth Wheelock Succession

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 ).

He was the first Dartmouth president since John Wheelock who was not a member of the clergy, yet his deep appreciation of the importance of broad-based scholarship to the moral and spiritual growth of students was internationally recognized.

Passing through Hanover, New Hampshire, John Wheelock, then president of Dartmouth College, offered to take upon himself the whole care and expense of his education, but his father rejected the offer.

* Dartmouth College Wheelock Succession of Presidents

Eleazar Wheelock ( April 22, 1711 – April 24, 1779 ) was an American Congregational minister, orator, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College.

Given the limited success of the Charity School, however, Wheelock intended his new College as one primarily for whites.

The College Trustees had dismissed President John Wheelock, and his allies in Concord sought to reinstate him through legislation.

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.

Before she turned to acting exclusively, her parents insisted that she attend Wheelock College in Boston, which she did, later becoming a kindergarten teacher.

Samson Occom and the British Board of Trustees headed by Lord Dartmouth opposed the addition of the college, and despite ( or because of ) Lord Dartmouth's opposition, Wheelock named the college Dartmouth College.

Occom also was dismayed that Wheelock put the funds toward establishing Dartmouth College for the education of Englishmen, rather than of Native Americans.

In seeking to expand the school into a college, Wheelock relocated it to Hanover, in the Province of New Hampshire.

In 1770, a month after Wheelock received the royal charter, the governor granted the college the township of Landaff ( east of Woodsville, New Hampshire ), but Wheelock, after viewing the land and others under consideration, decided to establish the college in Hanover.

Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at Dartmouth College is located at 2 East Wheelock Street in Hanover, New Hampshire.

This road is locally named West Wheelock Road in Hanover.

It crosses the Ledyard Bridge over the river and enters Hanover, New Hampshire where it becomes West Wheelock Street.

Wheelock died on April 4, 1817, and is buried near his father in the cemetery in Hanover, NH.

Sisters Kate Quackenbush Glover and Nell Quackenbush Wheelock were born in Clay, New York in 1866 and 1877, respectively.

Representing the team owners at the announcement were Bob Howsam ( Denver ), Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. ( Houston ), Wheelock Whitney Jr. ( Minneapolis-St. Paul ), Dwight F. Davis, Jr. ( New York ), and Jack Kent Cooke ( Toronto ).

Among the many, the bishop ordained Ralph Wheelock, the teacher of the first free school in New England, on 6 May 1630.

It was constructed in 1998, developed by Wheelock Properties ( Hong Kong ) Limited, The Wharf ( Holdings ) Limited, New Asia Realty And Trust Company, Limited and Harriman Realty.

In 1776, Wheelock became a leader of the United Committees, a group of disgruntled New Hampshire citizens angry at their lack of representation in the state legislature and the distance of the state capital ; in retaliation for these slights, Wheelock and others led twelve New Hampshire towns to secede from the state and attempt to join Vermont.

The next year, 1777, as the Revolutionary War raged, Wheelock briefly served in New York and Vermont as a Lieutenant Colonel in Colonel Bedel's Regiment.

Wheelock proceeded to convince the governor of New Hampshire to fill the Board with supporters and turn Dartmouth College into a state-controlled Dartmouth University.