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 Sam
Moor's Charity School was founded in 1754 in Lebanon, Connecticut, by the Puritan Calvinist minister Eleazar Wheelock. His purpose in founding Moor's Charity School was to provide education to Native
Eleazar Wheelock
…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. Despite this, the college ended up catering to the sons of white colonists. Eleazar Wheelock was born in…
Picture of Moor's Charity School where it sits today, located in Columbia, Connecticut. The building has undergone some renovations, and now serves as a museum and preserves the history of the school.