Reverend Eleazar Wheelock

1711 - 1779  (68 years)  Submit Photo / Document

• Name	Eleazar Wheelock
  Prefix	Reverend
  Born	22 Apr 1711	Windham, Windham, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1769
  	Founder and first President of Dartmouth College, NH. The town of Wheelock is named in his honor. It is located in Caledonia County, Vermont.
  		Dartmouth College 150 Years Old. The Sun, New York City, Sunday, September 28, 1919, Page 60.
  		Dartmouth. "The Founding of Dartmouth College in 1769." Engraving by S. E. Brown, 1839, showing Eleazer Wheelock with his white and Indian students in the wilderness of New Hampshire. (Dartmouth College)
  		Rollins Chapel Eleazar Wheelock. The Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth college was completed in 1885. It's stained glass windows were dedicated to presidents of the college. The window dedicated to Eleazar depicts John the Baptist.
  		Eleazar Wheelock Profile. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Jan/Feb 2019 page 172.
  Buried	Apr 1779	Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
  		Reverend Eleazar Wheelock Headstone. Reverend Eleazar Wheelock Headstone.
  		Reverend Eleazar Wheelock Headstone. Reverend Eleazar Wheelock Headstone.
  Died	24 Apr 1779	Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
  Biographical Information	1885
  	Eleazar Wheelock Dartmouth College drinking song by Richard Hovey: Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man; He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian, With a Gradus ad Parnassum, a Bible and a drum, And five hundred gallons of New England rum. Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up! Drink to Eleazar, And his primitive Alcazar, Where he mixed drinks for the heathen in the goodness of his soul. The big chief that met him was the sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs; If he was not a big chief, there was never one you saw who was; He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws, and more to come, But he never yet had tasted of New England rum. Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up! Eleazar and the big chief harangued and gesticulated; They founded Dartmouth College, and the big chief matriculated. Eleazar was the faculty, and the whole curriculum Was five hundred gallons of New England rum. Fill the Bowl up! Fill the bowl up!
  		Censoring the Hovey Murals. Censoring the Hovey Murals. By Jon Miller. The Dartmouth (newspaper) published by The Dartmouth, Inc. 2 October 2013.
  		Richard Hovey's "Eleazar Wheelock" panel 2 The "Hovey murals" in Dartmouth's Thayer Dining Hall were painted between 1937 and 1939. The mural is named after Richard Hovey, Dartmouth Class of 1885, who wrote the college drinking song on which it is based. Walter Beach Humphrey (Dartmouth Class of 1914) was commissioned by Trustees of Dartmouth College to do the oil on canvas paintings that shows Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College, bringing “five hundred gallons” of rum into the New England woods and serving it to the Native Americans.
  		Richard Hovey's "Eleazar Wheelock" panel 4
  		Richard Hovey's "Eleazar Wheelock". Close-up detail of panel 4.
  		Richard Hovey's "Eleazar Wheelock" panel 1.
  		Richard Hoveys Eleazar Wheelock panel 7.
  		Richard Hovey's "Eleazar Wheelock". Close-up detail panel 7.
  Military Service	While never truly an enlisted service member, as Justice of the Peace of Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire Eleazar conveyed information about the enemy to General George Washington.
  		Liberty Ship Hull Number 0038 Rev. Wheelock. During World War II a Liberty Ship Hull Number 0038 was named for Reverend Wheelock. This was a C-2 cargo ship outfitted to carry 550 troops. It participated in the Normandy Invasion where it was shell damaged. it was Scrapped in 1964 at Philadelphia.
  Siblings	5 siblings
  1. Elizabeth Wheelock,   b. 25 May 1709, Windham, Windham, Connecticut ,   d. 4 Jun 1750
  2. Ruth Wheelock,   b. 25 May 1713, Windham, Windham, Connecticut ,   d. 6 Apr 1757, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
  3. Abigail Wheelock,   b. 3 Mar 1717, Windham, Windham, Connecticut ,   d. 5 Jan 1803, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
  4. John Wheelock,   b. 20 Jan 1719, Windham, Windham, Connecticut ,   d. 29 Jan 1719
  5. Sarah Wheelock,   b. 7 Jul 1725, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
  Person ID	I8629	Nagel
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2015

  
  

  Father	Ralph Wheelock,   b. 12 Feb 1682, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts ,   d. 15 Oct 1748, Windham, Windham, Connecticut  (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Ruth Huntington,   b. Abt 1682,   d. 31 Aug 1725  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	8 Jan 1707/1708	Windham, Windham, Connecticut
  Family ID	F2908	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Davenport,   b. Jul 1702, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut ,   d. 13 Nov 1746, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut  (Age ~ 44 years)
  Married	29 Apr 1735	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
  Children	1. Theodora Wheelock,   b. 23 May 1736, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 1811, Piermont, Grafton, New Hampshire  (Age 74 years)  [Birth]   2. Eleazar Wheelock,   b. 14 Aug 1737, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 23 Nov 1737, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut  (Age 0 years)   3. Mercy Wheelock,   b. 21 Dec 1738, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 28 Feb 1739  (Age 0 years)   4. Ruth Wheelock,   b. 12 Jan 1739, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 6 Dec 1831, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 92 years)  [Birth]   5. Ralph Rodolphus Wheelock,   b. 18 Aug 1742, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 17 Feb 1817, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire  (Age 74 years)  [Birth]   6. Eleazar Wheelock,   b. 30 Apr 1744,   d. 30 May 1744, Columbia, Tolland, Connecticut  (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F2941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Brinsmead,   b. 26 Jul 1714,   d. 24 Feb 1783, Hanover County, Connecticut  (Age 68 years)
  Married	24 Nov 1747	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
  Children	1. Mary Wheelock,   b. 28 Aug 1748, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 26 Mar 1807, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire  (Age 58 years)  [Birth]   2. Abigail Wheelock,   b. 21 Dec 1751, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 9 Apr 1818, Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine  (Age 66 years)  [Birth]   3. John Wheelock,   b. 28 Jan 1754, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 4 Apr 1817, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire  (Age 63 years)  [Birth]   4. Eleazar Wheelock,   b. 17 Aug 1756, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 7 Dec 1811, Clermont County, Ohio  (Age 55 years) + 5. James Wheelock,   b. 6 May 1759, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut ,   d. 14 Jan 1835, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont  (Age 75 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F2942	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 22 Apr 1711 - Windham, Windham, Connecticut Married - 29 Apr 1735 - Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Married - 24 Nov 1747 - Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Buried - Apr 1779 - Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Died - 24 Apr 1779 - Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
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  		Reverend Eleazer Wheelock. Reverend Eleazer Wheelock - Founder and first President of Dartmouth College, My 2nd cousin, 9 times removed.