Eleazar Wheelock papers, 1728-1779 (inclusive), [microform].

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Eleazar Wheelock papers, 1728-1779 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College, together with the early archives of the college and Moor's Indian Charity School (founded by Wheelock in 1754). Also included are the records of Hanover, New Hampshire through 1779.

16 reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6829757

Yale University Library

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779

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Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Conn. in 1711. A Congregational minster, he was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1779. From the description of Records, 1882-1965. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296583 American congregational divine. First president of Dartmouth College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dartmouth College, 1773 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705874...