• Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683) was an English Puritan minister, American colonial public official, and educator. He is known for having been the first public...
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    for the sons of American colonists. Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Connecticut, to Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Huntington, who had a prosperous farm...
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  • Wheelock and Deborah Wheelock Taylor, who continued his legacy as teachers. His grandchildren are Vanessa Taylor Sands and Ian Taylor. Ralph Wheelock...
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  • great-great-grandparents, Ralph Wheelock (1600–1684) and Rebecca Clarke (1610–1680), were also the great-grandparents of Eleazar Wheelock. Obadiah's third cousin...
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    great-great grandson of Rev. Ralph Wheelock. Many of Simeon's brothers would also serve in the Revolutionary War. Ralph Wheelock, the original immigrant and...
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  • generation descendant of the first Wheelock settler, Rev. Ralph Wheelock. The Rev. Ralph Wheelock of Dedham, MA who had been a contemporary of John Milton...
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  • Alice Wheelock (maiden; 1868–1954). By way of his mother, he was the 7th great-grandchild of Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683). "Marriage Record of Wheelock WHITNEY...
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  • Wheelock "Whee" Whitney Jr. (July 30, 1926 – May 20, 2016) was an American businessman, educator, sports team executive and owner, philanthropist, and...
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    class of Dedham residents. Among the first 20 men to make the move were Ralph Wheelock, Thomas Mason, Thomas Wight, John Samuel Morse and his son Daniel, John...
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    Kneass, Wheelock grew up in Uxbridge and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1961. His father's side is descendant from Ralph Wheelock, attributed...
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  • founder Merrill G. Wheelock (1822–1866), American artist and architect Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683), American teacher Sean Wheelock (born 1974), American...
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  • Wheelock "Lock" Whitney III (born October 3, 1949, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American art collector and dealer. Born in Connecticut, Whitney is...
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  • of the most important aspects of the town. The founder of Medfield, Ralph Wheelock, became the first schoolmaster for the town. Medfield's first schoolhouse...
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    public school in America was in Dedham, Massachusetts, founded by Rev. Ralph Wheelock. In the United States, 88% of students attend public schools, compared...
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    public school; "the seed of American education." Its first teacher, Rev. Ralph Wheelock, was paid 20 pounds annually to instruct the youth of the community...
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    John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. The...
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    Eleazar Wheelock, the director Moor's Indian Charity School (founded 1754), and Mary Brinsmead Wheelock. He is a descendant of Ralph Wheelock, the first...
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  • public school; "the seed of American education." Its first teacher, Rev. Ralph Wheelock, was paid 20 pounds annually to instruct the youth of the community...
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    school, "the seed of American education." Its first schoolmaster, Rev. Ralph Wheelock, a Clare College graduate, was paid 20 pounds annually to instruct the...
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    Chauncy-Hall School (1879–89). Wheelock was the founder and head of Wheelock Kindergarten Training School, which later became Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts...
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    base was agreed upon, 10 men were selected by John Allin, assisted by Ralph Wheelock, to seek out the "pillars" or "living stones" upon which the congregation...
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  • John Dwight Lambert Generye Richard Euered [Everett] Ralph Shepheard John Huggin Ralph Wheelock Thomas Cakebread Henry Phillips Timothie Dalton Thomas...
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    in 1994. Wheelock was founded in 1902 along the transcontinental rail line of the Great Northern Railway. The name comes from Ralph W. Wheelock, an editorial...
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    property went to his grandson Francis White. Among many, White ordained Ralph Wheelock, Clare College graduate, and first schoolmaster of America's first free...
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  • reject them. They decided that Hinsdale and five others, John Allen, Ralph Wheelock, John Luson, John Fray, and Eleazer Lusher were suitable to form the...
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    and chose Wheelock as his assistant. Once the doctrinal base was agreed upon, 10 men were selected by John Allin, assisted by Ralph Wheelock, to seek out...
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    mills in the US (third), a little bit downstream. The Wheelocks, (descended from the Rev. Ralph Wheelock, the pioneer of American public education), also settled...
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  • reject them. They decided that six of their own number--John Allen, Ralph Wheelock, John Luson, John Fray, Eleazer Lusher, and Robert Hindell—were suitable...
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  • and Parish in Dedham, Kingsbury's name was put forth with those of Ralph Wheelock, John Hunting, and Thomas Carter, to be ruling elder, with Hunting eventually...
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    Bishop Richard Williamson, traditionalist Catholic bishop Reverend Ralph Wheelock (1600–1684), puritan scholar, first schoolmaster of America's first...
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