Test Your Dartmouth-Ology QUIZ ANSWER

Answer each question with the name of a person involved in Dartmouth's early history who fits the description given:

1. What musician published the first Presbyterian hymnal in America and also composed three early American hymns?

2. What was the name of the minister who accompanied the Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker of Norwich, Conn., to England and Scotland, where he preached 300 sermons and raised enough money, under the patronage of the Earl of Dartmouth, to help start an Indian school in New Hampshire?

3. Who served in the Revolutionary War and in 1784 completed plans for the Brothertown Colony in Oneida, N.Y.?

4. Who married Elizabeth Fowler on Long Island, fathered ten children, taught and preached the gospel to different Indian tribes, and was ordained by the famous Dr. Sameul Buell of East Hampton?

5. Who raised more money than anyone for the school that was to be Dartmouth College, and yet never saw what is now Hanover?

6. Which dedicated person in Dartmouth's early history is buried in an unmarked grave near Hamilton College in upstate New York?

The answer to all seven questions is thesame. He was a pure-blooded Native AmericanIndian, without whose devotion, piety, andhard work Dartmouth College possibly neverwould have been built by Eleazar Wheelock. Apond in Hanover bears his name. Let's all remember this great American: Samson Occom!