Wheelock

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Wheelock may refer to:

• Cooper Wheelock, a manufacturer of fire alarm and general signaling products.
• Wheelock College, a small liberal arts college in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Wheelock, Vermont (a town)
• River Wheelock in England.
• Wheelock Place is a building in Singapore.
• Wheelock (Cheshire) is a long village in Cheshire in England.

[edit] People

• Douglas H. Wheelock, American astronaut
• Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College
• Frederic Wheelock, author of the Latin textbook Wheelock's Latin
• John Wheelock, son of Eleazar Wheelock and second president of Dartmouth College
• John Hall Wheelock, an American poet
• see http://www.wheelockgenealogy.com/

[edit] Other meanings

• The word "wheelock" occasionally occurs as a wrong spelling of "wheelclamp".
• The part of a gun is correctly spelt "wheellock".
• The Wheelock name is reported to derive from the Welsh word "chevel-og", meaning "winding river"