Gruett, Samuel

Student file of Jacob Walker Cobmoosa, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on August 8, 1889, and departed on April 14, 1895. The file contains a student information card, correspondence, former student response postcards, a position card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that Cobmoosa was…

Student file of Samuel Gruett, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on August 8, 1889, graduated in 1897, and ultimately departed on July 2, 1897. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a trade/position record card, a former student response…

Student information card of Samuel Gruett, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on August 8, 1889 and departed on July 2, 1897. The information card indicates that Gruett had graduated in 1897, married Ada Smith, and was living in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1913.

Student file of Susie McDougal, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on August 27, 1892, graduated in 1895, and departed on August 26, 1895. The file contains a former student response postcard, student information cards, a trade/position record card, news clippings, returned student surveys, correspondence, and a report…

Student information card of Lucy Smith, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 22, 1917 and departed on August 28, 1918. The file indicates Smith transferred to the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas upon the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.

Studio portrait of Samuel Gruett.

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.

Samuel Gruett requests Richard Henry Pratt's recommendation to help him secure the disciplinarian position at the Mt. Pleasant Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a recommendation for Samuel Gruett in his application for the position of industrial teacher.