McFarland, David

Student file of Ralph Armstrong, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on September 7, 1890, graduated in 1898, and departed on May 18, 1898. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, a report after leaving, and a letter. The file indicates Armstrong was a farmer in Webb, Idaho from 1907 to 1911…

Student file of David McFarland, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on December 16, 1891, graduated in 1898, and departed on March 7, 1898. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, letters/correspondence, a news clipping, and a report after leaving. The file indicates McFarland was a member…

Student information card of David McFarland, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on December 16, 1891 and departed on March 7, 1898. The information card indicates that McFarland graduated in 1898, married Ella Bassett, and was living in Fort Lapwai, Idaho in 1913. 

Student file of Corbett Lawyer, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on December 7, 1893 and ultimately departed on March 11, 1899. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, returned student surveys, a former student response postcard, a news…

Student file of Lillian Complainville, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1894 and departed on May 16, 1898. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, photographs, letters/correspondence, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Complainville attended Carlisle Commercial…

Student file of Elmer Whitfield, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on November 12, 1907, and departed on June 22, 1910. The file contains a student information card, an application for enrollment, physical records, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a progress/conduct card, an outing record,…

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 10).

Studio portrait of Charles White, David McFarland, and Lewis Williams (also known as Luke Williams). All are wearing school uniforms.

Note: This image contains partial caption information for a different photograph.

Studio portrait of David McFarland.

Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf, Lewis Williams, Samuel Tilden, Stephen Reuben, Charles White, and David McFarland. All are wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of David McFarland and Ben Harrison, both in band uniforms, holding musical instruments--one a saxophone and the other a cornet. McFarland is probably on the left holding a saxophone, and Harrison is probably on the right holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of David McFarland wearing non-native clothing.

Portrait of the 1894 football team. Bejamin Caswell, the captain of the team, is in the center holding a football with "94" painted on it.  

In The Red Man vol. 12 no 7 (Sept. Oct. Nov., 1894) this image was included as a supplement and the players identified. Back row: Joseph Irwin (Gros Ventre, Hidatsa), Charles Buck (…

Group portrait of sixteen male students from the 1895 football team. 

In his 1951 book, Fabulous Redmen, John Steckbeck identifies the sitters as: top row (l to r), Lone Wolf, McFarland, Smith, H. Pierce, and Nori; middle row (l to r), Redwater, Cayou, Metoxen, B. Pierce, Seneca and Printup; bottom row (l to r),…

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School Football Team 1896.

Although this photo is not captioned, John Steckbeck in Fabulous Redmen (1951) lists the 1896 team as: Frank Cayou, Harrison, Frank Hudson, Jacob Jamison, Delos Lonewolf, David McFarland, Jonas Metoxen, Artie Miller,…

Studio portrait of David McFarland.

Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1898. Students are marked with white numbers that correspond to the typed caption below the image. 

Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter by Edward McConnville, Superintendent of the Fort Lapwai School, who requests the return of David McFarland by his brother Philip McFarland. Pratt states that David has expressed a desire to stay at Carlisle in order to learn the blacksmithing trade.