These materials include correspondence and a report regarding Supervisor Elsie E. Newton's inspection of facilities and activities for female students at the Carlisle Indian School. Newton discusses topics including girls' dormitories, the school matron, the Domestic Science and Housekeeping departments, and discipline.
Meritt, E. B.
January 25, 1918 - February 16, 1918
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 30, 1918 - February 6, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests funds be allotted to the "Indiay Moneys, Proceeds of Labor Carlisle School" and "Miscellaneous Receipts Class 4" accounts to cover incidental expenses for fiscal year 1918.
E. B. Meritt allots a total of $4228.71 to the two accounts.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 8-29, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests additional funds be allotted to the "Indian School Transportation 1918" account. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Francis that there's no money to give him and suggests he uses Class IV moneys to cover his expenses.
Francis informs Meritt…
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 12, 1918 - May 23, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the return home of Andrew Peters to Breed, Wisconsin to assist his family on their farm.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 18, 1918 - April 8, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by George Green to find work which pays more than the wages he was making on outing.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 21, 1918 - April 10, 1918
These materials include correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Colonel R. H. Van Deman concerning student Andrew Cuellar, and his selection for special work in the Military Intelligence Branch during the First World War.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 4-13, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Emma Williams and George Horn to their homes.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 22, 1918 - May 18, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the an error in the calculation of monthly and quarterly average student attendance rates resulting from counting outing pupils in only the former calculation.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 23, 1918 - July 1, 1918
These materials include correspondence and survey forms regarding unserviceable property at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned supplies was approved for sale on the open market.
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 24, 1918 - June 2, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Isaac Longshore, a former student who returned to the school for a visit. Longshore was interred in the school cemetery.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 9, 1918 - February 14, 1940
These materials include correspondence, official records, and other documents related to the closure of the Carlisle Indian School in 1918. Discussed topics include the transfer of the land from the Department of the Interior to the Department of War, the transfer of property to other Indian schools, and the discharge and transfer of students…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 24 - August 15, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge Claude V. Peel requests to sell twenty five old Smith-Premier double keyboard typewriters for $10 each. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt grants Peel permission and orders him to advertise the sale.
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July 27 - August 8, 1918
Banker and outing patron R. H. Headley asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there is any way that he can host an Indian boy at his home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. Headley states that he has been an outing host since 1900 and would like to continue to be one if at all possible.
Assistant Commissioner E. B.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 6-22, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Frank H. Mather to retain Harold Parker on outing after Carlisle closed in 1918.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 18 - September 3, 1918
J. F. Carr requests to be appointed the Superintendent of Brick and Tile Work at the Carlisle Indian School.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Carr that the school has been transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Department of War, so if Carr wants an appointment, he should write to the Secretary…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 26, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the consent of Mary B. Owl to allow her son John R. Wolfe remain on outing with George Gore in Newton, Pennsylvania following the closing of the Carlisle School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 27, 1918 - August 30, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School C. V. Peel encloses former bandmaster and current Lieutenant James R. Wheelock's request to pay the balance left on his salary to his wife.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Peel that they can't directly pay Wheelock's salary to his wife, but Peel…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 4, 1918 - September 1, 1918
Reverend Walter L. Ritter asks the Indian Bureau if the Outing System still exists and requests to host a 16-18 year old girl if it does. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Ritter that the Carlisle Indian School closed, so it is impossible to fulfill his request.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 11, 1918 - October 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence containing a request from Fred Skenandore, a former student, regarding the status of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informed Skenandore that the school had been closed, but that the Haskell Institute was still operating as usual.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 17, 1918 - May 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alice E. Patterson to have her two sons Robert and Burnell transferred to another Indian School upon the close of Carlisle. Also included is correspondence between R. A. Cochran, Superintendent of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, and E. B. Meritt regarding the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 15, 1918 - December 4, 1918
These materials include a inquiry by Loren Jackson on the whereabouts of his son Jacob Jackson following the close of the Carlisle School. Jackson was informed his son had returned to his outing home under S. W. McKeehan in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 20 - December 3, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Isaac Willis about ending his enlistment in the United States Navy early and entering college.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 30, 1918 - February 26, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the health of Clara Shunion. Shunion stayed in Pennsylvania on outing following the close of the Carlisle School, and developed tuberculous. After residing for some time in the Bryn Mawr Hospital, the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, and the home of former outing patron Elizabeth D. Edge,…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 30, 1918 - January 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding unclaimed letters sent to the outing home of patron Virginia Allen, where former student Nellie Thompson remained following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 11-17, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request of George James Cayenne, a former student at Carlisle, to enroll again in an Indian School following his service in the U. S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma during World War I.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration