W. A. Mercer forwards applications for leave of absence for three employees: Lizzie James (cook), and Bertha Canfield (seamstress). Mercer also sends new and corrected reports on leave of absence for twelve employees: Wilson Charles (assistant carriagemaker), Beckie L. Goodyear (assistant seamstress), M. S. Barr (nurse), Margaret O…
Robertson, Nellie
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W. A. Mercer forwards applications for leave of absence for three employees: Nellie V. Robertson (clerk) and Anna C. Grove (assistant matron).
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This document contains correspondence concerning applications for annuity from Hastings Robertson, Nellie Robertson, and Dora La Belle.
![Martha Cornsilk Outing Case Martha Cornsilk Outing Case](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b034_f34_41982_0006.jpg?itok=kElsYBO1)
This material includes correspondence regarding Martha Cornsilk and her outing record in 1908. Specific information is given regarding Cornsilk's training as a nurse at the German Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, her experience after leaving New York, and being accepted into the Worcester City Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. The materials…
![Personnel File of Nellie Robertson Denny, Clerk and Outing Manager Personnel File of Nellie Robertson Denny, Clerk and Outing Manager](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_1344A_b001_DennyNR_0008.jpg?itok=8SG4yq_L)
Personnel file of Nellie Robertson Denny, who served as the Clerk of the Carlisle Indian School from 1900 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918. She also served as Outing Manager for the Carlisle Indian School from 1908 to 1912. Robertson Denny was a graduate of Carlisle's class of 1890, and was married to Wallace Denny.
The file contains…
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Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.
The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of resignation, complaints from students, a photograph…
![Inspection Report on Record Keeping at the Carlisle Indian School Inspection Report on Record Keeping at the Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b024_f39_24771-5_0001.jpg?itok=5nuQKu2t)
These materials include correspondence and reports on the record keeping system for student files at the Carlisle Indian School. Supervisor of Indian Schools Charles F. Pierce was critical of the decentralized nature of the student file records. Pierce recommended that Nellie Robertson Denny, a clerk at the school,…
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These materials include correspondence and reports from Supervisor of Indian Schools, Charles F. Peirce, listing 69 pupils as ineligible for enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School. Peirce recommended they be dismissed from the school as a result. Additional correspondence regards the circumstances of various students named in the report.…
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These materials include legal documents and correspondence regarding charges filed against Superintendent Moses Friedman after an inspection and investigation of the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the documents are the official charges against Friedman, his answers to those charges, correspondence regarding the charges, and the…
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The typed transcript of Rosa B. La Flesche's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time La Flesche worked at Carlisle as the Outing Manager, though she previously attended the school under the name Rosa Bourassa.
In her testimony La Flesche critiques Superintendent Friedman's administration in regards…
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The typed transcript of Nellie Denny's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Denny was not working at Carlisle, but she had previously worked as outing agent, clerk, and teacher, and had attended the school prior to that. Nellie Robertson is the name under which she attended the school.
In her…
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request to waive the requirement that Bud Walker pay for his own transportation to and tuition at the Carlisle Indian School.
![Enrollment of Brown Eagle and Locating Lost Trunk Enrollment of Brown Eagle and Locating Lost Trunk](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b028_f13_130022_0003.jpg?itok=gP1zGL_O)
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment at Carlisle of Brown Eagle, a member of the Navajo Nation, and the loss of his trunk after being shipped from Morrisville, Pennsylvania to Carlisle.
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These materials include documents, correspondence, and legal documents related to a number of bequests and inheritances made to the Carlisle Indian School. The correspondence largely deals with questions of whether and how such bequests should be accepted, what they could be used for, and how they should be reallocated once the Carlisle Indian…
![Inspection Report of J. H. Dortch for May 1915 Inspection Report of J. H. Dortch for May 1915](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b006_f04_31080_0002.jpg?itok=P_el3nVq)
These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted under Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps.
![Receipt for Fee Patent in Favor of Nellie Robertson Denny Receipt for Fee Patent in Favor of Nellie Robertson Denny](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b017_f15_00_0002_0.jpg?itok=HHrZU2xi)
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. encloses copy of a receipt of a fee patent in favor of Nellie Robertson Denny.
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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.
![Company's Desire to be Paid for Shipment of Books received after School Closure Company's Desire to be Paid for Shipment of Books received after School Closure](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b016_f09_81006_0005.jpg?itok=uzJGQbEb)
The Arthur H. Clark Company informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they shipped a set of Volume 2 of "American Indian, as Slave-Holders, Secessionists, and During the Reconstruction" to the Carlisle Indian School and that they have not been paid because the school is closed.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt asks the…
![Marie Garlow Course of Study Marie Garlow Course of Study](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b030_f46_63137_0003.jpg?itok=FRKqza0X)
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses for the course of study pursued by Marie Garlow while she was a student at Carlisle.
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These materials include letters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to former Carlisle Indian School employees regarding the origins of some artifacts from the school. The artifacts, including a beaded buckskin coat, an old gun, a model of a three-masted ship, and a model of a battleship, could not be positively identified by the employees.
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These materials include correspondence and a pamphlet regarding George W. Tibbetts' eligibility for coverage under Minnesota's Soldiers' Bonus Act. Minnesota's Attorney General ruled that, because Tibbetts had initially claimed exemption from drafted military service on the grounds that he was not a citizen of the United States, he was not…