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…
This folder covers a portion of Lida Johnston's time in the Indian Service. Having started her work in the Service at Fort Totten School, she transferred to Carlisle in 1907 as a teacher. From 1912-1918 she was the outing agent for young women. When the school closed she was a clerk in the Office of Indian Affairs. As part of that role she was…
A set of documents from the Official Personnel Folder of Harvey K. Meyer who worked as a clerk at Carlisle from July 10, 1908 until October 11, 1916.
The documents are arranged in reverse chronological order. At the beginning of the PDF is a pair of letters in which Meyer applied for the Superintendency at Carlisle and the Commissioner…
This folder includes a few letters related to whether or not Dennison Wheelock was a government employee.
One pair of letters from 1910 is between Wheelock and staff of the Office of Indian Affairs. Wheelock asks to be appointed as the "Supervisor of Indian Land Sales." In his reply, the Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian…
This folder contains documents about Emma H. Foster's time working for the Indian Service. She worked as a teacher at Carlisle from 1902 until the school closed in 1918.
Most of this folder contains employee assessments: efficiency reports or reports "on supervision of individual instructors" which discuss Foster's teaching methods. Other…
At Carlisle, David Dickey served as the Outing Agent for male students between 1911 and 1918.
Most of this folder is made up of efficiency reports about Dickey's work performance. There are also small groups of letters regarding Dickey's request to live permanently in Newton, PA and negotiations about his salary.
The parts of the…
Emma Cutter served as a teacher at Carlisle from December 1, 1879 until June 1, 1907. She spent another two years as a teacher at the Phoenix Indian School before she transferred to the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC where she worked as clerk until she retired in early October of 1924.
Most of the folder focuses on her…
This service card tracks James Garlow's record of employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. He began working at Carlisle as an "Indian Assistant" in 1911, leaving for the last time in 1912.
Anna H. Ridenour worked as matron at Carlisle from January of 1912 until her resignation in late May of 1914. She started work in the Indian Service in 1897.
This folder includes document related to her time employed at Carlisle. Arranged in reverse chronological order, the documents cover her resignation, the charges levelled against her…
This folder contains records related to Marianne C. Moore's employment as business teacher at Carlisle. She was employed from September 14, 1911 until September 30, 1914.
Arranged in reverse chronological order, this folder mainly consists of correspondence about Moore's resignation, her quality of work while employed, and her…
William P. Campbell worked as a teacher and disciplinarian at Carlisle from 1882 until approximately 1894. This is a page from his personnel folder for work for the Department of Interior.
The page that is posted here shows a newspaper clipping in which Campbell relates a story of Hollow Horn Bear's speech while visiting Carlisle in…
Edward McKean served briefly as disciplinarian at Carlisle from April 16, 1913 until June 17, 1914. This post includes selections from his employee paperwork collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs while he worked in the Indian Service.
These selections include paperwork about McKean's transfer to and from Carlisle and his job…
The service file compiled by the Office of Indian Affairs for Glenn S. Warner which covers only a brief period at the end Warner's tenure as Athletic Director at Carlisle. Most of the content concerns the negotiations between Warner, Superintendent Lipps, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs about how Warner would leave the school and what he…
Edward B. Linnen was an inspector from the Bureau of Indian Affairs who visited Carlisle. His inspection was part of a larger investigation in the spring of 1914. This post includes selections from his employee paperwork collected by the BIA while he worked in the Indian Service.
The selections include a set of letters about…
Kish Hawkins worked very briefly as Assistant Disciplinarian at Carlisle until June 9, 1891 (having started in February of 1891). Then he worked at the Cheyenne and Arapaho school until 1898. The rest of his government service was from 1912-1919 and 1921-1933 in various positions at the Shawnee School and Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency. His…
This folder includes documents related to George Foulk's employment at the Carlisle Barracks after the Carlisle Indian School closed.
Having worked as a teamster at the Carlisle Indian School from April 1, 1882 until the school closed in September of 1918, Foulk continued to work as a laborer and teamster at the Carlisle Barracks for the…
Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…