Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. provides a detailed breakdown on how he plans to spend a $15,000 appropriation on building repairs in fiscal year 1919. He outlines plans to utilize the Plumbing & Electrical, Painting, Carpentry, and Sheet Metal Departments.
1910-1919
June 28, 1918
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Financial Documents, 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 17, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Noah L. Bench.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 20, 1918 - February 28, 1923
These materials include correspondence regarding the custody of Richard Kesetta upon the closing of the Carlisle School. Additional correspondence relates to Kesetta's life after the school closed, including attempts to have him enrolled in the Haskell Institute as well as an inquiry made by Kessetta into his rights as a member of the Lipan…
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Letters/Correspondence
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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 26, 1918
The Carlisle Indian School requests the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send a $5,000 allotment to the Ind. Mon. Pro. of Labor Carlisle.
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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
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 5-9, 1918
Emma K. Hetrick writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to request to host a female Carlisle Indian School student at their house to cook and do housework. Commissioner Cato Sells tells Hetrick that the school will be closing on September 1, and the students will be transferred to western schools, so he cannot accommodate her request.
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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 21 - September 2, 1918
Outing Host Elizabeth B. Saiborne writes to the Indian Bureau and explains that she would like to continue to host female students at her home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. She is currently hosting a girl named Elsie.
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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 26, 1918
These materials contain correspondence regarding the transfer of Harold Parker to the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School upon the close of Carlisle and a prior request to have Parker remain at the outing home of Frank H. Mather.
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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 3, 1918 - September 25, 1918
Travelling Auditor in Charge at the Carlisle Indian School Claude V. Peel requests that Austin, Nichols & Co. are paid for five hundred pounds of hominy and Reid, Murdoch & Co. are paid for rolled oats. Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke informs Peel that he's referred these claims to the Treasury Department.
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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
September 11- 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of funds from students at Carlisle who were transferred to the Chilocco Indian School upon the closure of Carlisle in 1918.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 7, 1918 - May 19, 1922
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…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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October 8-19, 1918
These materials include a request from George Cushing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, asking for permission to take the students' course in automobile manufacturing at the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Cushing's request is denied, due to his current work in shipbuilding at the Hog Island ship yards in…
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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
October 20 - November 6, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Sadie Ingalls Feder and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning former student Henry Ingalls McClellan and his desire to be drafted to the Army.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 21, 1918 - May 14, 1920
This material includes correspondence between Corporal Frank J. Mitchell, his wife, and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Mitchell's marriage.
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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