Corbett, Edward

Student file of Louis Twin, a member of the Winnebago Nation, who entered the school on July 2, 1905 and departed on November 2, 1910. The file contains medical/physical records, a student information card, correspondence, trade/position record cards, an application for enrollment, a returned student survey, a report after leaving, a newspaper…

Student file of George Francis, a member of the Penobscot Nation, who entered the school December 9, 1912 and ultimately departed on April 30, 1917. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, financial transactions, an outing record, a federal…

Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform and one white man in uniform. 

The photo's mat bears the inscription: "To Mr. & Mrs. Corbitt, Compliments of Carlisle Officers and Mr. J. F. Duran, Dec. 1916." 

J. F. Duran was the school's Assistant Disciplinarian and there was a married couple named Corbett…

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be tasked with suppressing the sale of liquor to Indian students in the East. Merritt notes that at…

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response. 

In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…

These materials include correspondence regarding the use of liquor among students at Carlisle, and the punishment of Turner Dwight for intoxication.

Note: Turner Dwight is also known as Simon Turner Dwight.