Houk, Pressly

Student file of Maggie Abbott, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on March 26, 1890, and departed on August 11, 1890. The file contains a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating Abbott was working as a housekeeper in Lethbridge, Canada in 1910. Abbott was married to former student Pressly Houk.

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Student information card of Maggie Abbott, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on March 26, 1890 and departed on August 11, 1890. The file indicates that Abbott later married former student Pressly Houk. 

Note: Students Maggie Abbott and Nellie Abbott were sisters. 

Student file of Pressly Houk, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on March 26, 1890 and departed on June 5, 1895. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, and correspondence. The file indicates Houk later married former student Maggie Abbott, and was a railroad conductor for the Great Northern…

Student information card of Pressly Houk (here Presley Houck), a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on March 26, 1890 and departed on June 5, 1895.

Student information cards of Eleanor Houk, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on October 29, 1912 and who departed on August 28, 1918. The file indicates Houk was transferred to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon upon departing from Carlisle.

In school documentation Eleanor Houk's name is also spelled Eleanor…

Portrait of the 1894 football team. Bejamin Caswell, the captain of the team, is in the center holding a football with "94" painted on it.  

In The Red Man vol. 12 no 7 (Sept. Oct. Nov., 1894) this image was included as a supplement and the players identified. Back row: Joseph Irwin (Gros Ventre, Hidatsa), Charles Buck (…

Studio portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white male teacher in the center of the group. The caption identifies them as students who worked in the print shop.

One copy of this image has the sitters identified. They are, back row, left to right: William Denomie, Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth…

Studio portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white male teacher in the center of the group. The caption identifies them as students who worked in the print shop. 

One copy of this image has the sitters identified. They are, back row, left to right: William Denomie, Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander…

Studio portrait of twenty-three male students. The caption for this image, as well as the other copies, identifies them as students who worked in the print shop and gives a date of 1894. Other copies identify the sitters. They are: 

1st. Tier (presumably the back row), Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth, William…

The printed note on the reverse side reads: PRINTERS. Commence with those standing and read from left to right in order, likewise the other two tiers.

1st. Tier.

1. Robert Hudson, Seneca.

2. Leroy W. Kennedy, Seneca.

3. Leander Gansworth,…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by G. Pressly Houk to have his daughter, Eleanor Houk, enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School despite being under age. Houk, a former Carlisle student himself, was directed to apply to the Rapid City School in South Dakota.