These materials include correspondence regarding a disagreement between Morris Huff and Carlisle's outing authorities regarding his enrollment status at the school. Huff was living with his outing family while no longer a student, and the school objected this arrangement and sought to have Huff reenroll.
Meritt, E. B.
November 29, 1913 - March 4, 1914
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 20-31, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Michael Abidosh to Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 23, 1913 - January 22, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the closure of the account of the deceased Samuel Fremont and the inheritance of these funds to Annie F. Kemp and John C. Fremont.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 27, 1913 - March 24, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Percy Parroka that he was made to stay under the school rules while working on a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania following the expiration of his term of enrollment.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 28, 1914 - March 13, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards employee payroll from the month of February to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt forwards the same payroll to Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps to make corrections regarding how three employees are…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 31, 1913 - January 27, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Louis Schweigman to his home. Schweigman complained that he was returned to his home without warning. Superintendent Moses Friedman denied the claim, and noted Schweigman's temporary enrollment status. Friedman also complained to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the Principal…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 3-12, 1914
These materials include correspondence, a supplies list, and a survey regarding unserviceable property at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned materials were approved for sale on the open market.
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 13, 1914 - February 27, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests funds for the third fractional quarter of 1914.
Lipps requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs refrains from placing a $22,592.29 credit on Moses Friedman's account and instead places it on his own because Friedman has been suspended from his duties…
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 24, 1914
These documents include correspondence, an article possibly written by Moses Friedman and part of an affidavit collected by John B. Brown at behest of the Office of Indian Affairs for the 1914 congressional investigation into Carlisle. A supervisor of the Indian Service, Brown was asked to secure statements from people with knowledge of…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 25 - March 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Gus Welch to have the Athletic Association pay the remainder of his tuition at Conway Hall (the Dickinson College Preparatory School). Internal notes in the materials suggest that Carlisle's administrators did not want to honor the request, despite receiving permission from the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 25, 1914 - March 9, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Wilbur and Rupert Anderson, children of Collins Anderson from Browning, Montana. Both children were below the required minimum age to enroll in a non-reservation school, but the request was granted contingent upon Anderson paying for their transportation.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 28, 1914 - June 19, 1914
These materials include correspondence on two separate topics. In the first series, Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps inquires whether the February payroll submitted by his predecessor, Superintendent Moses Friedman, should be paid. In the second series, Representative Charles E. Patton inquires into the suspension of Musical Director Claude M.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 4-17, 1914
Oscar H. Lipps requests approval to follow through on his predecessors plan to print 3,500 copies of the Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School for the year ending June 30, 1913. E. B. Meritt subsequently informs Lipps that there is no need to print the report.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 20, 1914 - May 15, 1914
These materials concern the return home and transportation costs of Earl Armstrong.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 24, 1914 - August 7, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint made by Maxime Favel regarding not be reimbursed for his expenses in coming to Carlisle and the use of his bank account to fund his return home.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 24 - April 4, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Fred Big Top and Gus Lookaround to leave school early to work as tour guides in Glacier National Park in Montana.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 3 - 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Peter Jordan to have his transportation home paid for by the school. Jordan's request was denied.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 6 - 16, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding fees owed to the Carlisle Police Department for the return of Carlisle students found in town without permission. The policy of paying these fees for student returns was to end after this payment.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 6-10, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding either transfer to a reformatory, or the expulsion, of Grover Allen, John Plenty (also known as John Brought Plenty), and John Martin (also known as John Squirrel).
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 7, 1914
This document contains a letter concerning an article about individual pupil's accounts, prepared by Mr. Stinchecum of the Education Division.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 15, 1914
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Carlisle Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that they cannot pay a debt that Lipps incurred in Oklahoma before he came to Carlisle because it would violate the Departmental Order of December 17, 1909. Meritt returns Lipps' request.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 15, 1914 - May 27, 1914
The Musolaphone Corporation writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to invite him to a presentation of their "sound transmission" equipment and "educational talking pictures." Musolaphone informs Sells that they will be holding a voting contest of the schools in Carlisle, and the winner will receive a free installation of their…
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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a trip for Arnold Holliday to visit his uncle Henry Holliday in Washington D. C.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 4, 1914 - October 25, 1918
These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the 1914 internal and Congressional investigations into Superintendent Moses Friedman and Chief Clerk Siceni J. Nori of the Carlisle Indian School. Included is copied and original correspondence regarding the resignation of Friedman and Nori, legal discussions regarding…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 20-28, 1914
State Normal School History and Social Service Professor S. H. Dodson applies for the Superintendency at the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Dodson that the position is only open to the executive civil service, so he is not eligible.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration