Merritt, E. B.

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Evelyn Schingler Competency Evaluation
June 28, 1917 - April 6, 1921

This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Evelyn Schingler. This includes letters and a photograph. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Lena Parker Competency Evaluation
June 28, 1917 - April 6, 1921

This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Lena Parker. This includes letters and a photograph. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Lyman Madison Competency Evaluation
June 27 - August 25, 1917

This material includes correspondence concerning 1917 graduate Lyman Madison. This includes letters, a photograph, and his memorandum. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Correspondence on Outing Guideline Wartime Exception
August 20, 1917 - September 25, 1917

This material includes correspondence regarding two students on the outing program on the farm of Jesse Webster. Webster is requesting an exception to a new outing program guideline that students return to the school for academic work in August, citing wartime government demands for more food production.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Draft Registration for George W. Cushing
November 20, 1917 - December 6, 1917

This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Merritt concerning the draft registration of George W. Cushing, a student from Alaska. 

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Navy Enlistments 1917
November 22, 1917 - December 11, 1917

This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Merritt concerning students wishing to enlist in the Navy. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Complaint by Jerome Sultuska Against Wallace Denny
February 6, 1918 - March 27, 1918

This material includes correspondence regarding an incident where Jerome Sultuska had been accused of chewing tobacco. Sultuska complained of harsh discipline and racial insults at the hands of Disciplinarian Wallace Denny. Carlisle's Superintendent and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs both sided with Denny in the matter.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Andrew Cuellar's Return to Carlisle from the Army
March 15-29, 1918

This material includes correspondence between Superintendent John Francis Jr. and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning the return of Andrew Cuellar to Carlisle. He had been recommended for an Army assignment, but he was denied enlistment after having failed his physical.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Draft Eligibility for Luther H. Jacobs
March 15-16, 1918

This material includes correspondence between Luther H. Jacobs and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt concerning Jacobs's eligibility to enter the army draft. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Transfer of Funds for Pupils Transferred to Chilocco Indian School
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. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Draft of Henry Ingalls McClellan
October 20, 1918 - November 6, 1918

This material includes correspondence between Sadie Ingalls Feder and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt concerning former student Henry Ingalls McClellan and his desire to be drafted to the Army. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Marriage of Frank J. Mitchell
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.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Frederick Walker's Request to be Released from the Navy
January 25 - March 1, 1919

This document contains correspondence between Lyman B. Madison and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Frederick Walker's request to discharge from the United States Navy. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Discharge of Edward Thorpe from the Navy
February 13, 1919 - July 1, 1919

This material includes correspondence between Edward P. Thorpe and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Thorpe's desire to be formally discharged from the United States Navy. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Ned Wilnota's Discharge From The US Navy
March 12-25, 1919

This material includes correspondence between Ned Wilnota and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Wilnota's request to be discharged from the Navy.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry Regarding Outing Student Following Closure of Carlisle
March 14-28, 1919

Inquiry from Charles Samuel to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding having an outing student placed at his home.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Outing Student following Closure of Carlisle
March 14, 1919

W. H. Bowers requests assistance from the Office of Indian Affairs in securing an outing student from the Carlisle Indian School following the school's closure.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Wesley Aaron's Discharge From The Navy
May 17 - July 16, 1919

This document contains correspondence between Wesley Aaron and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Aaron's desire to leave the Navy. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry Regarding Continuing Outing Program Following Closure of Carlisle
September 23, 1919 - October 2, 1919

Inquiry from A. Reist Rutt regarding continuing the outing program following the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Personnel File of Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge and Superintendent
- March 5, 1990

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…

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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Society of American Indians Request for Names of Ex-Students
October 13-25, 1920

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from the Society of American Indians for a list of ex-students from Carlisle.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry About Transfer of Carlisle Indian School Campus to War Department
April 13-20, 1921

This material includes correspondence between Henrietta Nelson, the secretary of Wellsburg High School's Athletic Assocation, and E. B. Merritt, the Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning the restoration of the Carlisle Indian School to the War Department and its transformation into a War Hospital treating soldiers after its…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Eligibility of George W. Tibbetts for Minnesota Soldiers' Bonus Act
June 1, 1921 - April 11, 1922

These materials include correspondence and a pamphlet regarding George W. Tibbetts' eligibility for coverage under Minnesota's Soldiers' Bonus Act. Minnesota's Attorney General ruled that, because Tibbetts had initially claimed exemption from drafted military service on the grounds that he was not a citizen of the United States, he was not…

Format:
Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry Regarding Closure of the Carlisle Indian School
June 4-11, 1921

This material includes correspondence between Elias Bissell and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt inquiring as to whether the Carlisle Indian School will be reopened. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry Regarding Closure of the Carlisle Indian School
September 25, 1921 - October 1, 1921

This document contains correspondence between M. W. Acheson and Assistant Commisioner E. B. Merritt. Acheson inquired as to the permanence of the closure of the Carlisle Indian School, and in response Merritt informed him of its definite closure due to the need for the campus at the end of World War I, and listed other Indian Schools that still…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration