Mitten, Minerva

Student file of Minerva Mitten, a member of the Cayuga Nation, who entered the school on May 1, 1896, graduated in 1902, and departed on February 11, 1902. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, a report after leaving, a letter/correspondence, and a news clipping. The file indicates that Mitten was working as a…

Student information card of Minerva Mitten, a member of the Cayuga Nation, who entered the school on May 1, 1896 and departed on February 11, 1902. The information card indicates that Mitten graduated in 1902, married Daniel Williams, and was living in Sanborn, New York in 1913. 

A formal portrait of the graduating class of 1902, apparently with separate images of students not present when it was taken inserted later. 

This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) with the caption : GRADUATING CLASS, 1902.

Edgar A. Allen forwards a list of New York students at the Carlisle Indian School who are eligible to receive money appropriated by Congress for New York Indians.

Richard H. Pratt recommends that Minerva Mitten (Cayuga), a member of Carlisle's Class of 1902, be appointed as an assistant matron in the Indian Service. Pratt forwards Mitten's application to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and endorses her in his cover letter.

William A. Mercer responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter providing the name of four former Carlisle Indian School students to fill two positions as teachers in other Indian schools.