Owl, Martha

Student file of Martha Owl, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who entered the school on December 14, 1893, graduated in 1897, and departed on November 6, 1900. The file contains a student information card and correspondence.

In school documentation Martha Owl's married name is Martha Owl Simpson.

Student information card of Martha Owl, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who entered the school on December 14, 1893 and departed on November 6, 1900. The information card indicates that Owl graduated in 1897, married A. Simpson, and was living in Sunnyvale, California in 1917. 

Studio portrait of Martha Owl probably wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

Studio portrait of Martha Owl.

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.

Report on the health of current and former Cherokee students of the Carlisle Indian School.