Smith, Fred E.

Student information card of Fred E. Smith, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on November 29, 1898 and departed on February 12, 1902. The file indicates Smith had graduated in 1902.

Student information card of Fred E. Smith, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on November 29, 1898, graduated in 1902, and departed on February 12, 1902.

In school documentation Fred E. Smith is also known as Fred Smith.

The superintendent of the school described improvements of school buildings, as well as an increase in attendance.  Next, appeared a history of the Flathead Indians, accompanied by images from the Flathead Reservation in Montana. F. Shoemaker, M.D. detailed how tuberculosis infections were handled at the school.  The following section…

Studio portrait of Fred E. Smith and Sarah Smith.

Note: If the identification of the sitters is correct, this photo must have been taken in November 1898. They only overlapped for one month.

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.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards correspondence regarding the transfer of Fred Smith from the Lincoln Institute to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt also includes a statement that he believes the Lincoln Institute should be ended.