William A. Mercer requests a copy of his official report of the services of Mattie A. Cobb in order to provide a recommendation or report of her work as a kindergartner at the Leech Lake Indian School.
1900-1909
June 19, 1906
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 20, 1906
William A. Mercer forwards a list from Dr. Ferdinand Shoemaker of surplus drugs in mainly serviceable condition on hand.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 20, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to spend $800 to return 116 students to their homes from the Carlisle Indian School. Mercer requests the funds due to railroads withdrawing the half-rate fares for students.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 21, 1906
W. A. Mercer forwards a supplementary estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1906 amounting to $5,252.70 to pay for student transportation, support of school, and building supplies. An explanatory cover letter is included.
Format:
Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 22, 1906
Major W. A. Mercer requests a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior. A blank "Schedule of Individual Moneys" is attached.
Format:
Legal and Government Documents
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 23, 1906
William A. Mercer inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs if there is any objection to enrolling students from the Chitimacha Nation.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 25, 1906 - June 28, 1906
Susie Rayos requests to take the required examinations to enter the Indian Service. William A. Mercer forwards the request along with additional information about Rayos.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 27, 1906
William A. Mercer provides the Office of Indian Affairs a report on the No. 1 Insigner dish washing machine by noting that it has not be utilized very often due to time limitations. Mercer states that due to the large number of girls the turnaround time is 40 minutes compared to half a day for the machine. As a result, Mercer does not recommend…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 28, 1906
H. W. Leaman resigns his position as gardener and florist at the Carlisle Indian School. W. G. Thompson forwards the resignation with the note that the position be filled temporary in order to maintain the thousands of plants and prepare the hot house for the fall.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 28, 1906
William A. Mercer reports that Sophia Green is returning to her home following further correspondence.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 29, 1906
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he has directed Adaline Kingsley to report as assistant matron at the Wittenberg Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 29, 1906
Robert Shaw Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War, informs the Interior Department that there is no objection to the Hamilton Library Association copying maps and surveys of the Carlisle Indian School grounds.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 30, 1906
William A. Mercer requests that some action be taken against former student James Riley Wheelock for using the name Wheelock's United States Indian Band.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 30, 1906
William A. Mercer forwards a letter from school physician Ferdinand Shoemaker and provides additional context for the request to purchase a secondhand dental drill for the use of dentists to treat students.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 1906
F. Shoemaker, the school physician, compiles the sanitary report for the quarter ending on June 30, 1906.
Format:
Reports
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1906
W. A. Mercer recommends that former student Susie Maria Rayos be appointed as a teacher in the Indian Service. Mercer forwards Rayos' application to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and endorses her in his cover letter. Mercer advises the Commissioner of a teacher's position awaiting Rayos at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and requests an…
Format:
Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1906
Major William A. Mercer submits a report that lists an employee who has left the school (Genus E. Baird) and all employees working at the school to start the 1906-1907 fiscal year. These reports include personal information about those being hired as well as reasons for departure for those leaving.
Format:
Reports
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay student labor over the summer in lieu of them earning wages over the summer on outing.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1906
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he will consider the objections raised by the Acting Judge Advocate General in having the Carlisle Indian School serve as a training ground for the United States Cavalry.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 2, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay telephone rent, for medical treatment of students on outing, and for transportation and board of students being treated in Philadelphia during the 1907 fiscal year.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 3, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay $400 for the rent of the Henderson Tract in order to use the land for pasture.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 3, 1906
William A. Mercer requests $400 for the rental of the Alexander Tract during the current year to use a playground for students of the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 5, 1906 - July 7, 1906
Angel De Cora submits a report on her first five months in charge of the Native Arts Industry at the Carlisle Indian School to William A. Mercer.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 5, 1906
William A. Mercer requests to know more about an Act of Congress appropriating money for the return of students from Alaska to their homes. Mercer notes that two students in particular should be sent home as soon as possible due to consumption.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 6, 1906
William A. Mercer requests to know if the recent appropriation allowing for funds to transport Alaskan students to their homes would apply to Lottie Hilton.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration