Richard Henry Pratt requests the Office of Indian Affairs inform him of the prospect of an assistant disciplinarian reporting to the Carlisle Indian School.
School Employees - Disciplinarians
September 10, 1900
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 25, 1901
Richard Henry Pratt informs the commissioner of assistant disciplinarian Mr. Haldy's decision to quit. Pratt also requests granting Mr. Haldy's leave of absence for the rest of the month be approved.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 1, 1901
Richard Henry Pratt advises the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the dates that Ella G. Hill (laundry manager), Malcolm W. Odell (teacher), Kittie Odell (teacher), and W. Grant Thompson (disciplinarian) were on paid leaves of absence.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 26, 1901
Richard Henry Pratt forwards Small Boys Manager Malcolm W. Odell's request for a 4 day leave of absence. Odell also requests a longer leave of absence without pay until he is notified to take the charge of the Iowa Sac and Fox School in Toledo, Iowa if his request cannot be arranged.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
May 20, 1902 - May 23, 1902
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from Eugene Warren requesting his assistance in securing a position in the Indian Service. Pratt provides information and a recommendation for Warren to the Office.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 11-17, 1902
Richard Henry Pratt forwards resignation of Samuel J. Brown as an assistant disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt requests the Civil Service Commission send the school a new assistant disciplinarian.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 6, 1902
Richard Henry Pratt requests that the position of tinner and assistant disciplinarian be abolished at the Carlisle Indian School and replaced with an additional laborer and an additional teacher.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 5, 1906
Stacy Matlock requests a transfer in the Indian Service to a position of assistant clerk. William A. Mercer forwards the request with the recommendation that it be granted.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 4, 1906
William A. Mercer responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the request of Stacy Matlock, assistant disciplinarian, to a position of assistant clerk in the Indian Service. The office is asking for Mercer's assessment of Matlock's character, which Mercer reports to be excellent.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 22, 1906 - January 3, 1907
Stacy Matlock submits his resignation as an assistant disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School. William A. Mercer forwards the resignation and notes that he has separately employed Wallace Denny has his successor.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 3, 1907
W. A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that E. H. Colegrove, Carlisle Indian School disciplinarian, is not willing to accept the Albuquerque School disciplinarian position and does not desire a transfer.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 6, 1907
E. H. Colegrove requests a transfer to the position of disciplinarian at the Albuquerque School or another similar position after previously declining the position. William A. Mercer forwards the request along with his recommendation. Mercer requests that the transfer be delayed until the beginning of the new fiscal year as well as noting that…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 9-24, 1907
Major William A. Mercer endorses John L. Walters' request to be transferred back from disciplinarian to teacher. To fill the disciplinarian role vacated by Walters and the assistant matron role vacated by Elizabeth C. Sloan, who has been on unpaid sick leave, requests to hire Mr. Harry M. Carter and Mrs. A. B. Carter, who fill the same…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 24-28, 1907
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp requests that the Secretary of the Interior discontinue an assistant matron position at Carlisle and replace it with a new assistant disciplinarian position with the same salary.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Jesse Wilson approves Leupp's request, and Acting Chief Clerk of the Department…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
September 6, 1907 - December 19, 1907
These materials include correspondence, legal documents, and an Executive Order regarding the appointment of William Stimpel as Disciplinarian for the Large Boys Quarters of the Carlisle Indian School. The position had been temporarily filled by numerous teachers and recent graduates without satisfaction, so Stimple was requested by…
Format:
Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
September 24, 1907
These materials include correspondence confirming receipt of a request by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Commissioner of the Civil Service Commission to waive the examination requirement for the vacancy of disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 27 - December 5, 1907
These materials include correspondence regarding the creation of an Assistant Disciplinarian position at the Carlisle Indian School. The Assistant Disciplinarian was intended to work at night in the Large Boys Quarters, and was designed to be held by a recent graduate.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 20, 1907
These materials include a telegram from William Stimpel that he accepts his appointment as Disciplinarian at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
May 29 - June 29, 1908
Disciplinarian William Stimpel requests that Superintendent Moses Friedman raise his annual salary from $800 to $1,000 as well as remove Assistant Disciplinarian Wallace Denny from duty. Otherwise, Stimpel states that he will resign.
Friedman forwards Stimpel's resignation to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and temporarily…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 24, 1908
Charles E. Mullin recommends Sewall S. Daniell to fill a vacant Disciplinarian position at the Carlisle Indian School. C. F. Larrabee informs Mullin that there is no such vacancy exists.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 30 - December 10, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to abolish an assistant disciplinarian and a teacher position because both of these positions are no longer necessary after the new rule that students must be at least fourteen years old. Assistant Disciplinarian Louis Felix is in the small boys quarters and Teacher Ella Petoskey is…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
February 19 - March 17, 1910
Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch tells Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman what subjects that Commandant of Cadets candidates will be tested on and asks if he has any suggestions. Civil Service Commission President John C. Black sends a draft of a newspaper announcement for the position to Commissioner of Indian…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 11, 1910 - September 2, 1918
Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.
The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of resignation, complaints from students, a photograph…
Nation:
Format:
Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Reports
Topics:
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 23, 1912 - March 6, 1912
These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Peirce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Peirce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations, focused on industrial curricula and student…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
March 8, 1915 - May 11, 1915
These materials include numerous suggestions from Oscar Hiram Lipps and Dennison Wheelock regarding changes that should be made to policy and staff at the Carlisle Indian School. Lipps' suggestions focus on disciplinary measures, the end of preferential treatment for athletes, and staff changes. Lipps also requests that a superintendent for…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration