Carlisle Indian Industrial School Graduates 1896 – 1899
Carlisle Indian School Graduates: There were graduating classes at Carlisle Indian School from 1896- 1899. Listed are the Graduates Name, Tribe, Home and Occupation.
Cumberland County PA
Biographical Sketch of Leidhigh, J. M.
J. M. Leidhigh, of the firm of T. F. Leidigh & Co., dealers in general merchandise. They opened trade in Spear Ville in April 1878, with a stock of $1,800. They now carry an average stock of $10,000. Their store building was erected of stone in 1881 at a cost of $2,000. Size is 25×80 …
Genealogy of Samuel Allen Family
S151 SAMUEL ALLEN: Came to America near the end of the eighteenth century from England, bringing his widowed mother, whose first name is unknown and who returned to England; remarried, gaining a surname that is also unknown. Samuel became a farmer near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa. He was twice m. and had a large family. …
Carlisle Indian School Record of Living Graduates
In presenting the following record of the graduates of the Carlisle School, than which no like school in the country can show a better record, it is desired to call attention to several facts to which the reader should give careful attention. First. The Carlisle School is not a university. The character of its academic …
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Biographical Sketch of Richard W. Blue
Richard W. Blue, a Union veteran of Virginia and a leading lawyer and judge of Kansas, finally advanced to the halis of Congress as a representative of his adopted state. He was born in Wood County, Virginia, September 8, 1841, and was raised on a mountain farm near the present city of Grafton. In 1859 …
Carlisle to Train Indian Youth for Citizenship
Carlisle to Train Indian Youth for Citizenship
Waggoner, Mary Ellen (Murphy) – Obituary
Aunt Ellen Waggoner, a dear old lady who numbered her friends by the score, passed away last Saturday forenoon at her home in Odebolt, after a long illness. She had been confined to her home for several years with rheumatism, and later was afflicted with a disease of the kidneys. Funeral services were conducted in …
Carlisle Indian School – Industrial
Carlisle Indian School: A report of the Carlisle Indian School provided in 1912 by the students themselves. Includes a list of graduates from 1889-1910.
Biography of Samuel Brownlee Fisher
Samuel Brownlee Fisher of Parsons, consulting engineer of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company, is one of the eminent railway engineers of America. He had had nearly fifty years of active experience and had been identified with the construction of various railway lines in the West and East. He comes of an old Scotch …
Address, Colonel Pratt, Superintendent Carlisle School
I feel greatly honored by being allowed to speak after my chief. I shall not talk long. If I had prepared a paper to read here, as I had intended, after listening to what I have heard I would not read it. I invite the attention of the older members of the conference to the …
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Biography of J. Silas Leas
One of the old and respected citizen of Rock Island County, a man who stands high in the estimation of all who know him, is J. Silas Leas, who although now spending the closing years of his life in retirement, was at one time engaged in some of Rock Island County’s principal manufacturies. He was …
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Graduates 1906 – 1910
Carlisle Indian School Graduates: There were graduating classes at Carlisle Indian School from 1906 – 1910. Listed are the Graduates Name, Tribe, Home and Occupation.
Waggoner, Henry – Obituary
February 28, 1895 Chronicle – Odebolt The many friends of Henry Waggoner, who lived three miles west of Odebolt, were grieved to hear of his death, which occurred about 11:45 on Sunday night. He was taken ill on the preceding Tuesday with pneumonia, and from the first his condition was serious. Mr. Waggoner was one …
Biography of William Allison Aikman
Aikman Brothers. As farmers, merchants, lawyers and active citizens the Aikman family have been prominent in Butler County for over forty-five years. The father of the Aikman brothers, lawyers and business men at El Dorado, was the late William A. Aikman, who on coming to Kansas in 1871 took up a homestead in Butler County …
Biography of Cyrus K. Holliday
Cyrus K. Holliday was one of the founders of Topeka, in which, for many years, he was the largest taxpayer; projected and built the first portion of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; was one of the organizers of the republican party in Kansas, and an all-around promoter of great enterprises. Born at Carlisle, …
Student Life at Carlisle Indian School
Student Life at Carlisle Indian School
Course of Study at Carlisle Indian School
Course of Study at Carlisle Indian School
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Census Records
1778 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Hosted at Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives Hopewell Township Inhabitants 1790 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Census Records Free 1790 Census Form for your Research Hosted at Ancestry.com – Ancestry Free Trial Hosted at Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives 1790 Census Index Hopewell, Newton, Toboyne, West Pennsboro Townships Township File 1 of 2 Township File 2 of …
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Graduates 1900 – 1905
Carlisle Indian School Graduates: There were graduating classes at Carlisle Indian School from 1900 – 1905. Listed are the Graduates Name, Tribe, Home and Occupation.
Biography of Colonel George Davenport
Colonel George Davenport was the first white man to make a permanent settlement in what is now Rock Island County, arriving here in the spring of 1816. He was a native of England, born in Lincolnshire, in 1783. At the age of seventeen he enlisted as a sailor on a merchant vessel, and for the …