RELEASE DATE: APRIL 15, 2007
KINSEARCHING
by
Marleta Childs
P. O. Box 6825
LUBBOCK, TX 79493-6825
[email protected]
If you are seeking information about people employed in Indian school service, you may want to look through the U. S. government's annual reports made by commissioners of Indian affairs. Facts about people employed on June 30, 1894, by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency in Oklahoma may be found on page 517 of the ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1894 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895). Details usually include the individual's name, position, salary, sex, "color" (sic) (White or Indian), and date of "present" appointment.
Arapaho Boarding School:
BLIND, Lula, assistant seamstress, $60, female, Indian, 1 March 1894
BLIND, Roy, assistant industrial teacher, $300, male, Indian, 1 Oct 1893
CAMPBELL, Carrie, assistant seamstress, $60, female, Indian, 1 Sept 1893
CONKLING, Roscoe, Indian assistant, $60, male, Indian, 1 Oct 1893
DUNN, A. M., farmer, $720, male, white, 28 Aug 1893
DUNN, Cora, teacher, $600, female, white, 16 Oct 1893
DWIRE, Alice G., teacher, $600, female, white, 1 July 1893
DWIRE, Isaac W., superintendent, $1,000, male, white, 1 July 1893
EDSON, Casper, shoemaker, $300, male, Indian, 1 July 1893
FEES, Lilly C., baker, $400, female, white, 1 Sept 1893
FRAKES, Kate, cook, $400, female, white, 1 Sept 1893
FRAKES, Cynthia, matron, $600, female, white, 1 July 1893
FURRY, H. J., industrial teacher, $720, male, white, 29 May 1894
HOLLAND, Lizzie, assistant seamstress, $48, female, Indian, 1 Sept 1893
KEOWN, Sallie, laundress, $400, female, Indian, 1 July 1893
PHILLIPS, Margarette J., seamstress, $400, female, white, 1 July 1893
RUSSELL, Martha S., teacher, $600, female, white, 1 July 1893
SMITH, Hattie, assistant seamstress, $60, female, Indian, 1 May 1894
SPONHAUER, Myrtle I., assistant matron, $400, female, white, 1 July 1893
STARR, James, Indian assistant, $60, male, Indian, 1 Oct 1893
Cheyenne Boarding School:
ASBURY, Pearl, seamstress, $400, female, white, 28 May 1894
BEAR, Paul G., shoemaker, $300, male, Indian, 10 Oct 1893
BLACK, Maud, teacher, $600, female, white, 17 Jan 1893
CHURCHILL, Clarence A., farmer, $720, male, white, 14 May 1894
COOK, Philip, tailor, $300, male, Indian, 13 Dec 1893
DAVIDSON, Lillie, assistant cook, $300, female, white, 22 May 1894
FIREOVED, E. J., baker, $400, female, white, 1 July 1893
FIREOVED, Solom H., carpenter, $720, male, white, 1 July 1893
FITHIAN, Eva, assistant matron, $300, female, white, 28 July 1893
FITHIAN, Job, industrial teacher, $720, male, white, 1 July 1893
HAWKINS, Kish, assistant industrial teacher, $300, male, Indian, 5 Feb 1894
HEAD, Mattie E., teacher, $600, female, white, 14 Nov 1893
HUNTER, Rebecca, assistant seamstress, $48, female, Indian, 1 Oct 1893
JOHNSON, Emma, laundress, $400, female, white, 12 Sept 1893
JOHNSON, W. H., teacher, $600, male, white, 1 July 1893
NEAL, Sallie B., matron, $600, female, white, 19 Dec 1893
OLSON, Edith, cook, $400, female, white, 1 Jan 1894
PENN, Ota, assistant matron, $300, female, white, 22 May 1894
REDCLOUD, Guy, Indian assistant, $60, male, Indian, 1 Feb 1894
SANDS, Leah, assistant seamstress, $60, female, Indian, 6 Feb 1894
STARR, Clinton, Indian assistant, $60, male, Indian, 6 July 1893
STEWART, Mary F., teacher, $600, female, white, 21 Oct 1893
ULLOM, Thomas P., superintendent, $1,200, male, white, 12 Oct 1893
(To be continued)