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Edwin S. Eells Speech, 1910

Title: Edwin S. Eells Speech 1910

Edwin Eells was the son of Protestant missionaries Rev. Cushing and Myra Eells; he served for many years as Indian Agent at Tacoma. The collection consists of a speech delivered by Eells at the Cushman Indian School near Tacoma, 16 June 1910.

ArchivalResource: 22 p.

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Edwin Eells papers

Title: Edwin Eells papers

Correspondence (1864-1916), diaries (1862-1892), autobiography and reminiscences, ledgers, Indian agency records, scrapbooks, photographs, articles, and other papers. Also includes two ms. letters, one each written by Edwin Eells and his wife Abbie Eells at the time of President Rutherford B. Hayes's visit to Washington Territory, reflecting their introduction to Hayes and the request for help in finalizing the title to patented lands on behalf of the Indians under Eells's jurisdiction; correspondence, enrollment ledger, and lists compiled by Eells in 1864 of all men in the Walla Walla area subject to possible military duty in the Union Army during the Civil War relating to his service as Enrolling Officer; addresses and articles relating to early Washington history, including history of the Walla Walla First Congregational Church; Eells family records, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings; and photocopies of ms. By Rev. Myron Eells entitled "The Indians of Puget Sound" and paper on Skokomish religious beliefs, containing first hand observations on some of the tribes of western Washington. Includes addendums to his autobiography concerning his early involvement in the formation of Washington State Historical Society, the development and construction of First Congregational Church of Tacoma, history of the Cushman Indian School; and typescript articles by Ida Eells reflecting Eells family history in early Washington.

ArchivalResource: 4.3 linear ft.

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Newberry, F. D. [Letters to F.D. Newberry] : Puyallup (Consolidated) Agency, Tacoma, Wash., 1889 Dec. 1-2.

Title: [Letters to F.D. Newberry] : Puyallup (Consolidated) Agency, Tacoma, Wash., 1889 Dec. 1-2.

Three letters, dated Dec. 1-2, 1889, to F.D. Newberry, superintendent of the Indian school in Chehalis, Washington, from U.S. Indian agents Edwin L. Chalcraft and Edwin Eells, and Indian inspector James H. Cisney, of the Puyallup Consolidated Agency in Tacoma.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ([7] leaves) ; 25 cm.

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Eells, Ida M. Mother Eells : a story of the life of Myra Fairbanks Eells / by Ida Myra Eells, 1947

Title: Mother Eells : a story of the life of Myra Fairbanks Eells / by Ida Myra Eells, 1947

This is a manuscript that was written about Myra Fairbanks Eells by her daughter, Ida M. Eells.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (1 box)

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Eells family. Collection of Eells family papers.

Title: Collection of Eells family papers.

This is a collection of photocopies of remembrances by Ida M. Eells about her grandparents; by Myron Eells about his mother, Myra (Fairbanks) Eells; by Ida M. Eells about her grandfather's horse, La Blau and Interesting Pioneer Reminiscences of the Northwest by Edwin Eells that was published in the Tacoma Washington Newspaper on May 3, 1914.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ([58] leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166276024 View

Eells, Edwin. Institutional church work among immigrants in New York city, 1883-1917.

Title: Institutional church work among immigrants in New York city, 1883-1917. 1918.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Eells, Edwin, 1841-1917. Edwin Eells letter, 1910.

Title: Edwin Eells letter, 1910.

One letter from Edwin Eells to Caroline Hathaway of Spokane Public Library. Eells is responding to a letter with a newspaper clipping asking about his father, Cushing Eells. In the letter, he disputes some statements by a Mr. Edwards, and a story of "lost Indian." He disputes other facts from the article concerning his father's life.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.10 linear ft.)

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Eells, Edwin, 1841-1917. Eliza and the Nez Percé Indians /by Edwin Eells, 1913.

Title: Eliza and the Nez Percé Indians /by Edwin Eells, 1913.

A narrative of the life and work of Eliza Spalding Warren, the second white child born in Oregon Territory, with other facts relating to the coming of the early missionaries from 1834-38, the first printing press, the Indian tribes, the Whitman Massacre, the conspiracy to kill Gov. I. I. Stevens, and other events connected with the pioneer history of the Northwest.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (14 p.) ; 33 cm.

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