Stacher family.

Samuel Franklin Stacher. (Box 1).

Samuel F. Stacher was born September 17, 1875 near Congress, Ohio. He entered the United States Indian Service in 1903, assigned to the Sac and Fox Agency and school in Eastern Oklahoma as a farmer. Stacher moved to the Navajo Springs Day School, near Cortez, Co. in 1906, where he remained until 1909, when he was transferred to Pueblo Bonito (Chaco Canyon, N.M.) with instructions to find a suitable location for the establishment of an agency and school. With this appointment, Stacher was also given the duties of U.S. Indian agent for the Navajo Indians living off the established reservation, but on the public domain (checkerboard area) in New Mexico and Arizona. At Pueblo Bonito, Stacher and his family rented the old stone hotel which was built by the Hyde Exploration Co., from Richard Wetherill. He briefly contemplated locating the school and agency at Pueblo Bonito, but decided that Wetherill wanted too much money to sell the land ($30,000), and it was too far from the railroad for getting supplies. In March 1910, Stacher chose Crownpoint as the site for the Indian agency and boarding school. He named the site Crownpoint for the rock peaks that looked like crowns. The school was established in 1912.

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