Eastman-Goodale-Dayton Family Papers 1861-2013

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Eastman-Goodale-Dayton Family Papers 1861-2013

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Author; Teacher; Social reformer; Poets; Farmer. Principal family members represented in the papers are Henry S. Goodale (farmer and writer in Southern Berkshires near Pittsfield, MA); his wife, Deborah Hill Read Goodale (writer); three sisters: Dora Read Goodale, Elaine Goodale [Eastman] (writer, teacher, poet), and Rose Sterling Goodale [Dayton] (writer, poet, and director of Uplands Sanitarium) and their families. The bulk of the papers are those of Elaine Goodale Eastman and her husband Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman (a Santee Sioux) and include correspondence, writings, photographs and organizations related to Indians of North America. Of particular interest are photographs of South Dakota in the 1890s, particularly of Native Americans, Pine Ridge Agency and school where she taught and he was a physician, and of the Wounded Knee massacre by American troops. The collection also includes letters of Charles Eastman, a substantial amount of writings and correspondence of Dora Read Goodale and Elaine Goodale Eastman, and many of Charles Eastman's published writings.

17 boxes; (6.5 linear ft.)

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6323152

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Goodale, Dora Read, 1866-1953

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Massachusetts Agricultural College

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Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939

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Mixed Mdewakanton Sioux physician, writer and lecturer on Indian topics, and government employee. Born in 1858 in Minnesota of Jacob Eastman (Many Lightnings) and his mixed-blood wife, Mary Nancy Eastman, the daughter of painter Seth Eastman, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) was raised in what is now North Dakota as a traditional Sioux, and later graduated from Dartmouth College (1887) and the Boston University School of Medicine (1890). He had a varied career, includ...

Dayton, Rose Sterling Goodale

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Dayton, James L.

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Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 1863-1953

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Read family

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Eastman family

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Eastman-Goodale-Dayton family

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The principal family members represented in the Eastman-Goodale-Dayton Family Papers are sisters Elaine Goodale Eastman (9 Oct 1863-22 Dec 1953) and Dora Read Goodale (29 October 1866-12 Dec 1953). Their mother, Deborah (Dora) Hill Read Goodale (1839-1910), teacher and writer, married Henry S. Goodale (1836 -1906), teacher, farmer, and writer, in 1862. They settled at "Sky Farm" on Fray Mountain in the town of Mt. Washington, Massachusetts, not far from where Henry was born in South...

Goodale, Henry S.

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Dayton family

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Hill family

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Goodale family

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Goodale, Deborah Hill Read

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