Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880 [microform].

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Osage Agency

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In 1851 the Osage Subagency and the Neosho Subagency were combined to form the Neosho Agency which was responsible for the Osage, Quapaw, Seneca, and Mixed Band of Seneca and Shawnee. This agency was placed under the Southern Superintendency where it remained until transferred to the Western Superintendency in 1867. An Act of Congress of July 15, 1870 (16 Stat. 335) provided for the removal of the Osages from Kansas to a reservation in the north central part of Indian Territory on land to be ...

Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 1829-1922

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Andrews was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, the son of a rural farmer. He attended school during the winter months until 1843 when he travelled to Boston. He attended the Francestown Academy, completed his education, and studied law in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1848. He passed his bar examination two years later and established a law practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he served as a member of the city school board in 1851–1852. He briefly relocated to Boston in 1853, but left th...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Green Bay Agency

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George Boyd, agent at Green Bay, was a career War Dept. employee and Indian agent. Probably a native of Maryland and related by marriage to John Quincy Adams, Boyd served as a private secretary to Secretaries of War William Eustis and John Armstrong and as a courier and special agent of the War Dept., before accepting appointments as Indian agent at Michilimackinac (1818-1832) and at Green Bay (1832-1840). From the description of Indian agency at Green-Bay : ...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Iowa Superintendency.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Yankton Agency

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Lea, Luke, 1810-1898.

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Lac qui Parle Mission (Minn.)

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Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883

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Stephen Return Riggs, a Presebyterian missionary, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on March 23, 1812, the son of Stephen and Anne (Baird) Riggs. He studied at Jefferson College and the Western Theological Seminary in 1833 and 1834, and he was licensed to preach in 1836. He came to what is now Minnesota under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1837, settling first at Lake Harriet (in what is now Minneapolis). Later he was sent to th...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Wisconsin Superintendency

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Myrick, Nathan, 1822-1903.

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Established trading post (1841), became the first permanent white settler of Prairie La Crosse (Wis.) in 1842. Left La Crosse for St. Paul, Minn. in 1848. From the description of Nathan Myrick correspondence, 1892-1902. (La Crosse Public Library). WorldCat record id: 41450395 ...

Galbraith, Thomas J.

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Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868

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Wealthy Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, fur trader and regional investor. Born on Mackinac Island in 1800 and educated in New Jersey, Dousman worked at a New York mercantile house as a clerk and with his father at Mackinac before coming in 1826 to Prairie du Chien. There Dousman worked as an agent of the American Fur Company in partnership with Joseph Rolette (whose widow, Jane Fisher Rolette, Dousman married in 1844). In 1834, Dousman, Rolette, and H.H. Sibley became stock...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Saginaw Agency.

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Dodd, William B., 1811-1862.

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Daniels, Asa Wilder, 1829-1923.

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Northern Pacific Railway company

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The Northern Pacific Railway Company was the successor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and was established in 1896. The company operated railway lines between the Great Lakes and Washington State until it merged to form the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970. From the description of Northern Pacific Railway Company photographs, circa 1900s-1920s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367951939 The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was chartered in 1864 to build a railro...

Miller, Stephen, 1816-1881

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Daniels, Jared Waldo, 1827-1904.

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Daniels was born in Stratford, New Hampshire (June 15, 1827), the son of Joseph and Roxanne (Hatch) Daniels. His early occupations were farming and cabinet making, after which he studied medicine, graduating from Bellevue Medical College, New York City. Daniels came to Minnesota (1855) to visit his brother Asa Wilder Daniels, who served as the physician at the Lower Sioux Agency. Jared was appointed physician to the Upper Sioux Agency that same year, and assistant surgeon of the Six...

Thompson, Clark Wallace, 1825-1885

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Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Northern Superintendency. From the description of Papers of Clark Wallace Thompson, 1841-1906 (bulk 1841-1853) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74985581 Indian agent and presidential elector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Paul, Minn., to Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572098 ...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sault Ste. Marie Agency

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Pendergast, William Wirt, 1833-1903

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William Wirt Pendergast was born in New England in 1833. After attending Bowdoin College in Maine, he joined with the Hutchinson brothers to plat a town in Minnesota Territory by the same name. Pendergast returned to Massachusetts sometime before the end of the Civil War where he married Abigail Cogswell. The couple had a son, Edward, in 1864 and two years later returned to Hutchinson, Minnesota where William began a career in education. William eventually became the first principal of the Unive...

Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. St. Peters Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Dakota Superintendency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. St. Louis Superintendency

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On April 10, 1833, scientist-naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied, accompanied by the artist, Karl Bodmer, and personal servant, David Dreidoppel, who was an experienced hunter and taxidermist, set out from St. Louis aboard the American Fur Company steamer Yellow Stone on a thirteen-month natural science expedition up the Missouri River. From the description of William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, to all whom it may concern : under authority vested in me by the president ...

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Bailly, Alexis, 1798-1861.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Turkey River Agency.

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Marshall, William Rainey, 1825-1896

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Marshall was governor of Minnesota from 1866-1870. From the description of William R. Marshall papers, 1853-1894. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122508843 ...

American Fur Company

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Fur trading company in the American West. From the description of Papers, 1835-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497429 Chartered by John Astor in 1808. Astor withdrew his interest in 1834 and in 1864 the company was sold to the North Western Fur Company. From the description of American Fur Company records, 1803-1849. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 56975212 No information is available on Livingstone, except as noted above. Franchere...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Chippewa Agency.

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Gilfillan, Charles Duncan, 1831-1902

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Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene), 1828-1903

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Charles Flandrau was born in New York, passed the bar in 1851 and joined his father's law firm. In 1853 he moved to Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota to practice law. He served on the Territorial Council of Minnesota, in the Minnesota Constitutional Convention, and on the territorial and state supreme courts. He was named U.S. agent for the Sioux in 1856. After serving in the Union Army from 1862 to 1864 he took up the practice of law for a year in Nevada before returning to Minnesota. F...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency

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Cretin, Joseph, 1799-1857.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Grand River Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Creek Agency

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Forbes, William Henry, 1815-1875.

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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Mackinac Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Minnesota Superintendency

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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905

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Banker, financier, and fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. during the Civil War. From the description of Jay Cooke correspondence, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983928 During the Civil War, Jay Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia developed the idea of selling government bonds, which capitalized on feelings of patriotism at the time and which were a major source of financing the war. Jay Cooke later was heavily involved in finanacing (unsuccessfully) the Northern Pa...

Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton), 1822-1902

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Moses N. Adams was born on February 14, 1822 in Rockville, Adams County, Ohio, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Baird Adams. Following a common school education, he attended Ripley (Ohio) College (ca. 1839-1845) and the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio (1845-1848). He received his ministerial license on May 5, 1847 and was ordained by the Cincinnati Presbytery on June 14, 1848. He was then appointed as an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) missi...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs

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United States bureau with responsibility for Indian relations. From the description of Letter, 1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699812 Develops and implements, in cooperation with tribal governments, Native American organizations, other federal agencies, state & local governments, and other interested groups, economic, social, educational, and other programs for the benefit and advancement of Indian and Alaska native people. Established in 1824 within the War Dept...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Winnebago Agency

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Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903

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U.S. secretary of war, U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota, governor of Minnesota, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., banker, and lawyer. From the description of Letter and portraits of Alexander Ramsey, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449469 ...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Miami Agency.

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Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894

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Faribault, Alexander, 1806-1882

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Fort Totten Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Sac and Fox Agency (Kan. and Okla.)

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In 1851 the Central Superintendency replaced the St. Louis Superintendency and the Osage River Agency was divided. A new Sac and Fox Agency was made responsible for the Sauk and Fox, Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. The Shawnee Agency in Oklahoma was established in 1901 and in 1919 the Sac and Fox Agency was consolidated with the Shawnee Agency. From the description of Sac and Fox and Shawnee Agency letter books [microform], 1840-1876. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCa...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Northern Superintendency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Chicago Agency.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Michigan Superintendency

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The Michigan Superintendency was established in 1805, and abolished in 1851. A new Northern Superintendency was put in charge of Indian affairs in Michigan and Wisconsin, but the Michigan authority ended in 1853. From the description of United States Office of Indian Affairs Michigan superintendency letters [microform], 1814-1851. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 60353657 ...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. La Pointe Agency

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Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917

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William Gates LeDuc (1823-1917) was born in Wilksevill, Gallia County, Ohio. In 1848, he graduated from Kenyon College and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In the early 1850s, he was engaged in the book trade, an occupation that took him to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Minnesota where he decided to settle. He lived first in St. Paul and in 1856 moved to Hastings, Minn. LeDuc promoted immigration to Minnesota, prepared and obtained the first charter for a railroad in the territory, organized the Waba...

Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879

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Alfred Sully (1821-1879), army officer. From the description of Alfred Sully papers 1816-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127356 Alfred Sully, son of portrait artist Thomas Sully, was a United States Army officer and trained topographer residing in California from 1847 to 1853. During that time he married Manuela de la Guerra, a granddaughter of José de la Guerra. Sully left California in 1853, following the 1851 death of his young wife and child. From th...

Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876

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Willis A. Gorman was born January 12, 1816 in Fleming County, Kentucky, the son of David and Elizabeth Gorman. The family moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1836 where Willis studied law at Indiana University. He was elected to the Indiana legislature when he was 23 and served five terms. He enlisted as a private in the Third Indiana Volunteers when the war with Mexico broke out and was elected a major in June 1846. After the regiment returned home he organized the Fourth Indiana Regi...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Prairie du Chien Agency

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Brown, Joseph Renshaw, 1805-1870

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Joseph Renshaw Brown (1805-1870) was a Minnesota pioneer, fur trader, soldier, townsite and real estate developer, inventor, newspaper editor and publisher, politician and legislator. From the description of Joseph R. Brown collection, 1729-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42288192 In 1859 Joseph R. Brown of Henderson, Minnesota, designed a "steam wagon", which was manufactured in New York and shipped to Henderson, where he operated it for a time in 1860, before it becam...