Letters received by George Shakes, Tlingit chief, 1879-1900.

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Letters received by George Shakes, Tlingit chief, 1879-1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42066632

Includes business letters from the U.S. Marshall and Collector of Customs, character letter ("skookum paper") signed by S. Hall Young, Sheldon Jackson, A.L. Lindsley and H. Kendall, letters from Governor John Brady, personal letters from tribal members about schooling and money matters, a lease between Chief Shakes and R. Jensen for monthly land rental, a letter to Mrs. Shakes, and a list of charges against Colteen-eash.

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Alaska State Library

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Alaska State Library

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Young, Samuel Hall, 1847-1927

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Samuel Hall Young was born in Pennsylvania in 1847, educated at the University of Wooster and Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated from Western Theological Seminary in 1878. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in June 1878, he came to Wrangell, Alaska, where he married Fannie E. Kellogg and organized the first Presbyterian Church in Alaska. He traveled with John Muir in Southeast Alaska and recounted the experiences in "Alaska Days with John Muir" (1915). Young established missions at Haine...

Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909

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Sheldon Jackson organized pioneer Presbyterian churches and schools in the West and Alaska. He recognized the importance of women's missionary work and helped to establish the Women's Executive Committee in 1878. In 1885, he was appointed as general agent for education in Alaska. In 1891, Jackson was instrumental in introducing reindeer into Alaska to remedy the failing food supply due to whalers. He continued to be active in the church's missionary work until his death. From the des...

Lindsley, A. L. (Aaron Ladner), 1817-1891

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Shakes, George, Tlingit chief.

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Tlingit chief of the Stiikine or Wrangell tribe, served as policeman. From the description of Letters received by George Shakes, Tlingit chief, 1879-1900. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42066632 ...

Brady, John Green, 1847-1918

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John Green Brady (1848-1918), Yale Class of 1874, arrived in Alaska in 1878 and in 1881 he founded the Sitka Boys' Home for the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. He became involved in Alaskan politics, was appointed an United States Commissioner in 1884 and Alaskan governor in 1897, serving until 1906 when a political conflict caused his resignation. He later became H. D. Reynolds's business partner, investing in the development of Alaska, and spent his last years lecturing and writing on Ala...