Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932.

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Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932.

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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, Creek (Muskogee) tribal materials, scrapbooks, photos, memorabilia and printed matter, pertaining to Samuel Austein Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, his daughter Anna Eliza Worcester Roberston, his granddaughter Alice Mary Robertson, her father William Schenck Roberson, other members of her family, the reverent Timothy Hill, Robert McGill Loughridge, John Lowrie, James C. Pilling, and Pleasant Porter. Concerns missions, indian education, printing and publishing in the Indian Territory, the Indian Territory in the Civil War, and Oklahoma Politics during the 1920s.

71.0 Linear feet (61 document boxes, 1 flat document box, oversized materials).

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931

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Alice Mary Robertson (January 2, 1854 – July 1, 1931) was an American educator, social worker, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. Robertson was the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman. She was known for her strong personality, commitment to Native American issues, and anti-feminist stance. Born at the Tullahassee Mission in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Robertson attende...

Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859

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Worcester worked as a missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1825 to 1859, serving the Cherokee Nation at Brainerd Mission, Tennessee; New Echota, Georgia; and in Indian Territory [Oklahoma]. During the state of Georgia's attempt to remove the Cherokee, Worcester refused to cooperate fully and was imprisoned from 1831 to 1833. In 1835, he and his wife Ann moved to Indian Territory where he set up his printing press at Dwight Mission and later Park Hill. Duri...

Worcester family.

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