Tucson Indian Training School Records

Tucson Indian Training School

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Founded in 1888 by the Women's Board of Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church, their chief purpose was to teach Pima and Tohono O'odham children English and Christianity. Enrollment of children was assisted by the work of Rev. Charles H. Cook, minister and teacher at Sacaton, Ariz. By 1950 enrollment was diminishing and the school was closed in 1960. From the description of Tucson Indian Training School records 1888-1953. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). Wor...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions

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Originally organized by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in 1816 as the Board of Missions; name changed by the Old School assembly to Board of Domestic Missions in 1855; at the reunion of the Old and New School assemblies, the Board of Home Missions was established by merging the Board of Domestic Missions [O.S.] with the Presbyterian Committee on Home Missions [N.S.] in 1870, and incorporated in 1872. The new consolidated board was charged with continuing the work of its Old School/New Sch...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions

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