Enoch Hoag Collection.

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Enoch Hoag Collection.

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A letterbook (1872-1874) of hand-copied miscellaneous letters and documents sent to and from the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs in Lawrence, Kansas. Correspondents include Superintendent Enoch Hoag, Cyrus Beede, John D. Miles, Captain Black Beaver, J. M. Haworth, Jonathan Richards, and others; a certificate of appointment (1869) of Hoag as Superintendent by President U. S. Grant; and a later reproduction card (n.d.) showing photographs of Quakers (Friends) who served in the Bureau of Indian Affairs under President Grant.

.10 ft.

University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7958489

University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

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Hoag, Enoch, 1812-1884

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Enoch Hoag, a member of Iowa Yearly Meeting, was appointed Superintendent of the Central Superintendency (Kansas and Indian Territory) in 1869 under President Grant's "Peace Policy." This gave supervision of the Indians in this area to the Orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. Serving under Hoag were Indian Agents (also Friends), assigned to agencies representing the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kansas, Osage, Quapaw, Sac and Fox, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache. Ho...

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Central Superintendency.

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Black Beaver

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Beede, Cyrus, 1828-1908.

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Richards, Jonathan, ca. 1812-1882.

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Jonathan Richards (principal of Haverford School, 1853-1857) served as an Indian agent for the Wichitas and affiliated bands at Wichita, Kansas from 1870-1876. He was appointed under President Grant's Peace Policy which officially gave the management of the Central Superintendency (all of Kansas and the Indian Territory) to the Orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. From the description of Papers, 1870-1881. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 25541073 ...

Haworth, J. M.

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Miles, John DeBras, 1832-1925

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