Report on Spalding Investigation, 1872.

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Report on Spalding Investigation, 1872.

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In early 1872, H. H. Spalding and H. T. Cowley sent letters of complaint against J. B. Monteith, the Indian agent at the Lapwai Agency. In March 1872, E. R. Geary made an inspection trip to Lapwai and had a number of people answer questions in writing. This collection contains eight letters and the report that Geary wrote concerning those accusations in April 1872. Letters are present from Geary to the Commission of Indian Affairs (a copy) and original letters from Greenleaf, Wesley Mulkey, Navid Noggle, Alonzo Leland, H. Adams. The first page of Geary' report is missing. Geary's report stated that he found no evidence of the charges of "debauchery, gross profanity, and habitual intemperance" that had been made against Perrin Whitman, interpreter at Lapwai, and that Monteith was administering the agency with "integrity and efficiency."

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Whitman, Perrin

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Monteith, John B., 1788-1868

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Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez PerceĢ Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...

Geary, Edward R., 1811-1886.

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Edward R. Geary, pioneer missionary and educator, was born in Boonsboro, Maryland on April 30, 1811. He arrived in Oregon in 1851 as a Presbyterian missionary, preaching at Brownsville, Pleasant Grove and Albany, before settling in Eugene in 1875. In 1866, Geary co-founded Albany College, and in 1876 became a regent of the University of Oregon. He served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon and Washington Territory from1859-1861. From the guide to the Edward R. Geary papers,...