Records, 1874-1972 [microform]

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz462t (person)

The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j5829 (corporateBody)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s18fvx (person)

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...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Division of Education and Medical Work

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v5f6b (corporateBody)

United States. Bureau of Education

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m66jc9 (corporateBody)

Young, Samuel Hall, 1847-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw92m2 (person)

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...

Post, Wiley, 1898-1935

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp0kpt (person)

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Town and Country Work.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc90p6 (corporateBody)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq45hf (corporateBody)

United States. Congress. Senate

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc0tzx (corporateBody)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Work in Alaska.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h7ggw (corporateBody)

Presbyterian mission work in Alaska began informally in 1877 when Sheldon Jackson visited there, returning to raise money and recruit mission workers. He convinced the PCUSA Board of Home Missions to assume responsibility for the Alaska field in 1878. Rev. S. Hall Young established the first Protestant church for native Alaskans in 1879 at Fort Wrangell and a mission among the Chiclat Indians, later named Haines Mission. The first missionary family arrived in 1881 and es...

Condit, James Hays, 1865-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6282hgf (person)

James H. Condit (1865-1954), was a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska from 1912-1950, he traveled throughout the territory, ministering to the white and native populations. From the description of James H. Condit papers, 1912-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42064056 Presbyterian Church missionary, head of the Presbyterian Ministry for Alaska, and president of a native school in Sitka which later became Sheldon Jackson College. From the description of Missiona...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx39rt (corporateBody)

The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. organized the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions in 1877 to provide schools and teachers for the mission fields in the western and southwestern US. The committee supported missionaries among the Mormons in Utah and among the Native American and Spanish-speaking peoples of the southwest, later extending this work to Alaska, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Appalachians. The committee also published pamphlets, leaflets, a missionary magazine entitled Home ...

Greist, Henry Wireman, 1868-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h4261j (person)

Greist was a Presbyterian minister and medical missionary who directed a hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska. Lida Greene was a librarian at the State Historical Library in Des Moines. From the description of Henry W. Greist letters to Lida Greene, 1945-1951. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 692845998 ...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gr2vtm (corporateBody)