Letter to Mary Wheeler Walker about work at the Warm Springs Agency, including school and church matters
Title
Letter to Mary Wheeler Walker about work at the Warm Springs Agency, including school and church matters
Description
A letter from Warm Springs Indian Agency employee Cyrus Walker to his wife, Mary Wheeler Walker. The letter describes Sabbath "meetings" (i.e. church services) with Natives from the Warm Springs Agency; missionaries at Warm Springs; taking the census of tribal members at Simnasho; missing Mary and their son, Clifford; and Warm Springs school business.
Cyrus Walker was the oldest son of the early Oregon Territory missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. He grew up at Tshimakain in the 1830s-40s, where he learned the native Spokane language. After joining the U.S. army during the Civil War and then attempting to make a living as a farmer, he became a teacher at the Warm Springs Indian Agency. These letters, documents and clippings shed light on his experiences as a missionary, a soldier, a pioneer and a teacher at Warm Springs. This collection was donated to Pacific University by Betty Thorne, a descendant of the Walkers.
Cyrus Walker was the oldest son of the early Oregon Territory missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. He grew up at Tshimakain in the 1830s-40s, where he learned the native Spokane language. After joining the U.S. army during the Civil War and then attempting to make a living as a farmer, he became a teacher at the Warm Springs Indian Agency. These letters, documents and clippings shed light on his experiences as a missionary, a soldier, a pioneer and a teacher at Warm Springs. This collection was donated to Pacific University by Betty Thorne, a descendant of the Walkers.
Creator
Walker, Cyrus Hamlin
Is Part Of
Cyrus Walker Binder 1
Identifier
PUA_MS102_1890_08_14.pdf
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Provenance
Donated by Betty Thorn, Walker Family descendant.
Type
Text