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Title
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Letter to Mary Wheeler Walker about work at the Warm Springs Agency, including school and church matters
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Description
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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.
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Creator
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Walker, Cyrus Hamlin
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Date
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1890
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Is Part Of
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Cyrus Walker Binder 1
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Identifier
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PUA_MS102_1890_08_14.pdf
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Provenance
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Donated by Betty Thorn, Walker Family descendant.
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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Type
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Text
