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Title
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Letter to Mary Walker about the Indian Census, school employees, and other Warms Springs Agency business
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Description
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A letter from Cyrus Walker to his wife, Mary Wheeler Walker. At the time, Cyrus was a clerk at the Warm Springs Indian Agency, and his wife and their child were living temporarily in another county. Cyrus describes creating a final copy of the annual Indian Census, school employees, and other Agency 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_8.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
