Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School
Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School
These case files were compiled to track students' progress at the school. Specifically the files served as a means of recording both academic and vocational training.
The Mount Pleasant Indian School opened as a non-reservation boarding school in 1892. It performed some agency duties for the Indians in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, particularly for the Chippewa of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River on the Isabella Reservation. The school closed in 1934 and students were sent to the Tomah Indian Industrial School in Tomah, Wisconsin or to local public schools.
This series consists of student case files of Indians who attended Mount Pleasant Indian School in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Files typically include the student's application to attend Mount Pleasant, as well as reports of grades, deportment, and medical or disciplinary problems. While the information in files varies, most files include the student's name, date of birth, tribal affiliation, degree of Indian blood, home address and dates of attendance. Some files include correspondence between school officials and at times between school officials and graduates. The majority of the records are from the Mount Pleasant School. Some Bureau of Indian Affairs Social Services material is included for on-site visits after the school closed in 1934.
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This is the record for Adam & Elizabeth Sprague’s children Lee, Naomi, Isaac, Elmer, Joyce, Paul, Frances, Ruth, Richard, & Charles. This file contains a case form, dental record, financial documents, applications, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Henry & Rose Sprague’s children Philomen, Joseph, Amos, Henry, Margaret, Marlene, Frank, Anna, May, & Roger. This file contains a case form, social worker log, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Henry & Katherine Thomas’s child Rosaline. This file contains an application, affidavit, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Levi & Agnes Topash’s children Mary, August, Daniel, Pauline, Wanda, Lee, Robert, Georgia, & James. This file contains a case form, applications, grade reports, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Ben & Rose Trombley’s child Grace. This file contains an application, grade report, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Ben & Rose Trombley’s child Mary. This file contains an application, medical certificate, dental record, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Pete & Sophia Wabindato’s children Nina, John, Henry, & Jacob. This file contains an application, case form, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Jackson & Theresa Walker’s children Clara, Irene, Jerry, & John. This file contains applications, medical records, dental records, grade reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Susie Walker’s child John. This file contains an application, grade report, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Jake & Margaret Walker’s child Nora. This file contains an application and correspondence.
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This is the record for George & Sarah Wasageshik’s children Archie and Joseph. This file contains applications and correspondence.
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This is the record for Charles & Angeline Wasagishick’s child David. This file contains an application, dental records, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Whitney Albert & Alice Wesley’s children Hazel, Susan, & Elizabeth. This file contains a case form, applications, medical records, dental records, receipts, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Norman & Angeline Williams’s child Louise. This file contains correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Nellie Willis’s children Anna, Dorothy, Raymond, Homer, & Gordon. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, affidavits, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Thomas & Angeline Winchester’s child Theresa. This file contains a grade report.
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This is the record for Sam & Marie Wright’s children Elizabeth, Michael, Bertha, Rosemary, Victor, & Frieda. This file contains a case form, social worker log, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Lyman & Tena Joseph’s children Dennis, Inez, Allen, Mabel, Paul, & Albert. This file contains a case form, financial form, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Paul & Margaret Joseph’s children Wilbert, Elizabeth, Margaret, & Nancy Ann. This file contains a case form and correspondence.
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This is the record for Gilbert & Rose Joseph’s children Gilbert, George, Lillian, Susie, Henry, & Merlin Eddie. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Emma Joseph’s children Lyman, Joe, Sarah, Alice, Sally, Janie, Mabel, & Paul. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, social worker reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Philip & Josephine McLeod’s children Jack, Patrick, Thomas, Mary, Dorothy, Francis, & Bernard. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, social worker reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Benjamin & Della Roussain’s children George and Aylmer. This file contains a blank form, grade report, applications, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Benjamin & Elizabeth Roussain’s child Kenneth. This file contains an application and correspondence.