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 Frank & Agnes Sawalk’s children Charles, Christine, Joe, Winifred, & Frank. This file contains a case form, receipts, medical & dental records, grade reports, applications, social worker logs & reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Napoleon & Louise St. Louis’s children Ruth Christine, Robert, Napoleon, and Florence. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, social worker reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Fred & Sarah Sprinkett’s children Nelson and William. This file contains a grade report, case forms, court documents, medical records, applications, social worker logs & reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Lewis & Amanda Williams’s children Dorothy, Lee, Leon, Mary Lou, Rebekah, & Rachel. This file contains a case form and correspondence.
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This is the record for Riley & Martha Williams’s child Elmer. This file contains an application, social worker logs, medical records, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Joseph & Lucy Baker’s children Evylena, Mabel, & Jessie. This file contains a grade report, applications, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Isaac & Kate Muscoe’s child Mary. This file contains applications, grade reports, blank forms, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Joseph & Anna Nedeau’s children Carrie, Edgar, & Doris. This file contains a tourism advertisement, case form, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Peter Williams. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, social worker reports, drawings, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Frank & Agnes Gilbault’s children Rose, Louise, Josephine, Emma, Lucille, Eva, George, & Fred. This file contains a loan application, case form, transfer certificate, affidavits, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Peter & Elizabeth Gibson’s children Isaac and Paul. This file contains a case form, grade report, applications, blank forms, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Mary Gilbert’s child Amanda. This file contains a blank grade report, applications, and blank forms.
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This is the record for William & Emma Gilbert’s child Beulah. This file contains a receipt, applications, grade reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Mitchell & Annie Gilbert’s child Joseph. This file contains an application, grade report, and medical form.
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This is the record for Joe & Amelia Gilbert’s child William. This file contains an application, grade transcript, social worker log, and correspondence.
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This is the record for William & Helen Gilbert’s child William. This file contains a case form and correspondence.
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This is the record for Benjamin & Grace Gilmore’s children Kenneth, Virginia, Velma, and Durward. This file contains an application, case form, telegram, drawing, social worker log, dental records, receipts, grade reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Margaret Glochiski’s children Richard, Phyllis, Esther, & Daisy. This file contains a case form and social worker logs.
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This is the record for Henry Gokey. This file contains an application, grade report, medical forms, blank forms, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Hannibal & Emma Gordon’s children Hannibal and Miron. This file contains an application, medical records, dental records, and correspondence.
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This is the file for Amos & Louise Gould’s children George and Dorothy. This file contains an application, case form, social worker logs, social worker reports, and correspondence.
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This is the file for Cromwell & Mary Dooley’s child Betty Marie. This file contains a case form, applications, grade reports, blank forms, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Gus & Clara Gould’s children Richard and Ronald Dean. This file contains a case form, grade report, dental record, application, social worker log, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Henry & Josephine Gouler’s children Dora and Edmund. This file contains applications, blank forms, grade reports, and correspondence.