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 Pete & Elizabeth Crampton’s child John. This file contains an application, medical records, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Maggie Cross’ child Mabel. This file contains an application, case form, grade report, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Eliza Daniels’ children Lena, Sophia, Raymond, & Stella. This file contains medical records, social work logs, social work reports, boarding home reports, photographs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Charles & Maude Dashner’s children Chester, Lester, Virginia, Samuel, Nora, Naomi, Norma, Gerald, & Norman. This file contains a case form, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Alice Dashner’s child Johnny. This file contains applications, court documents, grade reports, case forms, medical forms, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Daniel & Maggie David’s children Abraham, Caleb, Joshua, & Johnson. This file contains a case form, applications, medical records, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for James & Lucy Davis’ children Clara, Mary Jane, Leo, James, Charlotte, Rachael, Rosie, Ernest, & Arlene. This file contains a case form, application, reports, medical records, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Howard & Grace Davis’ child Ruby. This file contains a case form, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Anna Erickson’s children Arthur and Howard. This file contains an application, case form, grade reports, medical records, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Herbert & Mary Ericson’s children Herbert and Margaret. This file contains a case form, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Eugene & Maggie Fountain’s children Dorothy, Ellsworth, Ellen (Phoebe), Harvey, & William. This file contains applications, medical records, dental records, receipts, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Susan Gablo’s children Eliza and Lizzie. This file contains an application, case forms, grade reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Jim & Nancy Gablo’s children Emmett, Charles, James, John, Francis, & Albert. This file contains a case form, application, grade report, post card, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Victor & Mary Geddert’s children Fay, Mirlin, and Leona. This file contains applications and correspondence.
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This is the record for James & Clara Genia’s children Mary, Howard, Louisa, Joseph, Leroy, & Floyd. This file contains correspondence.
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This is the record for Ferdinand & Florence Genschow’s children Dorothy, William, Ferdinand, Mary, Robert, Billy, Grace, & Betty. This file contains applications, forms, medical reports, social work logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Clarence & Josephine Gill’s children Tommy, Jesse, Harry, Rosie, Catherine, Clarence, Henry Joseph, & Charlotte. This file contains a case form, social work logs, social work reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Christine Gingway’s children Doris, Irene, Delia, Caroline, Lawrence, Edith, Edwin, Ernest, Melvin, & Evelyn. This file contains forms, applications, medical & dental records, social work logs & reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Frank & Ruth Gowens’ children Francis, Rachel, and Mildred. This file contains a case form, social worker logs, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Amos & Sarah Graverette’s children William, Joseph, Virginia, Kathleen, Moses, James, & Geraldine. This file contains applications, medical records, social work logs & reports, a photo, and newspaper clipping.
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This is the record for Frank & Alice Hamilton’s children Bessie, Oliver, and Paul. This file contains applications, grade reports, and correspondence.
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This is the record for John & Mary Hardwick’s children Roy, John, Evelyn, Luella, Clyde, Leona, Raymond, & Shirley. This file contains a case form, applications, school reports, social work logs, medical records, and correspondence.
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This is the record for Andrew & Nancy Isaac’s children Elizabeth, Eliza Ann, Fred, & Lillian. This file contains applications and correspondence.
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This is the record for Dan & Charlotte Isaac’s children Florence and Agnes. This file contains a case form, loan application, business college course guide, social worker logs, and correspondence.