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Joseph Samuel Murrow Collection
Description:  Murrow Indian Orphans' Home.

Monthly report. Includes roll number, name of pupil, age, gender, date entered, date of departure, September 1907.

Receipts of Murrow Indian Orphan Home for services rendered by Wyand, Broaddus & Ambrister, Attorneys at Law, 1920.

Railroad freight bills and bills of lading, 1907-1909.

American Express Co. and Wells Fargo and Co. receipts, 1908.

Model Steam Laundry, Coalgate, Oklahoma, receipt, 1909.

Three postcards, addressed to C.J. Eddy, Treasurer, Murrow Indian Orphans' Home, 1901.

Two letters to Rev. J. S. Murrow from I. S. Wright, lists name of contributor and amount of pledge, and names of children wanted to send to orphanage, 8/30/1906.

List of letters written possibly in support of a home exclusively for Indian orphan children, n.d.

"To the American Baptist Publication Society" from the Murrow Baptist Sunday School. Signed T. B. Thompson, 1909.

"A Sunday School Story," written from memory, by Louise Shunatona, n.d.

"Memorial To Congress Relating To The Murrow Indian Orphans Home." This document requests the establishment of a reservation for the Murrow Indian Orphan Home. Includes a location map depicting the legal description by township, range and section, Nov. 31, 1905.
Date:  1905-1920
Collection:  Murrow, Joseph Samuel (1835-1930)
General
Document Location:  Box 1, Folder 12


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