Andrus, Caroline W.

Miss Caroline W. Andrus arrived at Hampton Institute when she was ten years of age, accompanied by her mother who had 1875-1961 come to Hampton to care for her oldest daughter, a teacher at Hampton Institute who was ill with malaria. Miss Andrus remained at the College and when old enough began working in the Indian Records Office, under the supervision of Miss Cora M. Folsom. She later succeeded Miss Folsom as Director of the Indian Records Office when Miss Folsom retired in 1922.

1899-1961

Cards, handwritten and typewritten letters, notices and telegrams. Included are letters from G. Bates, Batavia, New York; Ruth Benton, Chicago, Illinois; Lucy Bloxton Amherst, Virginia; Elias Bradford, Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Howard A. Briggs, Huntington, Massachusetts; John Calhoun, Cornwall, Massachusetts; Sarah Carter, Etna, Maine; Helen Clark, Neah Bay, Washington; Mrs. Gilbert Colgate (no locality given); Mary G. Darling, Hampton Virginia; Anna L. Dawes, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Louise Dewey, Boston, Massachusetts; William S. Dodd, Hampton, Virginia; Mrs. F.N. Doubleday, Brooklyn, New York; Evangeline Dupuis, Winnebago Nebraska; Alice Fletcher, Washington D.C.; F.P. Frazier, Santee, Nebraska; George Frazier, Portland, Oregon; Julia Frissell, New York; Emma Goulette, Shawnee, Oklahoma; Laura Harding, Denver, Colorado; Mollie Haskell, New York City, New York; E.M. Holmes, Sheffield, Massachusetts; Annie Howe, Brooklyn, Massachusetts; H.D. Howe, Hampton, Virginia; W.A. Livingston, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Hattie Lombard, Wilton, Massachusetts; Ethlyn McPherson, LeRoy, New York; W.P. Nau Ness, Washington D.C.; Geoffrey O'Hara, New York City, New York; Sampson Owl (uncle and later guardian of the Owl's who attended Hampton Institute), Cherokee, North Carolina; Thomas Owl (alumni of Hampton Institute), Cushing, Oklahoma; Lucy Palmer (no locality given); Mrs. George M. Palmer, Coble-skill, New York; Dee Swift Parker, Akron, New York; Julia Remington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; H. Schultz, Madison, Wisconsin; L.W. Scoville, West Cornwall, Connecticut; W.H. Scoville, Orange, New Jersey; Mrs. C.J. Springer, Macy, Nebraska; Wallace Springer, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Roy and Josephine Stabler, Winnebago, Nebraska; Rolando Sundown, New Mexico; I.N. Webster, Oneida, Wisconsin; Alice Whitney, Newport News, Virginia; Annie Dawson Wilde, Emmit North Dakota; S. P. H. Wislow, Cleveland, Ohio: Michael Wolf, Wolf Point, Montana; Elizabeth Wolfe, San Miguel, Arizona; and Mrs. George Woolsey, New York City, New York.

1908-1954 (Educational)

Handwritten and typewritten letters, notices, and memos. Included are items from the American Indian Institute; Bacone College; Cook Christian Training School; Haskell Institute; Mohonk School; Mount Hermon Boy's School; Ohio State University; Radcliffe College Endowment Fund; St. Elizabeth's School; Santee Normal Training School; School of Household Arts; Springfield College; State Normal University; Tulalip Training School; University of the State of New York; and the University School of Music.

1900-1922 (Hampton Institute Staff)

Handwritten and typewritten letters, memos, and notices. Included are items from William Aery; Julia Baker; W.K. Blodgett; G.W. Blount; Edward Chichester; Pauline Corey; Cora Folsom; H.B. Frissell; Fred Gleason; Dr. James E. Gregg; Mollie Haskell; Charles Hoffman; Elizabeth Hyde; Grace Morgan; Robert R. Moton; Dr. George Foster Peabody; Dr. George P. Phenix: E.D. Proudman; Frank K. Rogers; William H. Scoville; Martha Smith; Herbert Turner; Allan Washington and F.C. Weisman.

1901-1922 (Mission and Missionary Organizations)

Handwritten and typewritten letters. Included are letters from the American Home Mission Society; American Missionary Association; Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church; Cache Creek Mission; Dakota Indian Mission; Fort Berthold mission; Cheyenne- Mennonite Mission; F.W. Merrill, Mission House, Mission to the Navajo Indians; Missionary District of South Dakota; Reverend Henry Vruwink, Missionary to the Cheyenne and Arapaho, Oklahoma Indian Mission; Presbyterian Mission House; Red Stone Baptist Mission; African-Methodist- Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, Spanish and Portuguese District, Winnebago Indian Mission; and the Woman's Home Missionary Union.

1910-1921 (Other Organizations and Associations)

Handwritten and typewritten letters. Included are letters from Albert, Daniel and Hugh Smiley, Mohonk (Lake) Mountain House, Ulster County, New York; Sarah E. Fisher, MoHonk Lodge, Iroquois, New York; newspaper editors, magazine. Rio Grande Lodge (letters from John Oskison, Colliers Magazine, New York; Charles Towne, Designer, New York City, New York; William Ahterton, Dupuy, Washington, D.C.; James Cooke, Ethude Magazine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Susan Mendenhall, Everyland Magazine, New York City, New York; E.R. Ellard, Good Housekeeping Magazine, New York City, New York; Richard Badger, Gorham Press, Boston, Massachusetts; Hemit Cal., Milton, Pennsylvania and Norfolk, Virginia; James Keating, Lookout Magazine, Washington, D.C.; William Brown, Southern Workman, Hampton Virginia; Isabel Curtis, Success Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Hiram Greens, Woman’s World Magazine, Chicago,Illinois); postal and greeting cards from Carrie F. Arnold, Richmond, Virginia; G.J. Frazier, Portland, Oregon; Rachel Hinman, Winnebago, Nebraska; Stephan Jones, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Lucy Kennedy, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Julia Lucart, Winnebago, Nebraska; Fred and Hilda Pattee, Bellingham, Washington; Edgar Skenandore (no locality given); Issac Webster, Oneida, Wisconsin; Donald Wolf, Missoula, Montana; Emma Wolf Point, Montana and Alamo, North Dakota; telegrams from Katherine Andrus, Barrington, Massachusetts ; Anna Berkenpas, Winnebago, Nebraska; Henry Roe Cloud, Auburn, New York and Witchata, Kansas; P.G. Corey, Hampton, Virginia; F.P. Franzier, Springfield, South Dakota and Washington, D.C.; Dr. James Gregg (successor to Dr. Hollis Burke Frissell as principal of Hampton Institute), Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Addie Jayne and F.A. McKenzie, Washington, D.C. and Columbus, Ohio; A.L. Townell, Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Henry Vruwink, Weatherford, Oklahoma; Louis F. Watermulder, Winnebago, Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa; copies of telegrams sent by Miss Andrus to Charles Bender, Boston, Massachusetts; F.A. McKenzie, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. H.B. Frissell, Boston, Massachusetts; Miss Helen Townsend, Monterey, Massachusetts; J.A. Wise, Lawrence, Kansas; Albert Kneale, Winnebago, Nebraska; Eli J. Bost, Wittenburg, Wisconsin; John Martinez, Andover, Massachusetts; Mrs. James Skenandore, Oneida, Wisconsin; J.C. Hart, Oneida, Wisconsin; typewritten letters from the Thomas Indian School, Iroquios, New York, (letters from Alta Alden; J.C. Brennan; Ida L. Burn; and Emily Lincoln).

1912-1921 (The Society of American Indians)

Included are letters from Marie L. Baldwin, Washington D.C.; Thomas G. Bishop, Washington, D.C.; Gertrude Bonnin, Washington, D.C.; Sherman Coolidge, Columbus, Ohio, Washington, D.C. and Fairbault, Minnesota; Charles Dagenett, Washington, D.C.; Dora B. McCulty and F.A. McKenzie, Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado; Thomas C. Moffett, New York and Washington, D.C.; Arthur C. Parker, Albany, New York, Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.; Resolutions Committee, Columbus, Ohio; correspondence sent by Miss Andrus to M.W. Andrus, Sheffield, Massachusetts; Peter Arkeketa, Lawrence, Kansas; Anna Berkenpas, Winnebago, Nebraska; Jamor Lamborn, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert McCleve, Cheshire, Connecticut; F.B. Riggs, Santee, Nebraska; Rodney Roundy, New York,New York; A.L. Towne, Williamsburg,Massachusetts; Reverend Harry Treat, Anadarko, Oklahoma; and Reverend Jesse Williamson, Greenwood, South Dakota.