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Albert Keith Smiley (1828-1912) was born in Vassalboro, Maine, the son of Quakers Daniel Smiley and Phebe Howland Smiley. He graduated from Haverford College in 1848 and was an instructor at the college for 5 years. In 1857, Smiley married Eliza Cornell. From 1853 to 1860 he served as the principal at Oak Grove Seminary [Vassalboro, Maine]; from 1860-1879, he was teacher, later principal at Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1879, Smiley was appointed to the Board of Indian Commissioners by President Hayes. Smiley was one of the organizers of a series of conferences at Lake Mohonk in New York to discuss Native Americans, African Americans, and peace issues which were held from 1885 to 1930.
Biographical information from the Dictionary of Quaker Biography, biographical sketches in typescript, Special Collections, Haverford College Library.
This collection is arranged under three headings: Lake Mohonk Conferences, Papers of Daniel Smiley, and Miscellaneous. Under each of these headings, the arrangement is chronological, by year, and alphabetical under each year. The table of contents of the Lake Mohonk Conferences has been made more than usually detailed, in an effort to help the researcher screen the material. In general, where anything of importance is said on a special topic, a parenthetical note is given. If an entry has no note, or is simply marked. [To and from], this indicates that the writer was probably invited to attend and perhaps represents a certain category of people (as, for instance, the Government superintendents of Native American reservations, many of whom were invited each year, but comparatively few of whom were able to attend.)
Papers consist of correspondence, printed documents, clippings, maps, and photographs and include the archives of the Lake Mohonk Indian Conferences for the "uplifting" of Native American, African-American, Hawaiian, Filipino, and Puerto Rican peoples, sponsored by Albert Keith Smiley and Daniel Smiley from 1883 to 1929. In 1983, the centennial of the first Indian Conference was celebrated at Lake Mohonk and memorabilia from that event is included in the collection; also, private archives of Daniel Smiley, as a member of the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners, 1912-1930; also, a small group of miscellaneous family items. In addition to extensive material in both sets of archives on Indians all over the United States, Daniel Smiley's papers contain a special file (ca. 142 items) on indigenous nations in New York State. Correspondents include representative Native Americans, Filipinos, Hawaiians, and Puerto Ricans and leading American clergymen, missionaries, ethnologists, educators, editors, doctors, military men, and Government officials of the period. A few of the outstanding ones are the following:
Native Americans: Reverend Henry Roe Cloud (Ho-Chunk), Dr. Charles Eastman (also known as Ohiyesa; Santee Sioux), Dr. Carlos Montezuma (also known as Wassaja; Yavapai-Apache), Francis La Flesche (Omaha): Filipinos: Manuel Quezon, Benito Legarda; Hawaiians: Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, Gov. Sanford B. Dole: Puerto Ricans: Martin Travieso, Tulio Larrinaga; American clergymen: Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, Rev. S. Parkes Cadman; American missionaries: Reverend Walter C. Roe and Mrs. Mary W. Roe, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent; Ethnologists: James M. Mooney, Alice C. Fletcher, of the Smithsonian Institution; Educators: Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Dr. Charles W. Eliot: Editors: Reverend Lyman Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie: Doctors: Bailey K. Ashford, Victor G. Heiser, Luther H. Gulick: Military: Gens. Hugh Lenox Scott, Arthur MacArthur, George W. Davis, John J. Pershing: Admiral George Dewey: Government Officials: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith.
The creation of the electronic guide for this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
Finding aid entered into the Archivists' Toolkit by Garrett Boos.
Albert K. Smiley's Haverford College senior thesis written in 1906 entitled "The Value of Color in Animals" is available in the Haverford College archives.
People
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Davis, George W. (George Whitefield )
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
- Scott, Hugh Lenox
- Brent, Charles Henry
- Ashford, Bailey K. (Bailey Kelly)
- Cloud , Henry Roe
- Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes)
- Smiley, Albert K. (Albert Keith), 1828-1912
- Smiley, Daniel, 1855-1930
- Eliot, Charles William
- Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Dole, Sanford B. (Sanford Ballard)
- Dewey, George
- Kalanianaole, Jonah Kuhio
- Gulick, Luther Halsey
- Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)
- La Flesche, Francis
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
- Mooney, James
- Montezuma, Carlos
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Organization
- Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples
- Lake Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question
- United States. Board of Indian Commissioners
- Society of Friends
- Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Haverford College Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2010.10.13
- Sponsor
- The creation of the electronic guide for this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project. Finding aid entered into the Archivists' Toolkit by Garrett Boos.
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Collection Inventory
- Garrett, Philip C., member, U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners
- Pulitzer, Joseph, Editor, The World
- Oberly, Jonathan H., Superintendent of Indian Schools
- Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the Police Department, New York
- Sharpless, Isaac, President of Haverford College
- Jackson, Sheldon, Washington, D.C., [declines because will be establishing schools among Alaska Natives in the Arctic] w. Cross, James, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, September 28, 1891 [refers to disturbances of the Dakota Nations] 1890 April 4
- Account. Twelfth Mohonk Indian Conference. Prepared by Frank Wood, treasurer, 1894
- Subscription list for reports of the Twelfth Mohonk Indian Conference, 1894
- Notebook, kept by [Mrs. Daniel Smiley (Effie Florence Newell)] listing people expected at Mohonk Indian Conference of 1893
- Armstrong, Frank C., Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia [Native Americans should be protected; government should provide work for them and pay them; regulations should be flexible; Indian agents should be chosen on a non-political basis], 1895 August 29
- Fletcher, Alice. Washington, D.C. [Native Americans "need help to maintain self-respect"], 1896 October 10
- Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the Police Department, New York
- Thomas, M. Carey, President of Bryn Mawr College
- Woodson, A.E., Darlington, OK [re practice of rewarding Native Americans "showing a willingness to live on their allotment by gratuitous government issue," and punishing those who are not by withholding same; names practices that have been outlawed], 1896 October 27
- Worden, Ella, Santee Agency, Nebraska [improved relations between Santee Sioux and Crow Nations], 1896 September 22
- Aldrich, Nelson, U.S. Senator
- Barrows, Isabel, Notes. Taken at Fourteenth Mohonk Conference on the Indian. 24 pages
- Clawson, Reverend W.W., Hogansburg, New York [agrees with Capt. Pratt that Native Americans "should become self-sufficient"; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and citizenship], 1896 October 31
- Folsom, Cora M. Hampton [funds needed for continued education of [Hampton] graduates and examples of need cited], 1896 October 23
- Boyden, Helen F., Oberlin, Ohio, undated [re raising funds for what she describes as the first southern hospital to admit colored people]
- Hardy, Alfred, Farmington, Connecticut [re financial aid for Field Matrons], 1897 June 9
- Account, Fifteenth Mohonk Indian Conference, prepared by treasurer, Frank Wood
- Subscriptions for reports of the Fifteenth Mohonk Indian Conference, 1897
- Letters of declination, report requests, names suggested for invitation to the conference
- List of people scheduled to attend
- Bettle, Edward, Jr., American Friend
- Fletcher, Alice C., ethnologist
- Garrett, John B., American Friend
- Hartshorne, Charles, American Friend
- Jones, James K., senator from Illinois
- Roosevelt, Theodore, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, T.L. signed by amanuensis
- Thomas, M. Carey, Bryn Mawr, October 29, 1897 speaks of amount of endowments to Bryn Mawr, finances, student enrollments. Letter, 6 p, 1897 October 29
- Logan, Walter L., New York, crew Curtis Bill concerning rights to Cherokee lands and funds, 1898 August 12
- Washington, Booker T., Tuskegee, Alabama, February 8, 1898
- Abbott, Edward, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 5, 1898 relaying information concerning conference to educate and Christianize southern "toiling masses"]
- Badly, Joshua L., American Friend
- Collins, Mary C., Ft. Yates, North Dakota, September 20, 1898 confusing white standards for Native Americans and schooling
- Cook, Reverend C.H., Sacaton, Arizona, 1898 October 6 re Akimel O'otham (Pima) and evil of dancing
- Fletcher, Alice C., ethnologist
- Foster, Henry, M.D., Clifton Springs, New York, concludes newspaper clipping by J.O. Fries re Seminole and Miccosukee Nations in the Everglades "imposed" upon whites, and land set aside for them, 1898 October 4
- Hale, Edward Everett, author
- Mowry, William A., Hyde Park, Massachusetts, various Native American problems, citing pauperism as precursor to indolence and vice, 1898 October 7
- Fitzgerald, John J., Congressman from New York
- Jones, James K., Senator from Illinois
- La Flesche, Francis, "Indian Ethnologist"
- McCumber, Porter J., Senator from North Dakota. Typed Letter, stamped signature
- Meigs, Katharine H., author
- Merrill, Fred W., Oneida, Wisconsin, September 23, 1901 speaks of new creamery at Oneida
- Platt, Orville H., Senator from Connecticut
- Roosevelt, Theodore, vice—president. Typed Letter. signed by amanuensis i. Telle, Alinton, attorney to the Choctaw Nation, Atoka Indian territory
- Notebook kept by Mrs. Effie Florence (Newell) Smiley listing people expected at 1901 Mohonk Indian Conference