Albert Lamborn Green Papers

Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947) was a Quaker Indian Agent for the Otoe Agency in Nebraska during the period of President Grant's "peace policy," 1869-1872.

He was the son of Sarah Sharpless and William Lamborn Green of Chester Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant as Indian Agent to the Confederated Otoe and Missouri tribes in Nebraska. In 1871, he married Sarah Cadwallader Lightfoot of Horsham Monthly Meeting who was the daughter of Thomas Lightfoot, also an Indian Agent. The family settled in Beatrice, Nebraska. After the death of his first wife, he married a second time, in 1921, to Emma Crothers of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

The bulk of the correspondence in this collection is comprised of letters written to Green from Philadelphia Friends in regard to gifts in suppport of humanitarian efforts by Quakers in Native American Communities. Later letters written by Green describe from memory the social life and customs of the Otoe-Missouria tribe. The collection has information on the Otoe language, vocabulary, etc., and also correspondence in 1934-1935 with J. Russell Hayes giving an account from memory of life among the Otoes in the 1870s. Some drawings are included in the collection. Correspondents include William Dorsey, Benjamin Hallowell, J. Russell Hayes, Samuel M. Janney, Samuel Jeanes, John Saunders.

The collection is divided into four groups:

1. Biographical information
2. Otoe Indians
3. Correspondence received
4. Correspondence sent
5. Writings by A.L. Green and newsclippings

1. "The Otoe Indians," by Major A. L. Green, Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Vol. XXI, 1930.

Accession information:

Donor: Albert Lamborn Green, 1935

Donor: Mary Bloodgood, 1990

The collection was given by Albert L. Green in 1935. Additional papers (photocopies) were given in 1990 by his granddaughter, Mary Bloodgood.

Formerly cited as Green Manuscripts. Catalogued completely before 1950 in Manuscript Card Index (FHL Reading Room). Circa 1985, transferred to Record Group 5. In 1990, photocopies of documents and publications by Albert L. Green and newsclippings about him received from his granddaughter were added to the collection.

RG2 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Indian Committee.

RG4/031 Friends Indian Aid Association.

RG 5/184, Lightfoot Family Papers

Use

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Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/175, Albert Lamborn Green Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Publisher

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Finding aids author

FHL staff

Date

Before 1950

Creator

Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency

Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880

Saunders, John, 1814-1891

Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894

Dorsey, William, 1811-1874

Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945

Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892)

Subject

Oto Indians

Society of Friends -- Nebraska

Church work with the Poor -- Society of Friends

Church work with Indigenous peoples -- Society of Friends

Indigenous peoples of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934

Indigenous peoples of North America -- Missions

Quakers -- Social service -- United States

Society of Friends -- Indian Affairs

Quakers -- Nebraska

Indigenous peoples of North America -- Nebraska

Language

English