Frances was the daughter of Rev. William Monroe Calfee and Mary Hopkins Strong. In 1884, Frances and her sister Mercy west to York Co., Nebraska where Mercy was a teacher. On February 24, 1905, she married William P. Haines in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
In 1900, Frances was the agency field matron for a school on an Indian reservation (for the Hualapai [People of the Tall Pines] Indian Reservation) in Truxton, Mohave County, Arizona. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Article from "The Coconino Weekly Sun," May 17, 1894):
TO EDUCATE THE WALLAPA Indians, is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss F.S. Calfee, of Keam's Canyon, sent here by an association of Massachusetts women to teach the Wallapai Indians , is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss Calfee is a business woman and the right person to successfully carry through an undertaking such as the one she is on, but in order to cope with the difficulty of leading a tribe of savages from their old, beaten paths into the sunshine of Christianity and education, she must be be strongly financially backed by the Christian ladies who have sent her out. The wise course to pursue is for the association to erect a school building of its own at or near Kingman....)
In 1900, Frances was the agency field matron for a school on an Indian reservation (for the Hualapai [People of the Tall Pines] Indian Reservation) in Truxton, Mohave County, Arizona. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Article from "The Coconino Weekly Sun," May 17, 1894):
TO EDUCATE THE WALLAPA Indians, is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss F.S. Calfee, of Keam's Canyon, sent here by an association of Massachusetts women to teach the Wallapai Indians , is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss Calfee is a business woman and the right person to successfully carry through an undertaking such as the one she is on, but in order to cope with the difficulty of leading a tribe of savages from their old, beaten paths into the sunshine of Christianity and education, she must be be strongly financially backed by the Christian ladies who have sent her out. The wise course to pursue is for the association to erect a school building of its own at or near Kingman....)
Frances was the daughter of Rev. William Monroe Calfee and Mary Hopkins Strong. In 1884, Frances and her sister Mercy west to York Co., Nebraska where Mercy was a teacher. On February 24, 1905, she married William P. Haines in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
In 1900, Frances was the agency field matron for a school on an Indian reservation (for the Hualapai [People of the Tall Pines] Indian Reservation) in Truxton, Mohave County, Arizona. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Article from "The Coconino Weekly Sun," May 17, 1894):
TO EDUCATE THE WALLAPA Indians, is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss F.S. Calfee, of Keam's Canyon, sent here by an association of Massachusetts women to teach the Wallapai Indians , is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss Calfee is a business woman and the right person to successfully carry through an undertaking such as the one she is on, but in order to cope with the difficulty of leading a tribe of savages from their old, beaten paths into the sunshine of Christianity and education, she must be be strongly financially backed by the Christian ladies who have sent her out. The wise course to pursue is for the association to erect a school building of its own at or near Kingman....)
In 1900, Frances was the agency field matron for a school on an Indian reservation (for the Hualapai [People of the Tall Pines] Indian Reservation) in Truxton, Mohave County, Arizona. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Article from "The Coconino Weekly Sun," May 17, 1894):
TO EDUCATE THE WALLAPA Indians, is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss F.S. Calfee, of Keam's Canyon, sent here by an association of Massachusetts women to teach the Wallapai Indians , is busy taking notes and figuring on the best way to making a start. Miss Calfee is a business woman and the right person to successfully carry through an undertaking such as the one she is on, but in order to cope with the difficulty of leading a tribe of savages from their old, beaten paths into the sunshine of Christianity and education, she must be be strongly financially backed by the Christian ladies who have sent her out. The wise course to pursue is for the association to erect a school building of its own at or near Kingman....)
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