Whites Institute Cemetery
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Whites Institute Cemetery

Treaty, Wabash County, Indiana, USA

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    Coordinates: 40.74483, -85.77977
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This is an old burying ground located on the White's Institute and Residential Services grounds. Up until 1895, White's was known as White's Indian Manual School, operated by the Society of Friends. There are records for eleven burials from 1885 to 1917. Some of the children who died while in residence at the Indian Manual School were buried at Friends Cemetery in Noble Township. --SixDogTeam

it was formed in 1853 as a Quaker missionary school for Indians, a charity school operated by the Society of Friends. Eventually more that 60 Indian children from a number of western reservations boarded there annually, with the last class in 1895.

In the summer of 1883 the experiment was first tried of bringing Indian children from the western plains to the institute for the purposeof educating them. On the evening of February 5, 1884, Professor Coppack, of the institute, with Nathan Coggshall and Mrs. Joseph Pleas, started for the far West to arrange for bringing thirty-seven Indian children to the institute, in addition to the thirty-three who had already been accommodated. Their purpose was to "select such children as know little or nothing of civilization and make them over into civilized Americans. "While the Government paid to the institute a certain sum per capita for the Indian children brought there, the board of trustees concluded that this feature of its work was outside of its scope as defined by Mr.White. A few years after the inauguration of the experiment the Government set up its own Indian Schools.



This is an old burying ground located on the White's Institute and Residential Services grounds. Up until 1895, White's was known as White's Indian Manual School, operated by the Society of Friends. There are records for eleven burials from 1885 to 1917. Some of the children who died while in residence at the Indian Manual School were buried at Friends Cemetery in Noble Township. --SixDogTeam

it was formed in 1853 as a Quaker missionary school for Indians, a charity school operated by the Society of Friends. Eventually more that 60 Indian children from a number of western reservations boarded there annually, with the last class in 1895.

In the summer of 1883 the experiment was first tried of bringing Indian children from the western plains to the institute for the purposeof educating them. On the evening of February 5, 1884, Professor Coppack, of the institute, with Nathan Coggshall and Mrs. Joseph Pleas, started for the far West to arrange for bringing thirty-seven Indian children to the institute, in addition to the thirty-three who had already been accommodated. Their purpose was to "select such children as know little or nothing of civilization and make them over into civilized Americans. "While the Government paid to the institute a certain sum per capita for the Indian children brought there, the board of trustees concluded that this feature of its work was outside of its scope as defined by Mr.White. A few years after the inauguration of the experiment the Government set up its own Indian Schools.



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