HARWOOD H. HALL, superintendent of the Sherman Institute
The name of the institute was given it as a tribute to Vice-President Sherman, a warm friend of the American Indian, who was at the time of its organization the chairman of the congressional committee on Indian affairs. There had been a school for Indian youth near Perris, which, under the management of Harwood Hall, had demonstrated the value of such a method of training the Indian for American citizenship, and when it became evident that larger accommodations and better surroundings were necessary to carry forward effectively this splendid philantropic work the effort to secure the proposed larger instituion for Riverside had the support of men of national repuitation, like Albert K. Smiley of Redlands, Collis P. Huntington, and others, and of the California representitives in both houses of congress. The cornerstone of the first building was laid June 18, 1901, by Hon. A. C. Tanner, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, Senator Perkins and other taking part in the exercises, and in May of the following year, nine of the buildings were completed, and the enrollment of pupils began. The school had an enrollment in 1912 of 631 pupils, who hailed from twelve states and represented fifty-five tribes. The management of Harwood Hall, and of his successor, Frank M. Conser, had been admirable, and the character and acquirements of the graduates who went out from the Sherman Institute to take their places among other American citizens furnished the strongest possible evidence of the sensible and thoroughly practical training given them.
HARWOOD HALL CALLED BY DEATH
Harwood H. Hall, 69, Organizer and former superintendent of Sherman Institute, died at Los Angeles Wednesday, the victim of a paralytic stroke. The announcement of his death came as a great surprise to Sherman people.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Frances D. Hall, and one daughter, Mrs. Lila Hall McDermott, who is in Europe where she has been spending the winter. Mrs. Hall arrived in Riverside on Thursday where she is the guest of Mrs. Alice Richardson of the Mission Inn. Mr. Hall's body was brought to the E. H. Preston Funeral Home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall were Riverside residents for a number of years and have many friends here. They have been Los Angeles residents for several years, their residence being at 155 South Normandie street.
Mr. Hall was a native of Salem county, New Jersey born March 27, 1859. He was reared in New Jersey up to the age of twenty, and was educated in the academy of Salem. At the age mentioned he moved to Stockton, MO., where his uncle, D. P. Stratton, resided, who was a prominent man in Missouri political life. Mr. Hall was for a number of years editor of the Stockton Journal from 1879 to 1881. He then engaged in selling goods at Stockton, which occupied his attention for four years, after which he was engaged in making topographical surveys of counties in the State of Missouri. January 1, 1886, he was appointed superintendent of the Indian Training School, Indian Territory. In 1893, he was appointed superintendent of the Oglala Boarding School at Pine Ridge Agency. In the summer of 1893 he was transferred to the Cheyenne-Arapaho school. In the fall of 1893 he was transferred to the Phoenix school in Arizona, where he remained until 1897, coming from there to the Perris school. In 1902 he organized Sherman Institute, where he was superintendent until 1909. After leaving Sherman he served as special agent for two years. After this he was re-appointed superintendent of the Carson school in Nevada, and then for a short time had charge of the Soboba Agency. From Soboba he went to Chermawa, where he spent ten years as its superintendent, retiring in 1926 on account of ill health. He was a member of the Elks and I.O.O.F. Orders.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery.
source: The Sherman Bulletin
Riverside, California
April 20, 1928
Volume XXI Number 32
The name of the institute was given it as a tribute to Vice-President Sherman, a warm friend of the American Indian, who was at the time of its organization the chairman of the congressional committee on Indian affairs. There had been a school for Indian youth near Perris, which, under the management of Harwood Hall, had demonstrated the value of such a method of training the Indian for American citizenship, and when it became evident that larger accommodations and better surroundings were necessary to carry forward effectively this splendid philantropic work the effort to secure the proposed larger instituion for Riverside had the support of men of national repuitation, like Albert K. Smiley of Redlands, Collis P. Huntington, and others, and of the California representitives in both houses of congress. The cornerstone of the first building was laid June 18, 1901, by Hon. A. C. Tanner, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, Senator Perkins and other taking part in the exercises, and in May of the following year, nine of the buildings were completed, and the enrollment of pupils began. The school had an enrollment in 1912 of 631 pupils, who hailed from twelve states and represented fifty-five tribes. The management of Harwood Hall, and of his successor, Frank M. Conser, had been admirable, and the character and acquirements of the graduates who went out from the Sherman Institute to take their places among other American citizens furnished the strongest possible evidence of the sensible and thoroughly practical training given them.
HARWOOD HALL CALLED BY DEATH
Harwood H. Hall, 69, Organizer and former superintendent of Sherman Institute, died at Los Angeles Wednesday, the victim of a paralytic stroke. The announcement of his death came as a great surprise to Sherman people.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Frances D. Hall, and one daughter, Mrs. Lila Hall McDermott, who is in Europe where she has been spending the winter. Mrs. Hall arrived in Riverside on Thursday where she is the guest of Mrs. Alice Richardson of the Mission Inn. Mr. Hall's body was brought to the E. H. Preston Funeral Home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall were Riverside residents for a number of years and have many friends here. They have been Los Angeles residents for several years, their residence being at 155 South Normandie street.
Mr. Hall was a native of Salem county, New Jersey born March 27, 1859. He was reared in New Jersey up to the age of twenty, and was educated in the academy of Salem. At the age mentioned he moved to Stockton, MO., where his uncle, D. P. Stratton, resided, who was a prominent man in Missouri political life. Mr. Hall was for a number of years editor of the Stockton Journal from 1879 to 1881. He then engaged in selling goods at Stockton, which occupied his attention for four years, after which he was engaged in making topographical surveys of counties in the State of Missouri. January 1, 1886, he was appointed superintendent of the Indian Training School, Indian Territory. In 1893, he was appointed superintendent of the Oglala Boarding School at Pine Ridge Agency. In the summer of 1893 he was transferred to the Cheyenne-Arapaho school. In the fall of 1893 he was transferred to the Phoenix school in Arizona, where he remained until 1897, coming from there to the Perris school. In 1902 he organized Sherman Institute, where he was superintendent until 1909. After leaving Sherman he served as special agent for two years. After this he was re-appointed superintendent of the Carson school in Nevada, and then for a short time had charge of the Soboba Agency. From Soboba he went to Chermawa, where he spent ten years as its superintendent, retiring in 1926 on account of ill health. He was a member of the Elks and I.O.O.F. Orders.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery.
source: The Sherman Bulletin
Riverside, California
April 20, 1928
Volume XXI Number 32
HARWOOD H. HALL, superintendent of the Sherman Institute
The name of the institute was given it as a tribute to Vice-President Sherman, a warm friend of the American Indian, who was at the time of its organization the chairman of the congressional committee on Indian affairs. There had been a school for Indian youth near Perris, which, under the management of Harwood Hall, had demonstrated the value of such a method of training the Indian for American citizenship, and when it became evident that larger accommodations and better surroundings were necessary to carry forward effectively this splendid philantropic work the effort to secure the proposed larger instituion for Riverside had the support of men of national repuitation, like Albert K. Smiley of Redlands, Collis P. Huntington, and others, and of the California representitives in both houses of congress. The cornerstone of the first building was laid June 18, 1901, by Hon. A. C. Tanner, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, Senator Perkins and other taking part in the exercises, and in May of the following year, nine of the buildings were completed, and the enrollment of pupils began. The school had an enrollment in 1912 of 631 pupils, who hailed from twelve states and represented fifty-five tribes. The management of Harwood Hall, and of his successor, Frank M. Conser, had been admirable, and the character and acquirements of the graduates who went out from the Sherman Institute to take their places among other American citizens furnished the strongest possible evidence of the sensible and thoroughly practical training given them.
HARWOOD HALL CALLED BY DEATH
Harwood H. Hall, 69, Organizer and former superintendent of Sherman Institute, died at Los Angeles Wednesday, the victim of a paralytic stroke. The announcement of his death came as a great surprise to Sherman people.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Frances D. Hall, and one daughter, Mrs. Lila Hall McDermott, who is in Europe where she has been spending the winter. Mrs. Hall arrived in Riverside on Thursday where she is the guest of Mrs. Alice Richardson of the Mission Inn. Mr. Hall's body was brought to the E. H. Preston Funeral Home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall were Riverside residents for a number of years and have many friends here. They have been Los Angeles residents for several years, their residence being at 155 South Normandie street.
Mr. Hall was a native of Salem county, New Jersey born March 27, 1859. He was reared in New Jersey up to the age of twenty, and was educated in the academy of Salem. At the age mentioned he moved to Stockton, MO., where his uncle, D. P. Stratton, resided, who was a prominent man in Missouri political life. Mr. Hall was for a number of years editor of the Stockton Journal from 1879 to 1881. He then engaged in selling goods at Stockton, which occupied his attention for four years, after which he was engaged in making topographical surveys of counties in the State of Missouri. January 1, 1886, he was appointed superintendent of the Indian Training School, Indian Territory. In 1893, he was appointed superintendent of the Oglala Boarding School at Pine Ridge Agency. In the summer of 1893 he was transferred to the Cheyenne-Arapaho school. In the fall of 1893 he was transferred to the Phoenix school in Arizona, where he remained until 1897, coming from there to the Perris school. In 1902 he organized Sherman Institute, where he was superintendent until 1909. After leaving Sherman he served as special agent for two years. After this he was re-appointed superintendent of the Carson school in Nevada, and then for a short time had charge of the Soboba Agency. From Soboba he went to Chermawa, where he spent ten years as its superintendent, retiring in 1926 on account of ill health. He was a member of the Elks and I.O.O.F. Orders.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery.
source: The Sherman Bulletin
Riverside, California
April 20, 1928
Volume XXI Number 32
The name of the institute was given it as a tribute to Vice-President Sherman, a warm friend of the American Indian, who was at the time of its organization the chairman of the congressional committee on Indian affairs. There had been a school for Indian youth near Perris, which, under the management of Harwood Hall, had demonstrated the value of such a method of training the Indian for American citizenship, and when it became evident that larger accommodations and better surroundings were necessary to carry forward effectively this splendid philantropic work the effort to secure the proposed larger instituion for Riverside had the support of men of national repuitation, like Albert K. Smiley of Redlands, Collis P. Huntington, and others, and of the California representitives in both houses of congress. The cornerstone of the first building was laid June 18, 1901, by Hon. A. C. Tanner, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, Senator Perkins and other taking part in the exercises, and in May of the following year, nine of the buildings were completed, and the enrollment of pupils began. The school had an enrollment in 1912 of 631 pupils, who hailed from twelve states and represented fifty-five tribes. The management of Harwood Hall, and of his successor, Frank M. Conser, had been admirable, and the character and acquirements of the graduates who went out from the Sherman Institute to take their places among other American citizens furnished the strongest possible evidence of the sensible and thoroughly practical training given them.
HARWOOD HALL CALLED BY DEATH
Harwood H. Hall, 69, Organizer and former superintendent of Sherman Institute, died at Los Angeles Wednesday, the victim of a paralytic stroke. The announcement of his death came as a great surprise to Sherman people.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Frances D. Hall, and one daughter, Mrs. Lila Hall McDermott, who is in Europe where she has been spending the winter. Mrs. Hall arrived in Riverside on Thursday where she is the guest of Mrs. Alice Richardson of the Mission Inn. Mr. Hall's body was brought to the E. H. Preston Funeral Home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall were Riverside residents for a number of years and have many friends here. They have been Los Angeles residents for several years, their residence being at 155 South Normandie street.
Mr. Hall was a native of Salem county, New Jersey born March 27, 1859. He was reared in New Jersey up to the age of twenty, and was educated in the academy of Salem. At the age mentioned he moved to Stockton, MO., where his uncle, D. P. Stratton, resided, who was a prominent man in Missouri political life. Mr. Hall was for a number of years editor of the Stockton Journal from 1879 to 1881. He then engaged in selling goods at Stockton, which occupied his attention for four years, after which he was engaged in making topographical surveys of counties in the State of Missouri. January 1, 1886, he was appointed superintendent of the Indian Training School, Indian Territory. In 1893, he was appointed superintendent of the Oglala Boarding School at Pine Ridge Agency. In the summer of 1893 he was transferred to the Cheyenne-Arapaho school. In the fall of 1893 he was transferred to the Phoenix school in Arizona, where he remained until 1897, coming from there to the Perris school. In 1902 he organized Sherman Institute, where he was superintendent until 1909. After leaving Sherman he served as special agent for two years. After this he was re-appointed superintendent of the Carson school in Nevada, and then for a short time had charge of the Soboba Agency. From Soboba he went to Chermawa, where he spent ten years as its superintendent, retiring in 1926 on account of ill health. He was a member of the Elks and I.O.O.F. Orders.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery.
source: The Sherman Bulletin
Riverside, California
April 20, 1928
Volume XXI Number 32
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