LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Alice Lee Elliott[Frontispiece]
- Oak Hill Chapel[vi]
- Elliott Hall[11]
- Choctaw Church and Court House[14]
- Alexander Reid, John Edwards[15]
- Biddle and Lincoln Universities[70]
- Rev. E. P. Cowan, Rev. John Gaston, Mrs. V. P. Boggs[91]
- Eliza Hartford, Anna Campbell, Rev. E. G. and Priscilla G. Haymaker[108]
- Girls Hall, Old Log House[109]
- Carrie and Mrs. M. E. Crowe, Anna and Mattie Hunter[116]
- James McGuire and others[117]
- Wiley Homer, William Butler, Stewart, Jones[148]
- Buds of Promise[149]
- Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Flickinger, Claypool, Ahrens, Eaton[160]
- Reopening, 1915, Flower Gatherers[192]
- Mary I. Weimer, Lou K. Early, Jo Lu Wolcott[193]
- Rev. and Mrs. Carroll, Hall, Buchanan, Folsom[224]
- Closing Day, 1912; Dr. Baird[225]
- Approved Fruits[256]
- Planting Sweet Potatoes and Arch[257]
- Orchestra, Sweepers, Going to School[274]
- Miss Weimer, Celestine, Coming Home[275]
- The Apiary; Feeding the Calves[294]
- Log House Burning, Pulling Stumps[298]
- Oak Hill in 1902, 1903[299]
- The Hen House, Pigpen[295]
- The Presbytery, Grant Chapel[152]
- Bridges, Bethel, Starks, Meadows, Colbert, Crabtree[353]
- Crittenden, Folsom, Butler, Stewart, Perkins, Arnold, Shoals, Johnson[378]
- Teachers in 1899, Harris, Brown[379]
- Representative Homes of the Choctaw Freedmen[406]
- The Sweet Potato Field[407]
INTRODUCTION
"The pleasant books, that silently among
Our household treasures take familiar places,
Are to us, as if a living tongue
Spake from the printed leaves, or pictured faces!"
The aim of the Author in preparing this volume has been to put in a form, convenient for preservation and future reference, a brief historical sketch of the work and workers connected with the founding and development of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, established for the benefit of the Freedmen of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, by the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., in 1886, when Miss Eliza Hartford became the first white teacher, to the erection of Elliott Hall in 1910, and its dedication in 1912; when the name of the institution was changed to "The Alice Lee Elliott Memorial."