Walter Scribner Schuyler papers, 1871-1932

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Summary

Creators:
Schuyler, Walter Scribner, 1850-1932
Abstract:
A collection of correspondence and journals of American Brigadier-General Walter Scribner Schuyler.
Extent:
4.68 Linear Feet (10 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Walter Scribner Schuyler papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of 152 items from 1811 to 1932, it consists of letters written by Walter Scribner Schuyler to his parents about his army service in the West, especially in Arizona Territory between 1872 and 1874; letters from George Crook about Indian affairs in the 1870s; an account of a survey party Schuyler conducted to Yellowstone National Park in 1883; and his 1904 report as a military observer during the Russo-Japanese War. Of note are 46 journals written by Schuyler between 1898 and 1932, detailing his later military career and his business affairs. There is also correspondence from Philip Henry Sheridan to George Crook in the collection, as well as a typescript of a sketch by Azor Howitt Nickerson titled: Major General George Crook and the Indians [after 1890].

Biographical / historical:

Walter Scribner Schuyler was born in 1850, the son of George Washington Schuyler (of the colonial Schuyler family of New York) and Matilda (Scribner) Schuyler. Walter S. Schuyler graduated from West Point and served with the United States Army in the trans-Mississippi West during the 1870s and 1880s, developing a close relationship with General George Crook. During and after the Spanish-American War, he saw duty in Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba and also was assigned as a military observer in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. After Schuyler's retirement from the army in 1913, he devoted himself fully to the affairs of the Sierra-Alaska Mining Company of California, of which he became the president and general-manager. From 1920 he made his home in Carmel, California and in February 1932 he died in San Francisco, California.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mrs. John Dunlop and Mr. George S. Schaeffer, May 1943.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1950. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Walter Scribner Schuyler papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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