Walter Scribner Schuyler Papers: Finding Aid mssWS
Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
October 2020
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San Marino, California 91108
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Online finding aid last updated 2024 April 2 by Nichole L. Manlove.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Walter Scribner Schuyler papers
Creator:
Schuyler, Walter Scribner, 1850-1932
Identifier/Call Number: mssWS
Physical Description:
4.68 Linear Feet
(10 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1871-1932
Abstract: A collection of correspondence and journals of American Brigadier-General Walter Scribner Schuyler.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Walter Scribner Schuyler papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. John Dunlop and Mr. George S. Schaeffer, May 1943.
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.
Scope and Contents
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].
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.
General
Individual call numbers included in the collection: mssWS 1-106.
Related Materials
Walter Scribner Schuyler papers addenda (uncataloged); Walter Scribner Schuyler letter to his mother, 1878 April 12 (mssHM
83427); Walter Scribner Schuyler letters, 1870-1877 (mssHM 83593-83599).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Arizona
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Wyoming
Mines and mineral resources -- California
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- History
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- History
Arizona -- History -- 19th century
Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902
Yellowstone National Park -- Surveys
Journals -- United States.
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Orders (military records) -- United States -- 19th century
Orders (military records) -- United States -- 20th century
Crook, George, 1829-1890
Nickerson, Azor Howett Selden, 1837-1910
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
United States. Army. Officers
Box 1, Folder 1-65
Correspondence and documents
1871-1880
Box 2, Folder 1-33
Correspondence and documents
1881-1932
Box 3
Daily journals, pocket notebooks, loose notes
1875 - 1901
Scope and Contents
Volumes housed in expansion folders (WS 1 - WS 9:1-46); some of the volumes with notes and clippings.
Box 4
Daily journals, pocket notebooks
1902 - 1909
Box 5
Daily journals, diary
1910 - 1913
Box 6
Daily journals, loose notes
1914 - 1917
Box 7
Daily journals, loose notes
1918 - 1922
Box 8
Daily journals, loose notes, clippings
1923 - 1926
Box 9
Daily journals, loose notes, clippings
1927 - 1931
Box 10
Daily journal, loose notes, clippings, report of service with the Russian Army in Manchuria
1904 ;1932 January 1 - February 14
