Samuel Derrick Webster Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Samuel Derrick
Webster
Dates: 1771-1966
Bulk dates: 1862-1902
Collection Number: mssHM 48531-48557
Creator:
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928
Extent:
102 pieces in 4 boxes
Repository: The Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts
Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
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Abstract: This collection consists of the personal papers of
Samuel Derrick Webster (1845-1928), Civil War soldier and Indian Agent, and Joseph Witherspoon
Cook (1836-1902), missionary to the Yankton Sioux in South Dakota.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Samuel Derrick Webster Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Purchased from Erik B. Nelson, March 1982
Biographical Note of Samuel Derrick Webster
Samuel Derrick Webster (1845-1928) was born in Virginia in 1845. Webster enlisted in Company D
of the 13th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. After the war, Webster
studied the law and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He moved to Wyoming where he
practiced law, ran a newspaper and later became Indian Agent for the Yankton Sioux.
He moved to St. Louis and worked for the railroads; he died there in 1928.
Biographical Note of Joseph Witherspoon Cook
Joseph Witherspoon Cook (1836-1902) was born in Vermont in 1836. His familiy moved to Ohio as a
child. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1860 and finished divinity school in
Philadelphia and New York in 1864. He later moved to Cheyenne (then in the Colorado
Territory) where he organized the parish of St. Marks. In 1870 he left Cheyenne to
establish a mission with the Yankton Sioux. He worked with the Yankton until his
death in 1902.
Indian agent Samuel Derrick Webster and Cook became friends when they met in Cheyenne. Cook's daughter Charlotte
married Webster's son Frank.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal papers belonging to Samuel Derrick Webster, Civil War soldier and Indian Agent, and
Joseph Witherspoon Cook, missionary to the Yankton Sioux.
Webster's papers include a Civil War diary detailing his experiences with the 13th
Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1862-1864) and the 39th Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment (1864-1865). Also scrapbook, letters, photographs.
Cook's papers include a scrapbook with photographs, letters, documents, clippings,
etc., documenting his thirty-two year Episcopal mission to the Yankton Sioux at the
Yankton Agency, South Dakota. Also letters, manuscripts and photographs.
There is also a box of genealogical material pertaining to both families.
Arrangement
Arranged in 4 series: Samuel Derrick Webster papers; Joseph Witherspoon Cook
papers; Genealogical records; Ephemera.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Cook, Joseph
Witherspoon, 1836-1902
Webster, Samuel Derrick,
1845-1928
Corporate Names
Episcopal Church--South
Dakota
Episcopal Church--Wyoming
United States. Army. Massachusetts
Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1864)
United States. Army. Massachusetts
Infantry Regiment, 39th (1862-1865)
Subjects
Dakota Indians
Indians of North
America--Missions--South Dakota
Indians of North
America--Missions--Wyoming
Yankton Indians
Geographic Areas
Cheyenne
(Wyo.)--History
South
Dakota--History--19th century--Sources
United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
Wyoming--History--19th
century-Sources
Genre
Diaries
Letters (correspondence)
Scrapbooks
Samuel Derrick Webster Papers
HM 48531 (Volume 1)
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. My diary in field and
camp, 1861-1865
(1868)
Contemporary copy by Samuel Derrick Webster, compiled from his Civil
War diaries and letters
HM 48531 (Volume 2)
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. My diary in field and
camp, 1861-1865
(1868)
Contemporary copy by Samuel Derrick Webster, compiled from his Civil
War diaries and letters
HM 48531 (a)
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. My diary in field and
camp, 1861-1865
(1882)
Copy in Samuel Derrick Webster's hand for regimental history
HM 48531 (b)
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. My diary in field and
camp, 1861-1865
([undated])
Box 2
Scrapbook, correspondence, photographs (HM 48532-48538)
HM 48532 (1-22)
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928 and Charlotte Everett
(Cook) Webster. Scrapbook containing articles, letters, photographs,
etc.
(1863-1928)
Material relates chiefly to Samuel Derrick Webster
HM 48533
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. To Frank Ferguson
Webster
(1917, July 21)
HM 48534
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. To Frank Ferguson
Webster
(1926, Oct. 9)
HM 48535
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. To Frank Ferguson
Webster
(1927, Mar. 5)
HM 48536
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. To Frank Ferguson
Webster
(1927, Dec. 17)
HM 48537
Webster, Samuel Derrick, 1845-1928. To Frank Ferguson Webster
and Charlotte Everett (Cook) Webster
(1924, Sep. 18)
HM 48538
Photograph of Samuel Derrick Webster, 1845-1928
([approximately 1927])
Joseph Witherspoon Cook Papers
Box 2
Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs (HM 48539-48550)
HM 48539
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. A Thanksgiving:
poem
([between 1860?-1902])
HM 48540
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. Virtue and Intelligence
the Only Foundation of Liberty: oration
(1854, July 6)
HM 48541
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. To Charlotte Everett
(Cook) Webster
(1894, Dec. 22)
HM 48542
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. To Charlotte Everett
(Cook) Webster
(1897, Dec. 22)
HM 48543
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. To Charlotte Everett
(Cook) Webster
(1898, Dec. 21)
HM 48544
Cook, Joseph Witherspoon, 1836-1902. To Charlotte Everett
(Cook) Webster
(1901, Dec. 24)
HM 48545
Protestant Episcopal Church. Long Island (Diocese).
Certificate of Marriage [of Joseph Witherspoon Cook and Ellen
Everett (Hicks) Cook]
(1878, July 9)
HM 48546
Photograph of Ellen Everett (Hicks) Cook
([approximately 1875])
HM 48547
Photograph of Joseph Witherspoon Cook, 1836-1902
([approximately 1860])
Black and white. Also negative and dupliate print
HM 48548
Photograph of Joseph Witherspoon Cook, 1836-1902
([approximately 1867])
HM 48549
Photograph of Joseph Witherspoon Cook, 1836-1902
([approximately 1900])
HM 48550
Various persons. To Charlotte Everett (Cook)
Webster.
(1933-1965)
Correspondence about the Episcopal Mission to the Yankton Sioux. 13
letters and documents
Box 3
Scrapbook (HM 48551 (1-45))
HM 48551 (1-45)
Webster, Charlotte Everett (Cook). Scrapbook containing
photographs, letters, documents, and clippings
(1863-1961)
Material relates to Joseph Witherspoon Cook's and his thirty-two year
mission to the Yankton Agency in the Dakota Territory
Box 4
Scrapbook (HM 48551 (46-71))
HM 48551 (46-71)
Webster, Charlotte Everett (Cook). Scrapbook containing
photographs, letters, documents, and clippings
(1863-1961)
Material relates to Joseph Witherspoon Cook and his thirty-two year
mission to the Yankton Agency in the Dakota Territory
Box 4
Genealogical Papers (HM 48552-48557)
HM 48552
Cook family
(1771-1966)
HM 48553
Hart, Gridley, and Pepper families
([between 1900-1960?])
HM 48554
Hicks family
(1882-[approximately 1962])
HM 48555
Mead family
([between approximately 1854-1957])
HM 48556
Tingley family
(1895-1957)
HM 48557
Webster family
([before 1865-1957?])
HM 48557
Webster family
([before 1865-1957?])
Printed materials by and about Joseph Witherspoon
Cook
(1854-1958)
Printed materials by and about Joseph Witherspoon
Cook
(1854-1958)
Notes and printed materials about the Dakota Sioux, The
Episcopal Mission to the Yankton Sioux, and the Dakota
Territory
(1870-1963)
Miscellaneous printed material
([circa 1930]-1938)
