shl033.xml Guide to Charles E. Worden Collection, 1859-1990 Worden, Charles E. Collection, 1859-1990 Finding Aid Prepared by Iris Godwin Oregon Institute of Technology Libraries, Shaw Historical Library 2023
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-06-07. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Oregon Institute of Technology Libraries, Shaw Historical Library Charles E. Worden Collection SHL.2016.033 2.50 linear feet 1859-1990 1894-1896 Charles E. Worden was born in Medina County, Ohio in 1849 and died in Portland, Oregon in 1923. Major Worden served as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Allotting and Special Agent of the Klamath Reservation at Klamath Agency, Oregon. The collection includes a Klamath Indian Allotment Census for the Klamath Tribes and a register of persons living in Yainax Agency area. It includes working papers, notebooks, reports, and an abstract of title for several lots in Linkville established 1867, later named Klamath Falls in 1893. English .

Charles E. Worden was born in Medina County, Ohio in 1849 and died in Portland, Oregon in 1923. Major Worden served as the Bureau of indian Affairs, Allotting and Special Agent of the Klamath Reservation at Klamath Agency, Oregon. From reports made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs submitted to the Department of Interior, he began his work in 1894. His work included surveying Klamath Agency, naming streets, laying out a cemetery, school lands, and parks, enlisting tribal allottees from the natives into an allottment census ledger, and serving as allotting agent until the fall of 1897, based on the letters in the letterpress copybook.

There is within these papers a Klamath Indian Allotment Census for the Klamath Tribes and a register of persons living in the Yainax Agency area. Yainax means "little hill" in Klamath and Modoc traditional languages. Yainax Butte is a mountain south of the Klamath Reservation. The collection contains the township and range system working grids and plat maps of the Klamath Indian Allotment from 1894-1896 and plat surveys dated in the middle of the 1860s. The census provides the English name adopted by the Native American signing for the land allotment and family relationships. Charles Worden received orders to discontinue his work on this reservation on October 31, 1896 because the remaining swamplands were not subject to allotment. Allotments received some revisions by John K. Rankin. Multiple agents made township and range identifications. This collection includes working papers, notebooks, reports, and an abstract of title for several lots in Linkville established 1867, later named Klamath Falls in 1893.

Collection is open for research.

 Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.) Klamath Indians--Land tenure Letters (Correspondence) Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon Modoc Indians Native Americans Historical maps Plats--1850-1900 United States--Bureau of Indian Affairs--Klamath Agency--Records and correspondence Series I: Plat Maps 1866-1896 Allotment Plat Maps survey grids showing allotments 1894-1896 1 Plat Maps 1866-1896 2 Series II: Partial Allotment Census Klamath Allotment Registration with Family Notations 1894-1896 "Yainax" allotment census papers showing in the columns: Number of Allotment, Indian name, [English] Name of Allottee in alphabetical order, Male, Female, Age, Subdivision, Section, Township, Range, Acres, 100th and in Remarks relationship the first person of the household may be given. 3 Series III: Notebooks, Reports, Legal Documents, and Letters 1872-1905 4 "AT Yainax, Worden" or "Yainax Contingent" Register approximately 1894-1896 1 U.S. Department of the Interior Journal: Allotting agent, Klamath Agency, plat maps 1894-1896 2 Time Book of Surveyor E.B. Henry approximately 1894-1895 3 Survey Notebook Property of E.B. Henry, Surveyor for Klamath Agency approximately 1894-1896 4 Indian Agent Draft Book 1894 May-1895 December 31 5 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1894 6 Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1895 7 Letter from the Acting Secretary of Interior on Survey of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon. 53rd Congress 3rd Session 1894 8 In the Court of Claims in the United States Indian Depredations No. 964 Estate of Anderson vs. the United States and the Rogue River Tribe Indians 1855 9 Abstract of Title for Lots 2,7, and 8 of Block 17 in Linkville 1872-1905 10 Letterpress Copybook 1894-1898; 1903, 1897, 1896 11

1894-1898; 1903, 1897, 1896 [dates are Society of American Archivists (SAA) aberrant dates same as DACS anomalous dates; dates are listed in their order]