Inventory of the George S. Kephart Papers, 1700s – 1983
Descriptive Summary
Abstract: George S. Kephart (1894-1986) was an American forester and government official.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs, pamphlets, legislative records, and financial documents pertaining to forest management on Indian reservations. Includes correspondence, hearing reports, photographs, other papers, relating to forestry on Indian reservations, especially the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, and to Kephart's work as chief, Branch of Forestry, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Includes testimony, deposition, and exhibits concerning a Seminole Indian suit.
Title: George S. Kephart Papers, 1700s - 1983
Creator: Kephart, George S.
Repository: Forest History Society Library and Archives
Call Number: 3916
Language of Material: Material in English
Extent: 4 linear feet (2 record cartons, 2 archival boxes)
Biographical Note
George S. Kephart (1894-1986) was an American forester and government official. Kephart received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1919. He then served as Forester for the Lincoln Pulpwood Company in Bangor, Maine (1919-1920); Forester for the Orono Pulp and Paper Company in Bangor, Maine (1920-1929); Forest Engineer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1934-1936); Forest Supervisor for the Klamath Indian Agency in Oregon (1937-1943); and Forester and Chief of Branch of Forestry, Bureau of Indian Affairs (1944-1964).
Collection Overview
The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs, pamphlets, legislative records, and financial documents pertaining to forest management on Indian reservations. Includes correspondence, hearing reports, photographs, other papers, relating to forestry on Indian reservations, especially the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, and to Kephart's work as chief, Branch of Forestry, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Includes testimony, deposition, and exhibits concerning a Seminole Indian suit.
Collection Arrangement
- Correspondence, Reports, and Other Records, 1700s-1983
Subject Headings
- Kephart, George S.
- Foresters -- United States
- Indians of North America
- Indian reservations -- Forest management
- Forest management -- United States -- 18th century
- Forest management -- United States -- 19th century
- Forest management -- United States -- 20th century
- Forests and forestry -- United States
- Forests and Forestry -- Oregon
- Indian reservations -- Oregon
- Indian reservations -- United States
- Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.)
- Seminole Indians -- Florida -- Claims
- Seminole Indians -- Oklahoma -- Claims
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Branch of Forestry
Detailed Description of the Collection
1. Correspondence, Reports, and Other Records, 1700s-1983.
- Box 1
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Forest Management: Beginnings, l909-19l0 and l956 - Box 1
Budgets, l966 and l976-198l - Box 1
Cooperative Administration of Indian Timberlands [United States Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture) and the Forestry Branch of the Indian Service (U.S. Department of the Interior)], 1908-1929 - Box 1
Evaluation of Bureau of Indian Affairs's Management of Indian Lands, 1949-1954 - Box 1
Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reserves, 1855-1902 - Box 1
Forestry Careers, l963-1964 - Box 1
Fort Apache, l944-1946 - Box 1
Indian Claims Commission, l966-1977: Klamath and Modoc Tribes and Yakooskin Band of Indians v. USA, Vol. 5, Klamath Insect Infestation Claim, l975 - Box 1
Indian Self-determination Act, l974-1975 and 1978 - Box 1
Information Pamphlets about American Indians- Arizona-Gulf Coast States, 1961-1968
- Minnesota-the Northwest: General, 1957-1966 and undated
- Box 1
Klamath- Annual Reports, l937-1940
- Boundaries Sustained Yield Units, undated
- Dismissal of Wade Crawford, Superintendent of Klamath Indian Reservation, 1940
- Box 1
Property Sale: Miscellaneous, l930s-1940s, l953-1964, and undated- Reservation, l93l-1964
- Stumpage Prices, l927, l937, l940, and l942
- Subunits, undated
- Sustained Yield Drafts, l957-1959
- Sustained Yield Management, l958-1959
- Miscellaneous, undated
- Box 1
Menominee Reservation, l905-l9l0 and l940s-1979 - Box 2
Mescalero Reservation, l944-1950 - Box 2
Miscellaneous, 1919-1959 and undated - Box 2
Miscellaneous, l96l-1980 and undated - Box 2
Photographs- See Kephart in Photo Collection.
- Box 2
Public Lands: Drafts, l980, l983 - Box 2
Publications, Hearings, Reports, l9l9-1951 - Box 2
Publications, Hearings, Reports, 1954-1978 - Box 2
Quinault Reservation, l957 - Box 2
Seminole Indians- Suit, l968-70
- Kephart Deposition, l966
- Kephart Exhibits, l700s-l96l
- Maps and Surveys, l932-1967 and undated
- Box 2
Stumpage Revaluation, l940s-1960s - Box 2
Survey of Conditions of US Indians, 1931-1932 - Box 2
Swamp Lands, 1900s-1950s - Box 2
Timber Contracts, l943-1957 - Box 2
Timber Sales Policies, 1921-1954 - Box 2
Timber Sales Policies, 1956 - Box 2
Timber Sales Policies, 1957-1964 - Box 2
Warm Springs Reservation, l950s-1980 - Box 2
Yakima Reservation, l942, l963 - Box 3
Investigation of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1912 - Box 3
Investigation of Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1952 - Box 3
Miscellaneous "Telegrams," 1907-1923- Includes some information on Klamath Indian Reservation.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], George S. Kephart Papers, Library and Archives, Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA.
Processing Information
Processed by Linda Spencer, June 1990, and Michele Justice, May 1991
Encoded by Amanda Ross, September 2008
Funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission supported the encoding of this finding aid. Support for digitization and outreach provided by the Alvin J. Huss Endowment.
