Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, H. Price, letter to Indian Agent at Quinault Reservation, Charles L. Willoughby, regarding compensation to Makah children at the Neah Bay Reservation for labor, January 12, 1884
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In 1832, Charles L. Willoughby was born in Connecticut. At age twenty-one, he took charge of a vessel and travelled to Pacific Coast ports. In the early 1860s, he arrived in the Puget Sound and was a captain in the Coast Survey until 1865. In 1865, he married Sara Cheney, a schoolteacher in Port Townsend. In 1877, Willoughby was the Indian Agent at the Neah Bay Reservation where the Makah tribe resides. Charges were filed against him concerning his administration of the reservation. The charges were later dismissed in his favor and in the 1880s, he was an agent at the Quinault Reservation where the Quinault and Queets tribe lived as well as the Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz tribes. In 1885, Otis Tufton Mason, the ethnology curator for the Smithsonian Institution, communicated with Willoughby regarding information about tribes in the Pacific Northwest. They communicated until Willoughby died in 1888. This letter indicates the Smithsonian's interest in...
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