Charles E. Worden Collection

Collection

Identifier: SHL-2016-033

Staff Only

Content Description

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.

Dates

1859-1990
Majority of material found within 1894-1896

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Extent

2.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

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.