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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



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Barnes : This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a copy of 

 the work referred to has been seen by the com- 

 piler in the library of Mr. Wilberforoe Eames, 

 Brooklyn, N. T. 



Eells (Rev. Gushing). See "Walker (E.) 

 and E ells (C.) 



At my request Eev. Myron Eells, a sou of 

 the above, has furnished me the following bio- 

 grajdiic notes : 



Rev. Gushing Eells was born at Blandford, 

 Mass., February 16, 1810 ; was the son of Joseph 

 and Elizabeth Warner Eells ; was brought up 

 at Blandford ; prepared for college at Monson 

 Academy, Mass.; entered Williams College in 

 1830, from which he graduated four years later, 

 and from East Windsor (Conn.) Theological 

 Seminary in 1837, and was ordained at Bland- 

 ford, Mass., as a Congregational minister, Octo- 

 ber 25, 1837. 



He was married March 5, 1838, to Miss Myra 

 Fairbank, who was born at Holden, Mass., May 

 26, 1805. Having offered themselves to the 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions, they were first appointed to the Zulu 

 mission in Africa, but owing to a war there 

 among the natives they were delayed, until the 

 call from Oregon became so urgent that they 

 were sent there, leaving home in March and 

 arriving at Wallawalla August 20, 1838. They 

 spent the next winter at Wallawalla, and the 

 following spring with Rev. E. Walker opened 

 a new station among the Spokan Indians at 

 Tshimakain, Walkers Prairie, Washington. 

 Here they remained until 1818. Mr. Eells 

 taught a small school part of the time, besides 

 preaching and doing general mi.ssionary work. 

 The results as they appeared at that time were 

 not satisfactory, but thirty-five years later it 

 was plain that the seed then sowed had grown 

 until two chiirches of one hundred and thirty- 

 seven members were the result. During the 

 Cayuse war of 1848 and the Takama war of 

 1855-1856 the tribe remained friendly to the 

 whites, although strongly urged by the hostiles 

 to join them. As the Government could not 

 assure them of prote<;tion from the hostile 

 Cayuse, they found it necessary to move to the 

 Willamette Valley in 1848, under an escort of 

 Oregon volunteers. 



Mr. Eells did not immediately sever his con- 

 nection with the missionary board, hoping that 

 the way would open to return to the Spokan 

 Indians, but it neverdid. For many years most 

 of his time was spent in teaching school at 

 Salem, Oregon, 184S 1849; at Forest Grovt^, Ore- 

 gem, 1848-1851, aiul 1857-1860 ; at Hilisboro, Ore- 

 gon, 1851-1857; and at Wallawalla, Wash., 

 1867-1870. Here he founded Whitman College, \ 

 of whose board of trustees he has been presi- I 



Eells (G.) — Continued. 



dent from the beginning (1859) to the time of 

 his death. He has since 1872 preached at a 

 large number of places in Washington as a 

 general self-supporting missionary, but mainly 

 at Skokomish, among the Indians, and among 

 the whites at Colfax, Medical Lake, and 

 Cheney, and the results of his labors have been 

 the organization of Congregational churches at 

 those places and at Sprague and Chawelah. Not 

 till 1891, at the age of about 81, did he give up 

 active preaching. He has given to AVhitnian 

 College nearly $10,000, besides securing for it 

 about $12,000 more by a canvass in the east in 

 1883-1884 (the only time he has visited the east 

 since he first went west), to various churches 

 in Oregon and Washington over $7,000, and to 

 various missionary societies about $4,000. 



He received the degree of D.D. from Pacific 

 University, on account of his work for Whit- 

 man College, and was assistant moderator of 

 the National Congregational Council, at Con- 

 cord, N. H., in 1883. He died at Tacoma Febru- 

 ary 16, 1893, on his eighty- third birthday. Mrs. 

 Eells died at Skokomish, Wash., August 9, 1878, 

 aged 73 years. He left two sons, both of whom 

 have been at work among the Indians at Puget 

 Sound, one as Indian agent since 1871, and the 

 other as missionary since 1874. 



Eells (Rev. Myron). Art. IV. Twana 

 Indians of the Skokomish reservation 

 in Washington territory. By rev. M. 

 Eells, Missionary among these Indians. 



In Hayden (F.V.), Bulletinof the XT. S. Gool. 

 and Geog. Survey of the Territories, vol. 3, pp. 

 57-114, Washington, 1877, 8°. (Pilling.) 



Section 8, Measuring and valuing (j)p. 86- 

 88), contains the numerals 1-1000, pp. 86-87; 

 names of days, months, and points of the com- 

 pass, pp. 87-88.— Section 13, Language and liter- 

 ature (pp. 93-101), contains a Twana vocabulary 

 of 2U words, pp. 93-98. 



Issued separately with cover title as follows: 



Author's edition. | Department of 



the interior. | United States geological 

 and geographical survey. | F. V. Hay- 

 den, U. S. Geologist-in-Charge. | The | 

 Twana Indians | of the | Skokomish 

 reservation in Washington territory. | 

 By I rev. M. Eells, | missionary among 

 these Indians. ( Extracted from the 

 bulletin of the survey, Vol. Ill, No. 1. 

 I Washington, April 9, 1877. 



Cover title its above, no inside title, text pp. 

 f)7-114, 8°. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Brinton, Eames, National 

 Museum, Pilling. 



