GEORGE A. SMITH:

George A. Smith was born September 19, 1915, on the White Earth Reservation, the son of Thomas and Nancy (Taylor) Smith. He attended Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota, graduating in 1935. He studied for Holy Orders under the Rev. Francis Louis Carrington and was ordained an Episcopalian priest in 1942. He served on the Governor's Human Rights Commission and on the Interstate Indian Council in the 1950s. He retired from active ministry in 1980. He died December 28, 2005, in Bemidji, Minnesota.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Reverend George A. Smith Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 16,159

Processing Information:

Processed by: Christopher G. Welter, February 2010.

Catalog ID number: 007040208

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Missions -- Minnesota.

Ojibwa Indians -- Missions -- Minnesota -- White Earth.

Parishes -- Minnesota -- White Earth.

Registers of births, etc. -- Minnesota -- Becker County.

Persons:

Smith, Elizabeth L., 1922-

Organizations:

Episcopal Church -- Missions -- Minnesota -- White Earth Indian Reservation.

Gilfillan Memorial Church (Squaw Lake, Minn.).

St. Columba Parish (White Earth, Minn.).

St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Cass Lake, Minn.).

Meetings:

Anglican Congress (1954 : Minneapolis, Minn.).

Places:

Becker County (Minn.) -- Statistics, Vital.

White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- Church history.

Document Types:

Photographs.

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