| 词条 | Rachel Caroline Eaton |
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}} Rachel Caroline Eaton (born July 7, 1869, near Flint Creek, Cherokee Nation[1]) was believed to be the first Oklahoma Indian woman to get her Ph.D. Rachel's father, George Washington Eaton, and her mother. Nancy Elizabeth Wared Williams, were married May 17, 1868.[2] George was a Civil War Veteran, born in the Republic of Texas. Nancy was part Cherokee, and Nancy's mother walked on the Trails of Tears. They were the parents of Rachel Caroline, James Calvin, Martha Pauline, and John Merrit Eaton. Nancy died on September 21, 1896 and George is still living in a retirement home in Inola, Rogers County. James Calvin is a farmer near Oolagah, Oklahoma. Martha Pauline married James Morning York, who was elected Assessor of Rogers County in 1918. Rachel Eaton attended tribal schools and Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She graduated Seminary in 1887, but during her senior year the building burned down. For college, Rachel attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, then went on to the University of Chicago, where she got her Ph.D.[3] Her dissertation, John Ross and The Cherokee Indians was published in 1921, as a Cherokee history book. Rachel taught in public schools of Cherokee nation, Cherokee Female Seminary (the new building built after the fire), Lake Erie College in Painsville, Ohio, and the Industrial Institute and College of Columbus, Mississippi. She also was the Dean of Women at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas. In 1920, Rachel was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Rogers County, Oklahoma for 2 consecutive years. In 1936, she was put in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame as one of Oklahoma's outstanding women. Rachel died September 20, 1938 in Claremore, Oklahoma after a long battle with breast cancer. References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Berry|first1=Christina|title=Rachel Caroline Eaton -Cherokee Woman, Historian, and Educator|url=http://www.allthingscherokee.com/rachel-caroline-eaton/|website=All Things Cherokee|accessdate=2016-05-29}} 2. ^{{cite web|first1=Dennis N.|last1=Partridge|title=Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Rachel Caroline Eaton|url=https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/biographical-sketch-of-mrs-rachel-caroline-eaton.htm|website=Access Genealogy|accessdate=2016-05-29}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Rachel Caroline Eaton - Teacher|url=https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/6316560|website=Family Search|accessdate=2016-05-29}}
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