The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03

his popularity among his own peopls
is such that if the Indian vote were
sufficient he would go to Washington
without question: He is now about
sixty years of age, but, his devotion to
the white mother who died in his
childhood is shown by the fact that
an oil painting of her occupies the
place of honor in his mansion
General Pleasant Porter is accounted
one of the wealthiest and most in
huentfaI men of Indian blood. 1t is
said of him that he has done for his
race what Booker T.. Washington has
done for the negro. He comes of
sturdy stock, his white great-grand-
father having been one of the Porters
of Pennsylvania General Porter was
an officer in the civil war and has held
many responsible posts under the gov
eminent. He is president of rail-
road and connected with many indus
trial enterprises for the development
of the southwest His wife is q
charming and highly educated white
lady, and his daughters are refined
and cultivated young women, one of
them college graduate and the other
the alCmnus of a fashionable eastern
finishing school Like the Pennsyl-
vania Porters, who are of Scotch Irish
ancestry, this Indian representative of
the family is a stanch Presbyterian,
an elder in the church at Muskogee.
the town in Indian Territory in which
| he resides. General Porter has been
twice married. his present wife being
a native of ST. Louis.
Dr. Charles A Eastman, formerly
agency physician at Pine Ridge, S. D.,
| and a well known writer on Indian
subjects, in 1891 married in New
York a well known literary woman
and educator, Miss Elaine Goodale, and
although he is a Sioux Indian and
never attended school until he was in
/ his teens the marriage has been ap-
| parently a very happy one. OF late
years DR. Eastman has devoted his
time to the practice of medicine and
| to literature. The Eastmans now re-
| side i'll Amherst Mass.
Charles Curtis, who represents Kan
sas in the United States senate. is a
member of the Kaw tribe, his mother
having been quarter breed. He and
his children have on this account
received allotments of government
| land
Curtis wife is a white woman, for
merly Miss Baird of Topeka.
DIR. Eiphalet Wright, governor of
the Cnoctaws, is welded to a white
woman, as was his father before him.
|
stefan, was married in 1888 to Miss
Ida Belle Richards of st. Louis. His
father, the Rev. Allen Wright, full
! blooded Choctaw, married white
woman missionary from Dayton, o.
In earlier days it often happened
| that white children captured by the
Indians in their raids on the settle
ment were brought up as savages and
married into the tribe. One of the
most noted examples of this was Eu-
nice Williams of the Roger Williams
| family, who was captured at the Deer
field massacre. One of her descend
ants, Soaring Dove of the Abenah
| tribe, lives now with her Indian hus-
band in the redskins colony in lower
| Hudson and Thompson streets, New
| York.
Many prominent Mexicans and
| South Americans who have married
women of pure Caucasian blood are
of the Indian race. Among these may
| be mentioned President Diaz of Mexi-
co, who is said to be half Indian.
| Former Presidents Hidalgo and Juarez
were both reputed to be full blooded
| Indians. MARION GRAHAM.