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(1828-1895) Engineer, journal-keeper, secretary to U. S. Grant. Ely Parker was born on the Tonawanda reservation in New York. He was one of the first Native Americans noted for succeeding within the white mans higher institutions of learning. He was an engineer in Rochester and later a military secretary for Ulysses S. Grant. Henry Lewis Morgan worked closely with Parker to publish “League of the Iroquois” (1851). As a Military Secretary for Ulysses S. Grant, he later became the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Ely S. Parker was a letter writer and journal keeper who contributed greatly to the bulk of written work attributed to Native Americans during his time. Red Jacket was his grandfather.

Full Name

Ely S Parker

Locations

Cattaraugus

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Ely S. Parker studied law in Ellicottville, New York.

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RESIDENCE

Ely S. Parker studied engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

1828

BIRTH

Parker was born in Indian Falls, New York.

1851

LITWORK

League of the Iroquois


Henry Lewis Morgan worked closely with Parker to publish "League of the Iroquois" (1851).

1895

DEATH

Ely S. Parker died in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1895.

1897

INTERMENT

Ely S. Parker is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

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