Background
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe was born on March 28, 1793 in Albany County, New York, United States. Son of Lawrence and Margaret Anne Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe was born on March 28, 1793 in Albany County, New York, United States. Son of Lawrence and Margaret Anne Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft.
Attended Union College and Middlebury College. Honorary Doctor of Laws, U. Geneva, 1846.
Visited mineral regions in Southern Missouri, Arkansas, 1817-1818. Agent on North.W. frontier. Superintendent Indian affairs for Michigan, 1836-1841, negotiated several treaties with Chippewa Indians, including treaty which gave United States parts of Michigan, 1836.
A founder History Society, 1828, Algic Society of Detroit, 1832.
Projected an Indian encyclopedia. Author: A View of the Head Mines of Missouri, 1819.
Narrative Journals of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States … to the Sources of the Mississippi River, 1821. Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of the Mississippi, 1834.
Algic Researches (concerning Indian mental characteristics), 2 volumes, 1839.
Oneonta (describing Indian history), 1844-1845. Notes on the Iroquois, 1847. Personal Memories of … Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes, 1851.
Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, 6 parts, 1851-1857.
Grammatical Construction of the Indian Languages.
Married second, Mary Howard, 1847.