Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Flickinger, Claypool, Ahrens, Eaton 160 Reopening, 1915, Flower Gatherers 192 Mary I. Weimer, Lou K. Early, Jo Lu Wolcott 193 Rev. and Mrs. Carroll, Hall, Buchanan, Folsom 224 Closing Day, 1912; Dr. Baird 225 Approved Fruits 256 Planting Sweet Potatoes and Arch 257 Orchestra, Sweepers, Going to School 274 Miss Weimer, Celestine, Coming Home 275 The Apiary; Feeding the Calves 294 Log House Burning, Pulling Stumps 298 Oak Hill in 1902, 1903 299 The Hen House, Pigpen 295 The Presbytery, Grant Chapel 352 Bridges, Bethel, Starks, Meadows, Colbert, Crabtree 353 Crittenden, Folsom, Butler, Stewart, Perkins, Arnold, Shoals, Johnson 378 Teachers in 1899, Harris, Brown 379 Representative Homes of the Choctaw Freedmen 406 The Sweet Potato Field 407 INTRODUCTION "The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, Are to us, as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves, or pictured faces!" The aim of the Author in preparing this volume has been to put in a form, convenient for preservation and future reference, a brief historical sketch of the work and workers connected with the founding and development of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, established for the benefit of the Freedmen of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, by the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., in 1886, when Miss Eliza Hartford became the first white teacher, to the erection of Elliott Hall in 1910, and its dedication in 1912; when the name of the institution was changed to "The Alice Lee Elliott Memorial." Some who rendered service at Oak Hill Academy, bestowed upon it their best work, while superintendent, James F. McBride and Matron, Adelia M. Eaton, brought to it a faithful service, that proved to be the crowning work of their lives. The occasion of receiving a new name in 1912, is one that suggests the eminent propriety of a volume, that will commemorate the labors of those, whose self-denying pioneer work was associated with the former name of the institution.