Manuscripts Collection
Marion P. Satterlee was a historian of the 1862 Dakota War. His father, Reverend William W. Satterlee, was a professor at Grant University in Athens, Tennessee (later Tennessee Wesleyan College), and a leader of the Prohibition Party in Minnesota.
The collection primarily contains Marion P. Satterlee's historical research files (1909-1937) regarding the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota. Also included are a scrapbook and miscellaneous items (1878-1893) of Marion P. Satterlee's father, William W. Satterlee, a leader of the Prohibition Party in Minnesota and a professor at Grant University, Athens, Tennessee.
Marion's research files include two boxes of card files with data on both Indian and white participants in the U.S.-Dakota War, and letters containing reminiscences from white survivors.
These records are divided into the following two sections:
Marion P. Satterlee's publications on the 1862 Dakota War are available in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection, as is a work by William W. Satterlee related to the prohibition movement in Minnesota.
Accession number: 1794C; 1802A; 2947; 3009; 3016
Processed by: John M. Wickre, May 1988
Catalog ID number: 09-0042252
The scrapbook includes a photograph of Satterlee (undated), a copy of a printed organizational document from the national Prohibition Home Protection Party (1883), a few items related to Satterlee during his tenure at Grant Memorial University and to his prohibition work (1878-1892), and clippings of newspaper obituaries (1893).
A second folder includes a letter of acceptance of Satterlee's nomination as Prohibition Party candidate for governor of Minnesota (June 11, 1879); items relating to his fund raising and temperance work with the institution known variously as Grant Memorial University (1887) and U.S. Grant University (1890) in Athens, Tennessee; and three memorial addresses following Satterlee's death (1893).
There are also three stock certificates (1884-1890) for the Red Rock Park Association, a camp meeting corporation affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church with headquarters in St. Paul.
Satterlee's correspondence relating to his research on the participants in the U.S.-Dakota War, including letters from white survivors recounting their experiences.
The alphabetically arranged cards each give information on a single individual, most of whom are male. Each card gives the person's Dakota name, an English translation of the name, the band to which the person belonged, age in 1862, and remarks about the case's disposition.
The alphabetically arranged cards give names, residences, their involvement in the conflict, and their own outcome.