Lorenzo D. Creel Papers

Lorenzo Dow Creel was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia on April 12, 1853. He attended Marshall College in West Virginia and Duff's Business College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1884 until 1891, he served on the faculty of the Tri-State College, Angola, Indiana, and in 1900 he began his career with the federal government in the U. S. Census Office. His work with the U. S. Indian Service started in 1902. He served as superintendent of the boarding school at the Crow Indian agency in Montana, and in 1907 was transferred to the Nevada Agency as superintendent of the Indian Training School at Wadsworth, Nevada. In 1910, he accepted appointment as special agent for the Seminole Indians in Florida and from 1911-1916, he served as special agent for the scattered bands of Indians in Utah. In 1916, Lorenzo Creel returned to Nevada as a Special Supervisor for the Indian Service and Special Disbursing Agent for Nevada Indians. He retired from the Indian Service in 1922, but remained in Reno, Nevada until his death on October 19, 1926.

Cecil W. Creel, son of Lorenzo D. Creel, was born in Angola, Indiana in 1889. He received his education at various schools around the country and attained the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada in 1911. In 1921, after some years of experience in the field of agriculture, he became director of the Agricultural Extension Division and professor of Agricultural Extension in the College of Agriculture, University of Nevada, Reno. In 1940, Cecil Creel moved to Washington, D. C., where he served as coordinator between the Association of Land Grant Colleges and the Roosevelt administration. He also ran, unsuccessfully, for the U. S. Senate in 1942. Cecil Creel retired from the University of Nevada faculty in 1952, and died in Reno in 1968.