James Fracis Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe

  Wathahuck-Brightpath

Thunder Clan, Sac and Fox Tribe, born May 22, 1887 on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation, Prague, Oklahoma, died March 28, 1953 in Lomita, California.

Jim Thorpe married  Iva MILLER had the following children: 

Jim,Jr., Gail, Charlotte, and Grace.

Iva Miller was the daughter of Finis Miller and Martha M. Denton (1859-1899).  Iva's grandparents were Greenberry Jefferson Denton (1816-1890) and Charlotte McCarty.   Greenberry Jefferson Denton was born in Jefferson CO, TN and died in Washington CO, AR.  Greenberry was the son of Josiah Denton (1799-1866) and Catherine Sehorn.

Jim Thorpe was a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe. In the 1912 Olympics he became the first and only person to win both the Pentathlon and Decathlon; he was the first American to simultaneously play professional baseball and football; and he became the first president of the National Football League.

Career Highlights

*    Height: 6'-1" Weight: 190 lbs.

*    Position: Halfback

*    He played for Carlisle Indian School (1915-17), Canton Bulldogs

(1919-20), Cleveland Indians (1921), Oorang Indians (1922-23), Rock

Island Independents (1924), New York Giants (1925), Canton Bulldogs

(1926), Chicago Cardinals (1928)

*    He was the most famous American athlete of the age. He was

excellent at every sport he tried

*    He won the decathlon and penthatlon events at 1912 Olympics

*    He played major-league baseball from 1913 to 1919

*    Football was his favorite sport. In 1912, Thorpe scored 25

touchdowns and 198 points in leading his Carlisle Indian School team to

a national collegiate championship

*    Thorpe was selected by the nation's press in 1950 as the most

outstanding athlete of the twentieth century

He represented the Sac and Fox Nation and the United States at the 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, but did not actually become a citizen of the United States until 1917.    King Gustav V of Sweden...