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Box 9

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Contains 5 Results:

Manuscript: homemade notebook of William Lighton's writings, 1879-1880

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1879-1880

Manuscript: "Ottumwa, Iowa. Journal of a Boy" (autobiographical material, written at age 13), 1880

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1880

Manuscript: "The Life and Experiences of Jim Holmes". Written by Lighton at age 14 and "Dedicated to my Mother.", 1880

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1880

Three notebooks of story ideas (including notes for Shadow of the Great Rock), clippings, some records of stories submitted

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1828-1987

Notebook containing poetry of William Lighton and 2 pages by Suzanne Lighton, 1923

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 5
Identifier: MC 779 2 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: William Rheem Lighton (whose father was, in William Lighton's words, a "musician and microscopist") was born 13 July 1866 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and grew up mostly in Nebraska. A childhood injury kept him out of school for a number of years, but he read voraciously and had already began writing by his thirteenth year. He spent a year teaching school in western New Mexico (not Arizona, as the 1901-02 Who's Who states), but was apparently living with his parents and...
Dates: 1923