Box 12
Container
Contains 4 Results:
"Preliminary Notes on a Study of Atrypa Reticularis, Linn." (clipping from Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History), by W. R. Lighton (Willam Lighton or his father?); Bound booklet: Essay of Protean Nature, by "The Hermit of Leavenworth" [by Lighton?]
File — Box: 12, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 4
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
Booklets, mostly reprints by railroads and other companies of articles
File — Box: 12, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 4
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
Clippings of articles, mostly on agriculture. , 1900-1914, n.d.
File — Box: 12, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 4
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:
1900-1914; n.d.
Clippings of stories, 1893-1913, n.d.
File — Box: 12, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 4
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:
1893-1913, n.d.