Box 13
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Billy Fortune stories
File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 779 2 5
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
Other stories
File — Box: 13, Folder: 2
Identifier: MC 779 2 5
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
Typescript and carbon copies of novel, The Rooftree: A Story of Home
File — Box: 13, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 779 2 5
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
Screenplays
File — Box: 13, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 779 2 5
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