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Box 13

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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