Title: William Wight Diaries
Inclusive Dates: 1856-1910

Creator:

• Wight, William

Call Number: Whitewater Mss F

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Diaries kept by William and Albina Wight, a farmer and his wife near Whitewater, Wisconsin; with observations on family and farm life, weather conditions, local births, deaths, and marriages, and other family and local events.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-whit000f

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In 1856 William Wight left Pennsylvania to come to Wisconsin with his family, and settled on a farm in Whitewater. In 1861 he married Albina Leighton. Both William and Albina kept diaries, making almost daily entries with observations on weather conditions, farm life, local births, deaths, and marriages, and other family and town events.

William's diaries cover the years 1869-1910. Albina's diaries also start in 1869, and continue to 1886, just a year before her death. A few volumes are evidently missing, but William included a summary of family and local events for the years 1856-1903 at the end of one of the diaries.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Harry Cox, Whitewater, Wisconsin, July 14, 1959.

Processing Information

Processed by Emily Al-Khazraji, January 21, 1965.

	Diaries of William Wight
Box   1 Volume   1-8	1869-1877; 1884-1903, April 14 Note: Summary for the years 1856-1903 included at the end of Volume 2.
Box   2 Volume   9-10	1903, April 15-1910
Box   2 Volume   11-15	Diaries of Albina Wight, 1869-1886