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Guide to the Warring Wilkinson Papers, [ca. 1875-1911]
BANC MSS C-B 815
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Collection Title: Warring Wilkinson Papers,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1875-1911]
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 815
Creator: Wilkinson, Warring, 1834-1918
Extent:
Number of containers: 3 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, MSS of articles and speeches, reports, accounts, notebooks, clippings, and periodicals containing articles
by and about him, relating primarily to his career as principal of the California Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the
Blind, Berkeley, California.
Also included: papers relating to his estate and letters of condolence addressed to his daughter.
Also included: papers relating to his estate and letters of condolence addressed to his daughter.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Warring Wilkinson papers, BANC MSS C-B 815, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
This collection of papers was given to the Library in March 1961 by Wilkinson's son-in-law, Professor Leon Richardson. They
consist of correspondence, manuscripts of articles and speeches, reports, accounts, notebooks, clippings, some student material,
periodicals containing articles by and about him, papers relating to his estate, and letters of condolence addressed to his
daughter.
Warring Wilkinson, educator and head of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind at Berkeley, California, for
over 40 years, was born in Charlton, New York, May 25, 1834, and educated at Union College. He began his educational work
with the deaf in 1858, after graduation, at the New York Institution for the Deaf. In 1865 he accepted the offer as principal
of the California School for the Deaf and the Blind, a private institution founded in San Francisco in 1860 by Mrs. Frances
Augusta Clark. He soon succeeded in securing state support for the school and then, also, a new location. Berkeley was chosen
as the site, and in 1869 the school was moved across the Bay, where it became one of the best known in the country. In 1909,
his eye
sight failing, he retired, and the Board of Directors made him Principal Emeritus. He died on April 7, 1918.