Wilkinson (Warring) Papers, [ca. 1875-1911]

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Title:: Warring Wilkinson Papers,
Dates:: [ca. 1875-1911]
Creators:: Wilkinson, Warring, 1834-1918
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.
Extent:: Number of containers: 3 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Warring Wilkinson papers, BANC MSS C-B 815, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Biographical / historical:: 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.
Physical location:: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by The Bancroft Library staff
Date Prepared:: © 1997
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Charlotte Gerstein. Date of source: ca. 1961.

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Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Warring Wilkinson papers, BANC MSS C-B 815, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US