Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau AK 99811-0571 Diary of James Wickersham
Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau AK 99811-0571 Diary of James Wickersham. Aug. 24, 1926 to July 5, 1927. MS 107 BOX 6 DIARY 37 Diary 37, 1926- [Front cover] 1927 Private Diary Of James Wickersham Aug 24, 1926 to July 5, 1927. [inside front cover] James Wickersham. Born at Patoka, Illinois. Aug 24, 1857. Married to Deborah Susan Bell at Rochester Illinois on Oct. 24, 1880. Deborah Susan Bell, born at Rochester, Illinois, Sept. 25, 1862. Married to James Wickersham, at Rochester, Illinois, on October 27, 1880. Died at Seattle, Wash. on November 23, 1926. Darrell Palmer Wickersham, born at Springfield, Illinois, April 2, 1882. Arthur James Wickersham, born at Tacoma, Wash. Ter. Dec. 21, 1886, died in Tacoma, February 20, 1888. Howard Sullivan Wickersham, born in Tacoma, Wash. October 19, 1893, died in Tacoma, January [1st or 11th] 1902. Diary 37, 1926 Juneau. August 24, 1926. August 24-26 My 69th Birthday! Reached Juneau this afternoon on the SS. “Yukon,” from trip to Seattle to see Debbie. Left her with my sister Jennie at Enumclaw - sick but improving: Large quantity of accumulated mail - will attend to it tomorrow. Back to my room at Zynda. -25th – Working in office answering letters and in other belated office work. Had dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Rustgard (atty. Gen].) Judge LeFevre also present. -26th - Letter from Oxford Press - One suggestion that there were “important omissions”-in my Biblio - that if I would send them $300. their editor would supply omissions, etc. I wrote for particulars & may engage him to supply & “iron out” the Ms.
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