Widney, R. M. (Robert Maclay), 1838-1929
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1838 - 1929
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
"An Account of the Great Chinese Riot and Massacre in Los Angeles" typescript
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31275056491690]
Identifier: 7140
Abstract
Typescript of Judge Widney's account of the riot and massacre of Chinese in Los Angeles, based on the trial of 10 people indicted for the murders, which took place in front of Widney as Judge of the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District for Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. The massacre was the result of a shootout between several Chinese men over the kidnapping of a young Chinese woman, that led to a shootout with police and the death of a civilian. As a result, a mob...
Dates:
1871 November
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5218
Abstract
The USC founding documents and Board of Trustee minutes consist of a ledger containing the by-laws of the University, adopted September 3, 1880, and minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings beginning on that date through November of 1885 (Box 1). Also included is a bound volume of University of Southern Califonia newsletters, dated January 1881-December 1883, with a few issues missing; a typescript with a brief early history of the founding of the University; contemporary copies of letters...
Dates:
1880-1920, 1956; Majority of material found in 1880-1895
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Robert Maclay Widney correspondence
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275051207679]
Identifier: 5005
Abstract
This collection consists of two letters written by American lawyer, judge, and founding member of the University of Southern California Robert Maclay Widney to Rev. John Dickenson in 1886.
Dates:
1886
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections