Edwin
Evans
Wightman
Born in West Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Grace Tingley (Wightman) Lund
Husband of
Anna (Brinser) Wightman
— married
24 Oct 1906 [location unknown]
Father of
Margaret Louise Wightman
Died
at age 66
in Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Student at Boston Inst. Of Tech and then Brown. Was Inspector of Diesel Engines for US Navy. Buried in Harrisburgh, PA. Married to Anna.
Edwin E. Wightman was a student for two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after which he attended Brown University from which he was graduated in engineering in the class of 1898. He is (1937) Inspector of Naval Equipment, with headquarters at Cleveland. [1]
Marriage
1906 October 24, Anna Brinser, born 2 November 1877 in Middletown, Pennsylvania, daughter of Christian L. and Mary (Lerch) Brinser. [2]
Child
- Margaret Louise Wightman, born 3 July 1908; died 23 July 1923.
Residence
Cleveland, Ohio. [4]
Sources
- Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897 (Boston, MA: pub. by the author [American Printing & Engraving Co.], 1897)
- "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8M9-RLR : 15 August 2019), Alexander Wightman in entry for Edwin Evans Wightman, 28 Jan 1942; citing Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference fn 6859; FHL microfilm 2,023,980.
- Whitman, Mary Ross George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (Edwards Brothers, Inc., Chicago, 1939). Page 340.
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