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Manuscript Group 101
Daniel C. Shively Collection
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Last Modified May 22, 2015
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Daniel C. Shively Collection, Manuscript Group 101
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Special Collections and University Archives
4 boxes and 1 folder (4 linear feet)
Biographical Note
Daniel Charles Shively served as a faculty member at the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania (IUP) Libraries from 1963 to 2013. He was a Cataloging Librarian and
retired as Coordinator of Cataloging after 50 years of service to IUP. Daniel Shively was
born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania in 1938. His parents were Arthur Willard Shively
(1907-1995) and Frances Ruth Phillips Shively (1910-1998). The Shively family lived in
Hollidaysburg and Altoona, Pennsylvania, as well as in LaVerne, California and Due
West, South Carolina, before returning to Pennsylvania and moving to Lancaster in 1946.
Arthur Shively was a Professor of Biology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster,
where Daniel Shively grew up. His mother taught briefly at Penn State Altoona and later
worked for the Bowker Company where she became an Editor of Books in Print.
Daniel Shively graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Philosophy, and he
earned his MLS from Drexel University. After teaching for one year, he was appointed
by William Lafranchi (Manuscript Group 122) as a cataloging librarian at Indiana State
College (later IUP) in September 1963. For 50 years, Daniel Shively served as a member
of the library faculty in the Patrick J. Stapleton, Jr. and Rhodes Stabley Library Complex
and retired on May 31, 2013. As the senior member of the IUP faculty, Professor Shively
served as Grand Marshall of university ceremonies and led the Commencement
procession from 1998 to 2013, carrying the ceremonial mace.
Scope and Content
The Daniel Shively Collection is housed in one archival legal-sized folder and four
archival boxes. In addition to several items donated by Daniel Shively that reflect his
fifty-year tenure as an IUP faculty member, the collection contains correspondence,
genealogy, newspaper articles, publications, and photographs donated by Daniel Shively.
The collection contains a land grant deed from 1808, supporting documentation, other
memorabilia, and genealogical materials about the Bucher, Mytinger, Phillips, and
Shively families in Pennsylvania.
The land grant deed is dated January 7, 1808 and was issued to Daniel C. Shively’s greatgreat-great grandfather Daniel S. Shively of Pennsylvania. It is printed on vellum, and is
approximately 10 inches by 14 inches in size. The deed is signed by President Thomas
Jefferson, and future President James Madison, who was Jefferson’s Secretary of State
from 1801 to 1808. Daniel S. Shively (1768-1818) married Susannah Ulrich (1770-1861)
and they later settled in what is now Clinton County, Indiana, and he died in 1818.
The collection also contains the travel diaries and photograph album of Daniel Shively’s
grandparents Charles Stacy Shively (1875-1958) and Lou Anna Rivers Shively (18801992) from their trip to the Philippines in 1904-1906. Charles S. Shively was a professor
of Mathematics at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Daniel Shively’s
grandmother, Lou Anna Rivers Shively, a resident of Huntingdon County, passed away
in 1992 at the age of 112 years old. Complete transcriptions of the 1808 land deed, and
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the 1904 and 1906 travel diary of Charles S. Shively, are included in the finding aid after
the container list at the end of this document in Series II.
Daniel Shively also donated his Commencement Cap and Gown with Master’s hood,
which he wore during his entire 50-year tenure as an IUP faculty member from 19632013, for which he served as Grand Marshall of ceremonies from 1998-2013. These
items are part of Record Group 65 Box 8 Faculty Textiles.
Provenance
All materials in the collection were donated by Daniel Shively.
Restrictions
None, this collection is open and available for research. Property rights reside with IUP Special
Collections and University Archives and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Literary
rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or
publish, please contact the Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist.
Processor
The collection was organized and the finding aid was updated by Harrison Wick on May 22, 2015.
Container List
Series I
Filing cabinet (1 folder and 1 artifact box)
1. Land grant deed inscribed to Daniel Shively of Pennsylvania dated January 7, 1808,
and signed by President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Secretary of State
James Madison (1751-1836). This Daniel Shively was Daniel C. Shively’s greatgreat-great grandfather. Printed and written on vellum, the deed is missing its seal.
2. 19th century coin silver spoon hallmarked H. Keen that belonged to Daniel C.
Shively’s great-great-great grandmother Hannah Mytinger Bucher (1780-1863)
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engraved with the initials of her grandson. In 1799, she married John Conrad Bucher
(1775-1852) and they lived in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
Series I
Box 1 (21 folders)
1. Deed of Gift signed by Daniel C. Shively on March 3, 2008.
2. Facsimile of 1808 deed to Daniel Shively of Pennsylvania signed by Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison (2 copies)
3. Transcription of the 1808 deed to Daniel Shively of Pennsylvania signed by
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (2 copies). Transcription follows on page
4 of this document.
4. Newspaper articles that include Daniel C. Shively
a. Indiana Gazette, 1808 land deed being donated to the IUP Special
Collections and University Archives, 2008
b. Indiana Gazette, “Putting magic years to better use,” January 20, 2012
5. U.S. Postal Service Commemorative 34 cent stamp with likeness of James
Madison and facsimile of his signature (no date, ca. 1990s)
6. Transcription of the 1904 and 1906 travel diaries of Charles S. Shively (18751960), professor of Mathematics at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Trip to the Philippines with his wife Lou Anna Rivers Shively (1880-1992). On
their return voyage in 1906, they were shipwrecked two hours off the coast of
Honolulu, Hawaii. Transcription follows on page 5 of this document. Newspaper
article about trip.
7. Original 1904 travel diary of Charles S. Shively, discussing trip to the Philippines.
8. Copy of 1906 travel diary of Charles S. Shively, discussing trip back from the
Philippines and being shipwrecked for two weeks two hours off the coast of Hawaii.
9. Photograph album of Charles S. Shively (1875-1960) and his wife Anna Shively
during their trip to the Philippines in 1904-1906, and their two-week shipwreck
near Hawaii. Photographs of Charles S. Shively and his wife Anna Shively.
10. Book: Heroes and Hero Worship by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), 1902. Call
Number: PR4426 .A1 1902. Book was read by Charles Shively during voyage to
the Philippines in 1904-1906. Many notes and annotations.
11. Correspondence about Shively Family genealogy dated 1965 and 2008.
Discusses Daniel Shively (ca. 1768-1818) and Charles S. Shively (1875-1960).
12. Genealogy
a. Egle, William H. “Bucher Family History,” Pennsylvania Genealogies, 1896
and 1969. Excerpt from Pennsylvania Genealogies about the Bucher family.
b. Kilbourne, John Dwight. “Mytinger Family,” Virtutis Praemium: The
Men Who Founded the State Society of Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, 1998.
Call Number: E 202.1 .P34 K55 1998.
c. The Genealogy of the Mytinger Family. (1894). Personal copy
d. Whittaker, William A. (1952). The Huyetts and their kin.
13. Transcription of a translated copy of a letter written by Anna Dorothea Burgauer
Bucher (1709-?) in Switzerland on April 16, 1768 to her son Rev. John Conrad
Bucher (June 10, 1730-August 15, 1780) in Pennsylvania. A scathing letter about
John Conrad’s debts and work prospects, also about his lack of communication
with his parents about the woman he married. The original letter was donated to
the Huntingdon County Historical Society. Anna Dorothea Burgauer (born in
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September 1709) married John Jacob Bucher (1699-1788) on December 13, 1725.
They lived in Neunkirch, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and their children were John
Conrad Bucher (June 10, 1730-August 15, 1780), Anna Maria Bucher (born in
1734), and Mary Elizabeth Cucher (1732-1826). Their son Rev. John Conrad
Bucher (1) was born on June 10, 1730 in Neunkirch, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
John Conrad Bucher immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1755, and he served in the
military expedition of General Forbes to fight the French at Fort Duquesne
(1758). Bucher also fought in the Battle of Bushy Run (1763). John Conrad
Bucher (1) married Maria Magdalena Hoch on February 26, 1760 in Carlisle,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Their children were John George Bucher
(1766-1843), Mary Bucher (1773-1791), John Jacob Bucher (1765-1831), Anna
Dorothea Bucher (1767-1770), Eleanora Dorothea Bucher (1771-1772), and John
Conrad Bucher (2) (1775 or 1780?-1852). John Conrad Bucher (1) died on
August 15, 1780 in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Maria Magdalena
Hoch Bucher was born on February 2, 1742 in York, York County, Pennsylvania,
and she died on March 11, 1819 in Alexandria, Huntingdon County,
Pennsylvania. She is buried in the Hartslog Cemetery in Alexandria,
Pennsylvania. Their son was John Conrad Bucher (2) who was born on June 18,
1775 and christened on July 16, 1775 in Lebanon, Lebanon County,
Pennsylvania. He married Hannah Mytinger (1780-1863), and he died on
October 21, 1852 in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Their
children were Maria Bucher (1801-1892), Anna Dorothea Bucher (1803-1879),
Susan Bucher (1807-1876), Hannah Bucher (1811-1884), Caroline Bucher (18141884), John Jacob Bucher (1820-1858), and George Conrad Bucher (1822-1880).
14. Transcript of John Conrad Bucher’s trip up the Susquehanna River to Niagara and
return in 1797 – the original is in the Huntingdon County Historical Society in
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (transcript and photocopy of original).
15. Letter in German from John Jacob Bucher to John Conrad Bucher (1775-1852)
dated November 23, 1803 (copy and original).
16. Letter from Hannah Mytinger Bucher (1780-1863) to her son John Jacob Bucher
(1817-1845) dated February 7-8, 1834. Hannah Mytinger married John Conrad
Bucher (1775-1852) in 1799. She lived in Alexandria, Pennsylvania. Her father,
Jacob Mytinger, was a lieutenant in George Washington’s Provost Guard, in the
Revolutionary Army.
17. Letter from John Jacob Bucher (1817-1845) to his mother Hannah Mytinger Bucher
(1780-1863) dated December 31 (no date), possibly 1833. He was living in Philadelphia.
18. Lou Anna Rivers Shively (1880-1992) was the wife of Dr. Charles Shively (18751960). File includes documentation of her age and correspondence from her in 1984.
19. Shively Family Tree (2012) written by Daniel Shively including Neff, Huyett,
Bucher, Phillips, Rivers, and Shively families
20. Scott family history:
a. Excerpts from Lest we forget: An account of Agnes Scott College (1983)
by Walter Edward McNair. In 1891, the college was named for Agnes
Irvine Scott (1799-1877) by her son Colonel George Washington Scott
(1829-1903) who donated $40,000 to the institution.
b. Biographical information about Agnes Irvine Scott who was Daniel
Shively’s great-great-great grandmother.
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c. Biographical information about Agnes Irvine Scott’s son John Scott
(1824-1896) written in 1893. John Scott was elected to the U. S. Senate in
1868, and he represented Pennsylvania for one term from 1869 to 1875.
21. IUP Commencement Program, May 18,
2013, signed by Daniel C. Shively, who as
the senior member of the IUP faculty led the
commencement procession from 1998 to
2013, carrying the ceremonial mace. This
photograph was taken by University
Photographer Keith Bower on May 18, 2013,
Professor Daniel Shively, IUP
Commencement Grand Marshall in Fisher
Auditorium
Series I
Box 2 Exhibit and Display Materials (13 folders
and other artifacts – some on display)
1. Letter from John Jacob Bucher (born 1728)
to his brother John Conrad Bucher (born
1730) in Alexandria, Pennsylvania, dated
July 10, 1826. Letter mentions the deaths of
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the 4th
of July, 50 years after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence.
2. Scrapbook and correspondence by Susan Phillips. Includes photographs of family
houses and genealogy from the Scott, Bucher, Moore, and Phillips families.
3. Plate of Whooping Crane (No. 63 Plate 314) from:
Audubon, John James. (1840). Audubon’s Birds of America. London: Bien. First
Octavo edition – on display
4. Mounted display copies of diaries, photographs, and correspondence.
5. Copies of photographs from photograph album.
6. Captions for photographs
7. Sea shells used for display purposes
8. Greek terra cotta goddess head with headdress, circa 300 B.C. – on display
9. Terra cotta oil lamp – Middle East, circa 200 A.D. – on display
10. Fossils donated by Daniel C. Shively
a. Brachiopod, 250 million years old
b. Plant impressions (4” x 6”), mid to late Triassic period flora
c. Deep Sea Snail Shell (3” x 4”) – on display
d. Shark’s teeth (2), Carcharocles megalodon, approximately 370 million
years old
11. Coins donated by Daniel C. Shively:
a. Antoninianus Roman bronze coin with portrait of Emperor Maximianus
(Maximiam Herculius) who ruled the late Roman Empire from 286 to 305
A.D. Documentation.
b. 1909 (P) Lincoln Wheat Cent (VDB), Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition
c. 1938 (P) Walking Liberty Half Dollar, Almost Uncirculated (AU) condition
d. 1942 (P) Lincoln Wheat Cent, Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition
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e. 1943 Lincoln Steel Wheat Cent, Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition
f. 1944 Lincoln Wheat Cent, Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition
12. Framed poem “Twenty-first Century” signed and written by Yevgeny
Yevtushenko, Russia’s Most Popular Poet, 35/150 signed copies, 1996
13. Lusterware ceramic cow cream pitcher, unmarked, circa 1930-1940, used by
Daniel Shively as a child – on display
Series I
Box 3 (5 folders)
1. Typed autograph letter dated January 30, 1974, to Daniel Shively from Arthur
Koestler (1905-1983), Hungarian-British author
2. “IUP in the Year 2000 Symposium,” 1985, Daniel Shively wrote the “Library and
Media Resources Presentation IUP in the Year 2000” p.p. 116-119
3. Retirement materials and application for Professor Emeritus including updated CV and
job description, 2013
a. Name plate from Stabley Library, office used from 1963-2013
4. Application materials for Professor Emeritus including publications and
newspaper articles, 1960s-2013
5. Retirement: Service Awards and Recognition and Awards Ceremony, 2014
a. Service Awards Luncheon, March 26, 2014
i. Program
ii. Speech given by Daniel Shively
b. Recognition and Awards Ceremony, May 8, 2014
i. Program, IUP Libraries, Daniel Shively, 50 years of service
Series II Transcriptions of Original Documents
1. Transcription of land deed granted to Daniel Shively of Pennsylvania dated
January 7, 1808. The deed is printed on vellum, and is signed by President
Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison.
2. Transcription of the 1904 and 1906 travel diaries of Charles S. Shively of a trip he
and his wife took to and from the Philippines.
3. Transcription of a translated copy of a letter written in German dated April 16,
1768 from Anna Dorothea Burgauer Bucher (born in September 1709), in
Schaffhausen, Switzerland, to her son John Conrad Bucher (June 10, 1730-August
15, 1780), in Pennsylvania. The original was donated by Jean Harshbarger to the
Huntingdon County Historical Society.