Dates

• Majority of material found within 1750 - 2014

Extent

4 boxes Linear Feet (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. 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 (1880- 1992) 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 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 1963- 2013, for which he served as Grand Marshall of ceremonies from 1998-2013. These items are part of Record Group 65 Box 8 Faculty Textiles.)

Language of Materials

English