Historical News
THE RUTHERFORD B. HAYES LIBRARY has acquired in
the past few months
a file of the weekly Clyde Enterprise
from the first issue on March 21,
1878, through December 1900. The issues
for 1958 are being received as
published, and the file for the
intervening years will be completed at a
later date. Two original letters written
by Rutherford B. Hayes have been
added to the Hayes collections. One,
dated October 31, 1884, was ad-
dressed to Colonel H. J. Johnson of Cumberland,
Maryland, and the other,
dated June 11, 1886, to John M. Burt of
New York City. The library
also has acquired two broadsides, one
for the 1876 Hayes-Tilden campaign
and one for the 1880 election, and
several photographs and autographs
of Lincoln and his cabinet, including
Ohioan Edwin M. Stanton.
Lee Shepard, a vice president of the
Historical and Philosophical So-
ciety of Ohio, died at his home in
Cincinnati on May 15, 1958. A gradu-
ate of Denison University and a lifelong
resident of the Cincinnati area,
Mr. Shepard had served the society also
as its secretary and as a curator,
but he was best known for his editorship
of the quarterly Bulletin, which he
brought into being as a four-page news
bulletin in 1943 and in the course of
fifteen years developed into a scholarly
publication of some ninety pages.
Mr. Shepard's other historical interests
included membership in the Society
of Colonial Wars in Ohio and the Civil
War Round Table in Cincinnati.
He served at one time as governor of the
Society of Colonial Wars and
was a co-founder of the Round Table.
J. Walter Coleman, superintendent of the
Gettysburg Memorial Park
since 1941, has been appointed historian
in the Washington office of the
National Park Service. Dr. Coleman will
serve as liaison with the Civil
War Centennial Commission and other
groups planning Civil War cen-
tennial observances and will coordinate
programs in the National Park
system's twenty-five Civil War areas. He
will also conduct special studies
on events of the war to be commemorated
on a nationwide basis and
act in an advisory capacity on
publications and program data.
Effective September 1, 1958, David
C. Riede will be promoted from
the rank of instructor to that of
assistant professor in the department of
history at the University of Akron.