Historical News
SEVERAL LARGE CHESTS containing important papers of Samuel M.
("Golden Rule") Jones were
discovered early this year in the attic of
the S. M. Jones Company of Toledo. The
papers include original letters
to Jones, copies of letters from Jones,
clippings from Toledo newspapers
on his election and administration as
mayor of Toledo (1897-1904), and
records of the old Acme Sucker Rod
Company (now the S. M. Jones
Company), which was founded by Mayor
Jones.
The papers are to be given to the Toledo
Public Library, where they
will be available for the use of
scholars, subject to the permission of
Mason B. Jones, the only surviving son
of Toledo's reform mayor.
Stanley F. Chyet has been appointed
assistant to the director of the
American Jewish Archives.
A series of posters dealing with the
participation of the Jew in the
Civil War is being prepared by the
archives in connection with the
Civil War centennial.
Louis Leonard Tucker has been appointed
director of the Historical
and Philosophical Society of Ohio. A
native of Connecticut, he received
his Ph.D degree from the University of
Washington, and for the past
two years has been a fellow of the
Institute of Early American History
and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia.
He assumes his new position
on October 1.
Walter Muir Whitehill, director and
librarian of the Boston Athen-
aeum, will be the speaker for the annual
meeting of the society, to be
held Monday evening, December 5.
Miss Lillian C. Wuest, assistant
librarian and member of the society
staff for forty years, retired August
31.
Robert Howes has been appointed
assistant professor at the Univer-
sity of Akron. He will teach Russian and
Far Eastern history.
Howard Allen has received a grant from
the American Philosophical