Shultis, Newton
Newton Shultis Papers
1880-1938
1893-1896
RG 050/6 1896 S58
10 boxes
(10 linear feet)
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Born on New Year's Day 1876 to Mark and Katie Shultis, Newton Shultis became a member of the Massachusetts Agricultural College Class of 1896. A resident of Medford, Mass., at the start of his college career, Shultis was described by his classmates in the yearbook as "the only man in the class who has not an enemy in college." An avid fan of the baseball and football teams, the former of which he was manger, Shultis was also a member of the Washington Irving Literary Society, DGK fraternity, and the YMCA, and he was known to have brought a Hawkeye camera with him to campus. After graduation, Shultis joined his father in the family grain shipping business in Boston where for many years he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Shultis died in Hopkinton, N.H. in 1956.
The Shultis papers include a selection of correspondence from Shultis to his parents during his college years, along with a remarkable array of ephemera, including his cadet's uniform with hat, belt, and bayonet scabbard; his graduation robes; a three-volume herbarium; three volumes of class notes and essays; 16 dry plate glass negatives; a Class of 1896 photograph album; and miscellaneous photographs, school books, and ephemera.
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Newton Shultis: studio portrait as a cadet., Massachusetts Agricultural College, ca. 1892
Born on New Year's Day 1876 to Mark and Katie Shultis, Newton Shultis became a member of the Massachusetts Agricultural College Class of 1896. A resident of Medford, Mass., at the start of his college career, Shultis was described by his classmates in the yearbook as "the only man in the class who has not an enemy in college." An avid fan of the baseball and football teams, the former of which he was manger, Shultis was also a member of the Washington Irving Literary Society, DGK fraternity, and the YMCA, and he was known to have brought a Hawkeye camera with him to campus. After graduation, Shultis joined his father in the family grain shipping business in Boston where for many years he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Shultis died in Hopkinton, N.H. in 1956.
The Shultis papers include a selection of correspondence from Shultis to his parents during his college years, along with a remarkable array of ephemera, including his cadet's uniform with hat, belt, and bayonet scabbard; his graduation robes; a three-volume herbarium; three volumes of class notes and essays; 16 dry plate glass negatives; a Class of 1896 photograph album; and miscellaneous photographs, school books, and ephemera.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Newton Shultis Papers (RG 050/6 1896 S58). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Acquired from Sally Harris, June 2018.
Mass Agricultural College (1863-1931)
UMass alumni
UMass students
Photographs
Processed by Blake Spitz, July 2018.
Shultis, Newton
Massachusetts Agricultural College--Students
Massachusetts Agricultural College--Alumni
Herbaria
Military uniforms
Photographs
11Baseball Association - Massachusetts Agricultural College1896
12Cards, programs - Massachusetts Agricultural College1896, 1920
13Captain Walter Mason Dickinson commemoration1928
14Correspondence1893-1894
15Notebook - Agriculture1894-1895
16Notebook - Entomology1895
17Notebook - typed Government essay1896
18Photographs - Clark, Penhallow, Penn Brooks, and Wheeler with Japanese students, Hokkaido Class of 18801890
19Photographs - Shultis1892-1918
110Photographs - Shultis1894-1896, 1938
111Photographic printing - copper plate of MAC Cadets1896
2School books1894-1921Books from Shultis's time as a student at MAC, some with brief notes from that time period or from his re-readings in 1919-1921. Books include: Genung's "Practical Elements of Rhetoric," Hedges's "Common Sense in Politics," Martin's "The Human Body," and Royce's "The Hope of the Great Community."
3Glass plate negatives - Shultis1894
4Class of 1896 photograph album1896
5-7Herbarium1895
8-9Cadet’s uniform1895Box 8 is cadet hat, belt, and bayonet scabbard; and box 9 is jacket and pants.
10Graduation gown1895
101Photographs - Shultis1896
102Clippings, decorations, notes1896