Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content

Inventory

Introduction

This collection was donated to the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center by Lucy Hough Ackerman in 2008.

Biographical Sketch

Lucy Webb Hayes Hough Ackerman is the great-great-granddaughter of Rutherford Birchard Hayes and Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. Her line of descent is through Rutherford’s son Birchard Austin Hayes and Birchard’s son Sherman Otis Hayes, the President’s first grandchild. A resident of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Ackerman is active in local government. She has won journalism awards from the Pennsylvania Press Club.

Scope and Content

This collection includes items dating from 1891 – 2008. There are four original photographs as well as photocopies of portraits. Clippings relating to events in the lives of Lucy Ackerman and her mother, Lucy Hough, make up the bulk of the collection. Correspondence between Hayes Presidential Center head librarian Rebecca Hill and Lucy Ackerman and between Lucy Ackerman and the Connecticut State Library is included. The correspondence relates to Mrs. Ackerman’s genealogical research. That research resulted in an extensive file on the family and descendants of William Hough, ca. 1619.

Inventory

Ac. 5729

Original photographs: Sherman Otis Hayes, undated, 1891, 1892; home of Rutherford B. Hayes at Spiegel Grove set for wedding, 1950; Mrs. Lloyd W. Hough and children, 1957

Photocopies of portraits (6)

Invitation to the wedding of Lucy Webb Hayes and Lloyd Webster Hough

Family genealogical charts and notes: Hough; Douglas; Tuttle; Doolittle

Correspondence: Connecticut State Library, 1977 – 1979; Rebecca Hill, 2008

Clippings relating to Lucy Webb Hough Ackerman: science awards, 1970 (3); wedding, 1974 (3); athletics, 1980 – 1982 (3); participation in local government, 1983 – 2006 (7);

journalism, 2008 (2).

Clippings relating to the Hayes family, 1950 – 1953 (3)