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- 1819-1920 (Creation)
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0.20 Linear Feet; 1 half archives box
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Biographical history
Menno Simon Steiner was a Mennonite minister and evangelist from Ohio. He was the president of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.
1866 Born near Beaverdam, Ohio on April 30, 1866 to Christian Peter Steiner and Barbara Thut.
1885 Joined the Riley Creek Church
1887 Graduated from Bluffton High School; became a teacher
1889 Became the first secretary of the Mennonite Book and Tract Society
1891-92 Studied theology at Oberlin College
1893 Ordained as a minister on March 9 by Bishop John F. Funk; founded the Home Mission in Chicago
1894 Married Clara Daisy Eby on April 8, together they had 5 children
1897 Moved to a farm near Columbus Grove, Ohio
1899 Wrote Pitfalls and Safeguards; became the first president of the Mennonite Board of Charitable Homes
1901 Helped to organize the Mennonite Old People's Home near Rittman, Ohio
1903 Wrote a biographyof John S. Coffman entitled John S. Coffman
1906 Became the first president of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities; remained president until his death
1911 Died on March 12 at the Bluffton Sanitarium
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A small set of property records and church- and mission-related documents and correspondence created and collected by a pastor and bishop of Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio) who donated land for the Rittman Home for the Aged. Includes a letter to Christian Steiner dated 1829, as well as correxpondence from Menno Steiner (1905-1911). Also includes marriage licenses, Crown Hill Mennonite Church reports, and membership letters.
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These materials are open for public research.
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Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright not owned by the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
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- English
- German
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- Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio) (Subject)
- Mennonite Church -- Clergy (Subject)
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2013-03-04
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- English