Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1950-1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.45 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 29 February 1896, St. Louis, Missouri. Parents Thomas Nathaniel Camp and Mary Brandt.
Graduated from Halstead High School (Kansas) and McKendree College (Lebanon, Illinois). Also attended Taylor University (Upland, Indiana).
Taught rural schools in Illinois and western Kansas. Social work in East St. Louis. Worked at Summerfield, Illinois, elevator and aluminum ore plant in St. Louis.
1947-1962 was executive secretary of the Women's Missionary Association of the General Conference Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas.
1962 retired to Summerfield, Illinois.
Died 5 October 1982, Summerfield, Illinois.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Served as a pastor to churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska.
He retired to his original home community of Walnut Creek, Ohio.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Mary Elise Baer, niece of Eleanor Camp.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Printed matter, notes on sermons, photos, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, WMA financial reports, Russel Mast sermons.
The locations database indicates a box 3 of the collection, missing as of 5 August 2004, but this is probably just a data entry error and there never was a third box.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open to research use
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English