Collection 00/MS.169 - Amos Ebersole Kreider and Stella Shoemaker Kreider Papers

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US BCMLA 00/MS.169

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Amos Ebersole Kreider and Stella Shoemaker Kreider Papers

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  • 1893-1988 (Creation)

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6.75 Cubic Feet

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Name of creator

(1889-1976)

Biographical history

Amos E. Kreider: pastor, Bible teacher, influential conference and missions leader; was born 19 October 1889 to John H. Kreider and Magdalene Ebersole-Kreider, at Sterling, Illinois. He married Stella R. Shoemaker, Freeport, Illinois, on 5 September 1917; they were the parents of Robert S. and Gerald R. Kreider. Educated at Goshen College and Garrett Biblical Institute, A. E. Kreider returned to teach at Goshen College, 1917-1918, 1921-1923. He also taught at Bluffton College and Witmarsum Theological Seminary between 1923 and 1931 and at Bethel College (Kansas), 1935-1943. Ordained at Maplewood Mennonite Church, Topeka, Indiana on 5 May 1915, he served also as pastor at Science Ridge, Sterling, Illinois (1918-1921); College Church, Goshen (1921-1923); First Mennonite, Bluffton, Ohio (1931-1935); and Eighth Street, Goshen (1943-1946). Significant church board memberships include: Mennonite Board of Education (Mennonite Church, 1920-23); Board of Missions (General Conference Mennonite, 1935-53); Board of Mennonite Biblical Seminary (GCM, 1945-1962), in which he became a significant bridge in Mennonite Church-General Conference Mennonite Church relationships. Amos Kreider died 11 February 1976.

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(1894-1977)

Biographical history

Mrs. Stella Kreider, 83, widow of Rev. A. E. Kreider, died Sunday, July 24, at the Greencroft Nursing Center where she had been a patient for five weeks after suffering a stroke.
Memorial services were to be conducted Wednesday forenoon at the Eighth Street Mennonite Church, of which she was a member, with Rev. Paul L. Goering in charge.
Mrs. Kreider was the former Stella Shoemaker of Dakota, Ill. Her marriage to Amos E. Kreider took place in 1917 at Freeport. Ill. They lived at Freeport, then at Goshen, Bluffton, Ohio, and North Newton, Kan., returning to Goshen in 1943. Rev. Kreider, who died Feb. 11, 1976, served pastorates at Freeport, First Mennonite of Bluffton, and the Eighth Street church here. He taught Bible at Goshen College, Bluffton College and the Witmarsum Theological Seminary, and at Bethel College (Kansas).
Mrs. Kreider is survived by two sons, Robert S. of North Newton, Kan., and Gerald of Goshen; 11 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Louella Sanders of Eureka, Ill.

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donation

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includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

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several series: correspondence, sermons, financial records, academic papers, AEK personal records, miscellaneous, Stella Kreider personal records, diaries and mementos

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open for research

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  • English

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ArchonInternalCollectionID:739

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