Bereich "Identifikation"
Signatur
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- 1890-1980 (Anlage)
Erschließungsstufe
Sammlung
Umfang und Medium
10.50 Cubic Feet
Bereich "Kontext"
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
A. J. Frey was born August 16, 1900, in Marion County, Kansas. He married Mabel C. Elder from Kingman County, Kansas, on September 21, 1924. Frey was a Newton-area builder, supervising construction of several buildings at Bethel College, the Bethel College Mennonite Church, and other Mennonite churches. He also worked with Mennonite Aid Plan and was an amateur historian and genealogist. He compiled The Wedel Sisters Genealogy which was privately published in Newton in 1977. A. J. Frey died February 22, 1980. He has two sons.
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
Bestandsgeschichte
Abgebende Stelle
The papers of Arthur J. Frey and his father Cornelius Frey were donated to the MLA in 1980 by J. R. Frey, Arthur’s son.
Bereich "Inhalt und innere Ordnung"
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
The collection has two distinct groups of materials. The larger group is the papers of Cornelius Frey. These papers contain a wide variety of materials, but the most significant is the extensive correspondence. There are letters from many of the leading Mennonites of his time, such as missionaries H. R. Voth and J. B. Frey (Cornelius’ brother), Oklahoma leader Michael Klaassen, and even a few European Mennonites such as Christian Neff. Among the other important materials are Bethanian Church records, a large group of pamphlets and printed matter, and some political materials. These political items are election records and census materials for West Branch Township, Marion County, for the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. These records provide a bit of first-hand evidence for the extent of Mennonite interest and involvement in politics at this time. The collection also contains quite a bit of personal materials such as diaries, financial records, and school materials. An interesting item in the school materials is the minutes of the Grünfeld Literary and Song Society for 1890. The papers of A. J. Frey, the other group of materials in this collection, consist almost entirely of genealogical materials. Frey collected all kinds of records and reminiscences in his genealogical research. These materials would be extremely important to the family histories of persons connected with the Alexanderwohl and Tabor churches. Also in A. J. Frey’s materials is a volume of Mennonite Aid Plan minutes, 1897-1960. Appendix: The materials in this addition to the collection are generally similar to the first part of the collection, consisting most importantly of correspondence, genealogy records, and Coy, Oklahoma, historical records. In addition, the appendix contains a small amount of correspondence and other material of family members other than Arthur J. or Cornelius Frey. They are: John Becker (1870-1968) and Eva Frey Becker (1880-1960), Eva sister of Cornelius Benjamin C. Frey (1895-1960), son of Cornelius Eva Balzer (Henry) Frey (1873-1936), sister-in-law of Cornelius Helena Schmidt (Cornelius) Frey (1870-1934), wife of Cornelius John B. Frey (1882-1942) and Sarah Unruh Frey (1885-1967), John brother of Cornelius Maria Wedel (Benjamin) Frey (1843-1934), mother of Cornelius Sara Elizabeth Frey (Paul G.) Schmidt (1898-1974), daughter of Cornelius Maria Ann Frey (McLoren) Temple (1906-), daughter of Cornelius
Bewertung, Vernichtung und Terminierung
A number of photographs from the Arthur J. and Cornelius Frey collection appendix have been transferred to the MLA photograph collection.
Zuwächse
The Appendix was donated to the MLA in November 1983 by the family.
Ordnung und Klassifikation
Bedingungen des Zugriffs- und Benutzungsbereichs
Benutzungsbedingungen
open for research
Reproduktionsbedingungen
In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprache
- Englisch
- Deutsch
Schrift in den Unterlagen
Anmerkungen zu Sprache und Schrift
Physische Beschaffenheit und technische Anforderungen
Findmittel
Bereich Sachverwandte Unterlagen
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Originalen
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Kopien
Verwandte Verzeichnungseinheiten
Bereich "Anmerkungen"
Alternative Identifikatoren/Signaturen
Zugriffspunkte
Zugriffspunkte (Thema)
Zugriffspunkte (Ort)
Zugriffspunkte (Name)
- Bethanian Mennonite Church (Coy, Oklahoma) (Gegenstand)
- Bethel College (North Newton, Kansas) (Gegenstand)
- Bethel College Mennonite Church (North Newton, Kansas) (Gegenstand)
- Bethesda Hospital (Goessel, Kansas) (Gegenstand)
- Mennonite Aid Plan (Freeman, South Dakota) (Gegenstand)
- Mennonite Church USA. Western District Conference (Gegenstand)
- Dalke family (Gegenstand)
- Frey family (Gegenstand)
- Koehn family (Gegenstand)
- Lemke family (Gegenstand)
- Nachtigal family (Gegenstand)
- Pankratz family (Gegenstand)
- Reimer family (Gegenstand)
- Richert family (Gegenstand)
- Schartner family (Gegenstand)
- Schulz family (Gegenstand)
- Sommerfeld family (Gegenstand)
- Unruh family (Gegenstand)
- Wedel family (Gegenstand)
- Balzer family (Gegenstand)
- Boese family (Gegenstand)
- Regier family (Gegenstand)
- Schmidt family (Gegenstand)
- Voth family (Gegenstand)