Series 3 - Biographies and Autobiographies

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Reference code

CA MHSBC 112-3

Title

Biographies and Autobiographies

Date(s)

  • 1690-2017 (Creation)

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Series

Extent and medium

50 cm of textual records
Location: Files 31 - 50 Box 234
Location: Files 51 - 81 Box 235

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Series consists of autobiographies or biographies of Mennonite authors which include the following names:

Abram Berg, Isaac P Braun, Alexander Peter Dirks, Helena Dueck, Johannes J Dyck, Amy Evelyn Suderman Enss, Daniel Peter Enns, Lena Fast, Heinrich Friesen, Heinrich D Friesen, Cornelius Gossen, John Isaac Gunther, Martin Hamm, John F Harms, Peter & Elizabeth Heidebrecht, Jacob Hoeppner, Andrew Jantz, Hermann Jantzen, Abraham Klassen, H.H. Klassen, Peter Jacob Konrad, Anna Kroeker, Henry Kornelsen, Joseph M Linenberg, Jacob Elias Loewen, Peter Loewen, Kornelius W Langemann, Justina Martens, Herman W Neufeld, Hermann A Neufeld and Katarina Neufeld , Peter Neumann, Jacob A Nickel, Franz Gerhard Peters, Heinrich Penner, Elizabeth Plett, Peter Johann Rahn, Gertrude Reimer, Hermann Rempel, Katharine Sawatzky, Jacob Aron Rempel, Lydia Schellenberg, Elizabeth Schulz, Lydia Thielman, Heinrich Unruh, Johann Peter Unruh, Lise Dick Wall, Aron A Warkentin, Peter Wiebe, B B Wiens, Helena Neumann, Peter Schellenberg, David Toews, H H Goossen, Abram Kroeker, Gerhard Wiens, J.B. Toews, Johann Siemens, Nickolai N. Friesen, Peter Dueck, Heinrich A. Neufeld, B.B. Janz, Erich Leonard Ratzlaff Johann J. Kliewer. Annie P. Martens, Cornelius H.Penner, C.F. Klassen, Issak Regehr and Susies Penner Regehr.

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Booklet

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German and English

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Note

Many are written in German. Most are photocopies.
These biographies and autobiographies are searchable by name.

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Record created 8/22/2011
Record modified February 16, 2017

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