Papers of a friend and associate of John F. Funk who served as assistant editor / editor in chief of the Herald of Truthfrom 1886 to 1904.  Kolb edited a number of other Mennonite periodicals, was active in the Sunday school movement, and served as president of the Mennonite Evangelizing and Benevolent Board.  He married John F. Funk's daughter, Phoebe, in 1893.

Kolb's papers are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1866-1923

(2) Miscellaneous, circa 1853 - 1965

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

This memoir, entitled "Like Jacob, I Waited Seven Years, or Faint Heart Did Win Fair Lady," recounts Hostetler's courtship of Ida (Yoder) Nussbaum.  Hostetler's daughter, Dora Miller, recorded Hostetler's memoir in writing, as Hostetler himself frequently recited it as a story.

Records of a private Christian school associated with the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church, and later the Mennonite Church USA. Materials are divided into eight series:

(1) Early Correspondence

(2) Governing Documents and Board Records

(3) Faculty Meeting Minutes

(4) Committee Records

(5) Financial Records

(6) Publications

(7) Enrollment Records

(8) Miscellaneous Materials

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and conference minister and his wife.  These papers are divided into two series:

(1) Cleo A. Mann Papers, 1939-1980

(2) Nellie Miller Mann Papers, 1920-2000

The records are divided into the following series:

(1) Church Governance, 1892-2003

(2) Church Bulletins, Newsletters, and Directories, 1949-2010

(3) Sunday School, 1877-1950

(4) Women's Organizations, 1907-2005

(5) Miscellaneous, 1905-2006

Daniel H. Coffman served as a deacon at Prairie Street Mennonite Church (1893-1899), Olive Mennonite Church (1899-1904), and Clinton Brick Mennonite Church (1904 - 1941). This collection consists primarily of Coffman's correspondence to his brother and sister in Virginia as well as his daughter in Indiana, and contains information regarding church conflicts from 1898 to 1903.  Also in this collection are histories of the Daniel H. Coffman family and the Samuel H. Eldridge family, as well as a photograph of the Eldridge family circa 1890.

The David A. Yoder Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Diaries and Datebooks, 1920-1976

(2) Correspondence, 1903-1975

(3) Subject Files, 1909-1970

(4) Manuscripts, 1949-1976

(5) Sermon Notes, 1907-1966

(6) Photographs, 1885-1980

(7) Miscellaneous, 1897-1983

The collection primarily consists of a small booklet dated 1880 and authored by David Sherk, a Mennonite Church minister in Ontario, regarding the church controversy surrounding Bishop Jacob Wisler's conservative views. In addition, a fragment of a letter written by David Sherk, and a transcribed and a translated copy of the booklet are included.

This is a photo of the Mennonite Health Association, in Indianapolis. The Three men are Donald Steelberg, Willard Krabill (at the podium) and James Waltner.

A 12 page autobiographical manuscript entitled "Recollections of a Mennonite Boyhood" that describes Slagel's childhood from 1930 to 1942 in Chicago and Topeka, Indiana.

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).

Pastoral and professional papers of a Mennonite clergyman.  Materials include sermons, correspondence, and assembled materials from churches he served.