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Harold Stauffer Bender Papers
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Schertz, H. R.  (Henry R. Schertz)

Thin (scarcely 1/8”) stack. Henry R. Schertz (1886-1954) was a Mennonite Church leader in Illinois and denomination-wide--superintendent of the Chicago Home Mission for a time, then a farmer-preacher who was pastor of Metamora Mennonite Church, ordained bishop in 1941. He served on the Mennonite Board of Education and on the executive committee of Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, and from time to time he was Moderator of the Illinois Mennonite Conference and Assistant Moderator of the MC denomination’s general conference.

Schroeder, P. R. (Peter R. Schroeder)

1/8” stack. Peter R. Schroeder (1888-1941) was a leader of the General Conference Mennonite Church--as a pastor at Berne Indiana beginning in 1912, President of Freeman Junior College (1928-1930), and thereafter as pastor of Salem Mennonite Church at Freeman South Dakota and a Bible teacher at the College; then in 1940 he became pastor of Bethel Mennonite Church in the community of his birth and rearing, Mountain Lake Minnesota. From 1933 apparently until his death he was President of the General Conference Mennonite denomination. (See GAMEO.)

Smithson, Robert J.

3/16” stack. Some letterheads indicate that R. J. Smithson [Robert J. Smithson] was Editor of The Scottish Baptist Magazine; his address was “Baptist Manse, Kirkcaldy, Scotland.”

Society of Brothers

5/16” stack. Many of the items are in German. (Note: the annotator is merely skimming contents and his German is weak, so annotations are not entirely reliable.)

Stauffer, Henry

Thin (1.8” or less) stack. Henry Stauffer lived in Berkeley, California, and wrote that all his ancestors were Mennonite and that he was a graduate of Yale University. One letter (March 9, 1938) is on stationery of First Congregational Church of Oroville, California. The letterhead does not list Stauffer’s name, but attached is a copy of a letter on the same Stationery in which Stauffer identified himself as “Interim Pastor.”

Stauffer, John L.

3/8” stack. John L. Stauffer (1888-1959) had begun his churchly career as a minister in a mission in Altoona Pennsylvania. In 1918 he joined the faculty of Eastern Mennonite School [later Eastern Mennonite College, then Eastern Mennonite University] as a Bible teacher, and from 1936 to 1948 he was that school’s president. Meanwhile he became a prominent denominational leader within the “old” or “MC” denomination. In that role he surely can be classified as a Mennonite Fundamentalist, representing well the position of the Eastern Mennonite school of his day, with an eastern Mennonite perspective. He could sometimes defend doctrinal positions or church policy positions quite vigorously; yet he was much more congenial with fellow church leaders with whom he disagreed (including most of the church leaders who, like Bender, were identified with Goshen College) than were some other Mennonite Fundamentalists. // Stauffer sometimes wrote on stationery of a new and used book exchange he apparently operated. A number of these letters represent his writing as a book agent.

Weber, Harry F.

1/4” stack. Harry F. Weber (Harry Franklin Weber), 1899-1997, entered Mennonite history and corresponded with Bender mainly regarding his book Centennial History of the Mennonites of Illinois 1829-1929 (1931).

Wenger, A. D.  (Amos Daniel)

Half-dozen items. During the late-nineteenth-century Quickening A. D. Wenger [Amos D. Wenger, Amos Daniel Wenger (1867-1935)] had been a relatively progressive young evangelist from Lancaster Mennonite Conference, and attended Moody Bible Institute. He went on to be was a pastor in Missouri, Iowa, and Virginia and to write church literature materials. From 1922 until his death in 1935 he was president of Eastern Mennonite School. [See GAMEO.]

Leaman, A. Hershey

About a dozen items. A. Hershey Leaman (b. 1878), reared in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, was Superintendent of the Mennonites’ Chicago Home Mission 1902-1920, a teacher of evangelism at Moody Bible Institute 1920-1932, and an evangelist a Mennonite pastor in Chicago area from 1932 into the 1940s (--information from Warkentin and Gingerich, Who’s Who Among the Mennonites).

Loucks, Aaron

About 15 items. Aaron Loucks (1864-1945) was active in the Mennonite Church’s late-19th- and early-20th-century “quickening.” As such he helped to organize the Mennonite Publication Board (1907), was “the founder of the Mennonite Publishing House” (MPH; 1908), and helped in the complex beginnings of Gospel Herald (1908). A minister, he was active in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference and “in part the originator of the Bible conference movement” in the Mennonite Church.--see GAMEO In the 1930s he remained active at the Publishing House, signing at least one letter (1935) as its General Manager. The following annotations do not include some letters deemed incidental, including some about printing issues of Mennonite Quarterly Review.

Meulen, Jacob ter

3/16” stack. Jacob ter Meulen (1884-1962)”studied history and was librarian of the Peace Palace at The Hague 1924-1952... He was one of the first Dutch pacifists and an active member of the Mennonite Peace Association (Arbeidsgroep tegen de Krijgsdienst).”--GAMEO. He corresponded with Bender almost always in English.

Miller, Ernest E (E. E. Miller)

The following annotations may not conform exactly to those in the folder's "Items", because these represent a bit of editing and reformatting. {1} H. S. Bender to Ernest E. Miller, in India, February 20, 1937: glad to hear Miller would be joining the Goshen faculty--President Yoder [S. C. Yoder--Sanford C. Yoder, Sanford Calvin Yoder] had officially invited Miller, Miller had accepted; “We will not use M. C. Lehman [Martin Clifford Lehman, “Cliff” Lehman] beyond the academic year 1937-1938”; hoped Miller could start in September 1938--if not, would have to go into the market and hire a non-Mennonite [apparently meaning for 1938-1939], but hoped not; Yoder giving Miller details; mention “Dr. Hertzler” [Silas Hertzler] as head of education department; mention Mary Royer, Paul Mininger as teachers, and about teaching Psychology; etc. {2}Ernest E. Miller to Bender (Dhamtari Christian Academy letterhead, he as Principal), April 19, 1937: happy for February 20 letter; it would help Miller select courses at New York University; had informed Yoder why he could not begin in Fall [1937?]; on how he might adjust his schedule; news from his school. {3}Ernest E. Miller to Bender (still from India), September 13, 1937: form letter with attachment, inviting comment on Miller’s plan for his advanced education. {4}Bender to Dr. John Dale Russell of University of Chicago Department of Education, December 10, 1938 [but the “8” pencilled out and “1937” added as correction]: due to his parents’ ill health, Ernest E. Miller wanted to be closer to Indiana than he would be in New York, so upon returning from India he wished to study at Chicago rather than at New York University as planned; on behalf of Miller, asking questions about Miller’s transferring from New York University to University of Chicago, including whether Miller could submit the dissertation he had written for the New York institution; etc. • • • REPLY, John Dale Russell to Bender, December 14, 1937: Miller would need residency at Chicago for three quarters etc. etc. {5}Ernest E. Miller to Bender, April , 1938: was at Masontown, Pennsylvania, with Metzler [probably A. J. Metzler, Abram J. Metzler] Miller had visited at the remnants of old church house where the first Mennonite Sunday School had occurred; citing a precedent of American Colleges obtaining marble blocks from Geneva Switzerland (as explained to Miller by Orie Gerig [O. B. Gerig, Orie B. Gerig), Miller proposed that Goshen might get some stones from that old church building to put into the foundation of the new Memorial Library at Goshen College; mention Mennonite Historical Library. {6}Miller to Bender, October 17, 1938, from New York City: from “Bro. Graber” [C. L. Graber, Christian L. Graber, Chris Graber] had learned Bender’s health was improving--good news; comments on enrollment at Goshen and, after talking with A. E. Kreider [Amos E. Kreider], at Bluffton College; on Mennonite Colleges needing to cooperate--mention “our friend Milo” [Milo Kauffman?]; about courses he would teach; and his study program [at New York University]. {7}Bender to Miller, October 25, 1938: response to various points of Miller’s of October 23; that “Hesston has always felt freer to cooperate with Bethel in the west [sic]--Paul Erb was even on the Bethel College Advisory Board--but “the intensity of feeling in our middle west [sic] church relations is much greater than in the far west [sic]; etc. [interMennonite relations]. • • • REPLY, Miller to Bender, November 7, 1938: appreciation for the October 25 letter; personal report on feelings upon entering the educational program in New York, etc. etc.; had recently spent a weekend “with my cousin, Gaius Baumgartner, at Princeton”, attended a service in the Seminary chapel there and thought of his friends who had had that atmosphere; that S. C. Yoder [Sanford C. Yoder, Sanford Calvin Yoder] might visit him in New York--Miller hoped to be able to have long conversation with Yoder. {8} Ernest E. Miller to Bender, December 22, 1938: responding to an extant letter from Bender, December 15, a personal letter about seeing each other over the holidays; personal and professional details.

Bender to Correll

Internal evidence indicates Bender as author (writing in German), to Correll: about his Conrad Grebel work; mention Prof. Köhler [Walter Köhler, Walther Köhler, Walter Koehler]; mention of John Horsch.

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