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3/16" stack. Melvin Gingerich was a historian from Iowa who taught at Bethel College in Kansas (1941-1947) and at Goshen College (1949-1970) and was Archivist of the Mennonite Church Archives at Goshen from 1947-1970. Letters begin when he (a Goshen College graduate) was a student at State University of Iowa and with request for help with Goldsmith family history; later, further correspondence on that subject, and a Goldsmith family tree. Beginning 1929 they are about Gingerich’s research for history of Mennonites in Iowa (mention of Henry Weber), and include a multilithed questionnaire cover letter; letter on S. D. Guengerich’s [Simon D. Guengerich’s] historical work. Historical documents were flowing back and forth between Gingerich and Bender.