Abraham B. Woelk and Abraham A. Woelk Papers
Diaries ranging from 1909 to 1951. Not clear which volumes belonged to the father and which to the son.
Bethesda Hospital membership certificates 1920-1927.
Woelk family history info.
Woelk, Abraham B., 1864-1928
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps
diaries 1917-79 with gaps
autograph books
clippings
Duerksen, Agnetha, 1903-1985
Consists almost entirely of his diaries 1956-1985. The diaries are somewhat in the format of scientific lab notebooks, with numerous little drawings.
Also includes some funeral papers, wills, land records, military discharge, clippings, photos, death certificates.
Linscheid, Alfred G., 1897-1985
Amos Ebersole Kreider and Stella Shoemaker Kreider Papers
includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material
Kreider, Amos Ebersole, 1889-1976
The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.
Penner, Anna Gertrude, 1886-1967
Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)
Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968
A small set of personal papers created by a Mennonite minister in Osborne County, Kansas and Peabody, Kansas. Includes an account book belonging to Samuel Winey, notes on scripture references by topic and short essays and sermons, three diaries, spanning 1884 to 1895, and miscellaneous materials.
Winey, Caleb, 1849-1933
box 1: autobiography, financial notebooks, school composition notebooks, diaries (his?), clippings, correspondence, Low German readings, translation projects, family history material
box 2: negatives used to print Andreas and Eva Schmidt Genealogy 1640-1966
Thiesen, Daniel Samuel, 1899-1988
Includes:
campaign flyer (he ran for county superintendent of public instruction at some point)
pamphlets, brochures
correspondence
family history scrapbook (this comes from Lena Fast whose daughter Linda was Gustav Frey’s second wife, so not a Frey family scrapbook)
music book, other books
Wünsche
biology lab book from Bethel College
syllabus from Witmarsum seminary 1922-1923
notebook/diary
Frey, Gustav, 1883-1949
Diaries, music book, small amount of correspondence
Music book has been digitized: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_273/
Regier, Henry G., 1861-1944
Diary 1897-1899, both original and transcription by Ray Regier.
In 1993 Ray Regier had plans to bring more papers in, but that didn't happen.
Regier, Jakob J., 1827-1903
Includes a wide variety of correspondence, financial, legal, and family history materials. The focus is more on personal and family life rather than professional, except for some documentation related to his work as pastor of various churches.
Schmidt, John F., 1909-1997
Diaries documenting Detwiler's time as a Hesston College student and a voluntary service worker among Armenians in the Middle East.
Detwiler, John J., 1895-1989
Postcards, clippings, calendars, notebooks (from previous generations of her family), correspondence, school yearbooks and other school items, Kansas map, diaries (whose?), Western District Conference delegate guestbook 1923, autograph book
boxes 3-4 include financial, estate, and land records (land in Louisiana), death certificate, George Baergen estate and funeral, Gustav Baergen funeral (tape). Hugo Reimer was executor for the estates.
Baergen, Marie, 1900-1996