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William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962

William B. and Alice Thut Page Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/371
  • Collection
  • 1898-1951

A small set of personal papers created by a  Mennonite medical missionary couple in India at the turn of the 20th century.  Materials include William Page's diary (1899), outgoing correspondence by Alice and William Page, assorted travel documents (passports, tickets, etc.), clippings, and photographs.

Page, William B., 1871-1945

Wilhelm Friesen fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1925, 2006

This fonds consists of one ledger that records grain and land prices around the turn of the 20th century. There are financial records related to the support for the local school and for fire insurance levies. There is also some prose written by William Friesen. The materials give a sense of the economic conditions and show some of the activities the Mennonite ministers in the Rosenheim area of Manitoba at that time.

Friesen, Wilhelm, 1865-1936

Virginia Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.503
  • Collection
  • 1960-2010

box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook

box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work

box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks

box 6-8: correspondence

box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks

Claassen, Virginia, 1933-2011

Vesta Zook Slagel Papers 1921-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/403
  • Collection
  • 1921-1982

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correspondence, 1921-1923 (2) Speeches and Articles, undated, 1982 (3) Photographs, circa 1921-1923

Slagel, Vesta Zook, 1891-1973

Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/845
  • Collection
  • 1900-1992

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

Neuschwander, Evangeline Matthies

T. M. (Tillman M.) Erb Diaries and Miscellaneous Materials 1879-1928

  • US MCUSAA HM1/525
  • Collection
  • 1879-1991

These personal papers consist primarily of diaries kept by a minister, bishop, and school administrator of the (old) Mennonite Church in Kansas.  Erb's began keeping a diary at age 14 and continued the practice almost continuously until his death 50 years later.  Erb's diary entries are usually brief and discuss the weather, work, social gatherings, and events of note, such as the 1912 accident in which he was burned and one of his daughters was killed.  Other materials in these papers include scattered correspondence, materials pertaining to his pastoral work, and a 1991 paper about T. M. Erb.

Erb, T. M. (Tillman M.), 1865-1929

T. K. (Tobias Kreider) and Mae Hertzler Hershey Papers 1917-1952

  • US MCUSAA HM1/114
  • Collection
  • 1887-1976

Personal papers of missionaries of the (old) Mennonite Church who served in Argentina from 1917 to 1948.  Divided into six series:

(1) Diaries, 1918-1956

(2) Correspondence

(3) Articles and Talks

(4) Argentine Mission Records

(5) Deputation Trips

(6) Miscellaneous

Hershey, T. K. (Tobias Kreider), 1879-1956

T. A. van der Smissen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.243
  • Collection
  • 1920-1970

correspondence, sermons, subject files

van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974

Solomon E. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/173
  • Collection
  • 1919-1920

Photocopies of diaries and correspondence created during Yoder's period of service in post World War I France with the American Friends Service Committee.

Yoder, Solomon E., 1893-1992

Silas J. Smucker Collection of Smucker Family Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/559
  • Collection
  • 1774-1988

Family papers of a Mennonite agriculturalist and soil conservationist.  These materials provide information about the Schmucker, Smucker, Smoker family reunions as well as correspondence, photographs, and diaries of various members of the Smucker family.

Smucker, Silas J., 1904-1999

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