- US BCMLA 00/MS.466
- Collection
- 1897-1956
diaries 1897-1956 (may have been continued after his death by wife or children), financial record book 1890s?, small amount of family history material
Schmidt, Peter P., 1861-1939
diaries 1897-1956 (may have been continued after his death by wife or children), financial record book 1890s?, small amount of family history material
Schmidt, Peter P., 1861-1939
Reinhard D. Voth and Hilda Ediger Voth Papers
The collection provides extensive documentation of the personal lives and careers of the Rein and Hilda through a broad range of documents. This includes official documents such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates, diplomas, teaching certificates, a draft card, and so forth. Limited correspondence provides some insights into their lives, but more detail is found in extensive clippings, and in Hilda’s case reminiscences and presentations, especially related to growing up on the mission field in Oklahoma. Rein collected historical advertisements and pamphlets related to his interest and work with road maintenance.
Voth, Reinhard D., 1907-1995
"His papers include personal certificates of birth, marriage, and death and also military papers of World War I. Included is the correspondence with the Home Mission Board of the General Conference from June 30, 1926 to June 13, 1960, his sermons...
also diaries 1926-1952
Schmidt, Rudolph, 1893-1983
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
Herman F. Schmidt went to Europe in 1945 with a shipload of horses to Yugoslavia under the auspices of Mennonite Central Committee. The collection consists of photographs and a diary from that trip.
Schmidt, Herman F., 1892-1994
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
Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.
The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.
Next is a 17 page family history section.
Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.
Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.
Then several blank pages.
Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.
238-242: weather chart
258-266: remedies for horse diseases
272: recipes for gilding glass and leather
283: diary notes
288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses
292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.
Voth, Cornelius, 1762-1836
Consists of Thiessen's diary or journal 1898-1913 (photocopy) and an English translation. (see also elecrec/acc3 for electronic version of the translation)
Thiessen, Johann F., 1840-1917
Consists of Classen's diary or journal 1894-1897 (photocopy) and an English translation. (see also elecrec/acc2 for electronic version of the translation)
Classen, Jacob J., 1861-1904
Abraham Toews will?, 1877
Hutterite historical account of the group at Vishenka by a Peter Neufeld, 1866
financial record books, possibly of Bethel church, 1909-1925
poems by Peter T. Neufeld
German sermons 1850s-1890s and undated, authors not given, but some probably by Heinrich Neufeld and Heinrich Toews
catechism booklet 1880
Isaac Peters "Vortrag bei einer Lehrerwahl" Marienthal, no date
Isaac Peters, "Etwas über den Zweck der Form u. die Bedeutung der christlichen Wassertaufe," no date
Heinrich Toews diary
Bethel Jugend-Verein speeches and correspondence by Peter T. Neufeld
Neufeld, Peter T., 1893-1964
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
Consists of two volumes of diaries 1914-1920.
Fast, Herman J., 1860-1947
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
Ferdinand J. Isaac and Anna (Penner) Isaac Papers
Box 1: her diaries 1943-44, 1946; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides
Box 2: German New Testament
Box 3: his(?) diaries 1935-42
Box 4: her diaries 1921, 1931-33, unknown year; his diaries 1927-1930, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947; Donald's(?) diary 1942; photo album; slides
"Box"5: actually a map folder, contains village statistics charts from India mission
Isaac, Ferdinand J., 1888-1946
Diaries, music book, small amount of correspondence
Music book has been digitized: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_273/
Regier, Henry G., 1861-1944