"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
"Dirks Family Record" (microfilmed on MF CHR 23; transcription in SA.II.1870)
"Liede Buch" of Jacob Thomas" (microfilmed on MF CHR 23; transcription in SA.II.1872)
sermon, Schulz genealogy (on microfilm MF CHR 23)
Johann Schartner sermon or essay on grace 1872; also some financial notes 1879-1887
several German books
3 books by Jane Leade in German were removed for cataloging in the MLA library collection
Unruh, Anna, 1897-1994
Box 1: sermons, subject files, minutes
Box 2-4: sermons
5 boxes of books were listed and disposed of
Wedel, Philip A., 1897-1967
box 1: sermons 1955-1967
box 2: sermons, Bible study notes, photos 1946-1955
Wiebe, Willard W., 1917-1967
sermons by Ellenberger at Monsheim; also 2 devotional books that he owned
Ellenberger, D. Adolf, 1846-1889
Box 1: sermons
Box 2: sermons, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings
Box 3: 50th anniversary, teaching certificates, church material (Bethany, Butterfield, Neu Hutterthal), civilian bonds, CPS, correspondence, family papers, minister's manual, ordination, clippings, sales (estate, land), school papers
Box 4: school papers, sermons, teaching materials, book
Box 5: Emma and Hilda Linscheid items
Box 6: Theodora Rodekuhr paintings
Linscheid, Louis H., 1903-1985
Box 1: mostly sermons (removed from an old accordion file)
Box 2: more sermons (removed from three small binders), books
Wiens, Peter, 1874-1964
Box 1: mostly Faith Mennonite Church sermons
Box 2-4: files from his service on the board of Kidron-Bethel
Esau, John A., 1937-
Box 1, 2: books
Box 3: pamphlets, correspondence
Box 4, 5: sermons
Box 6: correspondence, Bruderthal yearbooks and constitutions, sermons, Marion Reservoir files
Box 7: framed photos
Box 8<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>correspondence, Edna Funk funeral book Box 9<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>book, date books, audio cassettes Box 10<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>(map folder) diplomas and certificates; Loganbill, Moser genealogy chart; Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church 50th anniversary poster
Funk, Arnold E., 1900-1987
Henry A. Toews and Mary Wiens Toews Papers
box 1: Bible study outlines, correspondence, legal documents, photo album, print ephemera, periodicals, autobiography, music translations, scrapbook of color pencil drawings (by her?), books
box 2: sermons, Bibles in Pende and Luba-Lulua, the "hairy Bible" (Pende New Testament), small artifacts
Toews, Henry A., 1900-1954
The bulk of the collection consists of sermons Alvin preached at the various congregations he served. While some are typed and some handwritten, almost all are verbatim manuscripts, not outlines or notes. Almost all clearly identify when and where the sermon was preached. He also saved some of his class notes from Hartford and Harvard, but very little from Bluffton and nothing from Messiah.
The collection contains no family or personal materials other than a couple folders of correspondence, mostly related to the Vietnam War. Nothing was found related to his experience growing up Old Order Amish or the family’s transition to Beachy Amish; unless he mentions this during oral history interviews in box 8.
Beachy, Alvin J., 1913-1986
Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.
Suckau, Cornelius Herman, 1881-1951
correspondence, sermons, subject files
van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974
Box 1: earliest items donated July 1987; clippings, etc. related to Bethel College history and C. H. Wedel; 1971 file on Bethel College and Western District; James Juhnke interview with D. C. Wedel (transcript) (donated 19 October 2000); autobiography; CPS #8 Marietta, Ohio, reunion materials (donated 27 January 1998); books; 2 8mm films about Marietta CPS by Hubert C. Overmyer and VHS copy of films (donated April 1991)
Box 2: Bethlehem 1983 General Conference session packet; clippings and notes re CPS Marietta (donated 12 August 2003)
Box 3: church directories, clippings, printed matter, sermons
Box 4-6: sermons
Box 7: oral history interview, spring 1971, about Bethel College during the 1930s
Wedel, David C., 1908-2010
Quite a few items revolving around Peter Wedel, Alexanderwohl elder. A Heinrich Balzer poem dedicated to him. An 1815 letter to him from Wilhelm Lange. His diary from 1834?-1838. Some poems and writing exercises possibly by him.
Also, Wilhelm Lange's ordination sermon. And sermons by Peter Unrau.
And Henry S. Goertzen school exercises.
Goertzen, Henry S., 1894-1973