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Unknown Gnadenau Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church (Hillsboro, Kansas) File
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Buschman / Friesen

Buschman family, immigration, and Gnadenau church history. Also, an English translation of M.F. Schlichting's account of his life as a bookseller in Russia and anti-semitism, 1869-1872.

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Gnadenau, KS

Various documents and first-hand accounts of settling Gnadenau, Kansas. Included are US naturalization records for 28 men, obituaries from the The Hillsboro Star; farm census record (1885), excerpts of an MA thesis by Cornelius Cicero Janzen (Chicago, 1926), correspondence between J.G. Barkman (Hillsboro) and Alberta Pante (Topeka, Kansas), list of 1874 settlers, an excerpt from the Kansas Historical Quarterly (Vol. XIII, 1944) about Krimmer MB church at Gnadenau, early settlement, social mores, maps of land ownership (Marion County, Kansas), an excerpt from C.C. Janzen's thesis (?) about pioneer life of Gnadenau, a fictional account of early days in Gnadenau, and a list of church-community practices (acceptable or rejected, and changes, 1882-1926).

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