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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

Consists of 2 diaries, 1947 and 1951.

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.

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.

The papers were processed by Eleonore Aarsen in the Spring of 1998.  Much of the content was in no discernible order, so I rearranged those items.  This includes mostly the church records and sermons.  They are now organized by church employment eras (time periods spent pastoring a certain church), meaning that all items from any given church are together.  The whole collection is divided mainly into personal and professional.  That is why pastoral correspondence and personal correspondence are in their respective categories and not together.  Anything that was in folders, envelopes and bundles upon arrival has been kept together.  The result is that some things seem out of place.  This is especially true in the genealogy collection. Many sermons were used several times.  As a general MLA rule, miscellaneous materials are filed according to last place used (or most recent date).  This means that many sermons written in the 1940s are actually filed in the Emmanuel Mennonite Church era. Items without numbers are not in folders, but filed loosely in the order as listed.

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.

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correpondence

(2) Notes and Teaching Materials

(3) Miscellaneous

Mostly correspondence among Goertzen relatives. Most of the letters were translated by Hilda Ediger Voth in the early 1990s. A few other items include a Hamilton County, Kansas, map and a folder of photos from Donovan and Helen Bachman (some identified). Additional (untranslated) letters and photos donated by Helen Bachman in Apr. 2013.

http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_283

These papers document the ministry of Glenn W. Whitaker and are divided into four series:

Series 1: Early Ministry and Service, 1936-1981 Series 2: Photographs, 1936-1951 Series 3: Sermon Ministry, 1950-1972 Series 4: Phonograph Records, 1943-1950

diaries and account books

sermons

correspondence, clippings, school papers (Bethel), photos, family history material

from a typed note in box 1: “The Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites Settling in Kansas 1874-1974, Jacob D. Goering.     “The information contained in these files was collected on 32 of the original 62 families of the Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites who immigrated from Russia in 1874 and settled at Moundridge, kansas. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of generational drift among the descendants of this group of people from generation to generation on four variables: 1. Geographic location; 2. Occupation; 3. Religious affiliation; and 4. Educational attainment.     “In most instances a separate information sheet exists for each adult. These are organized generation by generation and family unit by family unit. In addition to the four items mentioned above, these sheets usually contain information on date of birth and death, avocational interests, marital status, and occasionally even anecdotal material. The latter are not complete, however. A summary sheet on each of the immigrant families on which data were obtained is enclosed with the raw data in each envelope.     “Similar summaries could probably be made on the remaining 30 or so families from the data since the inter-familial linkage (intermarriage) was so extensive.     “A summary article based on these data was submitted to the Kansas Journal of Sociology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, and it is expected that it will appear in the June 1974 issue.”

box 1: photos 1880-1990, scrapbook 1930s?, blueprints of Toevs residence and other houses 1950s

box 2: framed Toevs family photos

box 3: Frankie Toevs mental health advocacy files, Harvey County Mental Health Services 1963-65, Prairie View 1960s

box 4: print ephemera 1920-1970s, real estate licenses 1947-48, Crandall family history, account book 1908-1919, photos, obituaries

box 5: real estate sales notebook (whose?) 1910-12, 1920s; account books 1897-1914, 1916-1925, 1925-1933, 1933-1940; Mennonite Mutual Fire Insurance ledgers 1910-1920, 1921-1932

box 6: photos and other family memorabilia - mostly Toevs

"box" 7: Jacob R. Toevs genealogy chart

The papers also include some material that Dudley Dodgion Toevs (adopted son) collected concerning the history of Newton. It wasn’t always possible to separate this material from the original Toevs family papers. Many photographs have been transferred to the MLA photograph collection. Many photos are from Dudley’s book Newton: Remembering Yesterday Today (1994). In addition, quite a few are related to Bernhard Warkentin and the Warkentin House.

Box 1: speeches, talks, poetry, birthday greetings for 100th birthday, correspondence, clippings, printed matter, books

Box 2: autograph book (whose? not hers), printed matter, correspondence, books, clippings