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This collection has been organized into 4 categories (series):
1) a box containing audio recordings of several public events
2) records of family reunions and associated genealogical records
3) Theses and dissertations (13 items)
4) Local school and municipal records, and maps.

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite conscientious objector and founder of the Mennonite Young People's Conference who went on to teach history on the faculty of Goshen College and Western Reserve University. Materials are divided into five series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Conscientious Objection and Young People's Conference Materials

(3) Autobiographical and Family Materials

(4) Class Notes and Academic Career Information

(5) Miscellaneous Materials and Photographs

A small set of personal and pastoral papers created by a pastor and bishop associated with the Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Ohio), an (old) Mennonite congregation in Wayne County, Ohio. Materials include information on the Young People's Conference, a record book of the Ohio Mennonite Relief Commission, materials pertaining to Orrville Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio) and Walnut Creek Mennonite Church (Holmes County, Ohio), correspondence with Bishop O. N. (Otis Nathan) Johns, and miscellaneous materials.

The collection consists of an original leather-bound notebook belonging to Joseph Bowman, documenting among other things some of his travels. Along with this notebook is a typed transcript of these travel reports dated 1975.

A hodgepodge of materials pertaining to the family of Jacob Christophel, a Mennonite immigrant to Elkhart County Indiana in 1818 and one of the founders of Yellow Creek Mennonite Church.

These papers include scattered personal and family papers, including correspondence, land records, and obituaries.  The papers also include clippings relating to Holmes County (Ohio) history and Amish - Mennonite history, local history publications, and ephemera.

Family and church records and articles of faith.
alternate identifier: CONG.280 box 3 http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/bd_ms_36

A small set of property records and church- and mission-related documents and correspondence created and collected by a pastor and  bishop of Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio) who donated land for the Rittman Home for the Aged.  Includes a letter to Christian Steiner dated 1829, as well as correxpondence from Menno Steiner (1905-1911).  Also includes marriage licenses, Crown Hill Mennonite Church reports, and membership letters.

The collection consists of an original church letter of John Beutler dated 1819, as well as its transcriptioni and a note that he is the grandfather of Sarah Herner.

bound volume containing family history information; most of the volume is blank
scanned version at   http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/bd_ms_41/

Papers found in a 1744 Froschauer Bible containing family records of the Esch and Hage families, documentation interpreting the papers, and transcripts / translations of most of the papers.  Papers include:

(1) Attestation of tenancy at various estates in Bavaria (Forsthof, 24 March 1819; Kirchstockach, 29 March 1819 and 1 December 1821; Probfeld, 16 May 1824, Josephenburg, 15 APril 1826 and 8 May 1826).

(2) Passport for Friedrich Hage, wife, two children, and hired hand, 1826.

(3) Letter regarding possibility of immigration to Brazil, Hamburg, 20 July 1825

(4) Receipt for passage from Hamburg to Philadelphia, 29 June 1826.

(5) Miscellaneous items from the Esch-Hage-Bontrager family.

Friedrich Hage was an Amish-Mennonite minister in Germany who later served as an Amish bishop in Holmes County, Ohio.

Personal and family papers of Abraham Yoder and children, including correspondence, business records, deeds, estate records, photos, school exercises, church-related records, etc.

This collection consists of sermons or other writings of 166 individuals, sermons with no author given which were read numerous times by a particular branch of the Mennonite church, biographies of a number of missionaries, photographs of approximately 90 of the Mennonite ministers and some miscellaneous material.

A small set of correspondence, bonds documenting loans of money, and wills pertaining to Christian Reist and members of his family in and around Lancaster Co., Penn.

Researchers should note that these are not the original letters, but rather photocopies.

Eleven handwritten booklets in Dutch, dated 1820-1846, some undated. Possibly sermons. Some on the topic of baptism. One booklet dated 17 April 1836 belonged to Jan Dirkmaat who was baptized on that date at Broek op Langendijk (where Fleischer was later pastor) by J. Eenigenburg.