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Harold E. (Harold Ernest) Bauman Papers

  • US GCA HM1/396
  • Collection
  • 1947-1958

This collection includes personal papers, correspondence, draft materials, Mennonite Youth Conference materials, and Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference materials.

Bauman, Harold E. (Harold Ernest), 1922-

A. Lloyd Swartzendruber Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/414SC
  • Collection
  • 1926-1974

The collection includes correspondence and family materials collected by A. Lloyd Swartzendruber.

Swartzendruber, A. Lloyd, 1903-

A. A. Landis Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/433SC
  • Collection
  • 1940-1948

The collection includes correspondence, statements and reports related to the Ohio Mennonite Conference and the Lancaster Conference.

Landis, A. A.

Marion Lehman Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/321
  • Collection
  • 1902-1970

An assortment of materials pertaining to Mennonites in Ohio, including Sunday school conference programs, Sunday school meeting programs and notices, Bible conference programs, and church programs, dating from the turn of the century through the mid 1920s.  Also includes a book of Sunday school conference addresses (1907-1921) written by Harvey A. Schnell of Millersburg, Ohio.

Other materials include two essays:  "My Childhood and Growing Up" by Emma Yoder Schnell (circa 1970) and "Home on the Prairies" by Elizabeth Yoder Woodiwiss (1963).

Schnell, Emma Yoder

Jacob S. Moser Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/189
  • Collection
  • 1883-1933

A small collection of miscellaneous materials created and collected by Jacob S. Moser, who apparently worked as a pharmacist in Orrville, Ohio.  Materials include two letters from Bendicht Spichti, a broadside telling of Solomon Herschi's suicide, an accound book, a record of patients treated [?], and notebooks and clippings contining recipes and information about various remedies.  Also includes a notebook containing records of garments knitted and sewed for others.

The collection is primarily in German, with some English notes.

Moser, Jacob S.

Moses Brenneman Papers 1865-1870

  • US MCUSAA HM1/467
  • Collection
  • 1864-1925

This small set of personal papers belonging to a son of John M. Brenneman, a prominent 19th century Ohio Mennonite bishop, consist primarily of incoming correspondence to Moses Brenneman from 1865 to 1870.  The papers also include miscellaneous materials, including poems by Daniel Brenneman and land records,

Brenneman, Moses, 1846-1923

John M. Brenneman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/276
  • Collection
  • 1832-1892

A small set of personal papers belonging to a prominent 19th century Ohio Mennonite bishop and author.  Papers consist primarily of correspondence, but also include a small amount of sermon records and notes, and account book, and other miscellaneous materials.

Brenneman, John M., 1816-1895

Benjamin Beyler Stoltzfus Family Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/897
  • Collection
  • 1896-1946

A small set of family papers consisting primarily of correspondence from Benjamin Byler Stoltzfus (a farmer in West Liberty, Ohio and preacher at the Lima Rescue Mission of the (old) Mennonite Church) and his children B. Frank Stoltzfus (documenting his studies at Goshen College and his Mennonite Central Committee service in Constantinople, Turkey in 1917), Will A. Stoltzfus (including letters from New York Biblical Seminary and Beiruit, Lebanon, where he engaged in education and mission work in 1920-1921), Lena Stoltzfus, and Eli Stoltzfus.  Also includes poetry written by his daughter Rosie Stoltzfus Byler.

Stoltzfus, Benjamin Byler, 1861-1931

David C. Amstutz Papers 1870-1920

  • US MCUSAA HM1/233
  • Collection
  • 1819-1920

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.

Amstutz, David C., 1842-1824

Samuel D. Rohrer Sermon Notes

  • US MCUSAA HM1/168
  • Collection
  • circa 1917-1955

Sermon notes and outlines created by a minister of the (old) Mennonite Church who served Bethel Mennonite Church in Wadsworth, Ohio.  Rohrer was ordained in 1917.

Rohrer, Samuel D., 1879-1955

Nold and Yoder Family Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/442
  • Collection
  • 1775-1935

This set of collected family documents contains correspondence, financial records, broadsides, property records, tax receipts, sermons, and assorted ephemera pertaining to the Nold and Yoder families of Columbia, Ohio, later of Columbiana and Leetonia, Ohio.  Materials document the following individuals, all of whom held ministerial positions in area Mennonite congregations:

Bishop Jacob Nold (1765-1834)

Deacon Jacob Nold (1798-1864)

Deacon John Ziegler Nold (1823-1913)

Deacon John L. Yoder, son-in-law of John Ziegler Nold (1855 - 1940)

Bishop Paul L. Yoder (1897-1990)

The bulk of the correspondence comprises incoming correspondence to Jacob Nold (1898-1964) and Paul L. Yoder.

Of particular significance in this collection is the copy of a petition drafted by J. M. Brenneman to be sent to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that pleads for Mennonite exemption from military service in the American Civil War.

Yoder family

Perry T. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/349
  • Collection
  • 1847-1960

Photographs and postcards of members of the Yoder family, the Shank family, Hubbard, Ore., Nampa, Id, and Wooster, Ohio.  Most notable are the photographs and postcards of Charles and Crissie Yoder Shank, who served as Mennonite missionaries to India.  Also includes photogras of Anna V. Yoder and Vesta Yoder Miller, among others.

Yoder, Perry T., 1883-1960

Andrew Stemen Account Book

  • US MCUSAA HM1/468SC
  • Collection
  • 1858-1877

This account book documents debts to and work performed by Andrew Stemen, a Mennonite farmer and cobbler in Ohio.  It also includes congregational accounts for building maintenance and the purchase of wine, Bibles, tubs, and other church supplies.

Stemen, Andrew

Midway Mennonite Church (Columbiana, Ohio) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/35-18
  • Collection
  • 1866-2006

Congregational records of an (old) Mennonite Church / Mennonite Church USA congregation in the Ohio Mennonite Conference.  Records include late 19th and early 20th century financial records and Sunday school records, early to mid-twentieth century Young People's Bible Meeting and Women's Aid Society records, church bulletins, (1950-2005), congregational reports, and other miscellaneous records.

Midway Mennonite Church (Columbiana, Ohio)

Christian and Fannie Martin Lehman Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/523SC
  • Collection
  • 1861-1892

Nineteen letters to Christian and Fannie Martin Lehman of Mahoning County, Ohio from various friends and family in Ohio, Indiana.  One letter is in German; the others are in English.  Correspondents discuss the weather, their health, and their activities.

Lehman, Christian

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