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Agnetha Duerksen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.329
  • Collection
  • 1917-1979

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Duerksen, Agnetha, 1903-1985

Anna V. Lehman Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.189
  • Collection
  • 1864-1949

Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)

Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968

Marie Baergen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.240
  • Collection
  • 1920-1996

Postcards, clippings, calendars, notebooks (from previous generations of her family), correspondence, school yearbooks and other school items, Kansas map, diaries (whose?), Western District Conference delegate guestbook 1923, autograph book

boxes 3-4 include financial, estate, and land records (land in Louisiana), death certificate, George Baergen estate and funeral, Gustav Baergen funeral (tape). Hugo Reimer was executor for the estates.

Baergen, Marie, 1900-1996

T. A. van der Smissen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.243
  • Collection
  • 1920-1970

correspondence, sermons, subject files

van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974

Reinhard D. Voth and Hilda Ediger Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.299
  • Collection
  • 1890-1990

The collection provides extensive documentation of the personal lives and careers of the Rein and Hilda through a broad range of documents. This includes official documents such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates, diplomas, teaching certificates, a draft card, and so forth. Limited correspondence provides some insights into their lives, but more detail is found in extensive clippings, and in Hilda’s case reminiscences and presentations, especially related to growing up on the mission field in Oklahoma. Rein collected historical advertisements and pamphlets related to his interest and work with road maintenance.

Voth, Reinhard D., 1907-1995

Abraham Ratzlaff Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.194
  • Collection
  • 1883-1935

Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.

Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939

Daniel S. Thiesen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.274
  • Collection
  • 1920-1980

box 1: autobiography, financial notebooks, school composition notebooks, diaries (his?), clippings, correspondence, Low German readings, translation projects, family history material

box 2: negatives used to print Andreas and Eva Schmidt Genealogy 1640-1966

Thiesen, Daniel Samuel, 1899-1988

Gustav Frey papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.317
  • Collection
  • 1910-1940

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

Frey, Gustav, 1883-1949

Jakob J. Regier Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.325
  • Collection
  • 1897-1899

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.

Regier, Jakob J., 1827-1903

Alfred G. Linscheid Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.327
  • Collection
  • 1956-1985

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.

Linscheid, Alfred G., 1897-1985

William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

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.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962

Reinhard Weinbrenner Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.160
  • Collection
  • 1896-1948

diaries and account books

Weinbrenner, Reinhard, 1872-1951

Abraham B. Woelk and Abraham A. Woelk Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.441
  • Collection
  • 1909-1951

Diaries ranging from 1909 to 1951. Not clear which volumes belonged to the father and which to the son.
Bethesda Hospital membership certificates 1920-1927.
Woelk family history info.

Woelk, Abraham B., 1864-1928

Peter P. Schmidt Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.466
  • Collection
  • 1897-1956

diaries 1897-1956 (may have been continued after his death by wife or children), financial record book 1890s?, small amount of family history material

Schmidt, Peter P., 1861-1939

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