- 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
Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps
diaries 1917-79 with gaps
autograph books
clippings
Duerksen, Agnetha, 1903-1985
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
Diaries, music book, small amount of correspondence
Music book has been digitized: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_273/
Regier, Henry G., 1861-1944
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
correspondence, sermons, subject files
van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974
Reinhard D. Voth and Hilda Ediger Voth Papers
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
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
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
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
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
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
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
diaries and account books
Weinbrenner, Reinhard, 1872-1951
Abraham B. Woelk and Abraham A. Woelk Papers
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
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