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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

Wash day in March. Martin M. Brubacher, son of

  • CA MAO 1989-10 34
  • Item
  • 1890

Wash day in March. Martin M. Brubacher, son of John E. Brubacher, and his wife Catherine (Martin), homesteaded in Kansas. (Brubacher collection).

Waldo J. Epp and Martha Epp Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.401
  • Collection
  • 1866-1927

Waldo and Martha were siblings.

  • Vierstimmige deutsche, englische und franzoeische Melodien, 1858, with illuminated page "Liederbuch zu Abraham [Ratzlaff] in Franzthal, 1866"
  • Hillsboro Academy grade card, 1922 (Martha)
  • copy book with poems, no date (Martha)
  • laboratory notebook for botany, Bethel College 1925-1926 (Waldo)
  • laboratory notebook for biology, Bethel College 1927 (Martha)
  • Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening, 1926 (Martha)
  • penmanship copy book, Abraham Ratzlaff
  • folder of plays and prayers (Martha)

Epp, Waldo J., 1905-1930

Victor Murdock Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.180
  • Collection
  • 1908-1915

Photocopies from Library of Congress. Primarily on change of postmaster in Moundridge, Kansas, in 1911.

Also 1914 petition from Newton businessmen asking Congress to help stop trade with belligerents, mentions many Mennonite names.

Several items relating to Newton political scene.

Letters on Bernhard Warkentin's death.

Murdock, Victor, 1871-1945

Valentine T. Harms and Elsie Schmidt Harms Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.404
  • Collection
  • 1920-1970

box 1: account books, school papers, Mennonite Hilfs-Plan print ephemera, Grace Hill church print ephemera, Bethel College print ephemera, birth certificate (hers), 1924 Newtonian (Newton High School), writings (hers)
box 2: school papers, wedding guest book, photos
box 3: photos
box 4: photos, diplomas and certificates, Bethel Academy scrapbook (his)

Harms, Valentine T., 1901-1961

Theodore and Marie M. Schmidt papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.344
  • Collection
  • 1920-1990

Family history materials, correspondence, school records (his), handwritten music score "Eventide" by Sara Glick, book Elsie Helen Friesen, From the Roots of Jacob Peters (1978) with annotations and inclusions, and Elsie Helen Epp, Episodes of the Prairie Pioneers: Five Branches from the Family Tree of Heinrich Epp (1991) with annotations and inclusions

Schmidt, Theodore, 1900-1994

T. M. (Tillman M.) Erb Diaries and Miscellaneous Materials 1879-1928

  • US MCUSAA HM1/525
  • Collection
  • 1879-1991

These personal papers consist primarily of diaries kept by a minister, bishop, and school administrator of the (old) Mennonite Church in Kansas.  Erb's began keeping a diary at age 14 and continued the practice almost continuously until his death 50 years later.  Erb's diary entries are usually brief and discuss the weather, work, social gatherings, and events of note, such as the 1912 accident in which he was burned and one of his daughters was killed.  Other materials in these papers include scattered correspondence, materials pertaining to his pastoral work, and a 1991 paper about T. M. Erb.

Erb, T. M. (Tillman M.), 1865-1929

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

Selma Ellenberger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.384
  • Collection
  • 1900-1964

Box 1-2: correspondence, diaries

box 3: correspondence, books

box 4: funeral guest book, Adolf Ellenberger writings, music books (one handwritten), books (don't know the identity of this Adolf Ellenberger; maybe her father?)

Ellenberger, Selma Emilie, 1885-1964

Sarah Steiner Geiger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.365
  • Collection
  • 1919-1959

Genealogical data, financial papers, correspondence, clippings.

Geiger, Sarah Steiner, 1874-1967

Rudolph Schmidt Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.467
  • Collection
  • 1926-1960

"His papers include personal certificates of birth, marriage, and death and also military papers of World War I. Included is the correspondence with the Home Mission Board of the General Conference from June 30, 1926 to June 13, 1960, his sermons...

also diaries 1926-1952

Schmidt, Rudolph, 1893-1983

Rosella Mosiman Bartel Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.376
  • Collection
  • 1915-1918

Correspondence with family members 1915-1918. English translations of most or all of the letters are included.

Bartel, Rosella Mosiman, 1899-1991

Reverse of Photo UNK 12

  • CA MHSS UNK 13
  • Part
  • 1918

Post card in German script, Jacob Neufeldt (?), B. A. Friesen

Unknown

Reinhard Weinbrenner Papers

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

diaries and account books

Weinbrenner, Reinhard, 1872-1951

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