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Abram B. Kolb Papers 1866-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/391
  • Collection
  • 1866-1965

Papers of a friend and associate of John F. Funk who served as assistant editor / editor in chief of the Herald of Truthfrom 1886 to 1904.  Kolb edited a number of other Mennonite periodicals, was active in the Sunday school movement, and served as president of the Mennonite Evangelizing and Benevolent Board.  He married John F. Funk's daughter, Phoebe, in 1893.

Kolb's papers are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1866-1923

(2) Miscellaneous, circa 1853 - 1965

Kolb, Abram B., 1862-1925

Amos S. Hostetler Memoir

  • US MCUSAA HM1/984SC
  • Collection
  • undated

This memoir, entitled "Like Jacob, I Waited Seven Years, or Faint Heart Did Win Fair Lady," recounts Hostetler's courtship of Ida (Yoder) Nussbaum.  Hostetler's daughter, Dora Miller, recorded Hostetler's memoir in writing, as Hostetler himself frequently recited it as a story.

Hostetler, Amos S.

Bethany Christian Schools (Goshen, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA II/05/008
  • Collection
  • 1944-2011

Records of a private Christian school associated with the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church, and later the Mennonite Church USA. Materials are divided into eight series:

(1) Early Correspondence

(2) Governing Documents and Board Records

(3) Faculty Meeting Minutes

(4) Committee Records

(5) Financial Records

(6) Publications

(7) Enrollment Records

(8) Miscellaneous Materials

Bethany Christian Schools (Goshen, Ind.)

Cleo A. and Nellie Miller Mann Papers 1920-1970

  • US MCUSAA HM1/695
  • Collection
  • 1920-2000

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and conference minister and his wife.  These papers are divided into two series:

(1) Cleo A. Mann Papers, 1939-1980

(2) Nellie Miller Mann Papers, 1920-2000

Mann, Cleo A.

Clinton Frame Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/14-11
  • Collection
  • 1877-2014

The records are divided into the following series:

(1) Church Governance, 1892-2003

(2) Church Bulletins, Newsletters, and Directories, 1949-2010

(3) Sunday School, 1877-1950

(4) Women's Organizations, 1907-2005

(5) Miscellaneous, 1905-2006

Clinton Frame Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.)

Daniel H. Coffman Family Collection 1881-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/744
  • Collection
  • 1881-2014

Daniel H. Coffman served as a deacon at Prairie Street Mennonite Church (1893-1899), Olive Mennonite Church (1899-1904), and Clinton Brick Mennonite Church (1904 - 1941). This collection consists primarily of Coffman's correspondence to his brother and sister in Virginia as well as his daughter in Indiana, and contains information regarding church conflicts from 1898 to 1903.  Also in this collection are histories of the Daniel H. Coffman family and the Samuel H. Eldridge family, as well as a photograph of the Eldridge family circa 1890.

Eldridge, Murl, 1908-1991

David A. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/314
  • Collection
  • 1885-1983

The David A. Yoder Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Diaries and Datebooks, 1920-1976

(2) Correspondence, 1903-1975

(3) Subject Files, 1909-1970

(4) Manuscripts, 1949-1976

(5) Sermon Notes, 1907-1966

(6) Photographs, 1885-1980

(7) Miscellaneous, 1897-1983

Yoder, David A., 1883-1980

David Sherk Correspondence Regarding Wisler Schism

  • US MCUSAA HM1/084SC
  • Collection
  • 1880

The collection primarily consists of a small booklet dated 1880 and authored by David Sherk, a Mennonite Church minister in Ontario, regarding the church controversy surrounding Bishop Jacob Wisler's conservative views. In addition, a fragment of a letter written by David Sherk, and a transcribed and a translated copy of the booklet are included.

Sherk, David, 1881-1882

Don Slagel Manuscript

  • US MCUSAA HM1/987SC
  • Collection
  • 1999

A 12 page autobiographical manuscript entitled "Recollections of a Mennonite Boyhood" that describes Slagel's childhood from 1930 to 1942 in Chicago and Topeka, Indiana.

Slagel, Don

Dorothy Ann Overstreet Pratt Oral History Interviews

  • US MCUSAA HM1/982SC
  • Collection
  • 1994

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).

Pratt, Dorothy Anne Overstreet

Elno Willis Steiner Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/943
  • Collection
  • circa 1950-2000

Pastoral and professional papers of a Mennonite clergyman.  Materials include sermons, correspondence, and assembled materials from churches he served.

Steiner, Elno Willis, 1924-2009

Esther Graber Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/704
  • Collection
  • 1930-1996

A small set of personal papers created by a secretary employed by the Mennonite Board of Missions from 1950 to 1978.  Materials include scattered correspondence and autobiographical essays, photographs of the Graber siblings, Graber family obituaries, information on Lloyd O. Rupe, and a scrapbook of photographs and correspondence presented to her by missionaries and mission board staff upon her retirement.

Graber, Esther

Everett J. Thomas Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/963
  • Collection
  • 1991-2011

Select papers pertaining to Thomas's service on the Goshen, Indiana City Council, Mennonite participation in Indiana local, regional, and state politics, and Thomas's work as executive secretary of the Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries.  Includes photographs, oaths of office, campaign finance records, campaign strategy notes, and two educational DVDs, entitled "Mennonites and Political Power" (Parts I and II).  The collection also includes a DVD and outline of Thomas's Goshen College convocation address entitled "It Turns Out I'm Not a Pacifist" (January 2011).

Thomas, Everett J.

F. A. Krull Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/889
  • Collection
  • 1874-1890

Fragmented documents associated with F. A. Krull, who married Simkjen Baukes Rystra (1841-1916), a niece of Ruurd Johannes Smid (R. J. Smith).  Materials include a list of significant dates in Ane A. Krall's emigration from the Netherlands and settlement in Elkhart County, Indiana, and later Sacramento County, California, a birthday calendar with notes about family birth and death dates, and F. A. Krull's copy of the Mennonite Publishing Company's Hymns and Tunes for Public and Private Worship and Sunday School, published in 1890.  Also includes a list of books once associated with these papers that were transferred to the Mennonite HIstorical Library in Goshen, Indiana.

Krull, F. A., 1832-1908

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