Photocopies of family correspondence of a Mennonite bishop in Ontario. Full inventory may be found on the Web site of the Mennonite Heritage Center, which owns the originals.
Six letters in German script from members of the Brubacher family residing in Ontario and Pennsylvania. Correspondents include Johannes and Susanna Brubacher, Jacob and Maria Brubacher, and Heinrich Brubacher. ALl of the letters have either been transcribed or translated. Among the letters are also several photocopied German hymns with translations into English.
The collection consists of an original leather-bound notebook belonging to Joseph Bowman, documenting among other things some of his travels. Along with this notebook is a typed transcript of these travel reports dated 1975.
The collection consists of a book filled with legal descriptions of agreements recorded by Michael Bergey from 1834 to 1840. The other half of the book is described as a day book by Benjamin Kropp dated April 8, 1833 in Wilmot, Ontario. This latter section records a number of business transactions.
A typed transcription of a letter describing the Baumans' trip from Ontario, Canada to their home in Breckneck Township, Pennsylvania in 1846 and the condition of their crops and the weather upon their arrival. Five different copies of the transcript are present.
Included is a photocopy of a letter by Benjamin Eby dated October 17, 1849 and 4 transcripts and translations of additional letters by Benjamin Eby from 1851 to 1858 as used in the October, 1967 issue of the Mennonite Historical Bulletin.
The collection consists of an original document issued for military exemption for Jacob Bergey, dated February 14, 1871 for the county of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
A small set of papers pertaining to S. F. Coffman's service to the (old) Mennonite Church in the early and mid- 20th century. Coffman, an ordained pastor, began his work at the Mennonite Home Mission in Chicago, Illinois in 1895, but spent most of his career as a bishop in the Ontario Conference. Materials in this collection include correspondence and subject files, materials pertaining to the 1927 Mennonite hymnal, and miscellaneous materials.