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Main Street Steinbach

An account of a religious conflict in Steinbach surrounding the Holdeman Church around 1930. Published 1928.

Mostly notes re John W. Reimer and his brothers, as well as many others; 2 typed pages re stories probably told by Dick P. Loewen and Peter A. Plett.

GE Kornesen's accounts of the pioneer years in the Mennonite East Reserve in Manitoba / published in the Steinbach Post in 1916.

Details about Steinbach's school (1874-1911) and teacher GE Kornelsen

• names of first teachers and trustees, subjects taught (English 1893).
• GE Kornelsen's record of teacher conferences 1895-1896.
• Something about the Gretna Lehrer Institut, 1893.
• Gerhard Cornelsen, Lichtenau, account book, 1881-1883.
• Gerhard E. Kornelsen's diary 1886-88, 1888-89, and famiy record.
• A journal? Brandordnung der Molotschner Mennoniten Bezirk, 1874.
• GEK's record of his students, 1876-1915,
• brief notes, daily schedule, 1888,
• notes re private school, ca.1912-1914.

Documents collected by Henry Fast and others

• Ministerial voting list, 1801-1914
• journal? of Cornelius Friesen or Aelt. Johann Friesen 1866
• typed copies of excerpts of American Newspapers lauding the Mennonite pioneers in Kansas
• document written? and signed by 7 Mennonite ministers, Rückenau, 1842
• letter from Peter and Maria Reimer, Steinbach, to Abr ? Friesen, Meade,1909
• excerpts from "Pioneer Stories of Meade County, 1974"
• document by Abraham Friesen, Tiege, 1866
• Jacob F. Isaac's lists of early Mennonite settlers of Meade
• poem, 1920
• letter from Abram Friesen, Blumstein, 1843.

Journal and letters. Includes details of 1948 Reimer reunion, life nd Russia and Manitoba, his 3 marriages and 25 children, his work as a blacksmith and his first wife's mental illness. Copy of the original old German handwritten version, a typed transcript and an English translation by Peter U. Dueck.

The family register for Johann G. and Margaretha (Friesen) Barkman [beginning in 1829].