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Jacob B. Mensch Correspondence and Travel Writing

  • US MCUSAA HM1/295SC
  • Collection
  • 1874-1897

This small set of personal papers consists of photocopies of two letters and two transcribed descriptions of Mensch's travels.  One letter (in German, untranslated, and dated April 12, 1874) from Mensch addresses unknown recipients.  A second letter (in English, transcribed, dated May 16, 1885) from Abraham Blosser to Jacob Mensch condeming John F. Funk's publication of a Mennonite paper without express appointment from the Mennonite Church to do so.  The travel narratives discribe an 1885 trip to Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, with Henry Wismer and an 1897 trip to Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canada.

Mensch, Jacob B., 1835-1912

Christian Erismann Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/216
  • Collection
  • 1866-1899

A short autobiograpy and lengthy diary (in German script) of an Amish Mennonite who immigrated to the United States with his family in 1857 to Granville, Ill.  and taught in Amish Mennonite Schools in various Illinois communities.  The diary contains a good deal of information about Erismann's religious and spiritual life, recording his prayers, uinderstanding of Christian behavior, and attendance of worhsip services and Sunday schools.  Over time, the diary becomes a journal of devotions on special religious days.

Only the first 44 pages of the diary have been translated into English

Erismann, Christian, 1835-1905

John K. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/007
  • Collection
  • 1845-1899

A small set of papers of an Amish Mennonite bishop in  Wayne County, Ohio, consisting largely of incoming correspondence.

Yoder, John K., 1824-1906

Noah E. Ebersole Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/122SC
  • Collection
  • 1898-1900

The collection includes primarily sermon notes and then additional pamphlets and issues from the Mennonite Book and Tract Society.

Ebersole, Noah E., 1875-1952

C. B. Steiner Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/214SC
  • Collection
  • 1869-1902

Twelve letters written by C. B. Steiner to his brother, Adam Steiner, of Morrison, Illinois.  C. B. Steiner, writing first from Orrville, Ohio, and later from Salem, Oregon, discusses the health of members of his congregation, his decision and preparations to begin pastoring in Oregon, and the state of his and his neighbors' farms and crops.  Letters are in German with English translations.

Steiner, Christian B., 1824-1903

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