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Mennonite Church USA Archives Mennonite women -- Diaries
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Lydia Oyer Papers 1921, 1931-1975

  • US MCUSAA HM1/881
  • Sammlung
  • 1921-1975

Personal papers created by Lydia Oyer, an early leader in Mennonite nursing education. The collection consists primarily of diaries Oyer kept throughout her years as a nurse practitioner, with very brief records on patients, personal activities, and the weather. The scrapbook contains photos, news clippings, and notes from friends, classmates, and teachers from her time at the Mennonite Hospital School of Nursing in La Junta, Colorado. Other writings include essays on religious topics and a poem.

Oyer, Lydia, 1884-1984

Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/806
  • Sammlung
  • 1907-1914, 1986-1993

This collection chronicles the early life of Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss (1889-1986), who homesteaded in North Dakota from 1907-1910. Her diaries (photocopies of originals) record her experiences as a homesteader, as well as a few years after she returned to Pennsylvania.  Articles about Elizabeth are also in the collection, alongside her own recollections. There are also photographs depicting her as a homesteader and later in life, as well as photographs of the homesteading community.

Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss, 1889-1986

Margaret Rickert Johns Papers 1902-1910

  • US MCUSAA HM1/623
  • Sammlung
  • 1902-1972

Personal papers documenting the early life and education of an (old) Mennonite pastor's wife.  Materials include a diary, correspondence, essays apparently written while studying at the Elkhart Institute and Goshen College, and miscellaneous materials.  The essays represent the richest source of information in this collection, as they provide insight into Johns's thoughts on a variety of subjects -- motherhood, marriage, temperance, modest dress, mission and evangelistic work, prayer, suffering, and so forth.  Some of the essays are brief fiction pieces, and researchers will also find original poetry among the essays.

Johns, Margaret Rickert, 1884-1978

Dorothy Smith Shank Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1023
  • Sammlung
  • 1920-1951

The collection includes diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered correspondence from friends and family, mostly from Dorothy Smith Shank's years as a Goshen College Academy and Goshen College student from 1924 to 1932.

Shank, Dorothy Smith, 1911-1999

Fannie B. Shantz Smucker Papers 1910-1989

  • US MCUSAA HM1/691
  • Sammlung
  • 1885-1989

Papers of a Goshen Academy alumna (1922), long-time member of the Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.), and missionary to Dhamtari, India later in life.  Contains a remarkable run of diaries, nearly unbroken, from 1910 to 1989, in which Smucker provides brief descriptions of her daily activities.  Also includes scrapbooks, postcard albums, her father's autograph book, and miscellaneous materials.

Smucker, Fannie B. Schantz, 1894-1993

Ruth Conrad Liechty Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/386
  • Sammlung
  • 1935-2009

The personal papers of Ruth Marie Conrad Liechty include her journals, school work, writing projects, family correspondence, correspondence related to the Welcome Committee and the issue of homosexuality, and family papers related to her parents Louetta (Kauffmann) and Daniel Conrad.

Liechty, Ruth Conrad, 1931-2009

Florence Nafziger Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/175
  • Sammlung
  • 1881-1999

These personal papers include autobiographical writing, photographs, slides, and ephemera pertaining to Nafziger's work as a Mennonite medical missionary in India.  They also contain some Nafziger family records, specifically a farm journal created by Christian Nafziger II.

Nafziger, Florence, 1918-

Mary E. and Martha J. Brenneman Diaries

  • US MCUSAA HM1/814
  • Sammlung
  • 1909-1974

Diaries created by two sisters who lived near Lima, Ohio.  Include brief entries about church services and meetings, Bible school, household chores, funerals, calling on friends, marriages, and  domestic activities. 

Mary Brenneman's diaries document the following years:  1909, 1915, 1964-1965, 1968-1970.

Martha Brenneman's diaries document the following years: 1915, 1936-1974.

Brenneman, Martha J., 1887-1976

Cleo A. and Nellie Miller Mann Papers 1920-1970

  • US MCUSAA HM1/695
  • Sammlung
  • 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.

Virgil J. and Helen Good Brenneman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/128
  • Sammlung
  • 1940-1993

These papers of an (old) Mennonite Church writer and her pastor husband are divided into two series:

(1) Helen Good Brenneman Papers

(2) Virgil J. Brenneman Papers

Brenneman, Helen Good

Lizzie Eash Hostetler Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/977
  • Sammlung
  • 1940-1975

The collection primarily includes diaries and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks consist largely of photos, obituaries and various news clippings. Her diaries include comments about the weather, domestic chores and her husband's outings.

Hostetler, Lizzie Eash, 1912-1975

Ella Shoup Bauman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/657
  • Sammlung
  • 1883-1960

This small set of personal papers includes a diary documenting Bauman's service at the Youngstown Mission in Ohio from 1912 to 1913.  Also included among the papers are manuscripts of her essays and devotional writings, miscellaneous correspondence and family papers.

Ida Beidler Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/550SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1898

The collection consists of a copy of a diary kept by Ida Beidler from January 1, 1898 until December 29, 1898. The entries chronicle daily weather and domestic activities on a farm.

Beidler, Ida

Dora Shantz Gehman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/883
  • Sammlung
  • 1901-1993

Papers of a female missionary worker (nurse) in India (1931-1939).  Includes diaries, extensive correspondence with family and friends in the United States, and with Indian friends and colleagues she met in the course of her mission work.  Also includes elementary school, Sunday school, and college notes, diplomas, a scrapbook made by Prairie Street Mennonite Church for her time in India, Christmas letters from missionaries and missionary families, and miscellaneous annotated publications and clippings.

Gehman, Dora Shantz, 1897-1993

Agnes Albrecht Gunden Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/332
  • Sammlung
  • 1905-1942

The collection includes a diary 1905-1907; Diary 1907-1909; Diary 1909-1910; and diary 1913-1915. Also included is a diary 1910-1912, a diary 1922-1925, and a variety of correspondence with people involved in mission activities. The diaries from 1905-10 were written when Agnes was single, and when she was between the age of 17 and 23, while living in Illinois.  Her diaries tell of every day events in her life including weather, school work, funerals, visitors, church services in English and German and sermon texts, chores, anxiety over church dissensions, concern for starving in India, great interest in missions, a trip to Oregon, California, and Oklahoma, train ride over Rocky Mountains, and the Inauguration Day of President Taft.  Taken from  “A Guide to Mennonite Women’s Diaries (1840-1950), by Anne Yoder, Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 1996, page 488.

Gunden, Agnes Albrecht, 1888-1963

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