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Arnold C. Schultz Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.311
  • Collection
  • 1874-1970

The Arnold Schultz papers are in a rather jumbled condition, but have been kept in their original order and with the original folder labels.  Some folders were unlabelled.  Others had only partially legible labels; these are marked with a (?).  A few folders contain material other than what is mentioned on the label.  The papers consist primarily of material on the history of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren and on the family history of Arnold Schultz's ancestors.  The most significant part of the EMB material relates to the settlement and early church disputes of Henderson, Nebraska, and Mountain Lake, Minnesota.  There are a good number of original documents, including papers relating to the H. C. Bartel mission in China, the memoirs of Gerhard Klassen (born in Prussia and died in the United States), papers relating to Isaac Peters (an early leader at Henderson, Nebraska), and a set of "German documents from Culm" (probably relating to Schultz genealogy).

Schultz, Arnold C., 1904-1988

Elizabeth D. Goertz Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.414
  • Collection
  • 1921-1986

analog audio recording and cassette copy (digitized version in elecrec/acc340)

correspondence 1930-1986

biographical information

will 1953

scrapbook 1921 of trip to China

Goertz, Elizabeth D., 1892-1986

Hugh D. and Janet Sprunger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.293
  • Collection
  • 1954-1994

Box 1: box of printed material about Taiwan sent from AMBS library, May 27, 1992, seems to originate with Hugh Sprunger
Box 2: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, minutes (sorted by Verney Unruh)
Box 3-5: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, minutes
Box 6: "Hong Kong church" subject files, correspondence
Box 7: "People's Republic of China clippings 1987-1989"
Box 8: "Asian files" subject files, clippings
Box 9: subject files
Box 10: "People's Republic of China files 1992-1995" clippings, subject files
Box 11: "General files"
Box 12: "People's Republic of China clippings 1990-1991"
Box 13: "People's Republic of China church publicaitons/Christian faith"
Box 14: "Books on China and missiology periodicals"
Box 15: "People's Republic of China - church publicaions (Christian faith) - Bridge, CNCR, China Talk, Yi, etc."
Box 16: "Hong Kong general clippings Jan. 1991-Oct. 1994"
Box 17: "General materials" correspondence, sub ject files, printed matter
Box 18: "Hong Kong Mennonite churches/conference COMCIHK"
Box 19: "Hong Kong 1984-1989 plus 1978 item"
Box 20: "Hong Kong general clippings and general interest and historical and maps, etc."
Box 21-22: "Chinese ministry files"
Box 23: printed matter, minutes, mostly Taiwan
Box 24-25: books and pamphlets
Box 26: slides
Box 27-28: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, printed matter, one Japan folder in box 28; partly processed by Verney Unruh

Sprunger, Hugh D., 1928-1998

James Liu and Stephen Wang Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.262
  • Collection
  • 1930-1990

Box 1: correspondence, speeches, autobiographies

Box 2: audio cassettes and CD copies, book in Chinese, video tape and DVD copy

Liu, James, 1904-1991

Marie J. Regier Frantz Janzen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.54
  • Collection
  • 1920-1990

The papers consist mostly of correspondence and articles relating to the various mission fields. Most important would be the materials on the General Conference Mennonite mission in China. Especially interesting is the material on the Japanese internment, including a large group of sketches of camp life, and items relating to the changes in China after the war.

The family history materials in the collection are also significant. They shed light on the early Bethel College (Halstead Seminary) and on Emmaus Mennonite Church near Whitewater, Kansas.

See box list for contents of unprocessed boxes.

Janzen, Marie J. Regier Frantz, 1897-1994

William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962