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Allen H. Erb Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/212
  • Collection
  • 1921-1978

Personal papers of a bishop of the (old) Mennonite Church and administrator of La Junta Mennonite Hospital and Sanatarium (La Junta, Colorado).  Series include:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1928-1975

(2) Diaries, 1921, 1961-1963, 1966

(3) Miscellaneous, 1925-1969

Erb, Allen H., 1888-1975

Paul Erb Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/230
  • Collection
  • 1908-1984

Personal papers of an educator and editor who served the (old) Mennonite Church.  Series include:

(1) Diaries, 1908-1921

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, 1924-1974

(3) Notes for Orie O. Miller Biography, circa 1960-1968

(4) Correspondence, 1936-1982

(5) Subject Files, 1916-1984

Erb, Paul, 1894-1984

Anne Penner fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1992

This fonds contains three diaries the first from 1945 until 1987 which appears to have been recopied. The first diary gives memoirs and accounts of Penner’s time in India including personal stories, politics, weather, and major news events. The first diary also includes loose pages in the back from 1981 and 1993, other loose pages are included with no specified year. The second diary spans from 1988 until 1990, and the third from 1990-1992. These two diaries are from Penner’s retirement in Winnipeg, Manitoba and include memoirs, personal experiences, news, and medical topics such as AIDS. Penner’s bible has prayers and notes throughout, in the back there is a short timeline of her first trip to India.
In addition, This fonds contains a letter written by Penner to her adoptive relative Doreen Loewen in 1956 while she was in India, recounting her work in the hospital and teaching Sunday school. Finally, also included are Penner's business card and two pins; one of these pins is a nursing pin, and the other contains a photo of her late parents.

Penner, Anne, 1916-1996

Peter J. Friesen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.407
  • Collection
  • 1890-1948

box 1 - student notebooks from Bethel College, some correspondence 1913, 1948

box 2 - diaries 1925-1928, sermon notebooks, birthday book

box 3-4 - books

box 5 - photos

Friesen, Peter J., 1870-1950

Marie Baergen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.240
  • Collection
  • 1920-1996

Postcards, clippings, calendars, notebooks (from previous generations of her family), correspondence, school yearbooks and other school items, Kansas map, diaries (whose?), Western District Conference delegate guestbook 1923, autograph book

boxes 3-4 include financial, estate, and land records (land in Louisiana), death certificate, George Baergen estate and funeral, Gustav Baergen funeral (tape). Hugo Reimer was executor for the estates.

Baergen, Marie, 1900-1996

Agnetha Duerksen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.329
  • Collection
  • 1917-1979

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Duerksen, Agnetha, 1903-1985

Jacob and Mary Y. Burkhard Papers 1899-1915

  • US MCUSAA HM1/191
  • Collection
  • 1899-1957

A small set of personal papers documenting the work of this Mennonite missionary couple in India at the turn of the century.  The papers consist primarily of Jacob Burkhard's outgoing correspondence, but also include incoming correspondence to Jacob Burkhold, the memoirs and diary of Jacob Burkhard, letters and notes written by Mary Burkhard, scrapbooks of clippings regarding Mennonite missionary work in India, and Mary Burkhard's Bibles.

Burkhard, Jacob, 1873-1906

Lores E. Steury Papers

  • US GCA HM1/728
  • Collection
  • circa 1936-2008

Personal papers of Lores E. Steury, consisting largely of gathered information on the Amish Christian Church (including information highlighted in the book The Amish Christian Church: Its History and Legacy by Fredrick J. Schrock). Holdings also include personal information about Steury, including diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, and drafts of an autobiography.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Amish Christan Church Materials

(2) Geneological Records

(3) Diaries and Recollections

(4) Recorded Interviews

(5) Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials

Steury, Lores E., 1922-2008

Lois Gunden Clemens Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/926
  • Collection
  • 1901-1996

The papers and photographs in this collection include Lois Gunden Clemen's relief work in France under Mennonite Central Committee from 1941 to 1944. They also document her work as an educator and author, her Conrad Grebel Lectures, her work with Women's Missionary and Service Commission and other Mennonite-related organizations, her involvement with American Association Of University Women, and correspondence with her future husband Ernest Clemens.

Clemens, Lois Gunden, 1915-

Solomon E. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/173
  • Collection
  • 1919-1920

Photocopies of diaries and correspondence created during Yoder's period of service in post World War I France with the American Friends Service Committee.

Yoder, Solomon E., 1893-1992

T. A. van der Smissen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.243
  • Collection
  • 1920-1970

correspondence, sermons, subject files

van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974

Jacob Wall Diary

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.443
  • Collection
  • 1824-1860

Wall's diary 1824-1860 of events in his region. Also a listing of births, deaths, etc. mentioned in the diary, compiled by Glenn Penner. The title "Record Book of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement 1824-1860" also seems to have been used for this document, although it isn't really an accurate description.

Wall, Jacob, 1807-1860

C. H. Suckau Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.260
  • Collection
  • 1920-1945

Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.

Suckau, Cornelius Herman, 1881-1951

Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/845
  • Collection
  • 1900-1992

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

Neuschwander, Evangeline Matthies

Gene Stoltzfus Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/101
  • Collection
  • 1940-2012

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

Stoltzfus, Gene, 1940-2010

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