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Cornelius Plett

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1934

This fonds consists of letters written to Cornelius L. Plett by friends and family. They provide a valuable insight into the daily life in Mennonite village settlements in Canada, U.S., and Mexico in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as they discuss village and church dynamics, as well as personal issues and challenges of the writers. Most of these letters are written in the German Ghotic Script.

Plett, Cornelius L., 1846-1935

Council of International Anabaptist Ministries Records

  • US MCUSAA X/016
  • Collection
  • 1958-2004

The organizational records of the Council of International Anabaptist Ministries, formerly titled Council of Mission Board Secretaries and Council of International Ministries. This organization serves as a coordinating body for a number of participating agencies such as Brethren in Christ World Missions, Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Mission Network, Virginia Mennonite Missions, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission, Mennonite Brethren Mission, Eastern Mennonite Missions, and others. The records are divided into three series: 1) Minutes, 1958-2004; 2) Consultation Papers, 1973-1993; 3) Subject Files, 1962-2004.

Council of International Anabaptist Ministries

D. B. (Daniel B.) Swartzendruber Collection 1857-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/144
  • Collection
  • 1568-1861

The Daniel B. Swartzendruber Collection contains numerous documents, which shed light on 19th-century Amish life in America, particularly the Johnson County, Iowa and Somerset County, Pennsylvania communities.  Thanks to the interest in the church and its history of at least five generations of Swartzendrubers the Archives has this sizable collection. Other material of the Swartzendruber family can be found at the archives of the Iowa Mennonite Historical Society.  In an attempt to aid the researcher working with this collection, this description of the collection has been prepared.

A brief genealogical chart (see Box 1/Folder1) affords an overview of the relationships of the various people who wrote or whom are written about, in the collection. (The names of the collection’s significant writers are in red).  Many of the dates on the chart come directly from the collection and so there may be some minor discrepancies in the dates, particularly those of the earlier generations.  It is not completely clear that the Abner Yoder who is named on the chart is the same man whom Jacob Swartzendruber visited in Somerset County (the Glades) in 1860, and whom later moved to Iowa. It seems likely that he is the one so therefore without verifying the information fully he was placed on the chart.  This chart is not included in this inventory, but is available upon request.

The chart hosts different name spellings from what they are normally in the documents.  The spellings for the same person do vary in the documents so consistency was kept by using the spellings found in the Mennonite Quarterly Review and the Mennonite Bibliography. This helped also in allowing for only one spelling in a particular generation.  In order to save space only initials in this paper will be used when referring to Jacob Schwarzendruber {JS} (1800-1868), Friedrich Schwartzendruber {FS}(1825-1895), Jacob Friedrich Swarzendruber {JFS} (1851-1924), Daniel B. Swartzendruber {DBS} (1875-1950), and Elmer G. Swartzendruber {EGS} (1890-19??).

The collection has a somewhat arbitrary organization but one should be able to locate any item without much difficulty by using the folder listing  Basically, the organization follows JFS’s copy book {Folder 2} and then the additional materials in EGS’s transcriptions {Folder 3} and JFS’s “Register der alten Schriften” {Folder 4}.  Then there are additional documents, family history materials, and some of DBS’s personal material.

In order to identify the documents which have been copied or identified in JFS’s or EGS’s transcriptions or the “Register der alten Schriften” those materials have been listed with numbers (Box 1 / Folder 1) and will refer to those numbers in the folder descriptions.

Researchers should note that the date span includes the original dates of documents copied into copy books and collected documents. The record keeping activity of the Swartzendruber family extends only back to the 19th century.

Swartzendruber, D. B. (Daniel B.), 1875-

D. Parke (David Parke) Lantz Papers 1919-1959

  • US MCUSAA HM1/215
  • Collection
  • 1769-1959

A set of personal papers created by a missionary to Argentina and later relief worker in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include incoming correspondence, speeches and sermons, records pertaining to relief work, photographs, and miscellaneous materials.

Lantz, D. Parke (David Parke), 1881-1962

Daniel Brenneman Family Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/426
  • Collection
  • 1838-1971

A small set of collected materials pertaining to Daniel Brenneman and his forebears.  Includes clippings, family histories, fragmentary correspondence, scattered records from Brenneman Memorial United Missionary Church, and miscellaneous material.  Researchers should be aware that there are very few original documents in this collection.  Most 19th and early 20th century documents are photocopies.

Brenneman, Daniel, 1834-1919

Daniel D. Brenneman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/816
  • Collection
  • 1942-1975

This small collection consists of Daniel D. Brenneman's personal correspondence with other pastors in the Mennonite Church and his sermons from the Mountain View Mennonite Congregation (Kalispell, Montana) where he began his pastorate in 1942. It also includes the bulletin from his funeral in 1975.

Researchers should note that some of this collection appears to be missing. For more details consult the physical restriction note.

Brenneman, Daniel D., 1906-1975

Daniel G. Lapp Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/035
  • Collection
  • 1917-1947

A small collection consisting primarily of sermons, but also including correspondence and miscellaneous materials created by an (old) Mennonite Church minister and bishop iwho lived in Nebraska and Illinois.

Lapp, Daniel G., 1867-1951

Daniel Graber Papers 1900-1930

  • US MCUSAA HM1/262
  • Collection
  • 1845-1960

Papers of a leader of the Western District Amish Mennonite Conference, pastor of the Sugar Creek (Iowa) congregation of the (old) Mennonite Church, early trustee of the Mennonite Board of Missions, and father of C. L. Graber and J. D. Graber.  These materials are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1875-1941

(2) Miscellaneous, 1845-1960

Graber, Daniel, 1858-1930

Daniel H. Coffman Family Collection 1881-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/744
  • Collection
  • 1881-2014

Daniel H. Coffman served as a deacon at Prairie Street Mennonite Church (1893-1899), Olive Mennonite Church (1899-1904), and Clinton Brick Mennonite Church (1904 - 1941). This collection consists primarily of Coffman's correspondence to his brother and sister in Virginia as well as his daughter in Indiana, and contains information regarding church conflicts from 1898 to 1903.  Also in this collection are histories of the Daniel H. Coffman family and the Samuel H. Eldridge family, as well as a photograph of the Eldridge family circa 1890.

Eldridge, Murl, 1908-1991

Daniel J. Fisher Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/402
  • Collection
  • 1927-1957

Correspondence, subject files, and sermons of a bishop of the (old) Mennonite Church who served in Kalona and Iowa City, Iowa.  Much of the correspondence addresses selective service classification difficulties for Mennonites in Iowa and  Young People's Institute activities in Iowa.

Fisher, Daniel J., 1877-1970

Daniel Kauffman Papers 1907-1944

  • US MCUSAA HM1/020
  • Collection
  • 1885-1984

These papers of a Mennonite bishop, author, teacher, and leader, are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1943

(2) Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Materials, 1913-1984.

Kauffman, Daniel, 1865-1944

David A. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/314
  • Collection
  • 1885-1983

The David A. Yoder Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Diaries and Datebooks, 1920-1976

(2) Correspondence, 1903-1975

(3) Subject Files, 1909-1970

(4) Manuscripts, 1949-1976

(5) Sermon Notes, 1907-1966

(6) Photographs, 1885-1980

(7) Miscellaneous, 1897-1983

Yoder, David A., 1883-1980

David C. Amstutz Papers 1870-1920

  • US MCUSAA HM1/233
  • Collection
  • 1819-1920

A small set of property records and church- and mission-related documents and correspondence created and collected by a pastor and  bishop of Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio) who donated land for the Rittman Home for the Aged.  Includes a letter to Christian Steiner dated 1829, as well as correxpondence from Menno Steiner (1905-1911).  Also includes marriage licenses, Crown Hill Mennonite Church reports, and membership letters.

Amstutz, David C., 1842-1824

David Helmuth Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/006
  • Collection
  • 1960-1985

David and Naomi Helmuth, a Mennonite missionary couple, worked at the Betania School in Puerto Rico under the Mennonite Board of Missions during the early 1960s. About half of this collection consists of David Helmuth's correspondence with mission board staff, fellow pastors, and other missionaries in Puerto Rico. The collection also holds a small amount of personal correspondence with friends and family.

Although the Helmuths returned to the United States in the late 1960s, David Helmuth continued to work with the mission board through the early 1970s. The collection documents this work as well. Helmuth entered the pastorate in 1982 at First Mennonite Church in Middlebury, Indiana. A small amount of correspondence pertains to this transition.

Helmuth, David

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