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.
This collection contains information about Rhea B. Yoder (1898-1992), a teacher in the Midwest and at Woodstock, Northern India. In the collection there are materials from her schooling, her college speeches, journals from her time in India, and recollections of her upbringing. There is also a photograph album containing pictures from her childhood and time at Goshen. Her speeches at Goshen College provide an example of an individual on the liberal side of the (old) Mennonite church schism that led to the closing of Goshen College in 1923-1924.
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.
Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor who served in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, primarily at Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Gulliver, Mich.). Materials are divided into three series:
Papers pertaining to a Mennonite conscientious objector's experiences during World War I. Includes correspondence, empemera pertaining to conscientious objection, a transcript of Sommers's court martial proceedings, a parole pass, photographs, and other miscellaneous items. Also includes a brief two page biography of Sommers written by Myron Sommers in 1992.
A copybook created by an Amish minister in Wayne County, Ohio. Includes a letter to the reader of the copy book, transcriptions of poetry found in Ermahnungen von Georg Jutzi... (1853), a sermon by Dek Nadel (Mennonite Minister in Amsterdam) based on Ephesians 2:10 and dated 1751, and a hymn. Also includes Paton Yoder's transcriptions and translations of portions of the copybook.
Fragmented documents associated with F. A. Krull, who married Simkjen Baukes Rystra (1841-1916), a niece of Ruurd Johannes Smid (R. J. Smith). Materials include a list of significant dates in Ane A. Krall's emigration from the Netherlands and settlement in Elkhart County, Indiana, and later Sacramento County, California, a birthday calendar with notes about family birth and death dates, and F. A. Krull's copy of the Mennonite Publishing Company's Hymns and Tunes for Public and Private Worship and Sunday School, published in 1890. Also includes a list of books once associated with these papers that were transferred to the Mennonite HIstorical Library in Goshen, Indiana.
A collection of Hutterite sermons and introductory sermons (Vorreden) originating in the 18th and 19th centuries and copied from the 1890s to the 1980s, donated by Paul S. Gross and the Spokane Hutterite colony. The copies remain in their original German form. Of particular note is the work of Elias Walter from Standoff Colony, Alberta, whose copies (1898-1917) comprise the second half of this collection. The collection also includes various Hutterite-related writings and pamphlets, including works by Paul S. Gross and Robert Friedman.
Personal papers of long-time Mennonite Central Committee workers best known for their work to resettle Mennonite refugees after World War II. These papers are divided into two series:
A small set of family papers consisting primarily of correspondence from Benjamin Byler Stoltzfus (a farmer in West Liberty, Ohio and preacher at the Lima Rescue Mission of the (old) Mennonite Church) and his children B. Frank Stoltzfus (documenting his studies at Goshen College and his Mennonite Central Committee service in Constantinople, Turkey in 1917), Will A. Stoltzfus (including letters from New York Biblical Seminary and Beiruit, Lebanon, where he engaged in education and mission work in 1920-1921), Lena Stoltzfus, and Eli Stoltzfus. Also includes poetry written by his daughter Rosie Stoltzfus Byler.
Personal papers and genealogical research files created by a Goshen College alumnus and Civilian Public Service volunteer who served as a professor at Kent State University and the University of Michigan. Materials include a scrapbook containing color photographs of Civilian Public Service Camp #141, Gulfport, Mississippi (Camp Barnard), photographs and information about Goshen College's Class of 1938, scrapbooks on Andrei Sakharov and war and peace issues, and correspondence and photocopied primary sources pertaining to Hertzler's 1995 genealogy monograph, The Other Hertzler-Hartzlers.
A small set of personal papers created one of the first Mennonite nurses. Originally from Ontario, worked primarily in the United States. Materials include her professional licenses and diplomas, family correspondence, information about her husband (Enoch Bauman), medical receipts and records, and clippings on medical topics. Of particular interest is her correspondence with her grandson Delbert, who seems to have been part of the Jesus People movement in Toronto. Bauman's papers also contain clippings regarding Toronto's House of Emmaus, a Jesus People commune.
Personal papers of a longtime advocate for stewardship education in the Mennonite Church. Of note are an unpublished memoir and a large collection of notes and outlines for speeches and sermons on the topic of Christian stewardship.
These papers include scattered personal and family papers, including correspondence, land records, and obituaries. The papers also include clippings relating to Holmes County (Ohio) history and Amish - Mennonite history, local history publications, and ephemera.
Miscellaneous materials collected by genealogist Eunice Deter to document the history of the Deter and Longanecker families. Materials include photographs, correspondence, maps, financial and land records, wills and obituaries, biographies, diaries, and genealogy notes. Other materials include various editions of the Longanecker family history written by Deter.
