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Allen and Elsie Shirk Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/285SC
  • Collection
  • 1960-1967

Two "update" letters from the Shirks describing their missionary work in India and Hong Kong.

Shirk, Allen

Allen B. Christophel Court Martial Proceedings and Biographical Information

  • US MCUSAA HM1/319SC
  • Collection
  • 1918-1992

Transcript of Christophel's court martial proceedings for his refusal to rake and sow grass seed at Camp Zachary Tayler, Ky.  Christophel, a Mennonite conscientious objector, refused to do this work because it "was of a military nature."  He was sentenced to ten years hard labor at Fort Leavenworth.

Also included in this small set of papers are a biographical sketch written by Russell Kraybill (1984) and a collection of memories of Christophel provided by his family, friends, and students.

Christophel, Allen B., 1892-1932

Allen G. (Allen Gehman) Martin Letter

  • US MCUSAA HM1/166SC
  • Collection
  • 1958

Letter written by a missionary serving Russian Mission, Alaska; describes his trip to the Moravian mission in Bethel, Alaska.  Also includes his impressions of the local Russian Orthodox church, priest, and congregation.

Martin, Allen G. (Allen Gehman)

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

Allen Teichroew Paraguayan Mennonite Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/608SC
  • Collection
  • 1940-1946

A small set of photocopied records from the U.S. National Archives (State Department) and the Mennonite Central Committee Archives pertaining to suspected Nazi sympathies and / or political support within Germans Mennonite colonies in Paraguay.  Includes the 1940 Edwin Schoenrich report "The Mennonite Colonies in the Paraguayan Chaco."

Teichroew, Allen

Allgemeine Schulbehörde

  • PY GKM Mennoniten in Paraguay
  • Collection
  • 1970 - 2013

Die erste Zusammenarbeit der drei Chacokolonien auf dem Gebiet der Schulbildung mündete in die Gründung der drei Bildungs Institute: Lehrerseminar (IFL), Gewerbeschule bezw. Landwirstschaftsschule (CFP) und Hauswirtschaftschule (CFHN). Darüber hinaus arbeitet man an gemeinsamen Stoffplänen für die Schulen und an einem Schulentwicklungsplan.

Ratzlaff, Heinrich, 1927-2009

Alma Slagel Eigsti Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/493
  • Collection
  • 1946-1993

Alma Slagel Eigsti "adopted" a Russian Mennonite refugee named Margareta Unruh through her Sunday school class at Waldo Mennonite Church in Illinois. Unruh and her family were forced to flee Russia in 1943, first staying in Holland and later immigrating to Paraguay. Eigsti and Unruh corresponded with each other from 1946-1981. In this collection are the letters that Eigsti received from Unruh. The letters describe Unruh's domestic life and her personal needs. There is also a small amount of correspondence from Tina Boschmann.

Eigsti, Alma Slagel, 1893-1989

Alpha L. and Jacob C. Buzzard Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/279SC
  • Collection
  • 1860-1919

Fragmented personal papers, including a number of Jacob C. Buzzard's teaching certificates and a message to his children written just prior to his death.  Also includes a letter to President Woodrow WIlson from the Illinois Mennonite Church Conference, dated May 30, 1919.  The letter, signed by Alpha L. Buzzard and John Nice, thanks Wilson for his consideration of the Mennonites' nonresistance and asks for exemption from all military training.  Other materials include documents from the Illinois Mennonite Church Conference and a certificate of baptism in German for Johanna Friedricke Krause.

Buzzard, Alpha L., 1871-1964

Alvin E. Litwiller Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/075SC
  • Collection
  • 1953

Collection consists of a single Christmas greeting in the form of a poem written by Alvin E. Miller.

Litwiller, Alvin E.

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