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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Inter-Society Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/016
  • Collection
  • 1922-1949

This small series contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, receipts, and other miscellaneous materials documenting interactions between the American Mennonite Mission in India and other Christian agencies in India.  These agencies include: National Christian Council, Mid-India Christian Council, Chhatisgarh Missionary Association, Union Hindi Weekly, N. I. Tract and Book Society, Bible Society, Himalayan School, and the Joint Examening Board.  Correspondence pertaining to a joint hymn book committee may also be found in this series.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Medical Committee Meeting Minutes

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/010
  • Collection
  • 1917-1959

Minutes of the body charged with the administration of the mission medical facilities, including the hospital, the leprosaureum, and various dispensaries. After 1952, the Medical Committee was renamed the Medical Council.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Mennonite Church in India Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/017
  • Collection
  • 1912-1966

These records contain the minutes, governing records, correspondence, and other materials documenting the development of the Mennonite Church in India.  The Mennonite Church in India began as a conference of Mennonite congregations under the auspices of the American Mennonite Mission.  In 1952, when the American Mennonite Mission ceased to exist, the Mennonite Church in India became an independent entity.  Of particular interest in these records is the Church Problems and Discipline File, which provides evidence of tensions between indigenous Indian Christians and mission staff regarding authority and power withing the Mennonite Church.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/018
  • Collection
  • 1904-1951

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Materials

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/019
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

Assorted records created by the American Mennonite Mission in India, including membership and marriage registers for Indian churches, maps, pamphlets, furniture inventories, hospital records, articles and leaflets, and other miscellaneous materials.  This series includes the statement of comity agreed to by the various denominational mission organizations in India, which stated mission workers' commitment to corking cooperatively rather than competitively.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Normal Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/008
  • Collection
  • 1922-1949

Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Photographs

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/023
  • Collection
  • 1899-1968

Consists primarily of miscellaneous pre-1930  photographic prints documenting the Dhamtari mission, its workers, and those served by the mission.  Also includes a scrapbook of the Bihar mission created by Esther and Milton Vogt.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Publicity Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/013
  • Collection
  • 1922-1952

Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media.  Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary's Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/004
  • Collection
  • 1917-1952

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Superintendent's Correspondence and Ledger Books

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/003
  • Collection
  • 1900-1921

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

Amish Mennonite Mission Interest Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA VIII/019
  • Collection
  • 1950-1961

The records include minutes, programs and correspondence of the Amish Mennonite Mission Interest Committee, collected by Harvey Graber, as well as drafts of articles, correspondence, letters from readers and issues of Witnessing, the publication of the Mission Interest Committee from 1956 to 1961.

Amish Mennonites. Mission Interest Committee

Ammon Kaufman Allegheny Conference Congregational Histories

  • US MCUSAA HM1/310SC
  • Collection
  • 1948-1953, undated

Handwritten histories of Mennonite congregations in southwestern Pennsylvania, presumably used in the book Seventy-fifth Anniversary Observance of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Mennonite Conference, coauthored with John L. Horst.  Other materials include scattered research correspondence and notes.

Kaufman, Ammon, 1885-1955

Ammon Sala Diary

  • US MCUSAA HM1/202SC
  • Collection
  • 1916-1919

A transcribed, typewritten copy of a diary kept by Ammon Sala, a Mennonite conscientious objector who was conscripted for military service in World War I. Sala left for Camp Lee on October 4, 1917 and was not released until December 1918. Sala's diary entries are very brief, describing one or two daily activities.

The diary was transcribed by Mark Moyer. The original diary remains in the possession of Helen Lenda.

Sala, Ammon

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