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Lester E. Janzen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.448
  • Collection
  • 1945-1969

box 1: various church bulletins 1949-1969, Bethel Mennonite Church Perkasie materials 1950-1955, Pacific District Conference materials 1955-1963, Menno Mennonite Church Ritzville materials 1955-1963, constitutions-mostly of congregations, General Conference 1959 materials including photos
box 2: Eastern District Conference materials 1945-1961

Janzen, Lester E., 1922-2002

Eli G. Reist Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/082SC
  • Collection
  • 1827-1920

Included is a $100.00 share of stock in the Lancaster Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Road Company made out to George L. Mayer and noted distributions to Eli G. Reist in various installments until 1920.

Reist, Eli G., 1855-1932

Clayton F. Derstine Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/058SC
  • Collection
  • 1891-1967

Included in this collection are notices of Clayton F. Derstine's early speaking engagements, a sermon given in 1940, and a condensed version of the biographical sketch that appeared in the Canadian Mennonite in 1966.

Derstine, Clayton F., 1891-1967

MCC Executive Office and Annual Meetings

  • US MCC US IX-05
  • Series
  • 1920 - present

Executive and other committee and department meeting minutes, exhibits, and reports, most pre-2012 but possibly some post-2012.

Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, Pennsylvania)

Paraguayan Immigration 1920-1969

  • US MCC US IX-03
  • Series
  • 1920-1969

Latin America Mennonite Immigration to Paraguay 1929-1969: Correspondence, research data, minutes, MoU, economic development committee, maps, hospital building and road plans, etc.

Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, Pennsylvania)

MCC Correspondence

  • US MCC US IX-06
  • Series
  • 1931-1987

CPS and other MCC central office correspondence from 1931-1987

Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, Pennsylvania)

Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/806
  • Collection
  • 1907-1914, 1986-1993

This collection chronicles the early life of Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss (1889-1986), who homesteaded in North Dakota from 1907-1910. Her diaries (photocopies of originals) record her experiences as a homesteader, as well as a few years after she returned to Pennsylvania.  Articles about Elizabeth are also in the collection, alongside her own recollections. There are also photographs depicting her as a homesteader and later in life, as well as photographs of the homesteading community.

Elizabeth M. Yoder Woodiwiss, 1889-1986

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

Warren G. Bean Ministerial Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/299SC
  • Collection
  • 1963

Transcription created in 1963 of the ministerial records of a bishop who served the Franconia Conference of the Mennonite Church.  Materials include (1) a list of members of the Upper Skippack Mennonite Church (Pennsylvania) at the time of Bean's ordination, (2) names, dates, and locations of baptisms performed, (3) a list of Franconia Conference ordinations, and (4) names, dates,  ages, and texts preached for funerals performed.

Bean, Warren G., 1866-1949

Peter Nissley Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/293SC
  • Collection
  • 1855-1867

These papers consist of one letter from Peter Nissley to Jacob Schneider (in German, with English translation) describing the health of his neighbors and arranging a meeeting among Jacob Schneider, Amos Herr, and himself, and twelve letters in English from John M. Brenneman to Peter Nissley discussing the welfare of the church.

Nissley, Peter

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