Abraham B. Woelk and Abraham A. Woelk Papers
Diaries ranging from 1909 to 1951. Not clear which volumes belonged to the father and which to the son.
Bethesda Hospital membership certificates 1920-1927.
Woelk family history info.
Woelk, Abraham B., 1864-1928
Diaries, Wünsche, David Unrau family photo
Becker, Abraham J., 1875-1961
Includes diaries, autobiography, translations, and a very small amount of correspondence.
Ratzlaff, Abraham, 1850-1939
The collection contains Abram Penner’s personal diaries from 1904 to 1940, the time of his death. Entries are mostly daily events and weather data. Other records include his travel diary from his trip to Russia, family records, and letters. There is also an account ledger from the general store in Mountain Lake.
Penner, Abram, 1849-1940
Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps
diaries 1917-79 with gaps
autograph books
clippings
Duerksen, Agnetha, 1903-1985
Alfred and Barbara Habegger Papers
Correspondence, sermons, diaries, and other documents, mostly related to their mission work in Montana.
Habegger, Alfred, 1892-1956
Consists almost entirely of his diaries 1956-1985. The diaries are somewhat in the format of scientific lab notebooks, with numerous little drawings.
Also includes some funeral papers, wills, land records, military discharge, clippings, photos, death certificates.
Linscheid, Alfred G., 1897-1985
Amos Ebersole Kreider and Stella Shoemaker Kreider Papers
includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material
Kreider, Amos Ebersole, 1889-1976
The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.
Penner, Anna Gertrude, 1886-1967
Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)
Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968
Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.
Suckau, Cornelius Herman, 1881-1951
Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.
The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.
Next is a 17 page family history section.
Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.
Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.
Then several blank pages.
Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.
238-242: weather chart
258-266: remedies for horse diseases
272: recipes for gilding glass and leather
283: diary notes
288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses
292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.
Voth, Cornelius, 1762-1836
box 1: autobiography, financial notebooks, school composition notebooks, diaries (his?), clippings, correspondence, Low German readings, translation projects, family history material
box 2: negatives used to print Andreas and Eva Schmidt Genealogy 1640-1966
Thiesen, Daniel Samuel, 1899-1988
Diary, church financial records, genealogical records, handwritten confession of faith, citizenship papers, land deeds, sermons.
Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_283/
Tieszen, Derk P., 1859-1946
Ferdinand J. Isaac and Anna (Penner) Isaac Papers
Box 1: her diaries 1943-44, 1946; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides
Box 2: German New Testament
Box 3: his(?) diaries 1935-42
Box 4: her diaries 1921, 1931-33, unknown year; his diaries 1927-1930, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947; Donald's(?) diary 1942; photo album; slides
"Box"5: actually a map folder, contains village statistics charts from India mission
Isaac, Ferdinand J., 1888-1946