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D. B. (Daniel B.) Swartzendruber Collection 1857-1923

  • US MCUSAA HM1/144
  • Sammlung
  • 1568-1861

The Daniel B. Swartzendruber Collection contains numerous documents, which shed light on 19th-century Amish life in America, particularly the Johnson County, Iowa and Somerset County, Pennsylvania communities.  Thanks to the interest in the church and its history of at least five generations of Swartzendrubers the Archives has this sizable collection. Other material of the Swartzendruber family can be found at the archives of the Iowa Mennonite Historical Society.  In an attempt to aid the researcher working with this collection, this description of the collection has been prepared.

A brief genealogical chart (see Box 1/Folder1) affords an overview of the relationships of the various people who wrote or whom are written about, in the collection. (The names of the collection’s significant writers are in red).  Many of the dates on the chart come directly from the collection and so there may be some minor discrepancies in the dates, particularly those of the earlier generations.  It is not completely clear that the Abner Yoder who is named on the chart is the same man whom Jacob Swartzendruber visited in Somerset County (the Glades) in 1860, and whom later moved to Iowa. It seems likely that he is the one so therefore without verifying the information fully he was placed on the chart.  This chart is not included in this inventory, but is available upon request.

The chart hosts different name spellings from what they are normally in the documents.  The spellings for the same person do vary in the documents so consistency was kept by using the spellings found in the Mennonite Quarterly Review and the Mennonite Bibliography. This helped also in allowing for only one spelling in a particular generation.  In order to save space only initials in this paper will be used when referring to Jacob Schwarzendruber {JS} (1800-1868), Friedrich Schwartzendruber {FS}(1825-1895), Jacob Friedrich Swarzendruber {JFS} (1851-1924), Daniel B. Swartzendruber {DBS} (1875-1950), and Elmer G. Swartzendruber {EGS} (1890-19??).

The collection has a somewhat arbitrary organization but one should be able to locate any item without much difficulty by using the folder listing  Basically, the organization follows JFS’s copy book {Folder 2} and then the additional materials in EGS’s transcriptions {Folder 3} and JFS’s “Register der alten Schriften” {Folder 4}.  Then there are additional documents, family history materials, and some of DBS’s personal material.

In order to identify the documents which have been copied or identified in JFS’s or EGS’s transcriptions or the “Register der alten Schriften” those materials have been listed with numbers (Box 1 / Folder 1) and will refer to those numbers in the folder descriptions.

Researchers should note that the date span includes the original dates of documents copied into copy books and collected documents. The record keeping activity of the Swartzendruber family extends only back to the 19th century.

Swartzendruber, D. B. (Daniel B.), 1875-

Adalbert Goertz fonds

  • CA MHSBC 84
  • Sammlung
  • 1612-2006

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Vital Statistics - 1612-2006 includes Births, Marriages and Deaths - (1 file) - Box 196
2) Lists of Archival Records Berlin and Prussian Mennonites, Danzig district, ca. 1700-1900 - (2 files) - Box 196
3) Publications - bibliography - 1963-2001 - (1 file) - Box 196

Goertz, Adalbert, 1928-2011

Catalogus Frembder Mennonisten, so allhie eigenen Rauch halten

  • US BCMLA 06/MF MSS 267
  • Sammlung
  • 1650

list of Mennonites residing in Danzig in 1650, microfilm

filmed at request of Johannes Harder, 6 July 1963, from Gdansk archives APG 300,10 nr. 27

the film includes pp. 71-87, 98-100; not clear if this is the complete list or why some page numbers were skipped

digitized version http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_267/300_10_27/

There's also another digitized version from a different microfilm. One or the other may be better, depending on which page you're looking at.

Danzig (Germany)

COE Slide Presentation - "The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs Mirror"

  • CA MHC 706
  • Sammlung
  • 1660-1973

This slide presentation provides historical overview of <i>The Martyrs Mirror</i>, first published in 1660, a significant document of the Mennonite Church, and specifically it includes reproductions of 38 etchings by Dutch artist Jan Luyken, as first published in the 1685 edition. Prepared with a written script to be read, as each image was projected with a Kodak slide projector.

Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton, Kansas)

Namenliste der Danziger Mennoniten

  • US BCMLA 06/MF MSS 267-37
  • Sammlung
  • 1665

list of Mennonites in Gdansk in 1665, microfilm

filmed at request of Johannes Harder, 9 July 1963, at Gdansk public archives; APG 300,10 nr. 37; film includes pp. 163-197; not clear if this is the complete list

digitized version http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_267/300_10_37/

There's another digitized version, from a different microfilm. One or the other may be better, depending on which page you're looking at.

Danzig (Germany)

Peter Toews fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Sammlung
  • 1683-1981 ; predominant 1843-1913

The Peter Toews fonds consists of a variety of materials, both published and unpublished. Among the published materials are a number of items of rare Mennonitica. Most notable among these are such works as:
-Johannes Decknatel, ed. Auszug aus den merkwuerdigsten Abhandlungen aus den Werken Menno Simons. Koenigsberg: D.E. Kanter, 1765.
-Confession oder kurze und einfaeltige Glaubens Bekaentnisse derer Mennoniten in Preussen (Confessio aut Breves ao Simplices Fidei Articuli illorum Mennonistarum in Borusia). Lublin, Poland: n.p., 1683.
-Peter Toews, ed. Das wachsame Auge Gottes: Aus den hinterlassenen Schriften des Johann Toews. Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1908.

Most of the other published items are less noteworthy than these three and seem to have been added to the collection by Peter's son Isaac Toews at a later date. The latter have some interest regarding subjects such as anti-Semitism, popular American theology, and historical theology of the Mennonites.

The fonds contains considerable diary/memoir material. The "Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen" are essentially letter-books compiled by Peter Toews. This material was largely written and collected in the mid 1890s. He deals with the period ca.1860-1890 in these booklets. The greatest amount of space is given to church issues. The diary material covers the years 1871-1878 and 1910-1914. The earlier diary also focuses heavily on church affairs. The later one is more like a scrapbook, with appended statements of his expenditures. It contains some comments regarding church affairs, copies of letters and documents written in this period, and poems he wrote (as well as some copied from other sources) during these years.

Another significant item in the Peter Toews fonds is the first Manitoba church membership register of the Kleine Gemeinde group. The register lists some people who stayed in Russia. For numerous families, the register lists both their Russian and Manitoba places of residence. Frequently, additional comments have been made about a given family, either pertaining to migration to Kansas, Nebraska, or Alberta, or about the circumstances surrounding the death of some family member. The register has not been consistently updated after 1879, which leads one to believe that a new register was begun at that time. For some families Toews made entries until the 1890s.

The fonds contains a handwritten volume on the history of the Kleine Gemeinde from its inception to the mid-1870s. (This manuscript has been translated and published in Plett's History and Events.) Much of the material pertains to elections of church officers (and in some cases removal of them), questions of faith and practice dealt with by the church, and discussions on non-resistance and emigration in the face of the threat of universal military service in Russia.

Peter Toews has also maintained collections of correspondence material. One group of letters dates from the period 1866-1872. The people with whom he corresponded were largely Kleine Gemeinde church members from the Molotschna and Crimean Mennonite settlements. Most of the letters pertain to the church affairs of the community.

In addition to this, he has correspondence which he copied out by hand into a small 17 x 11 cm booklet. These letters deal with a wide variety of subjects, some personal, and some church-related (e.g. discussions of church discipline). There are also a few letters from other time periods. It should be noted that this fonds does not contain all of Toews' original correspondence. At least some correspondence is deposited at the Mennonite Library and Archives in North Newton, Kansas.

Another significant category of material in this collection includes the manuscripts of a great number of the poems which Toews wrote. His poetry is almost exclusively religious and devotional in nature. One particularly interesting poem, his "Nachklang zum Empire Tag," is a reaction to the exaggerated patriotism which he observed in the Empire Day celebrations. The collection also contains a manuscript copy of Das wachsame Auge Gottes.

A small amount of material relates to World War I. The documents deal with the question of exemption from military service and with the 'Holdeman' people's refusal to contribute the National Patriotic Fund.

Finally there is an assortment of other material including a bologna recipe, an arithmetic notebook, a meditation on Psalm 90, a sermon on the reasons for leaving Russia, and several copies of his will (including an addendum regarding his literary estate).

This collection has a substantial number of potential research possibilities. In the first instance it provides much information on the faith and, to a lesser extent, the daily life of Mennonites in Prussia and Russia.

More noteworthy for Canadian studies is the fact that in this fonds one can examine the records of a leader involved in the emigration from Russia to Canada. It allows one to examine what motivated him to leave Russia - was it the "push" factor of new laws in Russia or was it the lure of economic opportunity in Canada.

The collection provides considerable scope for a study on the theology of the Kleine Gemeinde and 'Holdeman' churches, as well as Toews' personal theology. The large volume of poetry written by Toews allows one to study theological and other questions from a literary angle.

Peter Toews collected information on the history of the Kleine Gemeinde. These materials all predate the group's arrival in Canada, but they do provide a good insight into the historical evolution (both socially and intellectually) of this Mennonite group. The records further provide some useful materials for studying the Church of God (Mennonite) denomination in both the USA and Canada.

The church membership register could provide some possibilities for demographic studies of the Kleine Gemeinde during the early years of settlement in Manitoba. It can be used for reconstructing the statistical data of the original Kleine Gemeinde communities of the East Reserve and for studying migratory patterns during the 1870s. The register is also a valuable resource for genealogy and family history.

Eight types of materials been identified in this fonds as follows:
-1) Peter Toews writings (Volume 2208:4-9; 2781:2-6, 14-23, 25, 28; 588:3-4)
-2) Isaac Toews material (Volume 2208:1-3)
-3) Church matters (Volume 2781:7, 24, 26, 27)
-4) Wilhelm Giesbrecht material (Volume 588:1-2)
-5) Books and pamphlets (Volume 588:5,6; 2781:8-13)
-6) Johann Toews material (Volume 2781:1)
-7) Sermons (Volume 4237)
-8) Microfilm material (Microfilm # 223, 224)

Toews, Peter, 1841-1922

Isaak Bergen fonds

  • CA MHSBC 135
  • Sammlung
  • 1700-2005

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Genealogy - 1700-1853 - (15 files) Box 290
2) Immigration Papers, Heinrich Bergen -1923 - (1 file) Box 290
3) Village Profiles and Plans - 1869, 1873 - (5 files) Box 290
4) Publication, Family History - 2005 - (1 file) Box 290

Bergen, Isaak Peter, 1923-2012

Land Tenancy Agreements for Lorens Peter and Andreas Rös

  • US MCUSAA HM1/838SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1721, 1987

Photocopies and transcriptions of German-language land tenancy contracts for two Swiss men.  Also includes a photocopy and transcription of a letter complaint by another Swiss man, Johannes Gräbe.

Bender, Elizabeth Horsch, 1895-1988

Christian L. and Mina Roth Graber Papers 1840-1973

  • US GCA HM1/209
  • Sammlung
  • 1813-1973

Personal papers of Christian L. Graber and Mina Roth Graber, consisting of correspondence, diaries, sermons, scrapbooks, geneological records, and information about Christian L. Graber's time as a conscientious objector during World War I, his stint as a relief worker, and his service to Mennonite Central Committee.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Sermons and Writings

(3) Personal and Family Records

(4) War, Peace, and Relief Work

(5) Business, Legal, and Estate Files

(6) Subject Files and Miscellaneous

(7) Mina Roth Graber Diaries

(8) Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous

Graber, Christian L., 1895-1987

Abram A Friesen fonds

  • CA MHSBC 116
  • Sammlung
  • 1739-1998

This Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Biography - Abram Friesen - (1 file) Box 269
2) Correspondence - 1922-1933, 1977, 1998 - (2 files) Box 269
3) Obituary - Abram Friesen - 1885-1948 - (1 file) Box 269
4) Genealogy - (21 files) Box 269
5) Photographs
6) Post cards - (1 file)
7) Audio Visual - (1 file)
8) Maps - (1 file) Box 269
9) Essays - Peasant Aristocracy by Al Reimer; Observation on Current situation of Mennonites in Russia and the Prospects of Emigration. (2 files) - Box 269

Friesen, Abram A., 1885-1948

Maria Martens fonds

  • CA MHSBC 145
  • Sammlung
  • 1750-1840, 1929-1932, 1970-1978

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Genealogy - 1750 - 1840 (Duerksen family) - (1 file) Box 301
2) Correspondence - 1929-1932, 1970-1978 - (1 file) Box 299
3) Publications - 1935, 1941-1943 - (1 file) Box 299
4) Photographs - (1 file) Box 299
5) Poetry - 1807-1911 - (1 file) Box 299

Martens, Maria 1926-2015

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