Photocopies of miscellanous documents pertaining to Amish and Amish Mennonite communities in Iowa. Materials include 19th century correspondence, anecdotes, a list of members of the Amish Church at Lower Deer Creek, a list of clergy and congregations in the Western Amish-Mennonite Conference (later the Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference), a program from the dedication of the Deer Creek marker, and other miscellaneous materials.
Papers of a Mennonite minister (ordained 1884) and bishop (ordained 1908) in the Fulton County District of Ohio. Includes Bible conference teaching notes and outlines, sermon notes, various manuscripts, 48 cloth Bible conference teaching charts, 12 paper Bible conference teaching charts, and miscellaneous materials.
A small personal collection consisting of an arithmetic copybook and two letters associated with an Amish Mennonite farmer and teacher originally from Mifflin Co., Penn. Yoder later moved to Wayne Co., Ohio. The copybook carried the date 1835, and the letters are dated 1845 (from Shem Zook) and 1861 (from Joash Yoder's son, Eli L. Yoder). Also included with this collection is a note regarding German students who attended the German school in "Irishtown" in 1841-1842.
The collection includes Elbing-Ellerwald church record books kept by Andreas as elder, and a large collection of sermons. The authorship of most of the sermons is not indicated, but it seems likely that most of them were written by Andreas except where otherwise indicated.
A set of materials mostly documenting the Reformed Mennonite Church in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Other materials include biographical information about Goertz, an avid genealogist, and a bibliography of Goertz's publications.
A small set of personal papers found in an old Mennonite home near Kolb Mennonite Church (Holmes County, Ohio) in 1940. Materials include early congregational records (1838-1855),scattered correspondence, A Fraktur and a Fraktur fragment, genealogical records, and miscellaneous materials.
A small set of personal papers that consist of handwritten Bechtel and Hartmann family histories and a collection of broadsides. Also includes a photocopy of a handwritten German hymn perhaps written by Abraham A. Meyer and given the English title "Life's Great Balance." English translations are available for the family histories and the hymn.
Miscellaneous documents accumulated by Harry Symensma, a Mennonite immigrant from Balk (Friesland, Netherlands) and member of the Mennonite (Dunkard) church in Union Township (presumably Elkhart County), Indiana, and his son, Henry Symensma, of New Paris, Indiana. Materials include property tax and other reciepts, real estate assessments, a letter from John F. Funk offering condolences to Henry Symensma, and Dutch militia documents.
Included is one letter written by Abraham T. Meyer to Tobias and Abraham Kolb dated August 18, 1838 from Clinton describing their health and requesting some bags in which they can give them apples. A transcribed copy of the letter is also included.
A small set of collected materials pertaining to Daniel Brenneman and his forebears. Includes clippings, family histories, fragmentary correspondence, scattered records from Brenneman Memorial United Missionary Church, and miscellaneous material. Researchers should be aware that there are very few original documents in this collection. Most 19th and early 20th century documents are photocopies.
