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Johann Andreas Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.191
  • Collection
  • 1835-1876

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.

Andreas, Johann, 1802-1877

Aron J. Wiebe Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.201
  • Collection
  • 1879-1902

The papers are all hand-written German in the old script. There are a few items of correspondence, several sermons, poetry, and other documents.

Wiebe, Aron J., 1845-1922

Janzen Family Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.210
  • Collection
  • 1880-1893

Mostly letters, sent by Herman and Anna Janzen, Justine Janzen Penner, and Johann and Maria Janzen back to relatives in West Prussia.

These were translated by Louis A. Janzen and published as:

Letters written by Johann and Maria Janzen and Herman and Anna Janzen of Butler County Kansas to the Jacob Dyck family of Laakendorf, West Prussia, Germany during the years of 1880-1893 (North Newton, Kan. : L. Janzen, 1979)

and

Liebe Geschwister II : 1880-1893 (North Newton, Kan. : [author], [198-?])

Janzen, Louis A., 1907-1992

Helmut Reimer Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.287
  • Collection
  • 1990

Reimer visited the MLA in 1990 on the way to the Mennonite World Conference in Winnipeg in 1990. He had a set of posters relating to Mennonite cemeteries in the Vistula Delta. The MLA photocopied many of his posters.

 

Also included is an advertising sheet about a "Hans Denk Fellowship" which Reimer was promoting.

Reimer, Helmut, 1918-

Reuben Mosiman and Mary Eck Mosiman Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.358
  • Collection
  • 1920-1980

Photos, correspondence, printed ephemera, family history material mainly on Bergmann family.

Mosiman, Mary Eck, 1902-1997

Gerhard Nickel Arithmetic Book

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.368
  • Collection
  • 1762

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun 18 August 1762. Book also includes other material, such as Nickel genealogical data. Also a photocopy of the book.

Nickel, Gerhard, 1759-1845

Isaac Schroeder Arithmetic Book

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.369
  • Collection
  • 1821

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun in 1821. Also includes a few other short texts apparently from Isaac Schroeder descendants.

Schroeder, Isaac, 1807-ca. 1837

Jacob Claassen Arithmetic Book

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.374
  • Collection
  • 1827

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun in 1827.

The book probably came from grandson H. Albert Claassen of Beatrice, Nebraska, but there is no definite acquisition information.

Claassen, Jacob, 1806-1878

John Becker and Eva B. Frey Becker Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.377
  • Collection
  • 1907-1930

box 1: correspondence 1907-1916

box 2: correspondence 1917-1930

box 3: financial records, Vergissmeinnicht book, photos, postcards, greeting cards, wedding invitations, clippings

box 4: school notebook, clippings, correspondence, Uncle Abe Becker papers

box 5: account books

box 6-7: books

box 8: school exercise books, diplomas, grade reports for various family members; Danzig "Predigtentwürfe" book

Becker, John, 1870-1968

Peter T. Neufeld Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.378
  • Collection
  • 1866-1925

Abraham Toews will?, 1877

Hutterite historical account of the group at Vishenka by a Peter Neufeld, 1866

financial record books, possibly of Bethel church, 1909-1925

poems by Peter T. Neufeld

German sermons 1850s-1890s and undated, authors not given, but some probably by Heinrich Neufeld and Heinrich Toews

catechism booklet 1880

Isaac Peters "Vortrag bei einer Lehrerwahl" Marienthal, no date

Isaac Peters, "Etwas über den Zweck der Form u. die Bedeutung der christlichen Wassertaufe," no date

Heinrich Toews diary

Bethel Jugend-Verein speeches and correspondence by Peter T. Neufeld

Neufeld, Peter T., 1893-1964

Arnold J. Regier Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.391
  • Collection
  • 1860-1960

research materials and drafts for some kind of writing project on Prussian Mennonite history; includes many photos, also a tape of "Flemish choral music"; 2 boxes of reel-to-reel audio tapes

Regier, Arnold J., 1912-2000

Herman Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.402
  • Collection
  • 1779

illuminated geometry book dated 1779
also some Claassen and Jantzen genealogical information with translations

Claassen, Hermann, 1764-1828

Henry W. Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.452
  • Collection
  • 1905-1911

Transcriptions and translations of postcards ca. 1905-11 written by family members, many from Europe.
Book: Gesangbuch für Mennoniten-Gemeinden in Kirche und Haus (Danzig, 1869) owned by Abraham Esau, 1869.

Claassen, Henry W., 1920-1995

Ulrich Dueck Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.482
  • Collection
  • ca. 1980

The collection consists of 454 genealogical charts, with a few additional related documents. These are all photocopies. The originals are apparently still in the possession of Dueck. The charts have also been microfilmed by the Kansas Historical Society. The photocopies were apparently made by Hermann Schirmacher (b. 1967) of Leopoldshöhe, Germany. Schirmacher transferred them to the MLA in mid-2001.
Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_482/

Dueck, Ulrich, 1917-2002

Fritz van Bergen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.487
  • Collection
  • 1930-1940

The papers consist of photocopies of Bergen’s genealogy notes and correspondence. The location of the originals is unknown.

Bergen, Fritz van, 1900-1941

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