Historical Committee

IV-7-1
Mennonite Board of Missions
Executive Office, Correspondence, 1900, 1908-1945 (Bulk, 1921-1944)
35 Boxes (Green)

Box 1 (Green)

1900 Letter from Mrs. W.B. Page in India

Allgyer, S.E.  1916-1922
Allgyer, S.E.  1923-1929
Allgyer, S.E.  1930-1931
Allgyer, S.E.  1932-1934
Allgyer, S.E.  1935-1943

Box 2 (Green)

American Friends Service Comm.  1919-1921
Annual Meeting Arrangements  1942-1944
Beare, George H.  1926-1931
Beare, George H.  1932-1943
Bender, H.S.  1930
Brenneman, Fred S.  1932-1934
Brenneman, Fred S.  1938-1942
Brenneman, T.H.  1938-1940
Brubacher, Ida  1921
Brubacher, Etta  1921-1922

Box 2a (Green)

Brunk, A.C.  1912-1928
Brunk, A.C.  1929-1939
Canton Mission  1922-1944

Box 3 (Green)

Chicago Home Mission  1921-1932
Chicago Home Mission  1933-1936
Chicago Home Mission  1937-1945
Chicago Mexican Mennonite Mission  1939-1944
China Famine Relief  1929-1932
China Mennonite Mission Society 1921-1932
Colorado Farm  1931-1943
Cressman, Una  1938-1940
Declaration of Faith, Missionaries  1929
Denver Mission  1938-1944

Box 4 (Green)

Detroit Mennonite Mission  1927-1944
Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities  1927-1935
Esch, C.D.  1917-1927
Esch, C.D.  1928-1940
European Miscellaneous  1921-1936
Foreign Missions, Conference of North American  1937-1944
Fort Wayne Mission  1921-1944

Box 4a (Green)

Friesen, P.A. & Florence  1916-1930
Friesen, P.A. & Florence  1931-1940
Friesen, P.A. & Florence  1922-1941

Box 5 (Green)

Gamber, Selena  1921-1941
Gingerich, A.C.  1943
Goldschmit, Fritz  1926-1931
Good, Mary  1919-1934
Good, Mary  1935-1936, 1940
Graber, J.D.  1928-1930
Graber, J.D.  1931-1934
Graber, J.D.  1935-1941
Graber, J.D.  1942-1943

Box 5a (Green)

Hallman, Vera  1923-1930
Hallman, William  1939-1940
Hartzler, Ada  1931-1939
Hartzler, Ada  1925-1930
Hershey, T.K.  1917-1924

Box 6 (Green)

Hershey, T.K.  1925-1928
Hershey, T.K.  1930-1936
Holdeman, Calvin  1939-1940
Holsopple, Mary J.  1928-1929
Holsopple, Mary J.  1930-1934
Holsopple, Mary J.  1935-1946
Hostetler, S. Jay  1923-1940
Hostetler, Wilbur  1937-1941
India Mission
India Mission School System

Box 7 (Green)

India Mission – Secretary  1909
India Mission – Secretary, J.N. Kaufman  1921-1923
India Mission – Secretary, A.C. Brunk  1923-1927
India Mission – Secretary, J. N. Kaufman  1927-1930
India Mission – Secretary, J.N. Kaufman  1930-1934

Box 8 (Green)

India Mission – Secretary, A.C. Brunk  1934-1937
India Mission – Secretary, J.D. Graber  1937-1941
India Mission – Secretary, A.C. Brunk  1941-1944
Industrial Commission of Illinois  1922-1933
Kanagy, Elizabeth  1942
Kanagy, Minnie  1925-1942

Box 9 (Green)

Kansas City Children’s Home  1922-1940
Kansas City Children’s Home  1941-1944
Kansas City Mission  1922-1944
Kansas Farm  1925-1926
Kaufman, J.N.  1909-1922
Kaufman, J.N.  1923-1931

Box 9a (Green)

Kaufman, J.N.  1932-1944
King, S.M.  1935-1940

Box 10 (Green)

Kniss, Lloyd & Elizabeth  1924-1929
Kniss, Lloyd & Elizabeth  1930-1940
Kreider, Herman H.  1924-1925
LaJunta Mennonite Hospital  1922-1928
LaJunta Mennonite Hospital  1929-1935
LaJunta Mennonite Hospital  1936-1941

Box 11 (Green)

LaJunta Mennonite Hospital  1942-1944
Minutes of Local Board, LaJunta Mennonite Hospital  1937-1943
LaJunta Mennonite Hospital School of Nursing  1943
Nursing Financial Reports  1941-1943
Nursing Reports of State Board, LaJunta Mennonite Hospital School
LsJunta Mexican Mission  1939-1943
Lantz, D. Parke  1921-1926

Box 12 (Green)

Lantz, D. Parke  1928-1940
Lapp, George J.  1908-1921
Lapp, George J.  1921-1929
Lapp, George J.  1930-1940

Box 13 (Green)

Lapp, Mahlon C. 1908-1916
Lapp, Mahlon C. 1917-1923
Lapp, Sarah  1922-1929
Lapp, Sarah  1930-1939
Lapp, Sarah  1941-1943

Box 14 (Green)

Lauver, William G.  1921-1930
Lauver, William G.  1931-1944
Legal Matters
Lehman, M.C.  1908-1923
Lehman, M.C.  1924-1929

Box 15 (Green)

Lehman, M.C.  1930-1933
Lehman, M.C.  1934-1935
Lehman, M.C.  1936-1945
Lima Mission  1923-1941
Litwiller, Nelson  1925-1934
Litwiller, Nelson  1935-1942
Los Angles Mission  1921-1924
Los Angles Mission  1925-1926

Box 16 (Green)

Los Angles Mission  1927-1930
Los Angles Mission  1931-1942
Loucks, Aaron  1919-1921
Loucks, Aaron  1922-1934

Box 17 (Green)

Manitou, Colorado  1921-1924
Manitou, Colorado  1941-1942
MCC  1937-1940
MCC  1941-1943
Mennonite Home for the Aged – Eureka  1920-1936
Mennonite Home for the Aged – Eureka  1937-1941
Mennonite Home for the Aged – Eureka  1942-1944

Box 18 (Green)

Mennonite Old Peoples Home, Rittman, OH  1923-1939
Mennonite Old Peoples Home, Rittman, OH  1940-1943
Mennonite Orphans Home, West Liberty, OH  1921-1943
Mennonite Relief Committee for War Sufferers  1920
Mental Hospitals  1936
Mexican Border  1937-1944

Box 19 (Green)

Miller, D.D.  1921-1924
Miller, D.D.  1937-1939
Miller, Ernest E.  1918-1923
Miller, Ernest E.  1926-1930
Miller, Ernest E.  1931-1938
Miller, Orie A. & Sarah  1938-1941
Miller, Orie O.  1919-1926

Box 20 (Green)

Miller, Orie O.  1927-1943
Miller, S. Paul  1940-1941
Miller, Samuel E.  1941
Mississippi  1927-1929
Miscellaneous
Monsky, Pastor M.  1923-1924
Mumaw, Levi  1916-1920
Mumaw, Levi  1921-1925

Box 21 (Green)

Mumaw, Levi  1926-1930
Musselman, C.H.  1920-1922
Nafziger, Vesta  1938-1940
Nebraska Farm  1931-1944
Near East Relief  1917-1922

Box 22 (Green)

Near East Relief  1924-1926
Near East Relief  1926-1933
Ohio Farm  1932-1934
Oklahoma Farm  1927-1935

Box 23 (Green)

Oklahoma Farm  1936-1943
Ontario Missions  1930-1943
Peoria Mission  1921-1931
Peoria Mission  1932-1944
Portland Mission  1926-1936
Real Estate  1926-1931
Reports of Missionaries on Furlough  1926-1931
Rural Missions  1925-1929
Ruth, Jacob & Mary  1924-1934

Box 24 (Green)

Secretary-Treasurer  1921-1929
Secretary-Treasurer  1930-1935
Secretary-Treasurer  1938-1944

Box 25 (Green)

Sewing Circles  1922-1936
Shank, J.W.  1921-1925
Shank, J.W.  1926-1929
Shank, J.W.  1930-1936
Shank, J.W.  1937-1943

Box 26 (Green)

Shantz, Dora  1931-1939
Smucker, R.R.  1919-1924
Smucker, R.R.  1926-1939
Snyder, Elvin  1928-1942

Box 27  (Green)

Sommer, Pierre  1926-1932
South American Mission, Constitution
South American Mission, Finance
South American Mission, Miscellaneous
South American Mission Secretary, J.W. Shank  1929
South American Mission Secretary, W.G. Lauver  1930-1933
South American Mission Secretary, Elvin V. Snyder  1933-1934
South American Mission Secretary, W.G. Lauver  1935-1937
South American Mission Secretary, Nelson Litwiller
South American Mission Treasurer, 1927-1934
South American Mission Farm  1927

Box 28 (Green)

Stalter, Anna  1914-1927
Stoltzfus, B.B.  1916-1926
Sumatra Mennonite Mission  1929
Swartzendruber, Joel  1937-1938
Swartzendruber, Amos  1921-1925
Swartzendruber, Amos  1927-1929
Swartzendruber, Amos  1930-1934
Swartzendruber, Amos  1935-1940

Box 29 (Green)

Toronto Mission  1921-1925
Treasureship
Troyer, G.D.  1923-1930
Troyer, G.D.  1931-1940
Troyer, G.D.  1941-1944
Turkey  1908-1922
Twenty-Sixth Street Mission, Chicago  1921-1923

Box 30 (Green)

Vogt, Milton  1927-1943
Warye, J.H.  1922-1923
Wauseon Hospital  1939-1940
Weaver, Edwin I.  1928-1943
Weaver, Gladys  1923-1924
Weaver, Gladys  1935-1942
Weber, Lewis S.  1931-1940
Weber, Lewis S.  Argentina from within (Manuscript)

Box 31 (Green)

Wenger, Mary Alice  1921-1928
Wenger, Mary Alice  1929-1933
Wenger, Mary Alice  1934-1937
Widmer, H.E.  1926
Witmer, Joseph  1928-1932
Wills
Yoder, Dr. Jonathan  1933-1943
Yoder, S.C. 1922-1932 (with Committee and Board members)
Yoder, S.C.  1933-1943 (with Committee and Board members)

    Listed below is correspondence from Executive Office, which dates before 1921, when J.S. Shoemaker was Secretary of the Mennonite Board of Missions.

Correspondence, 1906-1920

Allgyer, S.E.,  1916-1920
American Friends Service Committee,  1919-1921
Brunk, A.C.,  1912-1928
Esch, C.D.,  1917-1927
Friesen, P.A. and Florence,  1916-1930

Good, Mary, 1919-1934
Hershey, T.K.,  1917-1924
India Mission, Secretary, 1909
Kaufman, J.N.,  1909-1922

Lapp, George J.,  1908-1921
Lapp, Mahlon C., 1908-1916
Lapp, Mahlon C., 1917-1923
Lehman, M.C., 1908-1923
Loucks, Aaron, 1919-1921

Mennonite Home for the Aged, Eureka,  1920-1936
Mennonite Relief Committee for War Sufferers,  1920
Miller, Ernest E.,  1918-1923
Miller, Orie O., 1919-1926
Mumaw, Levi,  1916-1920
Musselman, C.H.,  1920-1922
Near East Relief,  1917-1922

Smucker, R.R.,  1919-1924
Stalter, Anna,  1914-1927
Stoltzfus, B.B.,  1916-1926
Turkey,  1908-1922

    For other correspondence before 1921, one needs to look in the various other series of records within Mennonite Board of Missions,  For example, “IV-17  India.”

    One can also look into the various personal collections of various persons who served with Mennonite Board of Missions before 1921.

    My general assessment is that the Executive Office did not keep correspondence on a regular basis until S.C. Yoder began serving as secretary, 1921-1943.  6/22/93/ds










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