Historical Committee

IV-16-12

Mennonite Board of Missions

            Home Missions

            26th Street Mennonite Church

Records, 1915-17

2 Folders, Box 6 (Green)  

Inventory Listing

2 Folders  (Found in Box 6 Green)

File 1 includes a 1916 publication by the church at 720 West 26th Street in Chicago.  The publication has the title "After Ten Years", and was prepared by A.M.Eash, Superintendent.

File 2 includes a three page list of congregational members as of November 11, 1921.  Otherwise there are some miscellaneous materials dating from 1915-17.

Other sources at the archives on this congregation

IV-7-1  26th Street Mennonite Mission, Correspondence, 1921-1923, Box 29, File 7, Mennonite Board of Missions (1 file)

Hist. Mss. 4-131, 26th Street Mennonite Church, Photographs of Cradle roll members 1914 (1 box)

Chapter XXXIII, "The Twenty-Sixth Street Mission in Chicago" pages 292-305, in the book Centennial History of the Mennonites of Illinois, by Harry F. Weber, 1931.

There may also be annual reports in the Mennonite Board of Missions Collection (IV-6-2) which document some of the history of this mission from 1906-1920's.  There was not always an annual report for each year, but that would be another place to go.

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