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Public Records at Harrisburg contain documents that illuminate and pertain to Mennonite and Amish life in the state.

Chief depositories in Ohio for this study are in the county seats of Columbiana, Medina, Wayne, Holmes, Champaign, Logan, Allen, Fulton, and Fairfield counties.

The Ohio State Archives contain many boxes of the Ohio Branch Council of National Defense Records, an important source for the study of Ohio's domestic scene in World War I.

Selected Secondary Works on Mennonite History and Thought

The four volumes of the Mennonite Encyclopedia (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Mennonite Publishing House, 1955-59) provide much basic information on a wide range of topics. Personalities, congregations, movements, and organizations are presented together with bibliographies in this massive, indispensable work. Any serious study of Mennonite origin must take into account George H. Williams, The Radical Reformation (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962). It is a sweeping and panoramic view of the nonconformist movements of the Reformation and furnishes a fresh perspective on the great renovation's diverse nature. Essential for the understanding of Mennonitism's interaction with the modifying forces of Pietism is Robert Friedmann, Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries (Goshen, Indiana: Mennonite Historical Society, 1949). Of direct relevance to this study is Delbert Gratz' Bernese Anabaptists and Their American Descendants (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1953). Originally a doctoral thesis at the University of Bern it contains much European background material on the Mennonites and Amish. The appendices list data on Ohio congregations deriving from nineteenth-century immigrations; the bibliography lists archival sources in Europe and America. For a general introduction to the Mennonite past in Europe the standard work is John Horsch, The Mennonites in Europe (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Mennonite Publishing House, 1942).

The immigration and early settlement in America is recorded in C. Henry

Smith, The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century

(Part XXXIII of A Narrative and Critical History of the Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1929). The author attempted a definitive work in a master's thesis at the University of Pittsburgh on The First Amish Communities of America (1954). C. Z. Mast in Mast Family History: A Brief History of Bishop Jacob Mast and Other Mast Pioneers (. [Published by author] Elverson, Pennsylvania, 1911) provides a genealogy of one Amish line, the members of which are found in both the Pennsylvania and Ohio parts of the conference. In 1942 Mast coauthored with Robert E. Simpson the Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania

(C. Z. Mast, Elverson, Pennsylvania, and Robert E. Simpson, Churchtown, Pennsylvania), a work containing data on the following Amish families: Zug (Zook), Schmucker (Smoker), Kurtz, Hertzler, Kauffman, Lapp, Stoltzfus, Fisher, Koenig (King), Beiler, Esch, Hooley, Schantz (Johns), Mast, Yoder, Nafzinger, Blank, and Plank.

Further narratives of the immigration and early settlement period are Peter B. Amstutz, Geschlichtliche Ereignisse der Mennoniten Ansiedlung in