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Contents

Editor's Foreword 7

Author's Preface 9

Part I. European Origins and Transplantations to American Frontier

1. The European Background of the Ohio Mennonites and Amish.. 21 Beginnings of the Anabaptists or Swiss Brethren, Later Called

	Mennonites	21
	Summary of the Religious Tenets of the Early Mennonites	22
	Social and Economic Developments in Mennonite Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	29
	The Amish Division in Switzerland and Alsace	32
	Migrations to Pennsylvania	39
2.	Pioneer Mennonite Communities	42
	Beginnings in Northeast Ohio	42
	In Western Ohio	51
	Harmony Settlement of Western Pennsylvania	52
	Beginnings in Central and Northern Ohio	54
	Movement to Allen County	57
	Into More Northern Counties	60
	The Coming of the Swiss Mennonites	65
	Beginnings of the Ohio Mennonite Conference in 1834	67
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3. Pioneer Amish Communities I		71
	More Pennsylvania Communities	72
	Into Holmes County	73
	Into Wayne County	74
	Into Champaign and Logan Counties	74
	Profile of a Leader	77
	From a Local History	77
	Settlement in Stark County	78
	Beginnings in Fulton County	79
	Into Fairfield County	80