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Hist. Mss. 1-888
Christian Brandt, 1782-1866
Copy Book, 1852
1 Box (Gray)
Biographical Sketch
Christian Brandt was
an
Amish man who
came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1818 from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
He served the Wooster (later called Oak Grove) [Amish] Church at
Smithville as a minister for many years, from about 1818-1863. See
Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference, by Grant Stoltzfus,
page 74. And see Tradition and Transition, by Paton
Yoder, pages 131 and 142.
Administrative Information
This January 8, 1852 Copy Book came to the
Archives,
courtesy of
Margaret Baker, Orrville, Ohio, in 1994. Baker is a descendant of
Brandt. Another one of Brandt's Copy Books, which Brandt completed
between 1843-1853 and which is similar but not the same as the 1852
Copy Book mentioned above, is housed at the Mennonite Historical
Library, Goshen College.
The Archives also holds a letter written by
Christian
Brandt to
Christian Graber, dated November 13, 1855. It is housed in the Samuel
Mast Collection. This letter was published in English in the Mennonite
Historical Bulletin, July 1965, page 6.
The contents of the
Copy
Book were
identified by Paton Yoder, Goshen, Indiana, and by Leonard Gross,
Archives, Goshen, Indiana. Updated by Dennis Stoesz August 2, 1999 and
March 14, 2002.
Inventory Listing
Box 1 (Gray)
1/1 Brandt’s Copy Book, 1852 (Original)
Cover (Leather bound book)
Page i [Inside front cover}: "Lasst uns die...."
Page ii "Dieses Buch gehoer dem Christian Brand,
Wayne Co., Ohio, January 8, 1852."
Page iii Blank
Page iv/v "Den geneigten Leser Mochte ich... Ihr
Zugeneigter Christian Brand"
Pages 1-113 Prose as found in
Ermahnungen
von George Yutzi... pages 1-81 in the 1853 edition.
Pages 114-162 Poetry as found in Ermahnungen von
George Yutzi... pages 171-241, in the 1853 edition.
Pages 163-189 Sermon by Dek Nadel (Mennonite
Minister in
Amsterdam), based on Ephesians 2: 10 "The new
creature", August 28,
1751. [See this exact date on page 97 of the Book of Sermons, in the
Oak Grove
Mennonite Church Collection, Archives of the
Mennonite Church; this sermon may appear in this book as well].
Page 190 Hymn, 1852 (date at bottom of page). This
hymn was often sung in Amish communities.
Page [191] ?
Page [192] Blank
Page [193-94] "Views of the poet, versified"
Page [195] Inside back cover, blank
1/2 Brandt's
Copy
Book, 1852 (Photocopy)
1/3 Ermahnungen von George Yutzi (1853
edition)
Name and Subject Tracings
Amish - Ohio (Wayne County)
Baker, Margaret (Musser)
Brandt, Christian, 1782-1866
King, Alvin
Oak Grove Mennonite Church, Smithville, Ohio
Yutzi, George, (died ca. 1840s?)
February 9, 2004 / Posted on web by Rebecca Allen
September 16,. 2003 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File: "HM1-888.doc"
Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S.
Main
St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
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