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Hist. Mss. 1-525
Tilman M. Erb (1865-1929)
Papers, 1879-1929, 1991
3 Boxes (Green)
   
Administrative Information

The Erb diaries were deposited into the Archives by Mrs. Allen Erb, Hesston, Kansas, in 1978.  Winifred Paul, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, added a few letters in 1989, and Kenneth E. King, Goshen, Indiana, added his essay on the Erb diaires in 1991.

Preliminary inventory typed into computer by Dennis Stoesz, November 24, 1995.  Update by Monica Zimmerman, August 14, 2001.  Previously posted on web.


Inventory Listing

Box 1 (Green): Correspondence; Diaries, 1879-80, 1884-1900

1/1    Erb, Jacob B., 1885.  Correspondence from Jacob Erb, Newton, Kansas, (father to Tilman R. Erb) to Jacob White, December 1885.

1/2    Erb, Tillman R., Certificate of Ordination, 1898

1/3    Erb, Tilman R., 1928. Two letters from Erb to his children, December 17 and 24, 1928, about a month before his death.

1/4    "T.M. Erb," by Kenneth King, 1991.  Essay entitled "T. M. Erb: Excerpts from his fifty years of Diaries," compiled by Kenneth E. King, 30 pages plus title and introductory pages.

1/5    Diary, 1879
1/6    Diary, 1880
1/7    Diary, 1884
1/8    Diary, 1885
1/9    Diary, 1886
1/10    Diary, 1887
1/11    Diary, 1888
1/12    Diary, 1889
1/13    Diary, 1890
1/14    Diary, 1891
1/15    Diary, 1892
1/16    Diary, 1893
1/17    Diary, 1894
1/18    Diary, 1895
1/19    Diary, 1896
1/20    Diary, 1897
1/21    Diary, 1898
1/22    Diary, 1899
1/23    Diary, 1900


Box 2 (Green): Diaries, 1901-16

2/1    Diary, 1901
2/2    Diary, 1902
2/3    Diary, 1903
2/4    Diary, 1904
2/5    Diary, 1905
2/6    Diary, 1906
2/7    Diary, 1907
2/8    Diary, 1908
2/9    Diary, 1909
2/10    Diary, 1910
2/11    Diary, 1911
2/12    Diary, 1912
2/13    Diary, 1913
2/14    Diary, 1914
2/15    Diary, 1915
2/16    Diary, 1916


Box 2b (Green): Diaries, 1917-29

3/1    Diary, 1917
3/2    Diary, 1918
3/3    Diary, 1919
3/4    Diary, 1920
3/5    Diary, 1921
3/6    Diary, 1922
3/7    Diary, 1923
3/8    Diary, 1924
3/9    Diary, 1925
3/10    Diary, 1926
3/11    Diary, 1927
3/12    Diary, 1928
3/13    Diary, 1929


Name and Subject Tracings

Diaries
Erb, Tilman M.

December 22, 2005 / Individual files listed by Nelda Nussbaum
September 7, 2004 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File "Hm1-525 Tilman M. Erb.doc"

Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526


 

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