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John Fretz Funk, 1835-1930, Collection
Papers, 1852-1929
142 boxes (116 green , 21 long green, 3 oversized, 2 large, 1 folder)

John
Biographical Sketch

Funk was an outstanding leader in the Mennonite Church, and served as a publisher, a Mennonite bishop, and was a major organizer of Mennonite Board of Guardians for Russian immigration.

John Fretz Funk, 1835-1930, was one of the most important leaders among (Old) Mennonites in the 19th century.  He served as a publisher beginning in 1864-, a Mennonite Bishop beginning in 1892, and was a major organizer of the Mennonite Board of Guardians for Russian Mennonite immigrants in the 1870?s.

Funk was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and lived there until he was 22 years old.  He was trained as a school teacher at Freeland Seminary (now Ursinus College).  He taught in his home community, but after two years, he moved to Chicago in 1857 to work in the lumber business with his brother-in-law, Jacob Beidler.

In January of 1864, John Funk started a printing and publishing business in Chicago.  He decided to move himself and his publishing house to Elkhart, Indiana, in 1867, after ten years in Chicago.  John Funk lived the rest of his years in Elkhart.  He belonged to the Prairie Street Mennonite Church and was buried there in 1930.  He died at the age of 95.

Funk's well-known Herald of Truth was published in Elkhart at the Mennonite Publishing Company.  In 1908 "the Herald," as it was called, merged with the Gospel Witness to create the Gospel Herald, which was published in Scottdale until 1998.  Also published by Funk were Mennonitische Rundschau, and Mennonite Sunday School Quarterly.  In 1908 Funk sold many of his publications to the Mennonite Church and the Publication Board in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.

Dutch-Russian Mennonites met Funk as they passed through Elkhart and Prairie Street Mennonite Church on their way to new homes in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.  John Funk was an organizer and supporter of the Mennonite Board of Guardians, an agency to assist Mennonites to immigrate from Russia to America in the 1870s.

Administrative Information

Papers processed, organized and listed by Sharon Klingelsmith, April 17, 1975.  Box Listing typed into computer and posted on web by Monica Zimmerman, June 27, 2001.  Inventory of Boxes 1-50 typed into computer by Nelda Nussbaum, March 11, 2004.  Inventory of Boxes 51-142 typed into computer by Helen Hostetler, January 2005.

Series Headings

Diaries, 1852-1999, 1913-14, 1925            Boxes 1-4
Correspondence 1853-1928                Boxes 5-47
Autobiographical materials                Boxes 48-50
Historical Memorandums                Boxes 51-54
Sermon Notes                        Boxes 55-61
Church and conference affairs            Boxes 62-65
Sunday Schools                    Boxes 66-67
Mennonite Board of Guardians            Box 68
Mennonite Publishing Company            Box 69-89
Herald of Truth articles                Boxes 90-102
Manuscripts                        Boxes 103-105
Austell Improvement Co.                Box 106
Financial and legal papers                Boxes 107-112
Clippings and tracts                    Boxes 113-115
Miscellaneous                        Boxes 116-120
A.B. Kolb correspondene 1872-1921            Boxes 121-126
Phoebe, Martha, and Mrs. Funk corr.            Box 127

Sykes Accession

Diaries                            Box 128
Correspondence                    Boxes 129-131
Financial and legal papers                Boxes 132-133
Collected articles                    Box 134
Church and conference affairs            Box 135
Publishing interests                    Box 136
Notebooks                        Boxes 137-138
Kolb Collection                    Boxes 139-140
Historical Memorandum Books            Box 141 (see also Box 51-54)
Artifacts - letter boxes                    Box 142
Addendum:  3 folders in Restricted File
        Book: Confession of Faith and Ministers Manual, 1895. Placed in Box 138.
        1 book of printers engravings, mapcase 1 second drawer

Box Listing

Box 1  (green)    Diaries   1852-1871

Box 2 
(green)            Diaries   1862-1879

Box 3 
(green)    Diaries   1879-1899

Box 4 
(green)    Diaries   1900's & miscellaneous

Box 5
  (green)    Correspondence   1853-1862

Box 6 
(green)    Correspondence   1861-1870

Box 7  (green)    Correspondence   1871-June 1875

Box 8
  (green)    Correspondence   July 1875-1885

Box 9
  (green)    Correspondence   1885-1887 March

Box 10
    (green)    Correspondence   April 1887- December 1887

Box 11
    (green)    Correspondence   January 1888 - October 1888   

Box 12
    (green)    Correspondence   November 1888 - June 1889

Box 13
(green)    Correspondence   July 1889-December 1889

Box 14
(green)    Correspondence   January 1890-Sept. 1890

Box 15
(green)    Correspondence   October 1890- March 1891

Box 16
(green)    Correspondence   April 1891 - October 1891

Box 17
(green)    Correspondence   November 1891 - March 1892

Box 18
(green)    Correspondence   April 1892 - Misc. 1892-93

Box 19
(green)    Correspondence   January 1893 - September 1893

Box 20
(green)    Correspondence   October 1893 - December 1893 and undated 1893-1909

Box 21
(green)    Correspondence   January 1894 - August 1894

Box 22
(green)    Correspondence   September 1894 - June 1895

Box 23
(green)    Correspondence   July 1895 - June 1896

Box 24
(green)    Correspondence   July 1896 - February 1898

Box 25
     (green)    Correspondence   March - December 1898

Box 26
(green)    Correspondence   January - October 1899

Box 27
(green)    Correspondence   November 1899 - August 1890

Box 28
(green)    Correspondence   September 1900-June 1901

Box 29
(green)    Correspondence   July 1901-February 1902

Box 30
(green)    Correspondence   March - December 1902

Box 31
(green)    Correspondence   1903-1905

Box 32
(green)    Correspondence   January - December 1906

Box 33
(green)    Correspondence   January - October 1907

Box 34
(green)    Correspondence   November 1907-September 1908

Box 35
(green)    Correspondence   October 1908-December 1910

Box 36
(green)    Correspondence   1911-1915

Box 37
(green)    Correspondence   1916-1924, undated

Box 38
(green)    Correspondence   1925-28, Funk/Kolb undated

Box 39
(long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books 1900-01, 1906, 1908-09

Box 40
  (long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books 1909

Box 41
  (long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books December 22, 1909 - October 24, 1910

Box 42
(long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books October 24, 1910 - February 27, 1912

Box 43
(long greem)    Correspondence   Carbon books February 28, 1912-October 22, 1913

Box 44
(long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books October 22, 1910-December 5, 1913 & March 21,1908 - November 4, 1908

Box 45 (long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books ca. 1875-1904, 1910, 1918-19

Box 46 
   (long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books 1900-06

Box 47
(long green)    Correspondence   Carbon books December 23, 1905 - May 10, 1906

Box 48
(green)    Autobiographical   Materials General

Box 49
(green)    Autobiographical   Materials General, Church History, S.S. work, Publication work

Box 50
(green)    Autobiographical   Materials Sermons, Misc.

Box 51
(green)    Historical Memorandums

Box 52
(green)    Historical Memorandums

Box 53
(green)    Historical Memorandums

Box 54
(green)    Historical Memorandums

Box 55
(green)    Sermon Notes - Acts 1 to Church Obedience, rules, membership

Box 56
(green)    Sermon Notes - Church Unity/Dissension to Elkhart Institute

Box 57
(green)    Sermon Notes - Elkhart Mennonite Church to Heaven

Box 58
(green)    Sermon Notes - Hebrews to Mennonite Publication Board

Box 59 
(green)    Sermon Notes - Mennonites-Elkhart County to Resurrection

Box 60
    (green)    Sermon Notes - Revelation to Young People

Box 61
(green)    Sermon Notes - Sermon Notes - Notebooks

Box 62
(green)    Church and Conference Affairs

Box 63
(green)    Church and Conference Affairs  - Elkhart churches

Box 64
(green)    Church and Conference Affairs - Elkhart trouble

Box 65
(green)    Church and Conference Affairs - Elkhart trouble, Elkhart church records

Box 66
(green)    Sunday Schools - Record books

Box 67
(green)    Sunday Schools - Reports and Articles for Herald of Truth

Box 68
(long green)    Mennonite Board of Guardians

Box 69
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - articles of incorporation, by-laws, annual reports, stockholders meetings

Box 70
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - book  lists

Box 71
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Book lists and catalogs

Box 72
(long green)    Mennonite Publishing Company -  Inventories

Box 73
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Engravers Cuts ad printed engravings

Box 74
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Subscribers

Box 75
(long green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Subscribers lists

Box 76
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Stockholders certificates

Box 77
(long green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Time and Payroll books

Box 78
(long green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Financial and legal papers

Box 79 (green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Mss about MPC

Box 80
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Correspondence

Box 81
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Miscellaneous materials and memo books

Box 82
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Non-Mennonite ads and booklets

Box 83
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Young People's Ppaer

Box 84
(green)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Family History materials

Box 85
(large)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Account books

Box 86
(large)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Account books

Box 87
(large)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Account books

Box 88
(oversize)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Account books

Box 89
(oversize)    Mennonite Publishing Company - Account books

Box 90
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   A-G

Box 91
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   D-H

Box 92
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   P-Z

Box 93
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Funk Articles

Box 94
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   (probably by Funk)

Box 95
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Unsigned articles and miscellaneous

Box 96
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Incomplete Mss.

Box 97
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Incomplete Mss.

Box 98
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Mss. in German

Box 99
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Mss. in German

Box 100
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Obituaries

Box 101
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Mss. about periodicals

Box 102
(green)    Herald of Truth Articles   Mennonite History articles

Box 103
(green)    Manuscripts   Henry Funk's Restitution

Box 104
(green)    Manuscripts   John Horsch Mss.

Box 105
(green)    Manuscripts   Peter Burkholder book, Funk famiy history

Box 106
(green)    Austell Improvement Company

Box 107
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 108
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 109
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 110
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 111
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 112
(long green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 113
(green)    Clippings and Tracts   Articles, Miscellaneous - Timothy Funk

Box 114
(green)    Clippings and Tracts   Menno Simons - Prairie Street Mennonite Church

Box 115
(green)    Clippings and Tracts   Sunday Schools - Tracts and pamphlets

Box 116 (green)    Miscellaneous   Catalog of Funk library and biographical sketches

Box 117
(green)    Miscellaneous   Record Books

Box 118
(long green)    Miscellaneous   School Materials, Bible Society Accounts, Misc.

Box 119
(green)    Miscellaneous

Box 120
(green)    Miscellaneous   Memorandum books

Box 121
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1872-1899

Box 122
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1900-1901

Box 123
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1902

Box 124
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1903

Box 125
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1904

Box 126
(green)    A.B. Kolb correspondence   1905-1921

Box 127
(green)      Mrs. F.F. Funk, Marth and Phoebe, correspondence   1857-1899   

Box 128
(green)      Diaries

Box 129
(green)     Correspondence   1858-1929

Box 130
(green)      Correspondence   Salome Funk   1962-1917

Box 131
(green)      Correspondence   Miscellaneous

Box 132
(green)    Financial and legal papers

Box 133
(green)      Collected articles

Box 134
(green)      Collected articles

Box 135
(green)     Church and conference affairs

Box 136
(green)     Publishing interests

Box 137
(green)      Notebooks

Box 138
(green)      Notebooks

Box 139
(green)     Kolb collection

Box 140
(green)     Kolb collection

Box 141
(green)     Historical memorandum books   (see 51-54)

Box 142
(oversized)      Artifacts – letter boxes

Addendum:    3 folders in Restricted File; envelops of correspondence to Funk and family
        Book: Confession of Faith and Ministers Manual, 1895. Placed in Box 138.
        1 book of printers engravings, mapcase 1 second drawer   

Inventory Listing

Diaries, 1852-1899, 1913-14, 1925 (Boxes 1-4 Green)

Diaires are arranged chronologically 1852-99, 1913-14, 1925.  Alsoincluded is one copy of "John Fretz Funk as seen through his diary" by Jacob Clemens Kolb.

Box 1  (Green)  Diaries, 1852-1871

1/1    Diary, 1852-57 (Bound Leather Book)), Hilltown, Bucks County, Pennsylania.  250 pages (numbered) of handwritten entries, plus six pages at beginning.
1/2    Diary, 1857, of "Account of J. F. Funk?s Trip to Illinois,1857".  Includes materials written to 1861.
1/3    Diary, 1856-60 (16 loose booklets), Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois.  Booklets
1/4    Diary, 1855-56, Quincyville School
1/5    Diary, 1860-1861

Box 2  (Green)  Diaries, 1862-1879
 
2/1    1862  (2/1)
2/2    1872  (2/2)
2/3    1873  (2/3)
2/4    1873-1874
2/5    1874 - 1875
2/6    1875 - 1877
2/7    1877 - 1878
2/8    1878 - 1879

Cash Books

2/9      1862 - 63
2/10    1866
2/11    1874 - 75
2/12    1913

Box 3  (Green)  Diaries, 1879-1899

3/1    Dec. 8, 1897 - March 23, 1881
3/2    March 4, 1881 - Feb. 25, 1882
3/3    Feb. 26, 1882 - Sept. 16, 1883
3/4    Sept. 19, 1883 - Dec. 22, 1884
3/5    Nov. 23, 1884 - Nov. 29, 1885

Box 3  (Green)  Diaries, 1879-1899 (Continued)

3/6    April 13, 1886 - June 20, 1886
3/7    July 4 - Nov. 21, 1886
3/8    Jan. - Dec. 1887
3/9    Jan. 1, 1888 - Dec. 31st
3/10    Jan. 1, 1889 - Jan. 31, 1890
3/11    Feb. 1, 1890 - Dec.
3/12    Jan - Dec. 1891
3/13    Jan. 1, 1892 - Dec. 31
3/14    Jan. 1, 1893 - Jan. 22, 1894
3/15    Jan. 1, 1894 - July 10, 1895
3/16    July 11, 1895 - Aug. 16, 1896
3/17    Aug. 17, 1896 - June 6, 1897
3/18    June 5, 1897 - Dec. 25
3/19    Dec. 25, 1897 - Aug. 9, 1898
3/20    Aug. 9, 1898 - April 8, 1899
3/21    Notebook about 1892
3/22    Folder of Miscellaneous items

Box 4  (Green)  Diaries   1900's & miscellaneous

4/1    Extracts from 1884 - 1890, 1895, 1918
4/2    John Fretz Funk as seen through his diary by Rev. Jacob Clemens Kolb
4/3    Trip to Pennsylvania, June - July 1913
4/4    Diaries  1913 - 1914
4/5    1925
4/6    Last Diary of John F. Funk.  1911 - 1926
4/7    Diary of someone from Hamburg, Ontario

Correspondence, 1853-1928  Boxes 5-47 (Green and Long Green)

Boxes 5-38 consists of correspondence which is arranged chronologically, 1853-1928.  Correspondence from 1853-1893 has been indexed by correspondent in card file; and by general subject in appendix to this listing.  Fifteen reels of microfilm (16mm) of this correspondence stored at MHL for preservation purposes.

Boxes 39-47 are housed in the long box collection and consist of John Funk's carbon books over the period from 1875 to 1919 although most of the correspondence is within the years 1900-13.  The books contain mostly business correspondence.

Box 5  (Green)  Correspondence  1853-1862

5/1    1853 - 1856
5/2    October 3, 1856  "More Border Ruffianism,"  Hilltown
5/3    1857
5/4    1858
5/5    1859
5/6    1860
5/7    April 9, 1861, Chicago, Illinois  (Re. Slavery)
5/8    1855 - 1862

Box 6   (Green)  Correspondence   1861-1870

6/1    1861
6/2    1862
6/3    1863
6/4    1864
6/5    1865
6/6    1866
6/7    1867 January - February
6/8    1867 March
6/9    1867  April - December
6/10  1868 - 1870

Box 7  (Green)  Correspondence   1871- June 1875

(7/1)    1871 - 1873 
(7/2)    1/15/1872  from Abraham Blosser re:  S.S.
(7/3)    January - March, 1874 
(7/4)    April 1874 
(7/5)    May - December, 1874 
(7/6)    April - June, 1875 

Box 8  (Green)  Correspondence   July 1875-1885

(8/1)    January - March, 1875 
(8/2)    July to December, 1875 n.d., 1873 to 1875 
(8/3)    1876 
(8/4)    1877 - 1878 
(8/5)    1879 - 1883 
(8/6)    1884 
(8/7)    Society of Friends, Isaac Robson - 1884 
(8/8)    January - July 1885 

Box 9   (Green)  Correspondence   1885-1887 March

9/1    August - September, 1885 
9/2    October, 1885 
9/3    November, 1885 
9/4    December, 1885 
9/5    u.d. prior to 1886 
9/6    January, 1886 
9/7    1886 
9/8    January, 1887 
9/9    February, 1887 
9/10    March, 1887 

Box 10  (Green)  Correspondence   April 1887- December 1887

10/1    April, 1887 
10/2    May, 1887 
10/3    June, 1887 
10/4    July, 1887 
10/5    August, 1887 
10/6    September, 1887 
10/7    October, 1887 
10/8    November, 1887 
10/9    December, 1887 
10/10    Miscellaneous, 1887 

Box 11  (Green)  Correspondence   January 1888 - October 1888   

11/1    January, 1888 
11/2    February, 1888 
11/3    March, 1888 
11/4    April, 1888 
11/5    May, 1888 
11/6    June, 1888 
11/7    July, 1888 
11/8    August, 1888 
11/9    September, 1888 
11/10    October, 1888 

Box 12  (Green)  Correspondence   November 1888 - June 1889

12/1    November, 1888 
12/2    December, 1888 
12/3    1888 
12/4    January, 1889 
12/5    February, 1889 
12/6    March, 1889 
12/7    April, 1889 
12/8    May, 1889 
12/9    June, 1889 

Box 13  (Green)  Correspondence   July 1889 - December 1889

13/1    July, 1889 
13/2    August, 1889 
13/3    September, 1889 
13/4    October, 1889 
13/5    November, 1889 
13/6    December, 1889 
13/7    1889 

Box 14  (Green)  Correspondence   January 1890 - Sept. 1890

14/1    January, 1890 
14/2    February, 1890 
14/3    March, 1890 
14/4    April, 1890 
14/5    May, 1890 
14/6    June, 1890 
14/7    July, 1890 
14/8    August, 1890 
14/9    September, 1890 

Box 15  (Green)  Correspondence   October 1890 - March 1891

15/1    October, 1890 
15/2    November, 1890 
15/3    December, 1890 
15/3b    1890 
15/4    January, 1891 
15/5    February, 1891 
15/6    March, 1891 

Box 16  (Green)  Correspondence   April 1891 - October 1891

16/1    April, 1891 
16/2    May, 1891 
16/3    June, 1891 
16/4    July, 1891 
16/5    August, 1891 
16/6    September, 1891 
16/7    October, 1891 

Box 17  (Green)  Correspondence   November 1891 - March 1892

17/1    November, 1891 
17/2    December, 1891 
17/3    1891 
17/4    January, 1892 
17/5    February, 1892 
17/6    March, 1892 

Box 18  (Green)  Correspondence   April 1892 - Misc. 1892-93

18/1    April, 1892
18/2    May,  1892
18/3    June, 1892
18/4    July, 1892
18/5    August, 1892
18/6    September, 1892
18/7    October, 1892
18/8    November, 1892
18/9    December, 1892
18/10    Miscellaneous, 1892-93

Box 19  (Green)  Correspondence   January 1893 - September 1893

19/1    January, 1893
19/2    February, 1893
19/3    March, 1893
19/4    April, 1893
19/5    May, 1893
19/6    June, 1893
19/7    July, 1893
19/8    August, 1893
19/9    September, 1893
   
Box 20 (Green)  Correspondence Oct 1893 - Dec 1893 and undated 1893-1909

20/1    October, 1893
20/2    November, 1893
20/3    December, 1893
20/4     Miscellaneous, 1894-95
20/5     Miscellaneous, 1896
20/6     Miscellaneous, 1898
20/7     Unclassified, 1899
20/8     Unclassified, 1900
20/9     Unclassified, 1901
20/10   Unclassified, 1902
20/11   Unclassified, 1906
20/12   Unclassified, 1907
20/13   Unclassified, 1908
20/14   Unclassified, 1909

Box 21  (Green)  Correspondence   January 1894 - August 1894

21/1    January, 1894
21/2    February, 1894
21/3    March, 1894
21/4    April, 1894
21/5    May, 1894
21/6    June, 1894
21/7    July, 1894
21/8    August, 1894

Box 22  (Green)  Correspondence   September 1894 - June 1895

22/1    September, 1894
22/2    October, 1894
22/3    November, 1894
22/4    December, 1894
22/5    January, 1895
22/6    February, 1895
22/7    March, 1895
22/8    April, 1895
22/9    May, 1895
22/10   June, 1895

Box 23  (Green)  Correspondence   July 1895 - June 1896

23/1    July, 1895
23/2    August, 1895
23/3    September, 1895
23/4    October, 1895
23/5    November, 1895
23/6    December, 1895
23/7    January, 1896
23/8    February, 1896
23/9    March, 1896
23/10   April, 1896
23/11   May, 1896
23/12    June, 1896

Box 24  (Green)  Correspondence   July 1896 - February 1898

24/1    July-August, 1896
24/2    September, 1896
24/3    October-December, 1896
24/4    January-March, 1897
24/5    April-June, 1897
24/6    July-December, 1897
24/7    January, 1898
24/8    February, 1898

Box 25   (Green)  Correspondence   March - December 1898

25/1    March, 1898
25/2    April, 1898
25/3    May, 1898
25/4    June, 1898
25/5    July, 1898
25/6    August, 1898
25/7    September, 1898
25/8    October, 1898
25/9    November, 1898
25/10  December, 1898

Box 26  (Green)  Correspondence   January - October 1899

26/1    January, 1899
26/2    February, 1899
26/3    March, 1899
26/4    April, 1899
26/5    May, 1899
26/6    June, 1899
26/7    July, 1899
26/8    August, 1899
26/9    September, 1899
26/10   October, 1899

Box 27  (Green)  Correspondence   November 1899 - August 1890

27/1    November, 1899
27/2    December, 1899
27/3    January, 1900
27/4    February, 1900
27/5    March, 1900
27/6    April, 1900
27/7    May, 1900
27/8    June, 1900
27/9    July, 1900
27/10  August, 1900

Box 28  (Green)  Correspondence   September 1900-June 1901

28/1    September, 1900
28/2    October, 1900
28/3    November, 1900
28/4    December, 1900
28/5    January, 1901
28/6    February, 1901
28/7    March, 1901
28/8    April, 1901
28/9    May, 1901
28/10  June, 1901

Box 29  (Green)  Correspondence   July 1901-February 1902

29/1    July, 1901
29/2    August, 1901
29/3    September, 1901
29/4    October, 1901
29/5    November, 1901
29/6    December, 1901
29/7    January, 1902
29/8    February, 1902

Box 30  (Green)  Correspondence   March - December 1902

30/1    March, 1902
30/2    April, 1902
30/3    May, 1902
30/4    June, 1902
30/5    July, 1902
30/6    August, 1902
30/7    September, 1902
30/8    October, 1902
30/9    November, 1902
30/10  December, 1902

Box 31  (Green)  Correspondence   1903-1905

31/1    January, 1903
31/2    February, 1903
31/3    March, 1903
31/4    April, 1903
31/5    May, 1903
31/6    June, 1903
31/7    July, 1903
31/8    August-December, 1903
31/9    September, 1904
31/10  January, 1905
31/11  February-March, 1905
31/12  April-June, 1905
31/13  July-December, 1905

Box 32  (Green)  Correspondence   January - December 1906

32/1    January-March, 1906
32/2    April, 1906
32/3    May, 1906
32/4    June, 1906
32/5    July, 1906
32/6    August, 1906
32/7    September, 1906
32/8    October, 1906
32/9    November, 1906
32/10  December, 1906

Box 33  (Green)  Correspondence   January - December 1907

33/1    January, 1907
33/2    February, 1907
33/3    March, 1907
33/4    April, 1907
33/5    May, 1907
33/6    June, 1907
33/7    July, 1907
33/8    August, 1907
33/9    September, 1907
33/10  October, 1907
33/11  November, 1907
33/12  December, 1907

Box 34  (Green)  Correspondence   January, 1908 - September 1908

34/1    January, 1908
34/2    February, 1908
34/3    March, 1908
34/4    April, 1908
34/5    May, 1908
34/6    June, 1908
34/7    July, 1908
34/8    August, 1908
34/9    September, 1908

Box 35  (Green)  Correspondence   October 1908-December 1910

35/1    October-December, 1908
35/2    January - April, 1909
35/3    May - July, 1909
35/4    August - December, 1909
35/5    January - December, 1910

Box 36  (Green)  Correspondence   1911-1915

36/1    1911
36/2    1912
36/3    1913
36/4    1914
36/5    1915

Box 37  (Green)  Correspondence   1916-1924, undated

37/1    1916
37/2    1917
37/3    1918
37/4    1919
37/5    1920
37/6    1921
37/7    1921  Deahl and Deahl Correspondence
37/8    1922
37/9    1923
37/10   1924
37/11   Undated Correspondence

Box 38  (Green)  Correspondence   1925-28, Funk/Kolb undated

38/1    Undated letter to Steiner re; space in Rundschau for MBM
38/2    1925
38/3    1926
38/4    1927
38/5    May 17, 1927 letter to J. D. Hartzler
38/6    1928 / one letter in 1929 at end
38/7    Misc. Undated and Incomplete
38/8    Funk - Undated, incomplete
38/9    Kolb - Undated, Incomplete
38/10    From Mrs. G. W. Hummel re:  Funk family

Box 39  (Long Green)   Correspondence   Carbon books 1900-01, 1906, 1908-09

39/1    (Book #1)  J. F. Funk, correspondence, 1900 - 1901.  German carbons of Aid Plan
March 13, 1906 - Private Letters
January 1, 1908 - Sept. 10, 1908 - business
(see page 99)  (This book has been completed.  Each letter typed on 3 by 5 cards)

39/2    (Book #2)  Sept 10, 1909 - Jan. 1, 1909.  Several letters dated 1902.
John F. Funk, primarily business correspondence.

Box 40  (Long Green)  Correspondence   Carbon books 1909

40/1    (Book #3)  January 1, 1909 - April 14, 1909
40/2    (Book #4)  April 15, 1909 - December 22, 1909
J. F. Funk correspondence - business

Box 41  (Long Green)  Correspondence  Carbon books Dec 22, 1909 - Oct. 24, 1910

41/1    (Book #5)  December 22, 1909 - February 9, 1910
41/2    (Book #6)  February 9, 1910 - April 2, 1910
41/3    (Book #7)  April 4, 1910 - June 19, 1910
41/4    (Book #8)  June 9, 1910 - July 30, 1910
41/5    (Book #9)  August 1910 - October 24, 1910

Box 42  (Long Green)  Correspondence Carbon books Oct 24, 1910 – Feb. 27, 1912

42/1    (Book #10)  October 24, 1910 - April 12, 1911
42/2    (Book #11)  April 13, 1911 - December 6, 1911
42/3    (Book #12)  December 6, 1911 - February 27, 1912

Box 43  (Long Green)  Correspondence   Carbon books Feb 28, 1912 – Oct. 22, 1913

43/1    (Book #13)  February 28, 1912 - May 8, 1912
43/2    (Book #14)  May 9, 1912 - July 15, 1912
43/3    (Book #15)  July 16, 1912 - October 10, 1912
43/4    (Book #16)  October 10, 1912 - January 20, 1913
43/5    (Book #17)  January 20, 1913 - October 22, 1913

Box 44  (Long Green)  Correspondence  Carbon books October 22, 1910-December 5, 1913 & March 21,1908 - November 4, 1908

44/1    (Book #18)  October 22, 1913 - December 5, 1913
Also March 21, 1908 - November 4, 1908'
Also December 5, 1913 - November 6, 1914

Box 45  (Long Green)  Correspondence   Carbon books ca. 1875-1904, 1910, 1918-19

45/1    1875 - 1879, Correspondence - primarily business, German and English
45/2    June 10, 1879 - March 24, 1902
45/3    February 24, 1879 - March 1904 - Correspondence, primarily business, German and English
45/4    1892, 1910,1918, 1919 - correspondence, business and personal.
45/5    May 21, 1890 - April 1, 1892 - correspondence, business and personal.  Contains A. B. Kolb correspondence.
45/6    November 3, 1895 - August 21, 1896 - correspondence:  G. L. Bender, Young People's Paper Association, Mennonite Evangelizing Board, etc.

Box 46  (Long Green)  Correspondence   Carbon books 1900-06

46/1    August 15, 1900 - March 2, 1902 - correspondence, English and German, primarily personal.
46/2    March 1902 - July 18, 1902 - correspondence, business and personal, English and German.
46/3    March 24, 1902 - June 6, 1902 - correspondence, business and personal, English and German.
46/4    July 1902 - March 1906 - correspondence, business and personal, German and English.  Undated letter to John Kolb, 1/16/06 letter to A.D. Wenger.
46/5    March 1905 - June 1905 - correspondence, primarily business.

Box 47  (Long Green)  Correspondence   Carbon books Dec. 23, 1905 - May 10, 1906

47/1    December 23, 1905 - May 10, 1906 - correspondence, primarily business, German and English.

Autobiographical materials 
Contains papers written by John Funk about various periods of his life and phases of his work.  A folder by folder listing follows.   

Box 48  (Green)  Autobiographical Materials General

48/1    Biography  Book No. 1
48/2    Biography Book No. 2
48/3    My Ancestors, early home, Chicago home, inner life.
48/4    Early life, Mennonite mission work, S.S. history.
48/5    Early life
48/6    School journal; sermons and letters.
48/7    Journal of the Quincyville school, Montgomery Co., PA.
48/8    Boyhood and early life
48/9    School days
48/10  Funk's relationship with Moody

Box 49  (Green)  Autobiographical   Materials General, Church History, S.S. work, Publication work

49/1    Fifty-seven years in the ministry
49/2    My Ministry
49/3    Sixty years in the Mennonite Church
49/4    Miscellaneous
49/5    My autobiography

49/6    Chicago
49/7    Elkhart
49/8    Fiftieth wedding anniversary
49/9    84th birthday
49/10  My eighty-ninth birthday

49/11  90th birthday
49/12  92nd birthday
49/13  Tradition in the church
49/14  Church history
49/15  Conferences

49/16  Elkhart church
49/17  Wisler split
49/18  Mennonite Mission Work
49/19  Sunday School History
49/20  Childhood S.S. experiences

49/21  Chicago S.S. work
49/22  "My S.S. work"
49/23  Sunday schools ? Indiana
49/24  Sunday School Question Books
49/25  Publication Work
49/26  The Martyr's Mirror

Box 50  (Green) Autobiographical Materials Sermons, Misc.

50/1    Sermons and Letters
50/2    1922 sermon on early condition of the church, Gen. Conference, etc.
50/3    Sermons, addresses, etc.
50/4    Family reunion addresses
50/5    Trips
50/6    Elkhart Institute
50/7    Unpublished articles
50/8    Phrenological chart
50/9    Charles Rittenhouse Interview in 1924

Box 50  (Green)  Autobiographical   Materials Sermons, Misc. (Continued)

50/10  J.F. Funk as seen through his diary
50/11  Historical sketch of J.F. Funk
50/12  Tributes to Funk
50/13  Memorial service for J.F. Funk  4/10/32
50/14  Bucks County Intelligencer

Boxes 51-54  (Green) Historical Memorandums

These books center mostly around Mennonite history containing clippings, letters, memos, articles, and autobiographical notes written by Funk and others as well as printed reports and other documents.  Included is much material on the immigration of the Russian Mennonites.  Some of the books include a table of contents.

Box 55  (Green) Sermon Notes

Acts 1
Anabaptist/Mennonite History
"Anchor of my soul"
"Ancient landmarks"
Baconian Literary Society oration
Baedeker, G. D. (a tract by him)
Baptism
Bible: Study, Word of God
Bishop
Brenneman, J. M.
Brotherhood (Race)
Burkholder, Noah L.
Calling
Change
Charity
Chicago
Christ
Christian Life
Christmas
Chronicles 34:14-28
Church
Church (Method in church work)
Church - Obedience, rules, membership

Box 56  (Green) (Sermon Notes Continued)

Church - Unity/Dissension
Civil War
Class

Box 56  (Green) (Continued)

Clerical coat
Mrs. Coffman funeral service
Colossians 3
Communion service
Conference
Confession
I Corinthians
II Corinthians
Counsel meeting (Preparation service)
Covenant
Criticism
Cross
Davey, Henry
Death/Funeral sermons
Deuteronomy
Discipleship
Divorce/Marriage
Doctrinal
"The Dull Preacher"
Dyck, Herman
Easter
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Education
Elkhart Institute

Box 57  (Green) (Sermon Notes Continued)

Elkhart Mennonite Church
Elijah
Ephesians
Exodus
Ezekiel
Faith
Faithfulness
Fellowship
Forgiveness
Franciscans
Fruits (of the Spirit)
Funk, Abraham K.
Funk - 1858 address to Chicago Society of Franklin Institute
Funk - biographical material
Funk - statements on church difficulties
Funk - sermon preached on 90th birthday April 6, 1925
Funk - Southern trip and railroad experience 11-24-1902

Box 57 (Green) (Continued)

Galatians
Geil, John
Genesis
German language
God
Godliness
Grace
Grant, James B.
Healing
Heaven

Box 58  (Green) (Sermon Notes Continued)

Hebrews
Holy Spirit
Hosea 8:12
Humility
Hypocrisy
Immorality
Influence
Instruction class
Isaiah
James
Jeremiah
Jericho
John 1-9
John 10
John 11-20
I John
Joshua 24:15
Kingdom of God/Christ
I and II Kings
Lambert, George
Lantz, Norman
Lapp, Samuel
Life purpose (goals)
Light
Love
Luke
Marriage/Weddings
Martyrs Mirror
Matthew 4 and 5
Matthew 6-28
McClintic, Charles Willard

Box 58 (Green) (Continued)

Mennonite Church
Mennonite Publication Board

Box 59 (Green) (Sermon Notes Continued)

Mennonites - Elkhart County
Miller, Calvin
Ministers
Miscellaneous
Misc. (Scrapbook of church talks, with table of contents)
Mission
Moody Memorial Church Dedication 1926
Moses
Mumaw, Henry (Funeral Service)
New Year
Nonconformity
Numbers 23:10
Obedience
Ober, John
Old age
Dr. Page
Paul
Peace/Nonresistance
Pentecost
Peter
I and II Peter
Philippians 1:21, 3:1
Poetry
Prayer
Pride
Prophecy
Proverbs
Psalms
Reading material (books)
Reconciliation
Religion
Repentance
Restitution
Resurrection

Box 60  (Green) (Sermon Notes Continued)

Revelation
Revolutionary War
Romans
Russia, Mennonites in
Sabbath
Sacred and/or Secular
Sacrifice
Salt
Salvation (Eternal life, conversion)
Sanctification
Second coming of Christ and last days
Secret societies
Service
Shaum
Shaum Meetinghouse, Olive Twp., Elkhart
Shelly, M. D.
Shreiner, Minnie
Shreiner, Peter
Sin
Slavery
Smith, C. Henry
Southern churches (Ind. Tenn.)
Stewardship
I and II Samuel
Suffering
Summers, Joseph
Temperance
Temptation
Thanksgiving
I Timothy 1:15 (first sermon text)
I and II Temothy
Tobacco
Tradition
Weaver (suicide)
Wisdom
Witness
Words of Cheer
Worship
Young People (address to)

Church and Conference Affairs - Boxes 62-65

One box contains notes and other materials on General Conference and various district conferences asl well as memos on the idea of conference.  There are also some folders dealing with troubles at other churches.  The second box contains materials relating to the Indiana-Michigan conference while the third and fourth relate directly to troubles in the Elkhart church (letters, notes of Funk, etc.).  Also included in the fourth box are some records of the Prairie Street church.  A folder by folder listing follows:

Box 62  (Green) Conference Affairs

Amish Mennonite Conference of Ohio and Pennsylvania 1903
Baptism and Marriage
Boyertown Mennonite Church - Court case 1877-1883
Caledonia, Michigan Mennonite Church - Christian C. Wenger
Conference addresses
Conference sermon 1911
Conference sermon - Daniel Kauffman
Conferences, purpose of
Conferences, reports and minutes
Conferences, thoughts on
Conferences, notes, reports, minutes
Constitution and church order of the Ver. Brethren in Christ near Dayton, Ohio, 1857
General Conference minutes 1898
General Conference
General Conference 1900
General Conference - corres. about reolution not to support General Conference 1900
General Conference - corres. with Isaac Eby
General Conference - Kauffman, Daniel letter to D. H. Bender
General Conference - support of
General Conference and Mennonite Publishing Company
Holdeman, John M.
Illinois Conference May 24, 1872
Illinois Conference 1899
Kansas/Nebraska Conference
Lancaster Conference
Lancaster Conference - Herr and Renck's visit to the West
Letter to Funk from Missouri ministers
Oberholtzer, J. H. letter regarding church action in his case August 29, 1847
OM admonition regarding Swiss Brethren
Riley Creek Mennonite Church - John M. Christophel 1883
Virginia Mennonite ministers
Notes on repentance, conversion, etc.
Record of where visiting needs to be done


Box 63  (Green) Conference Affairs

Book of Instruction; church troubles
Conf - Bishops council; Shore church, Hershberger, Lehman (P.Y.)
Notes regarding individuals and MPC accounts
Notes regarding individuals
Brenneman, D. B. 1867-74
Decision regarding dissension October 17, 1871
1879 difficulties - Holdeman district
Yellow Creek conference 5/10/1899 appeal to
Conference at Olive church 10/11-12/1900 - rejected questions
Home conference at Yellow Creek 1901
Indiana-Michigan conference Oct. 10. 1901
Ministerial meting Western District 1922
Charges ag. Country ministers
Clinton Mennonite Church
Holdeman church; Elkhart school
Indiana-Michigan conference, beginnings of
Indiana-Michigan conference miscellaneous
Greetings to Indiana conference from Franconia
Ministerial meeting of Bishop District west of Goshen, Indiana
S. S. Steiner - Commissioned to distribution of tracts
Yellow Creek Church account 1869, 1873

Box 64  (Green) Elkhart trouble

Reconciliation in the church
March 27, 1898 speech
Elkhart Institute 1899 correspondence
Statements about difficulties
Elkhart Institute - Funk memos
Elkhart Institute and General Conference - Funk statements
John Horsch church letter
Betzner and Horsch letters, Elkhart Institute, trouble between Funk and deacon
Council meeting, Funk excluded
Council meeting of members
Elkhart Institute group
Elkhart Institute split with Prairie Street Church
Relations with Amish Mennonite
Church membership of students at Elkhart Institute
Charges against Elkhart Institute group
Funk confessions
1/31/1902 charges against Fuink - letter by Christian Shaum
Funk's answer to charges
Letter from bishops outside of Elkhart
Opinions of church members
 
Box 64  (Green) (Continued)

Proposed plan for settling Elkhart Church difficulty
4/1903 letter of H. A. Mumaw
Statement of difficulty week ending 4/26/1903
Petition to reinstate Funk
Charges against J. S. Lehman

Box 65  (Green) Elkhart Trouble

Charges against A. B. Kolb
Confessions demanded
Letter to Daniel Kauffman about charges against Funk
Charges against Lambert
Confessions (Young People's Paper list and Lizzie Gingerich)
P. Y. Lehman
Daniel Kauffman
J. S. Lehman
J. S. Lehman 1/2/1905
Correspondence 1895-1899
Correspondence 1900-01
Correspondence 1902-15
Miscellaneous
List of individuals, 1905; notes
List of individuals - votes
Charges, grievances against individuals
Counsel held October 1900
Opinions of members regarding division
List of individuals; John Horsch, etc.
Elkhart Institute, miscellaneous notes
Comm. On Reconciliation, 1901
Examination - Personal expressions
Miscellaneous notes, Elkhart church troubles (4 notebooks)
Elkhart membership record 1903-15
Elkhart baptismal services - sermon by Daniel Kauffman 3/5/
Elkhart church building fund - pledges
Elkhart church - debt on meeting house
Elkhart church - Funk sermon 1898
Elkhart church - History
Elkhart church preaching schedule
Elkhart Institute, miscellaneous
Prairie Street cemetery forms

Box 66  (Green) Sunday School Record Books

Record of Indiana S. S. teachers 1898
White Brick S. S. record 1916-22
S. S. Superintendents (Mennonite in the U.S.)
S. S. visitation work, Chicago, 1862-64
S. S. Superintendents and Teachers in U. S.
Mennonite S. S. Library Record 1889-93 (Elkhart)

Box 67  (Long Green) Sunday School Reports and Articles for the Herald of Truth

Amish and Mennonite Sunday School Conference, Illinois 1903
Sunday School Conference at West Union church, Iowa 1899
Sunday School Conference in Kansas 1895
Sunday School Conference of Indiana & Michigan
Sunday School meeting Slate Hill, Pa. 1903
Sunday School reunion of Kansas and Nebraska 1895
Sunday School union of Logan and Champaign counties, Ohio 1902 Report of 6th annual conference
Letter to editor regarding Sunday School
Letter to editor regarding Sunday School Jos. Metzler
Miscellaneous
"Our Sunday School Work" by Funk
The parent and Sunday School work
Sunday Schools - addresses, essays
Sunday School - Effective work
Sunday School - Infant/primary classes
Sunday School - Purpose and influence
Sunday School and the church
Sunday School in Indiana, by Funk
Sunday School - lesson aids
Sunday School work - needs and hindrances
Sunday School workers - qualifications
Sunday School workers - responsibility
Temperance and use of narcotics - teaching of in the Sunday School
"What do we gain by a Sunday School Conference"

Box 68  (Green) Mennonite Board of Guardians

Correspondence

Letter from Mennonite Executive Aid Committee to Mennonite Church in West Prussia, Polant, Russia  May 15, 1874
1873 letter of Ewert about his trip to Manitoba as Prussian delegate
November 18, 1873 letter from Leonard Suderman to Peter Nipley on trip to U.S.

Box 68  (Green) Mennonite Board of Guardians (Continued)

Correspondence (Continued)

Letter to Fred Billings of Northern Pacific R.R. from Ewert, Sudermann, Butter, Schraage
Jacob Schantz/Philip Wismer correspondence
Letter from Northern Pacific R.R. Company
Russian Mennonites in Kansas and central Western U.S. by C.B. Schmidt
"The Mennonites in Kansas"  by C.B. Schmidt
"Historical Sketch of the European Mennonites and their Several Migrations" by Cornelius Janzen
Funk memos, Herald extracts, etc.
"Reasons for and History of the Emigration of the Mennonites from Russia to America" by Gerhard Wiebe

Financial Records

Accounts of H.K. Godshall
Mennonite Aid Account
Inman Line account with Board of Guardians
Loan of Canadian Government for Mennonite Immigration to Manitoba
Record books 1-6 Financial records
Agreement Inman Line, Erie R.R. and Board of Guardians 2/27/1874
Authorization for Tobias Unruh to act on behalf of some Russian Mennonites

Articles on the Russian Mennonite Immigration

Circular on the Mennonite Church in West Prussia, Poland, South Russia
Conferences of Aid Committee and Board of Guardians, March 1875
Dankschrift
Jansen, Peter
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous forms
Privy County of Canada regarding Russian immigration
Russian Mennonites emigrating to Manitoba 1874
Russian addresses (2 books)

Mennonite Publishing Company, Boxes 69-89

Box 69  (Green)

Articles of Association
By-laws
Rules of order for employees
Notices of annual meetings

Box 69  (Green) (Continued)

Miscellaneous notices and circulars
Stockholders meeting 1904
Stockholders meeting 1905
Stockholders meeting 1920
Annual reports
General statements 1914-19
Miscellaneous statements
Proxies (5 folders)
Blanks for proxy appointments
Letters and articles about finances, bond issue, etc.

Box 70  (Green)

Book lists

Box 71  (Green)

Book lists and catalogs

Box 72  (Long Green)

Inventories

Box 73  (Green)

Engravers Cuts and printed engravings

Box 74  (Green)

Subscribers

Box 75  (Long Green)

Subscribers lists, including Herald der Wahrheit list (1912) (mostly Amish names)

Box 76  (Green)

Stockholders certificates

Box 77  (Long Green)

Time books and payrolls
Time books (3) 1884-1896
Payroll books (6) 1889, 1892, 1894, 1897, 1899-1804, 1919-1913

Box 78  (Long Green)

Financial and legal papers
Contains miscellaneous papers, receipts, etc. as well as a number of small financial memo books which sometimes contain notes on other subjects such as church problems.

Box 79  (Green) Mss about MPC

Bank failure and bond issue
Free Herald Fund
Letter of Publishing House achievements; asks for support after bank failure
Letter to friends of MPC about rival MPC being set up
MPC - Aim and purpose
MPC - History
MPC - Report
Miscellaneous
Responses to MPC needs for financial help
Transfer to church control

Box 80  (Green)

Correspondence - 1901, 1911, 1914, 1919

Box 81  (Green)

Miscellaneous materials and memo books

Box 82  (Green)

Non-Mennonite ads and booklets

Box 83  (Green) (Young People's Paper)

Legal papers
Letter for increased subscriptions
Stock of YPP 1890's
Minute book
Letters of Edwin Long for publication
Articles submitted for publication

Box 84  (Green) Family Histories

Blauch family
Fretz family history

Box 84  (Green) Family Histories (Continued)

Funk family history 1876-78
Funk family history
Funk history memorandums
Funk and Fritz family documents
Geil family history
Rosenberger family history
Wismer, Jacob History
Wismer history subscribers
Correspondence 1890
Correspondence 1891
Correspondence 1892
Correspondence 1893-94
Correspondence 1900-26
Miscellaneous

Box 85  (Large) Account books

Final entry
1875-95
1896-1917
Bond record 1912-1919
Bond certificates 1901-1922
Index of bondholders (2 books)

Box 86  (Large) Account books

Cash books
1890-95
1895-1901
1901-05
1905-06
1906-19

Box 87  (Large) Account books

Cash books
1902-08
1908-11
1911-17
Accounts by departments
September 1905 - March 1906
March 1906 - December 1906
December 1906 - October 1907

Box 88  (Large) Account books

Individual accounts
1890-91
1893-98
1898-1904

Box 89  (Large) Account books

Individual accounts
1902-07
1908-09
1904
Account book 1896-1925
Lumber, grocery, hardware 1902-05

Herald of Truth Articles Boxes 90 - 102

Box 90 (Green)

Herald of Truth Articles A - G

Box 91 (Green)

Herald of Truth Articles H - O

Box 92 (Green)

Herald of Truth Articles P - Z

Box 93 (Green)

Articles by Funk
Church
Discipline
Education
General Conference
Mennonite Church
Mennonite Publishing Company/Publications
Millenium
Philip, Dietrich
Poetry by J.F. Funk
Sleeping Preacher (John D. Kauffman)
Prayer for Herold der Wahrheit
Trips to Pennsylvania
Miscellaneous

Box 94 (Green)

Articles probably written by Funk
Anabaptist/Mennonite History
Caledonia, Michigan
Church
Church/State
Education
Mission
Mennonite Publishing Company Publications
Reformed Mennonite Church
Miscellaneous

Box 95 (Green)

Unsigned articles and miscellaneous

Box 96 (Green)

Incomplete manuscripts

Box 97 (Green)

Incomplete manuscripts

Box 98 (Green)

Manuscripts in German

Box 99 (Green)

Manuscripts in German

Box 100 (Green)

Obituaries (arranged alphabetically)

Box 101 (Green)

Articles about periodicals
Books
Das Himmels Manner
Enchiridion
Funk Family History
Herald of Truth

Box 101 (Green) (Continued)

Articles about periodicals (Continued)
Martyrs Mirror
Menno Simons
Mennonite Publishing Board (January 10, 1907) refusal of Funk offer
Mennonitische Rundschau
Publicity regarding books, Bibles, etc.
Publishing Company
Tracts
Young Peoples Paper
Miscellaneous

Box 102 (Green)

Mennonite History Articles
Church member, faithful
Clinton/Shore congregations
Civil War pensioners
Conscientious objector/Theodore Roosevelt statement and a 1904 letter
European Mennonite History
Henry Funk writings
Funk family history
Home and Foreign Relief Commission
Mennonite Board of Charitable Homes
Mennonite History by C. Henry Smith
Mennonites - Colonial America
Miscellaneous
Missions
Russian Mennonites
Sunday schools
German documents

Box 103 (Green) Manuscripts Boxes 103-105

Henry Funk's Restitution

Box 104 (Green) Manuscript

John Horsch Manuscript

Box 105 (Green) Manuscripts

Peter Burkholder book and Funk family history

Box 106 (Green) Austell Improvement Company

Business correspondence 1898-1904
Business correspondence 1905-1909
James A. Bell correspondence
J.F. Funk correspondence
Lehman Lumber Company financial records
Contracts
Financial papers
Miscellaneous
C.C. Shoemaker, bankruptcy
Notes and bills (record book)
A.B. Kalb, Austell, Georgia

Financial and legal papers, Boxes 107-112

Box 107 (Long Green)

Contains individual account records, tax receipts, 2 Michigan farm account books (1914-17, 1911-21), and 17 miscellaneous account books.

Box 108 (Long Green)

Contains 3 books from Bells Commercial College in Chicago in 1851 and financial records from 1855 to 1869.

Box 109 (Long Green)

Contains financial records from 1865 to 1905 as well as one account book fo Salome Funk, 1880-90.

Box 110 (Long Green)

Contains 3 books:
1887-1915 financial records, capital stock, Mennonite Aid Plan application
1910-1918 cash book
February 24, 1927 - May 1929 cash book

Box 111 (Long Green)

Contains undated indexes

Box 112 (Long Green)

Papers concerning:
Baptism and ordination certificates
Chicago - office farm loans and city bonds
Chicago lots
Chicato lots - letters concerning
Elkhart business
Fretz, Martin estate
Funk, Henry - will
Funk, Jacob documents
Tenant's agreement

Box 113 (Green) Clippings and Tracts, Boxes 113-115

Articles, miscellaneous #1
Articles, miscellaneous #2
Articles. religious #1
Articles, religious #2
Articles, religious #3
Articles, German religious
Bombay Guardian
Character development
Children
Funk, J.F., death of
Funk, J.F., sermon
Funk, Timothy
Good Tidings Gospel tracts

Box 114 (Green) Clippings and Tracts

Menno Simons, Ein klare reantwortung (Revision sheets)
Mennonite Publishing Company
Mennonites #1
Mennonites #2
Mennonites #3
Mennonites #4
Miscellaneous, envelopes and cards
Miscellaneous pamphlets
Mormonism unmasked
Non-resistance
Peace literature
Poems
Poems, religious
Poems, German religious
Prairie Street Church

Box 115 (Green) Clippings and Tracts

Sunday school tracts and pamphlets
Temperance
Tracts and pamphlets #1
Tracts and pamphlets #2
Tracts and pamphlets, German

Miscellaneous, Boxes 116-120

The first box contains catalogs of the Funk library and biographical sketches which may have been for the Herald.  The second box contains some record books.  In the long box collection is a box of school materials, Elkhart Bible society account books, etc.  The fourth box contains folders of miscellaneous materials while the fifth has various memorandum books.  The latter had formerly been a box marked MPC memo books but they may be outlines for articles and sermons, also some autobiographical material.

Box 116 (Green) Catalogs and Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketches - Salome Fretz Funk
Biographical sketches - Susanna Funk (obit)
Biographical sketches - S.D. Guengerich "How One Boy Grew Up"
Biographical sketches - Jacob S. Funk 1842-90
Biographical sketches - Martin Hoover (plus notes on early settlers in Indiana)
Biographical sketches - S.A. Karn
Biographical sketches - Andrew Stemen
Biographical sketches - John Weaver
Biographical sketches - Ephraim Weber
Biographical sketches - Jacob Funk
Biographical sketches - Martin Fretz
Biographical sketches - J.G. Ewert
Biographical sketches - H.E. Bucklen
Library catalog - Private library
Library catalog of Funk
Library catalog
Library catalog - list in Historical Library March 27, 1924
Library catalog

Box 117 (Green) Record Books

Record book - Sunday schools, p. 17; Churches in Elkhart County, p. 101; Library books, p. 175; Gemeinde in Illinois, p. 600; Amish Churches in Ohio, p. 665
Inquiries for agency selling books
Record book of places visited; visitors correspondence; weather; etc. 1903-22
Miscellaneous - Newspaper clippings
Miscellaneous - Notes

Box 118 (Long Green) School Materials

Manna English singles
Miscellaneous - Book of articles, recipes, etc.
Drawing of MPC by Jos. Bixler
Elkhart and vicinity Bible Society, Account book 1861-68
Elkhart and vicinity Bible Society, Treasurer's book 1869-98
School record of Chestnut Ridge school 1854
School compositions, articles, etc. 1853-56
School articles, notes, minutes, etc. 1853-62
School notebook (J.F.F.?)
School notebook
Jacob Kratz's cyphering book
School notebook of Jacob Kratz
Gerhard Roosen's "Christian Mind's Conversation of the Spiritual and Saving Faith" (Translation)

Box 119 (Green)

Address book
Neue Testament
Sprinkling (?) records 1883
Cards, invitations, announcements
Chicago Home Mission Special Conference 7/25/1895; Melinda Ebersole letter
Collection for Mary and Emanuel Weaver
Denk, Hans Von der wahren liebe
"The Educational Problem Confronting the Church" (proof sheets)
Elkhart Institute 1899 and GC Bulletin
Elkhart Institute - Addresses
Evangelizing fund 1906-07
Freeland Seminary - Bookkeeping and miscellaneous
Good, Daniel  Ordung und Gemeinde Regel
Items found in Funk family Bible
Items found in New Testament of l951
Das Lied
Martyrs Mirror, Journeys of Jesus
Medical remedies - bronchitis, pine pitch plaster
Mennonite Aid
Brunk, George - Evangelistic work certificate
Bible Christian Society - rules
Mennonite Churches - Statistics
Mennonite Churches - Statistice 1895-1900
Miscellaneous papers
Notes
Peach trees, Care of
Programs

Box 119 (Green) (Continued)

Recipes (Mrs. Salome Funk)
Russian settlements in Nebraska (pictures)
Strasbourg Conference of 1568-1601
Teacher's certificates
"A Ten Year Experiment in Co-operation" James A. Bell Co., Inc.
Warfare, its Evils, Our Duty

Box 120 (Green)

Miscellaneous memorandum books

A. B. Kolb Correspondence, Boxes 121-126

Box 121 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1872-1899

Box 122 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1900-1901

Box 123 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1902

Box 124 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1903

Box 125 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1904

Box 126 (Green)

A. B. Kolb correspondence 1905-1921

Box 127 (Green) Correspondence: Mrs. J.F. Funk, Phoebe and Martha Funk

Mrs. J. F. Funk correspondence 1857-1899, 6 folders
Phoebe and Martha Funk correspondence 1883-1895, 1 folder

Sykes Accession, Boxes 128-140

This part of the Funk collection has been arranged separately into series as it was received as one accession from J.F. Kolb through Mrs. Constance Sykes of Elkhart in 1863 and 1964.  Some of the series, therefore, correspond to ones in the main collection.

Box 128 (Green) Diaries

J.F. Funk diaries for the years 1890, 1903, 1909-1911
Salome Funk diaries from 1869 to 1915
Phoebe Funk diaries from 1883-1887
A.B. Kolb dairies 1886, 1890

Box 129 (Green) Correspondence

John F. Funk correspondence arranged chronologically 1858-1929

Box 130 (Green)

Salome Funk correspondence arranged chronologically 1862-1917

Box 131 (Green)

Miscellaneous correspondence:
Funk, Martha  1877-89
Funk, Martha  1890-1928
Funk, Martha undated
Herold derWahrheit 1877
Herald of Truth
India
Kolb, A.B. (filed in Boxes 121-126
Kolb, J.F.
Miscellaneous church letters
Yoder, Ella

Box 132 (Green) Financial and legal papers

Austell Improvement Company
Elkhart Improvement Company Maps
Receipts of Anna K. Funk
Deeds and leases
Personal business
Mortgages
Funk, Martha will

Box 133 (Green) (Financial and legal papers continued)

Kolb. A.B. Papers and will
Kolb, Jacob Papers
Interest receipts from Jacob Kratz 1878-96
Lehman Lumber Company
Levi Peachey-Rachel Hartzler marriage license
Mennonite Publishing Company, 1875-1925
Promisory notes

Box 134 (Green) Collected Articles

Children of J.F. Funk births and deaths
Clippings and articles
Clippings, recipes and remedies
Compositions by A.K. Funk and students
Funerals
Funk, J.F. as seen through his diary
Funk, J.F. Memorial service
Funk, Martha obituary
Interview by C. Rittenhouse 1924
Langmantel, Haus, Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
Mennonite History
Miscellaneous
Moyer, Emaline Poems
Scraps of diaries 1860-1921
Sermons, printed
Sermon of Daniel Kauffman of the Elkhart Institute 1901

Box 135 (Green) Church and Conference Affairs

Bericht der Conference Wayne Co., Ohio May 17, 1889
Church problems and charges against persons
Conference report (S.S. conference)
General Conference, replies to questionnaire 1894
Mennonite Board of Guardians
Mennonite Church record percentage with J.F. Funk
Reply to criticism

Box 136 (Green) Publishing Interests

Book lists
Copyrights
Enns, Heinrich - Liederbuch
Funk, J.F. Articles 1901
Manuscript - J.F. Funk

Box 136 (Green) (Continued)

Manuscript - Herold der Wahrheit 1869
Manuscript - Herold der Wahrheit, unidentified
Manuscript - Unidentified
Miscellaneous manuscript of John F. Funk
Mennonite Publishing Company
Mennonite Publishing Company, Business

Notebooks, Boxes 137 and 138

Box 137 (Green) Financial, School Books, misc.

Austell Improvement Company, Oct. 17, 1900 - Oct. 28, 1903
Bond records
Cash book, Nov. 27, 1886 - June 20, 1887
Cash book, Sept. 1, 1887 - May 1, 1889
Cash book, Mar. 1911 - May 1913, and charges against George Lambert
Cash book, 1922-23
Grocery lists 1893-1900
Mennonite Board of Guardians notes
Passbook, Park Ave. loan Apr. 28, 1917
Names of Stockholders
Abram B. Kolb English grammar book
Abram B. Kolb Georgraphy, History and Grammar notes
Abram Kolb guide to teachers
Maria Bowman copy book
Books wanted
Collected Poems and Prose selections
Mothers Day story, list of articles
S.S. records of Elkhart Mennonite Church
Purse with various recipes and remedies
Recipes and remedies

Box 138 (Green) Church Problems; Autobiography

Autobiographical notes 1923
Autobiography
Book lists, autobiography, convent salve
Charges against three bishops
Conference notes 1897
Conference notes ?
Conference notes and articles
Forgiveness of sin
Forms for church institutions and ordinances
Instructions in the faith of the Mennonite Church

Box 138 (Green) (Continued)

Journey of 12 Russian Mennonites to America 1873
Last Moody experience, sermon sketches
Memorandums 1919
Mennonite Church notes 1900-12
Mennonite Settlement in Elkhart; Publication work
Notes on Church problems
Notes on Church problems
Notes on Menno Simons
Provate notes, Why I am a Mennonite
Proceedings against Christian Wenger
Rittenhouse recollections
Sermon notes
Sermon notes, notes on Russian delegation to America 1873
Confession of Faith and Ministers Manual, 1895

Kolb Collection, Boxes 139 and 140

Box 139 (Green)

Anniversary centennial of Herald of Truth
Anniversary (70th) of Herald of Truth
Austell Improvement Company
Response to attack on Elkhart church
Documents for chapter 7 of manuscript
Epitaphs
Funk, J.F., article on
Funk, J.F. correspondence
Helen's Bible story book
Herald of Truth manuscript
Hymn book
Kolb, A.B. correspondence
Kolb, Abraham genealogy
Letters, miscellaneous
Moody, D.L.
Pamphlets and articles
Rittenhouse, Moses
Sermon of John Funk at 92
Stories of Grandfather

Box 140 (Green)

Autobiography
Biographies of children and J.F. Funk
Booklets on J.F. Funk
Chapter 1 of Funk book
Correspondence on Funk book 1961-62
Funk, J.F.  Autobiography and excerpts from diary
Helen's notes on biography of Funk
Kolb, A.C. general information
Letters, information, documents
Sunday school work

Box 141 (Green) Historical Memorandum Books

Historical Memorandum Books
See also boxes 51-54 and description for the same

Box 142 (Large)

One large box of Artifacts

Addendum:  3 folders in Restricted file; envelops of Correspondence to Funk and family
Book:  Confession of Faith and Ministers Manual, 1895.  Placed in Box 138
Addendum: 1 book of printers engravings, filed in the second drawer of the east mapcase.

Subject Tracings

Anabaptists - Conferences 1568-1601    Box 119 folder 29
Blauch family    Box 84 folder 1
Burkholder, Peter    Box 105
Chicago, Ill. Mennonite Home Missions    Box 119 folder 5
Chronology, 1852-1929   
Denk, Hans. Von der wahren Liebe    Box 119 folder 7
Elkhart Bible Society, Elkhart, In.    Box 118 - 2 account books
Elkhart Institute, Elkhart, In.    Box 50 folder 6; Box 64 folders 3-15;   
                                             Box 119 folders 8, 9   
Fretz family    Box 84 folder 2
Funk, Henry.  Restitution    Box 103
Funk, Martha    Box 127 folder 7; Box 131 folders 1-3;
                       Box 132 folder 7
Funk, Phoebe    Box 127 folder 7
Funk, Salome    Box 127 folders 1-6; Box 130       
Funk family    Box 84 folders 3-6; Box 105
Geil family    Box 84 folder 7
Good, Daniel  Ordung und Gemeinde
  Regel.    Box 119 folder 12
Herald of Truth    Box 67; Boxes 90-102; Box 116;
                        Box 139 folders 1, 2
Holdeman, John M.    Box 62, folder 21
Horsch, John    Box 104
Kauffman, John D.    Box 93 folder 10
Kolb, Abram B.    Boxes 121-126; Box 131 folder 7;
                          Box 133 folder 1; Box 137
Kolb, Jacob    Box 133 folder 2
Kratz, Jacob    Box 118; Box 133 folder 3
Lambert, George    Box 24 folder 6  Oct. 5, 1897
Mennonite Board of Guardians    Box 68; Box 135 folder 5; Box 137
Mennonite Church - Statistics    Box 119   
Mennonite Church. General Conference    Box 62; Box 135 folder 4
Mennonite Church.  Indiana-Michigan
  Conference    Box 63
Mennonite Publishing Company,
  Elkhart, Indiana    Boxes 67-89; Box 118 folder 3;
                            Box 136 folders 10, 11
Mennonites - Virginia - Rockingham Co.    Box 119 folder 12
Mutual Aid    Box 119 folder 18; Box 139 folder 16
Oberholtzer, John H.    Box 62 folder 28
Prairie St. Menn. Church, Elkhart, IN    Boxes 64, 65; Box 114 folder 15;
      Box 137
Relief - India    Box 24 folder 6  Oct. 5, 1897
Roosen, Gerhard.  Christian Mind's
  Conversation of the Spiritual and
  Saving Faith    Box 118 folder 13
Rosenberger family    Box 84 folder 8
Russian Mennonites    Boxes 51-54; Box 68; Box 138
Sermons    Boxes 55-61
Slavery    Box 5, 2 letters Oct. 3, 1856 and
      April 9, 1861
Sleeping preachers    Box 93 folder 10
Sunday Schools    Box 49 folders 19-24; Boxes 66, 67;
                            Box 13
Wisler Schism    Box 49 folder 17
Wismer (Jacob) family    Box 84 folder 9

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February 4, 2005/ Reformatted and posted on the Web by Martha Miller
February 1, 2005 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File: "Hm1-1 Funk, John F. doc"
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