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Hist Mss 1-43
John Mellinger Kreider, 1869-1946
2 Boxes

Biographical Sketch

Mennonite Bishop in Missouri, minister at Palmyra, member of Board of Education and other committees, evangelist.

Inventory

Box 1 - Correspondence 1915-1943

His correspondence reflects his duties and activities as a bishop in Missouri and in conference affairs. The correspondence deals mainly with church problems at various places as well as Kreider's concern with the growing liberal tendencies of the Mennonite Church especially at her schools, Goshen and Hesston. Most of this concern focuses itself on the dress question especially the hat/bonnet issue. There are also several interesting chivareeing and serenading. Correspondents include Daniel Kauffman, Simon Gingerich, J. B. Smith, D. H. Bender, J. A. Heatwole, C. L. Ressler, P. J. Blosser, D. G. Lapp (mainly concerning debts), J. B. Brunk, Maurice Yoder, S. C. Yoder, Milo Kauffman, and others. There is a good deal of correspondence in 1925 and 1926 with some Tuleta, Texas members - Rhoda Yoder, Elva Unzicker, P. Schrock.

Box 2 - Miscellaneous

Church Polity
Conference Merger Committee 1920
CO's in World War I
Goshen College - President's report 1921
Goshen College - Report of Special Meeting of the Mennonite Board of Education 1923 re closing of GC
Goshen College students letter to Board of Education
Hannibal Mission - History
Hershey, Paul B. - Church letter
Income Tax Forms 1918
Kansas-Nebraska Conference
Lancaster Mennonite School Rules 1942-1943
Miller, L.J. - case
Ministerial meeting minutes
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Business forms - Dated & Undated
Missions - India
Missouri-Iowa Conference
Missouri-Kansas Conference
Ordination Certificates
"The Osage Co. Campaign" 1929
Record of Marriages
Report of Committee on Fundamentals
Teacher Qualifications

Subject Tracings

Chronology. 1915-1943

Conscientious objectors Box 2 folder 3
Costume Box 1 correspondence
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Box 2 folders 4-6
Lyon St. Mennonite Church, Hannibal, Mo. Box 2 folder 7
Missouri- Iowa Mennonite Conference Box 2 folders 13 & 17
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy Box 1 correspondence
South Central Mennonite Conference Box 2 folder 18
Tuleta, Texas Mennonite Church Box 1 1925-26 correspondence

 

April 29, 2004 / Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder
July 23, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman
February 16, 2001 / Erin Wilson
April 17, 1975 / Processed by Sharon Klingelsmith
File "Hm1-043.doc"
Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, IN 46526

 

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