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Hist. Mss. 1-430
Ira C. Mast
Papers, 1827-28, 1857-60, 1928-32
2 Boxes (1 Long Green, 1 Oversize)

 

Introduction

These documents were deposited into the Archives by Ira C. Mast, Elkhart, Indiana, in 1972, 1977 and 1985.

 

Inventory Listing

Box 1 (Oversize File)

Financial Record, 1800-1807
Financial dealings between Jacob Mast and
Christian Mast.
Mast letter, June 4, 1827
Letter written from Millersburg, Ohio, to
Christian Mast, Churchtown, Lancaster County PA.
Jacob Mast letter April 9, 1828
Letter written from Millersburg, Ohio to Christian
Mast, Churchtown, Lancaster County PA.
Mast Family History and letter, 1910
Includes C.Z. Mast letter written to I.H. Mast of
Topeka, Indiana.

Box 2 (Long Green)

C.K. Mast (1821-1874) Account Book
Includes accounts from 1857-1860. May have been
used while he was in Millersburg, Holmes County,
Ohio.
Jacob Mast Family History, 1904-75
Jacob Mast, born 1854, and died 1904, married
Ellen R. Plank in 1879.
Ellen (Plank) Mast, Correspondence 1930-32
(1860-1934), was mother of Ira C. Mast. She was a Plank
and married Jacob Mast in 1879.
Christian J. Plank, Will, 1911
Plank Family History 1867-1967
Elkhart Institute Stockholders, 1899
Church News Letters, 1928-29
Numbers 1-34, written by J.S. Hartzler, Prairie
St. Mennonite Church
Church News Letters, 1930
Numbers 35-60
Church News Letters, 1931
Numbers 61-87
Church News Letters, 1932
Numbers 88-106
Hochstetler, Mast and Incians, 1977
Includes information on the Hochstetler massacre,
1757, and on Sarah Mast.
Memoirs and Autobiography, 1900-1975
Written by Ira C. Mast
"Prairie Threshing", 1973
Printed in the Iron-Men Album Magazine.
Includes the picture of the engine invented
by Jacob Mast and Ide Lehman and the article,
"Prairie Threshing" by Mast.
75th Wedding Anniversary 1985
Ira C. and Flossie R. Steiner Mast were
married on November 10, 1910.

 

 

Name and Subject Tracing

Mast Family
Mast, Ira C. (1887- )
Prairie Street Mennonite Church, Elkhart, Ind.

 

April 30, 2004 / Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder
August 8, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman
Previously posted on web
September 9, 1999 / Typed into computer by Nelda Nussbaum
File "Hm1-430.doc"
Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, IN 46526

 

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