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Hist Mss 1-44
Jacob Conrad Meyer, 1888-1968
38 boxes (36 green, 1 long green, 1 large)

Biographical Sketch

Jacob Meyer was a Professor of History, primarily at Western Reserve University, from 1923-1959. He also taught at Goshen College, 1919-21. He was a conscientious objector in World War I and served in reconstruction work in France, 1919. Also, he was a leader of the Mennonite Young People's Conferences.

Administrative Information

Collection processed by Sharon Klingelsmith, September 23, 1977. Typed and Posted on web by Erin Wilson, February 19, 2001. Update by Monica Zimmerman, July 23, 2001. Inventory Listing typed by Helen Hostetler, April 19, 2005. Web update by Israel Ditzler, January 31, 2006.

Series Headings

Correspondence Boxes 1-4
Material Relating to 1919 Period Boxes 5-8
Autobiographical and Family Materials Boxes 9-10
Church Correspondence Box 11
Notes Boxes 12-27
Academic Career Materials Boxes 28-29
Clippings Boxes 30-31
Miscellaneous Boxes 32-37
Correspondence - Esther Steiner Meyer Box 38

Box Listing

Box 1 Correspondence A-Fa Green
Box 2 Correspondence Fe-Ke Green
Box 3 Correspondence Ki-Mi Green
Box 4 Correspondence Mu-Z Green
Box 5 Material Relating to 1919 Period - Diaries Green
Box 6 Material Relating to 1919 Period - Manuscripts Green
Box 7 Material Relating to 1919 Period- Notes Green
Box 8 Material Relating to 1919 Period - Miscellaneous and Seminary Correspondence Green
Box 9 Autobiographical and Family Materials - Autobiographical and Family Documents Long Green
Box 10 Autobiographical and Family Materials - Family History Materials Green
Box 11 Church Correspondence Green
Box 12 Notes- American History Green
Box 13 Notes - History I Green
Box 14 Notes - History I Green
Box 15 Notes - History II Green
Box 16 Notes - History II Green
Box 17 Notes - History III Green
Box 18 Notes - History III Green
Box 19 Notes - History III Green
Box 20 Notes - History III Green
Box 21 Notes - Miscellaneous History Green
Box 22 Notes - Miscellaneous History Green
Box 23 Notes - Miscellaneous History Green
Box 24 Notes - Democracy Green
Box 25 Notes - Alsace - Lorraine Green
Box 26 Notes - Sociology, World Affairs Green
Box 27 Notes - Class Notes Green
Box 28 Academic Career Materials Green
Box 29 Academic Career Materials Green
Box 30 Clippings Green
Box 31 Clippings Green
Box 32 Miscellaneous Green
Box 33 Miscellaneous Green
Box 34 Miscellaneous Green
Box 35 Miscellaneous Green
Box 36 Miscellaneous Green
Box 37 Miscellaneous Green
Box 38 Correspondence - Esther Steiner Meyer Large

Inventory Listing

Boxes 1-4, Correspondence

This correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Much of it is from or relates to the 1919 period. Some of his notes are also included in this material as he was researching and wrting on the 1919 period in terms of conscientious objection, reconstruction work and the Young People's Movement.

Box 1 (Green)

A - 1920, 1966
Allgyer, J. Roy, 1918-21, 1965-68
Allgyer, S. E., 1919, 1963
Anti-Militarism, 1920 - Horsch, Giesen, Ruth, Zimmerman

Baer, Willis N., 1920-21, 1964
Barnes, Donald G., 1963-68
Bauman, N. G., 1966
Baumgartner, J. C. 1961-63, 1966-67
Bender, H. S., 1919, 1949, 1956
Bickel, Paul J., 1942-1968
Bixler, Jacob K., 1919
Blauch, L. E. and Class of 1916 Letters, 1920-21, 1964-66
Blosser, Noah, 1919-20
Bontrager, Amos
Brunk, J. M., 1920
Burkhard, Noah & Henry, 1919
Burkhard, Samuel, 1923, 1966-68
Byers, N. E., 1919-20

Clark, Rodeni K., 1921
Conrad, F. A., 1968
Coffman, S. F., 1920
Charles, J. D., 1920
Cressman, J. B., 1918-20

D - 1922, 1962-66
Driver, D. D., 1963, 1968
Eschliman, John C., 1963
Family Correspondence, 1911-29, 1953-1966
Family Correspondence, (foreign) 1905-31

Box 2 (Green)

Ferree, John R., 1968
Fisher, J. J., 1918-20
French & German Letters, 1919-20
Frey, P. L., 1967
Friends Service Committee, 1918-20, 1965
Fulmer, C. A., (Kratz Memorial idea), 1922, 1966

G - 1919-12, 1966
Gelfand, L. E., 1962-67
Gerig, Amos C., 1964-67
Gerig, O. B., 1918-35, 1964-66
Gerig, Virgil M., 1946-47, 1960
Gingerich, Simon (Case) (with John S. Wyse corr.), 1918-20, 1964
Gnagey, J. Ervin
Goshen College - 1916 Class, 1966-68
Govan, Doris, 1963
Government officials, 1966-68
Graber, J. D., 1954-58
Gratz, Delbert, 1963, 1966

Hartzler, J. E., 1918-21
Hartzler, O. J. (Case), Fort Douglas, Utah, 1919-20
Hershberger, Guy F., 1950
Hershey, Lloyd, 1965
Hertzler, Asa, 1920
Hirschy, Jean-Jacques, 1957
Hooley, Jesse F. & D. H. Bender, 1919
Hoover, Herbert - Letter of 1919 to Wilson & to Rufus M. Jones, Nov. 17, 1919
Hostetler, Atlee, 1920
Hostetler, Lester, 1919-20, 1966
Hostetler, Mrs. Paul, 1967

Janzen, C. C., and E. H. Jantz, 1920, 1967
Johnke, James C., 1967

K - 1965-68
Kauffman D., 1919-20
Keppel F. P. and C. I., 1918

Box 3 (Green)

King, Allen Y., 1962
Koch, Roy, 1965
Koopmans, Ada C., and Duch Mennonites, 1919-21
Krabill, M. O., 1946, 1967
Kreider, A. E., 1916, 1959
Kropf, Harold, 1963-66

L
Lape, E. S. (ca. Ind-Mich Conf. difficulties), 1966
Lapp, George, 1918-20, 1950
Leaman, Bertha R., 1968
Lind, Millard, 1954
Loucks, Aaron, 1918-20

M - 1963-68
Manchrian Crisis: N. D. Baker, Garfield, Hudson, Scott, O. B. Gerig, Manley Hudson, 1932-33
MCC Amsterdam-London, 1957
Mennonite College Calls, 1919-22
Mennonite Weekly & Christian Living, 1961-68
Meyer, E. A., 1920-21, 1942-43, 1965, 1968
Meyer, J. C. - Letters from Europe sent Home, 1919
Miller, Alvin J., 1921. 1954, 1962-67
Miller, E. E., 1919
Miller, O. O., 1920
Miller, Payson, 1919-21
Miller, Truman, 1918
Miscellaneous & Cards
Miscellaneous from 1919 relief workers in France: Hershey, Lentz, Smith, 1964-68

Box 4 (Green)

Musselman, C. H., 1920-21
Mumaw, Levi, 1918-19
Myers, Mervin S., 1964

Nafziger, Clarence, 1967
Nicolai, G. F., 1920

Oesch, W. W., (Y.P. Conference), 1920
Ohio & Eastern Conference
Oswald, W. E., 1920, 1958

P - 1911, 1952
Plan to send two Brethren to France, Correspondence from Mumaw, D. D. Miller, G. Bender, S. G. Shetler, J. S. Gerig, A. E. Kreider, and A. J. Steiner, 1919, 1959

R - 1916
Ressler, J. A., 1919
Rhoads, C. J., 1919
Rutt, Walter, 1919-20

S - 1919-21, 1966-68
Showalter, Amos, 1919, 1968

Shull, G., 1967
Slagal, Arthur, 1920
Smucker, J. N., 1918, 1946
Smucker, Vernon, 1919-21
Snavely, Harry, 1920
Sommer, Pierre, 1921
Sprunger, Arthur, 1920
Stauffer, J. L., and J. B. Smith, 1919-20
Steiner, A. J., 1944-51
Stoltzfus, B. Frank, 1967
Stoltzfus, Grant. 1963-67
Swope, Wilmer, 1966

T - 1919, 1958

Umble, John S., 1919
Volkmar, H., & Alsacian Conf., 1920
Wayne Farm Bureau, 1960
Wallace, Henry, 1964
Waryre, John, 1919, 1963
Whitmer, Paul E., 1919-24
Wolfe, Rolland, 1963, 1966

Y
Yoder, Howard, 1923, 1946-50, 1968
Yoder, J. H., on Peace and Historical Writing, 1966
Yoder, John S., 1919
Yoder, S. E., 1965-68
Yoder, Sanford C., 1922, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1959
Young People's Conference, Origin of the

Zimmerman, E. E., 1930-
Zimmerman, John

Boxes 5-8, 1919 Research

These boxes include many of his notes, basically unorganized; annotated indexes to letters and articles; his diary when in army camp; drafts of published and unpublished articles.

Box 5 (Green)

Diaries (Originals)
Diary Material, 1918-19
Diary, Jan. 20, 1919 to Sept. 14, 1919
An Annotated Diary of a Conscientious Objector

Box 6 (Green)

Goshen College, 1914-16
Indiana University, 9/16-4/17
U. S. Entry into World War I - Pre-entry
U. S. Entry into World War I
Young People's Conference, 1918-19
Reconstruction work in France (two folders)
Reflections of a CO in W.W. I
Young People's Conference, 1919
Miscellaneous Sheets

Box 7 (Green)

Research Notes - The Christian Exponent
Research Notes - Goshen College events, 1915-17
Research Notes - Gospel Herald
Research Notes - Herald and letters
Research Notes - Kellogg, The Conscientious Objector Book
Research Notes - Letters for 1919 Diary
Research Notes (18 folders)

Box 8 (Green)

Report of General Conference of Mennonites in France in Reconstruction Work, 1919
American Friends Material
Camp Documents Church Letter, etc.
Clippings, 1919, Board of Ed.
Clippings-Photographs of C.O. men in World War I
Clippings-Reconstruction and Y. P. Conference
Ex-Old Mennonites
The Exponent (subscription list in part)
Personal Correspondence, J.C. M. Hershberger, Hershberger questions, (1966 correspondence)
Mailing List for Clemont Conference
Report
Roster of C.O. Men, Camps Jackson, etc.
Test by Mennonite Board Committee on Faculty, 1919
Travel Permits in Red Cross, France
Willi Otte Poem
Y.P. Conference, 1920 (financial)
Albert Steiner & Seminary Affairs
Seminary Correspondence
Seminary Conference (resolutions & report)
Seminary Finances, 1919-20. Musselman Offer
Report of Meeting of Mennonite Bible & Missionary Training School Committee, 1920
Goshen College, 1923

Boxes 9-10, Autobiography and Family Materials

Box 9 (Long Green)

Autobiographical
Passport Application of J. C. Meyer
Rememberance to J. C. from his father
Autobiography of J. G. Meyer
J. G. Meyer Autobiography
Jacob G. Meyer - workbook & military
Strasbourg Archives Documents
Conrad family documents
Gerig family documents
J. G. Meyer Family documents
J. G. Meyer, business records
Mary Summers & Anna Meyer Death Records
Meyers, 1892-1912

Box 10 (Green)

The Amish & Mennonites from France
Conrad Family Background
Gerings-Goerings (Family History)
Meyer-Gerig Family, 1845-1872
Meyer Family History
Meyer family-writings of Adella & Kathryn
1967 Edition of Meyer Genealogy
J. G. Meyer Family
Meyer Genealogy, by Katherine Meyer Yoder
Stuckey family - correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence
Miscellaneous notes

Box 11, Church Correspondence

Box 11 (Green)

Amish Conferences Officers, 1878-1962
College Congregation, reorganization of
Denominational Discipline
Little Eden Laymen's Movement
Oak Grove Church Correspondence, and documents, 1944-47
Gen. Conn. 1944 & Exec. Comm., Ohio, etc. Conf. action on Oak Grove, 1947
Oak Grove, Finances, etc.
Oak Grove, miscellaneous
Mennonite Conference Programs & Reports
Mennonites of Iowa, Gingerich
Programs - Church, SS, College
The Receding Horizon, at the 40th Anniversary? Class 1916
Weber, Centennial History
World Mennonite Conference, 1948
Zion & Chapel Congregations, 1920-24
Church Finances, 1950's

Boxes 12-27, Notes

These include notes while he was a student as well as lecture notes for his courses.

Box 12 (Green)

Problems on Columbus & His Discovery of America
U. S. History to 1789
Colonial Problem, Imperialism French Propaganda
Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Jefferson on Wshington
Macaulay & Shepherd
U. S. History Since 1865
U. S. History, 1865-1962
U. S. History Since 1900
Background for 1896 - Bryan
World War I
World War II

Box 13 (Green)

Monroe Doctrine
U. S. vs. Great Britain on West India Trade
Lincoln & Issues
Confederacy
Treaty of Ghent
Jay Correspondence, 1783-1787
Loyalists 1780
Slave Trade Regulation
North Atlantic Fisheries Case
Florida & U. S. Relations to 1820
Civil War Diplomacy
Civil War
Alabama Claims
Venezuela 1895
Hawaiian Annexation
Panama & Canal 1900
Bowers & Beveridge

Box 14 (Green)

Panama Congress vs. Monroe Doctrine
United States, 1817-1825
Andrew Jackson, Reforms
Webster Ashburton Treaty
Texas-Oregon, Relation with U.S.
Polk's Diplomacy
Isthmian Canal
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, 1854
Sound Dues Case, U. S. Attitude
Pierce-Buchanan Period
Mexico & Caribbean Area
Alaska & Seal Dispute
U. S. International Communication Arbitration, Hague Conferences
Algerciras Conference vs. Monroe Doctrine
Taft Era
World War I, 1917
League of Nations
World Court
Pusey on C. E. Hughes II
Coolidge-Hoover Era

Box 15 (Green)

Dawn of a New Era 1936 & European Background for American History
Northmen-Columbus, Cabot Original Narratives
Fiske, Discovery of America
Bourne, Davenport & Van Der Linden
Lowery & Haring, Spanish Settlement in the Present Limits of the U.S.A. 1911
Bourne, Spain in America
H. I. Priestley, The Coming of the White Man N.Y. 1929, Chpts I-VII
Hakluyt's Discourse & John White, Old South
Beginnings of British Colonization
T. J. Wertenbaker, The First Americans
Maryland & Virginia Relations
Bray & Doyle on Religion
Bradford & Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Society
Massachusetts Bay Colony

Box 16 (Green)

Expansion of Puritanism in New England
C. M. Andrews ed. More' Utopia Ideal Empires & Republics N. Y., 1901
English ackground for Colonization
R. V. Coleman, 2 books, The First Frontier, Liberty & Property
Chitwood, Gov't & Law in English Colonies
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-80
Pennsylvania & Delaware
New Jersey
The Puritan Supremacy period, 1640-1660
Dutch, Swedes & Finns in Colonies
C. P. Nettels, The Roots of American Civilization
Thomas Hutchinson's History
Faust, Kuhns et al. Germans & Swiss in America
France in America
English Colonies
Georgia
Moses Coit Tyler, History of American Literature, 1607-1765
Sewall's Diary, Witchcraft in America
Systems of Labor, Servants, etc.
Navigation Acts
Suffrage
The Carolinas
Greene, Provincial America; Andres, Colonial Period
History of Medicine in Colonial America, In Spanish and English as well as French America

Box 17 (Green)

Constitution Making, 1775
Jefferson & Hammond Corr., 1791
Rise of Cabinet, 1790
U.S. & Control of Foreign Relations
Neutrality 1790's
Industrial Revolution & Economic History
Farewell Address, Washington
Jay Treaty
Alien & Sedition Acts
Jefferson's Administration
Acquisition of Louisiana
I/S/ 1800-
Bond
Impressment Issue
U.S. & Barbary Powers
Neutral Rights & War of 1812
Shays's Rebellion
Influences of Western Lands, 1780's
Study of the 52nd Congress

Box 18 (Green)

Alban Plan
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Commerce, 1783-89
Travelwers Reports, 1750-1825
Land Ordinances
1789 - General
Hamilton's Financial Program
Constitution 1788, Jefferson, Madison et al.
Franch & Indian War
United States, 1760
United States, 1763
Unites States, 1767-1775
Carter, Correspondence of Gage
Revolution in Middle States
Letters of Members of the Continental Congress
Federalist Period Material
Stevens MSS
Continental Congress Journals
Committee of Corr. of the American Revolution
Smuggling
J. T. Adams, Provincial Society, 1690-1763
Colonial Economies & Industry Finance
Revolution 1688
Constitution 1787

Box 19 (Green)

Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, Becker
S. F. Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution
P. C. Phillips, The West in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution
Curtis, Alden, Hall, Jones, Channing on Military in Revolution
France & Finances of the Revolution
Netherlands, Portugal & Denmark in the Revolution
Russia, Armed Neutrality League
Dickinson
G. M. Wrong, Canada & the American Revolution
J. T. Adams, Revolutionary New England
Spain
Relations with Prussia
South 1700 etc.
Population & Ethnology
Kraus, The Atlantic Community
Book Reviews, Revolutionary Period
France & Revolution
Wharton II
S. E. Baldwin, Connecticut in Pennsylvania
J. B. Scott, The Armed Neutralities of 1780 & 1800
Van Tyne on Revolution
New Nation by Merrill Jensen, The American Revolution by John Richard Alden

Box 20 (Green)

Constitution Making
History Notes, American History
Miscellaneous History Notes (two folders)

Box 21 (Green)

Supreme Court
Immigration
Cotton Kingdom
Works of Thomas Jefferson
Writings of James Madison
Writings of John Q. Adams
Writings of George Washington
Writings of Alexander Hamilton
Works of Andrew Jackson
Trieties in Senate
Wm. F. Sprague, Women & West
American History, miscellaneous (3 folders)

Box 22 (Green)

Religion
Religion & Revolution
Colonial Culture
Works of S. C. Fisher
American Revolution, Contemporary Letters
Works of Gipson
Bibliog. On Revolution
Reconstruction 1865-
Civil Rights & Subversion
Physiography & Huntington
Works of Avery
Papers of Fortescue on George III
Works of Benjamin Franklin
William Wirt on Patrick Henry, William Tudor on James Otis, Miscellaneous
Writings of Samuel Adams
Grant & Corruption
Foreign Relations 1850
Oriental Diplomacy, Foster

Box 23 (Green)

Art in Europe, The Gospel of Luke in Art
Bluffton Grades
Education in an Industrialized Society
New England Courtship, by Kenneth Deacon
Science & Religion
Toynbee on Peaceful Change by Crutwell, Spectator London, April 1937. Also Manning editor of Peaceful Change
Carr, Soviet Impact on the Western World
U.S. in the Far East
Chinese Relations & Immigration Issue
Spanish War 1898
Samoan Affairs
Great Britain & Revolutionary Diplomacy
The West Indies & Spain
Voyage of Vasco Da Gama by Ravenstein
Special Articles
Early Explorers
History Notes, 19th Century Europe Bourne Notes
19th Century Europe
Imperialism - Is England Done? Begg Corr., Rosinger, Clark, Langer, Carr-Sauder, White, Willcox, Bonn. Nehru-Staley
History of Civilization - Spelling
Miscellaneous Notes

Box 24 (Green)

Notes on Democracy (3 folders)
Historian in a Democracy
Two stacks of small cards

Box 25 (Green)

Three Journals
Notes on Alsace-Lorraine (3 folders)

Box 26 (Green)

Notes taken by J. C. Meyer in two classes in Sociology, but called Economics at Indiana U., 1916-1917
Clippings - (index inside)
Cuba
Dean Kreider Comments'
Mission of America
Politics & Industry-White Collar Crime
Gini-Population & Raw Materials
Life Magazine on World's Food
Thorndike - Food & World Politics Henry Wallace Letters
U.S. & Viet Nam

Box 27 (Green)

Economics Notes
English History Notes
Readings in 19th Century European History
Readings in European Economic History
Renaissance Term Papers
Renaissance & Reformation
Renaissance & Reformation
Slavery
Tudor-Stuart, England - Harvard Test Assignments
University of Chicago
The Utopia by Thomas Moore

Boxes 28-29, Academics Career Materials

Box 28 (Green)

Harvard Correspondence, 1919, 1921
Miscellaneous Correspondence
University Faculty Members corr., 1919-
Addresses - China-A.A.U.W.
Articles & Review by Jacob C. Meyer
Bourne, H. E.
Education & Nobel Prozes
Educational, Biographical Lecture, etc.
General Lectures & Educational Appointments

Box 29 (Green)

Goshen College
Goshen College Class Program, 1916
Greencroft Discussions
The Marys
Miscellaneous Material
Personal Engagements I
Ph.D. Exam
Ph.D. Thesis, Preliminary Outline
Seminary Prize Contest Papers, 1965 Church History
Speeches
Teacher's Certificates, College & University, Credits
Western Reserve University

Boxes 30-31, Clippings

Box 30 (Green)

Mennonite
Miscellaneous
Obituaries
Recent
Social Affairs
Miscellaneous clippings, pamphlets & Mementos

Box 31 (Green)

Atlantic Articles, Reader's Digest Articles
Christian Community Relations
Important Recent Articles
Midweek Review, Editorials
Miscellaneous Articles

Boxes 32-37, Miscellaneous

Box 32 (Green)

A.A.U.W. Lecture Notes
Bad Boll Conference Papers
Bohme, Jakob. The Way to Christ
Buchanan-Letherman Diaries
Canadian Nazis
Civil War Constription
Sabastian, Gerig, (MQR reprint, 35:297-308)
Good, Aaron C.
Gospel Team, 1916, Orleans, Indiana
Great Hunger 1840's, Potatoes, Mennonites & Agriculture, Balaclava. - Westmoreland
Indiana University
Kitchener World Conference
Kraus, Norman, 1967 (India)
Letters to Esther Steiner, index
Maple Leaf & family letters index
Mennonite Historical Bulletins, (added notations,Apr. 1967, July, 1967, Jan. 1968, Apr. 1968, July, 1968)
Mennonites & Nonresistance, Conference Resolutions
Meyer, A. J., address at EMC., 1967

Box 33 (Green)

Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Notes, (2 folders)
Miscellaneous Notes & Clippings
Miscellaneous Programs
Montgomery Bus Boycott, by G. F. Hershberger
Nonresistance - address by JCM, meeting, at Oak Grove in Wayne County, 1945
Origin of Peace Witness, Why Choose 1936?

Box 34 (Green)

Palmer, G. H., Forgiveness & Pacifism
Panel Discussion c.1933, Compton, Thomas, Payer, Hayden, Busch, & Meyer
Peace Plans 1918
Perspective & other papers of Albert Meyer
Puidoux Conference Papers
Quotations, Bartlett, Schniller, et al.
Schoenbrunn
School Souvenirs
Smith, Willars
Smucker, J. N. and J. G. Gerig, (50 years)
Toynbee, A. J.
War & The Military, 1967
Wayne County map
Wayne County Mennonites
Wooster Peace Workshop & Gen. Conf. on War, Peace & Military Service - Newton, KS
World War I - photos, clippings, etc. from Grace Martin

Box 35 (Green)

This box contains various travel books as well as several small notebooks. The latter contain mainly accounts but one notebook also cincludes a diary of a trip to the West.

Box 36 (Green)

This box contains the personal effects of J. C. Meyer left at the head of his bed, including his Bible.

Box 37 (Green)

These are personal mementos of Meyer. Included are some account books, passports, awards, and his academic hood.

Box 38 (Large)

Correspondence with Esther Steiner Mayer, 1916-1939. They were married in July of 1923.

Correspondence from J. C. Meyer to Esther Steiner Meyer
1916
1917 (Aug.-Dec.)
1918 (Sept., Dec.)
1919
1920
1921 (June-Sept.)
1921 (Oct.-Dec.)
1922 (Jan.-April)
1922 (May-Dec.)
1923 (Jan.-April)
1929 (May-July), J. C. Meyer on European trip
1937 (Aug.-Nov.), J. C. Meyer at a European conference
1939 (July, Aug.)

Correspondence to J. C. Meyer from Esther Steiner Meyer
Ten letters, 1917-1923

Correspondence to Clara Eby Steiner (Mrs. M. S. Steiner, Esther Steiner Mayer's Mother) from J. C. Meyer (One letter from Esther Steiner Meyer) 1921-1924, 1928

Correspondence to J. C. Meyer from various persons 1910-1939

J. C. Meyer, misc. clippings and notes

Subject Tracings

Allgyer, J. Roy, 1890- 1/2
Allgyer, Samuel Evans, 1859-1953 1/3
Bender. Harold Stauffer. 1897-1962 1/9
Bixler, Jacob K., 1877-1939 1/11
Burkhard, Samuel 1/17
Byers, Noah E., 1873- 1/18
Christian Exponent: 8/8
Coffman, Samuel Frederick, 1872- 1/21
Conrad family 9/10; 10/2
Conscientious objectors 1-8 (boxes)
European War, 1914-1918 1-8 (boxes); 34/16
General Conference of Mennonites in France in Reconstruction Work, Clermont-en-Argonne, Meuse, France, June 20-22, 1919 8/1
Gerig, Orie Benjamin, 1894- 2/10
Gerig family 9/9; 10/3-4
Hartzler, John Ellsworth, 1879-1963 2/19
Hartzler, O. J. 2/20
History - Study and teaching 12-27 (boxes)
Hostetler, Lester, 1892- 2/28
Loucks, Aaron, 1864-1945 3-15
Mennonite Bible and Missionary Training School Committee, 1920 8/21
Mennonites - Ohio - Wayne Co. 34/13-14
Meyer family 9-10 (boxes)
Miller, Alvin J., 1883- 3/23
Miller, Ernest Edgar, 1893-1975 3/24
Miller, Orie O., 1892-1976 3/25
Oak Grove Mennonite Church, Smithville, Ohio 11/5-8
Relief - France 1-8 (boxes)
Smucker, Vernon J., 1889- 4/20
Stuckey family 10/10
Whitmer, Paul E., 1876- 4/35
Young People's Conference 1-8 (boxes)
Education, Theological 8/17-20
Puidoux Theological Conference 34/5
Meyer, Esther Steiner, 1916-1939 38 (large box)


January 31, 2005 / Web update by Israel Ditzler
May 10, 2005 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
April 30, 2004 / Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder
July 23, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman
February 19, 2001 / Typed and Posted on web by Erin Wilson
September 23, 1977 / Processed by Sharon Klingelsmith

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