Historical Committee Hist Mss 1-11 Jacob D. and Hettie (Kulp) Mininger Collection Papers, 1879 - 1941 Contained in 34 boxes (33 green, 1 long green) Biographical Sketch of Hettie Kulp Mininger Hettie Kulp Mininger (1874-1965) was a Mennonite missions worker and a mother of three children. 1874 Born on March 27, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania to Isaac L. (1849-1915) and Catherine Bergey (1847-1906) Kulp. She was the second of eight children. 1898-1900 Attended Elkhart Institute, graduated with a Commercial Degree 1904 Married J. D. Mininger on July 27, 1904 1904-1908 Worked as matron at the Rittman Mennonite Old People’s Home, near Marshallville, Ohio, where her husband worked as superintendent 1906 Mother Catherine died on January 18 at age 59, daughter Ruth born on March 10 1908 Son Paul born on January 24 1909 Moved to a farm in Cherau, Colorado near La Junta; attended East Holbrook Mennonite Church 1911 Son Edward born on January 10; husband J. D. ordained at East Holbrook Mennonite Church on October 5 1912 Moved to Kansas City, Kansas where she worked at Mennonite gospel Mission 1941 Husband J. D. died on January 4 at age 61; moved to Goshen, Indiana; attended North Goshen Mennonite Church 1960 Moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia on June 4 1962 Daughter Ruth died on April 30; moved to Elkhart, Indiana to live with son Edward 1965 Died on April 5 in Elkhart Source: Hist Mss 1-11 box 34, folder 16 – biography of Hettie Kulp Mininger by Russel Krabill Biographical Sketch of Jacob D. Mininger Jacob D. Mininger (1879-1941) was a Mennonite leader, pastor, missions worker, evangelist, author and a father of three children. 1879 Born on June 9 near Sellersville, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Elizabeth Detweiler Mininger 1879-1904 Worked at the Mennonite Mission in Philadelphia as a young man 1904 Married Hettie B. Kulp on July 27, 1904 1904-1909 Worked as superintendent at the Rittman Mennonite Old People’s Home, near Marshallville, Ohio, where his wife worked as matron 1906 Daughter Ruth born on March 10 1908 Son Paul born on January 24 1909 Moved to a farm in Cherau, Colorado near La Junta; attended East Holbrook Mennonite Church 1911 Ordained at East Holbrook Mennonite Church on October 5; Son Edward born on January 10 1912 Moved to Kansas City, Kansas in April 1912-1941 Worked as superintendent at the Mennonite gospel Mission in Kansas City; counseled conscientious objectors at Fort Leavenworth during World War I; wrote a mission study text titled Exalting Christ in the City 1941 Died on January 4 at age 61 Sources: Hist Mss 1-11 box 34, folder 16 – biography of Hettie Kulp Mininger by Russel Krabill Gospel Herald, Vol. 33, page 895 Inventory listing for J. D. and Hettie Kulp Mininger collection: Sketch of J. D. Mininger by Walter E. Oswald, 1955 Administrative Information Processed by Sharon Klingelsmith, April 17, 1975. Updated by Dennis Stoesz, February 15, 1994. Biographical sketches by Zach Landis, March 2000. Update and posted by Monica Zimmerman, July 18, 2001. Biographical information and box listing previously typed and posted. Inventory listing typed by Helen Hostetler, February 8, 2005. Web update posted by Israel Ditzler, Jan. 18 2005. Series Headings Correspondence Boxes 1-21 Conscientious objectors Box 22 Data file Boxes 23-30 Miscellaneous, business forms and additional correspondence Box 31-34 Hettie (Kulp) Mininger Box 34   Box Listing Box 1 Correspondence Jan 1900 – Dec 1915 Green Box 2 Correspondence Jan – Oct 1916 Green Box 3 Correspondence Nov 1916 – June 1917 Green Box 4 Correspondence July 1917 – April 1918 Green Box 5 Correspondence May – Oct 1918 Green Box 6 Correspondence Nov 1918 – Feb 15, 1919 Green Box 7 Correspondence Feb 16, 1919 – April 30, 1919 Green Box 8 Correspondence May – Sept 1919 Green Box 9 Correspondence Oct 1919 – Dec 1922 Green Box 10 Correspondence Jan 1923 – Dec 1924 Green Box 11 Correspondence Jan 1925 – Dec 1928 Green Box 12 Correspondence Jan – Dec 1929 Green Box 13 Correspondence Jan – Dec 1930 Green Box 14 Correspondence Jan – Dec 1931 Green Box 15 Correspondence Jan 1932 – Dec 1936 Green Box 16 Correspondence Jan – July 1937 Green Box 17 Correspondence Aug 1937 – March 1938 Green Box 18 Correspondence April – Dec 1938 Green Box 19 Correspondence Jan – Dec 1939 Green Box 20 Correspondence Jan – Dec 1940 Green Box 21 Correspondence Jan – Feb 1941 Correspondence (undated) 1903-1940 Green Box 22 C.O. and Ft. Leavenworth material Long Green Box 23 Data files A - Let Us Draw Near Green Box 24 Data files Life Insurance – Misc. Green Box 25 Data files Missionary – Nehemiah Green Box 26 Data files New birth – Poems Green Box 27 Data files Poems – Precious Green Box 28 Data files Proverbs – Sermon preparation Green Box 29 Data files Sermon topics – Thrift Green Box 30 Data files Timothy – Young People’s Bible Meeting Programs Green Box 31 Miscellaneous Sermon Notes and Articles Green Box 32 Miscellaneous A – M Green Box 33 Miscellaneous N – Z Green Box 34 Business forms William Fretz Correspondence Funeral Records Hettie (Kulp) Mininger Green Inventory Listing Boxes 1-21 (Green) Correspondence 1900-1941 Contains much friendly correspondence, especially with people in Pennsylvania. Also includes much correspondence about mission business and tracts. Especially significant is that from the time of the First World War concerning CO's. The correspondence is arranged chronologically. Box 22 (Long) Conscientious Objectors Camps of CO's 1919? "Crucifixions in the Twentieth Century" (cases of Wipf and 3 Hofer brothers) "The Disciplinary Barracks" Chapter X Hartzler, Ora Case Letter to President from Ft. Leavenworth prisoners, June 1919 Letters of CO prisoners to families Lists of Co's "The Martyrs of Alcatraz" by J. G. Evert (cases of Wipf and 3 Hofer brothers) "Mennonite Co-operation" American Friends Service Committee Bulletin Miscellaneous Miscellaneous articles about CO's "Political Prisoners in Federal Military Prisons" NCLB 11/21/1918 Religious CO's imprisoned at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Ft. Leavenworth "The Strike at Forth Leavenworth" by Wintrop D. Lane "War Heretics" (cases of Wipf and 3 Hofer brothers) List of CO's released, as appearing in the Kansas City Times, January 23, 1919 "Who are the Conscientious Objectors?" Committee of 100 Friends of CO's 1919 "With God's People Behind the Iron Bars" by J. D. Mininger (in the Herald) "Your Amish Mennonite" by William Hard Date Files Boxes 23-30 Box 23 (Green) Annual Report - General Mission Board Christian Education How to Enjoy Society How to Lead a Soul to Christ How to Make a Success of the Christian Life Humility Hebrews 2:3 I am Sure - Romans 15:24 I Am the Way Ideal Pastor Illumination Illustrations In Christ Infallible Cure Influence Isaiah Isaac and his Wells "I" Institute Class Mailing List Jesus - Man of Sorrows Jesus the poor Man Job John 3:16 John 14 John Koppenhaver John the Baptist Joseph James I Kansas City Mission Bulletin Material Kansas City Congregation Kansas City Mission Kansas City Mission Experiences Kansas City Mission Kindness Labor Unions Lead Pencil Let not your heart be Troubled Lessons from David and Goliath Least ye be Discouraged Let us Draw Near Box 24 (Green) Life Insurance Loaded with Benefits Lot Love Lord Help Me Mack-Conservatism Making Most of Life Marks of Victorious Life Marriage Mary of Bethany Matthew Charts Matthew 11:28 Matthew 14 Mennonites Men that Have Failed Mephibosheth Methods Ministers (Miscellaneous for) Minister's Preparation Ministry of Suffering Miscellaneous Box 25 (Green) Missionary Missionary Missionary Missionalhy Work as a Life Calling Mission of the Church Missions Mode of Baptism Money Morning Watch Moses Mother Mother's Day Music My Trouble Minace of the Movies Morris Mailing List Naaman Negligence Nehemiah Box 26 (Green) New Birth New Things New Years Nonconformity Nonconformity Non-resistance - List of CO's in first war 1919 Notable Bible Women Obedience Old Age Opportunity Ordinance Our Best for christ Overcoming Handicaps (Wm. McPerson) Paul Peace Perfect Heart Personal Work Peter Philemon Philippians Poems Box 27 (Green) Poems Poems Poems Power of Little Things Praise Prayer Prayer Meeting Praying that Gets You Somewhere Preaching (Devotional) Precious Box 28 (Green) Proverbs Psalms 1 Psalms 19 Psalms 23 Purity Possessing our Possessions Prodigal Son Race of Life Radio Racklessness Repentance Rest Restitution Restrictions Revelation Reverance Revivals Rewards Rich Young Ruler Robbing God Romans Romans1:16 Romans 8:28 Recreation Salvation Samson Samuel Saul - Old Testament Self-Denial Second Timothy Secret Societies Separation Sermon Preparation Box 29 (Green) Sermon Topics Seven "I Wills" of christ Sex Similitudes Sin Snow Some Things that will Hurt Your Soul Soul Culture vs. Soil Culture Sowing and Reaping Standards for Socials Stephen and Philip Sun Sunday School (Nazarene) Sunday School Teacher Who Magnifies His Office Suggestive Subjects for Workers' Meetings Summer Bible School S. S. Techers' Meetings S. S. Teacher Training Strengthening the Home Base Satan the World's Greatest Trapper Taking the Lord into Account Talks to Children Temperance Temptation Thanksgiving Thessalonians The White Life Things that Accompany Salvation Three Young Men - Daniel 3 Thrift Box 30 (Green) Timothy Tobacco Too Late Trapping Trials Trust in the Lord True and False Hope True Tokens The Church and the World Unequal YOKE Unsacrificed Isaacs Unstable as Water Uzziah Valuables Value of Souls Value of Time Various Isms Victorious Life Victorious Living Victory Leaflets-Letters Voyage of Life Visiting the Sick Week Day Bible School (General) Week Day Bible School (1939) Week Day Bible School - High School Credit Class Week Day Bible School - Preparation Material Week Day Bible School Objectives Whom Have I in Heaven Young People's Bible Meeting Programs Miscellaneous Boxes 31-33 The Box 31 contains sermon notes and articles. The Boxes 32 and 33 contain papers on various topics with the folders arranged alphabetically. Box 31 (Green) Assurance Co-operation Evangelism Forgiveness The Believers' Walk in the Spirit, Romans 8 - Holy Spirit Jesus Christ Miscellaneous Notes Prayer Repentance Second Advent Temptation Young People's Meetings The Babe of Bethlehem "The Bible and Missions" Church Loyalty an Essential in Mission Work City Missions CO's in Prison "Consecration" The First Commandment with Promise A Four-Fold View of Christ in the Four Gospels Funeral Remarks - S. G. Lapp, Lewis Johnson Glance at the Book of Mark Heart to Heart Chats Illumination K. C. Mission The Minister Magnifying His Office Misc. Articles Mission Letter "The Missionary Vision" The Open Door The Place of Prayer in the Evangelization of the World Simple Studies in the Gospel of John Suicide or Salvation - Which? Synoptic Outline of the Gospel of John Teachers Meetings "Temporary Suffering Coupled with Eternal Glory, Gain, and Reign" Ft. Leavenworth Vocational Guidance The Workers Preparation (Charitable Work) A Would-be Suicide Saved - Plus Youth and the Christian Home Box 32 (Green) Miscellaneous Articles Karl Bates - Clippings Bible Conference at Bethel Church Dec. 26-31, 1916 Booklists Bulletin Board Notes Cards Carver, Mo. Mennonite Church, List of Members Children's Sunday School Materials Clippings Clippings - Health Church Transfer letters J. S. Coffman outlines Goshen College Grandfather's estate - Quiestions A Guide to Books and Stories for christian Education Hesston College Kansas City Kansas City Mission Kansas City Mission Church Kansas City, Kansas 1905-1915, 1917 Kansas City Mission Teachers' Meetings Kansas City Mission Miscellaneous Records, etc. Kansas City Mission Workers Expense Account - Goods Kansas City Children's Home 1929-1930 Remodeling Plans Kansas City Mennonite Children's Home Newsletter Kansas City Mission Board and Children's Welfare Board Res. On Bonnets John Koppenhaver - Clippings Letter of D. S. Lapp concerning J. D. M. leaving Kansas City Letters kept by J. D. M. Mennonite Children's Welfare Board 1915 Report Mennonite Christian Education Conference of the Southwestern Pennsylvania District Miscellaneous Suggestive Subjects Missouri - Iowa Conference District Missouri - Kansas Conference Constitution, Dress Regulations Box 33 (Green) Notebook - Ruth Mininger National Council for Prevention of War Miscellaneous Obituaries - Clippings Questionnaire - City Missions Questionnaire for City Missions Mission Work Questionnaire Manual for City Missions - Questionnaire Questionnaire for articles on City Missions Periodicals Periodicals, Memorial issues Poems Poems - Clippings Dr. Campbell's Prescriptions Programs, etc. "The Radio Preacher" Sale Notice Socialist Party papers Songs Sterilization of the Unfit Sunday School Lessons Sunday School Teachers Tracts Universal Military Training; Our Latest Cure-All, by Oswald Garrison Villard (1918) Universal Military Training and Democracy by George Nasmyth (l9l8) University of Kansas Commencement 1939 Young People's Bible Meetings Box 34 (Green) Miscellaneous Business Forms Checks and Check stubs Chattel mortgages Contribution cards Miscellaneous financial Publishing house bills Real estate taxes Typewriters William Fretz Correspondence 1918-15 Notes, articles, tracts Mennonite Children's Welfare Board Letters to William F. Fretz, 1912-15 Letters to William F. Fretz, 1911 Letters to William F. Fretz, 1910 Letters to William F. Fretz, 1909 Letters to William F. Fretz, 1908 Funeral Records, 1941 Hettie (Kulp) Mininger, 1874-1965 Biography of Hettie Mininger, by Russell Krabill, ca. 1991, 19 pages.   Subject Tracings Chronology 1900-1941   Carver, Mo. Mennonite Church Box 32 folder 7 Chautauquas Box 1 corr. July 14, 1915 City Missions Box 33 folders 5-9 Conscientious Objectors Box 22; Boxes 3-9 corr., 1918-1920 Doctrine Boxes 23-30 Holy Spirit Box 2 corr. Jan. 3 & 13, 1916, July 28, 1916 Mennonite Children's Home, Kansas City, KS Box 32 folders 25-27, Box 34 Mennonite Gospel Mission, Kansas Boxes 1-21 Corr., 1912-1941; Box 23 folders 29-33; Box 32 folders 17-24; Box 34 Hettie (Kulp) Mininger, 1874-65 Box 34, folder 16 Russell Krabill Box 34, folder 16 Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas Box 22, folder 14   Jan 18, 2006 / Web update by Israel Ditzler March 15, 2005 / Updated by Helen Hostetler April 30, 2004 / Reformatted by Kathryn Yoder July 18, 2001 / Update by Monica Zimmerman Previously typed and posted on web File “HM1-011 Mininger, Jacob and Hettie.doc” Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526     Back to Personal Collections Index Webmaster: John E. Sharp [SharpRoots.com] | Redesign: Tim Nafziger| Last updated: 7/24/2003 sss

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