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| Manchester University Archives and Brethren Historical Collection |
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Full Listing > Search results for "Missionaries" as a "keywords" value:Click on the accession's accession number to see the full accession's information.| Topic | Accession # | Description Summary | | Hamer, Harriett: Collection | MC2008/169 | Newspaper article about Professor Boebel's play, "Memory Speaks: North Manchester Celebrates its First 150 Years." One newspaper article from around 1986 that tells of North Manchester's search for a town slogan.
One personal letter that refers to the Church of the Brethren missionaries, the Dr. Hamers, and gives short vignettes about past Manchester College presidents, including Otho Winger and Professor Crouch and what life was like as a student.
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| Mount Morris College: Academic and Permanent Records | MC2004/213 | Mount Morris College Academic Department Permanent Records - grade cards from 1889-1890, including cards of Mary (Emmert) Stover and Adam Eby. |
| Public Relations: News Journal 1911 Newspaper Spread | MC2009/111 | Newspaper: The News-Journal 1911 newspaper spread: "Wonderful Progress of Manchester College." An interesting historical account about the founding of the College. Mentioned in the "College Notes" section is Catherine Forney, a student in Manchester college and instructor in French in the academy. Her parents, D. L. Forney and Anna Shull, were one of the first students to enroll at Manchester college and served also as missionaries at Jalalpor, India. |
| Stover, Wilbur and Mary Emmert | Stover, Wilbur and Mary: Additional Information | Additional resources for material related to Wilbur and Mary Stover. |
These items in the Church of the Brethren collection may also be helpful:Click on the record's record number to see the full record information.| Topic | Record # | Description Summary | | Album: Church of the Brethren, People, Highland Avenue | BC2010/5 | What makes this album interesting in the amount of history it records. There are articles about Church of the Brethren missionaries, the Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Illinois, Church of the Brethren ministers and leaders, as well as personal stories about the compiler and folks this individual knows. It is a shame that the source remains unknown. |
| Church of the Brethren Missions: Nigeria | BC2010/8 | One booklet, "Kaduna, 1962." "Messenger," February 1973, Special Issue, "50 Years in Nigeria." |
| Church of the Brethren: Chinese Day School, Photograph | BC2010/9 | Photograph of Chinese Day School, 1916 with H. S. Claybaugh on verso. |
| Gandhi Passes Through Mission: Miller, Miss E. B. | BC2011/8 | An article from "The Missionary Visitor," May 1930, writes about Gandhi and his volunteers sweeping through Jalalpor where Miss E. B. Miller, native of Waterloo, Iowa, served as a missionary. This was written about in the New York Times. |
| Missions in Africa: Church of the Brethren | COB General File: Missionaries | Africa, hand-written notes on the start-up of missions in the country. |
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