W. W. and Elva Garber Oesch Papers, 1896-1985 | Mennonite Church USA Archives

Scope and Contents: A hodgepodge of material created and collected by an Indiana Mennonite farmer and his wife. The bulk of the materials in the collection are clippings of W. W. Oesch's "Ramblings" column from a New Paris (Ind.) newspaper, The Farmer's Exchange (1948-1970). Materials also include a scrapbook with correspondence, journal entries, and clippings by and about Sarah Alice Troyer Young, a mission worker killed in the Boxer Rebellion.  Three photographs of Young and the China Inland Mission may also be found in this collection.  FInally, researchers may find correspondence and congregational records in this collection regarding the doctrinal difficulties of the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church in the 1920s.