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1. Collection, Manuscript - Amos B. Kolb Farm Deeds

   Deeds from the Amos B. Kolb (1879-1973) farm, East Vincent Township, Chester County, 1799-1915. Bishop of Vincent Mennonite Church.

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Papers, Personal - Amos B. Kolb Papers

   Ministerial record book of Bishop Amos Kolb (1879-1973) of the Vincent Mennonite Congregation (Skippack District), Chester County. He was ordained minister in 1906 and bishop in 1944.

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Papers, Personal - Elmer G. Kolb Papers

   Size: 7.5 linear feet (9 boxes) Elmer Kolb (1905-2004) and his wife Emily Moyer (1906-1990) were Mennonite mission workers with Franconia Conference in the urban setting of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1930s. In 1938 Elmer was ordained to the ministry, the first in Franconia Conference to be ordained on the basis of gifts and call, without the drawing of lots. In 1952 he was ordained bishop for the Western District of Franconia ...

   Record Type: Archive

   
4. Papers, Personal - Jacob C. Clemens Papers

   Size: 10 linear feet (10 boxes) Jacob C. "J.C." Clemens (1874-1965) had an influential role in the life of Franconia Mennonite Conference in the first half of the twentieth century. Ordained in 1906 to serve the Plains congregation near Lansdale, he left a promising banking career to answer that call. He was one of the first ministers in Franconia Conference to preach regularly in English, and his services were much in demand across the confer...

   Record Type: Archive