The Same Spirit: History of Iowa-Nebraska MennonitesA lively retelling of the 75+ year history of the Iowa Nebraska Mennonite Conference. In addition to focusing on the beginning years since 1921 when the Conference was formed, events and decisions by early Amish settlers in Iowa and Nebraska are also addressed. A compelling story. (329pp. illus. index. hardcover with jacket.)

Index includes names such as Beard

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Ancestral history begins with Joseph Horst (1723-1804)

Includes a chapter on Jacob Hochstetler's life

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This book lists 21 emigrants who left Gimbsheim (north of Worms in the Palatinate)

PA German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University

1915) and had 4 children: Henry A

this book gives the history of the old Reading Furnace built in 1736 in Chester Co

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offer insight into life at the turn of the century