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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Two newspaper clippings, “Bible Reveals Family History,” Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen, South Dakota, June 1975. Content: 1812 Bible of Edelmann family (Baden origins) from Rohrbach (?), Beresan district to Yankton as pioneers in 1873. [Menno-Freeman pioneers]; and Tobin, Ellen, “Edelmans Early Settlers” article, (page 4), Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan, (Wednesday, 2 July 1975), Yankton, SD: 1975, with one photograph

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Rev. George Rath Collection is organized into eleven series: correspondence, questionnaires, town history, church history, synod and district history, church conference, manuscript, newspaper, newsletter, magazine and subject files. The Correspondence Series contains letters to and from Professor George Rath in 1972 and 1973 regarding information on German Lutheran and Catholic ministers and churches in North and South Dakota. Professor George Rath developed a form in 1970...
Dates: 1871 - 1977