Isaac Clarence Kulp Brethren Collection
MHEP.Hist.Mss.436.3

Summary Information

Repository
Mennonite Heritage Center
Creator
Kulp, Isaac Clarence, 1938-2007
Title
Isaac Clarence Kulp Brethren collection
ID
MHEP.Hist.Mss.436.3
Date [inclusive]
1850-2007
Extent
4.0 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Language
English
Abstract
Isaac Clarence Kulp (1938-2007) was an historian, antiquarian, and folk artist of Vernfield, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. In the 1960s he was one of the pioneers of Pennsylvania German folk culture research in the Goschenhoppen region of Montgomery County and surrounding areas. His collection of folklore notes, tape recordings, books, paintings, photographs and other manuscripts has been preserved at the Mennonite Heritage Center. The I. C. Kulp Brethren Collection: Mr. Kulp was deeply committed to Brethren faith, and he collected material related to the Church of the Brethren, especially Indian Creek Church of the Brethren in Vernfield, PA, where he was a member.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Mennonite Heritage Center 2008

565 Yoder Road
Harleysville, PA
215.256.3020
library@mhep.org

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Brethren (Church of the Brethren).
  • Indian Creek Church of the Brethren (Harleysville, Pa.).

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Collection Inventory

Series A. Brethren material (general) 

Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) 

 Box
34		 Folder
1

Hutterian Society of Brothers (Bruderhof) 

 Box
34		 Folder
2

Old German Baptist Brethren 

 Box
34		 Folder
3

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Series B. Church of the Brethren 

Church of the Brethren miscellanea 

 Box
34		 Folder
4-5

COB Annual Conference 1890-1968  (Bulk, 1958-1968)

Box
34		 Folder
6-10

Brethren Health and Welfare Association 1983-1985 

Scope and Contents note

Primarily newsletters.

 Box
34		 Folder
11

Brethren Voluntary Service circa 1955-1989 

 Box
34		 Folder
12

Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, PA) 1910-2003 

Scope and Contents note

Programs and promotional material.

 Box
34		 Folder
13

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Series C. Local Church of the Brethren districts 

Eastern District 

Biographical/Historical note

Shared eastern Pennsylvania with the more progressive North Atlantic District until 1970, when the two were merged to create Atlantic Northeast District.
Box Folder

Sundry items, 1895-1969 (including newsletters 1953-1969) 

 34 14

District Meetings 1868-1966  (Bulk, 1957-1961)

34 15-21

Ministerial, Sunday School and Missionary Meeting minutes 1913-1915 

 34 22

Congregations in the Eastern District to 1969 

 34 23

Little Swatara meeting schedules, Lebanon County, PA mid-19th century 

 34 24

North Atlantic District 1957-1970 

Biographical/Historical note

File includes material related to specific North Atlantic congregations to 1969.

 Box
34		 Folder
25

Atlantic Northeast District 

Scope and Contents note

Includes newsletter 1977-1991.

 Box
34		 Folder
26-32

Atlantic Northeast congregations 

Scope and Contents note

Material mostly from Amwell COB, Sergeantsville, NJ; Germantown COB, Philadelphia, PA; Hatfield (PA) COB; and Peter Becker Community Chapel, Harleysville, PA.

 Box
34		 Folder
33-37

Middle Pennsylvania District 

Scope and Contents note

November 1945 issue of The District Echo.

 Box
34		 Folder
38

Southern Pennsylvania District 

Scope and Contents note

1975 directory for Pleasant View Church of the Brethren, Red Lion, PA.

 Box
34		 Folder
39

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Series D. Indian Creek Church of the Brethren (Vernfield, PA) 

Programs, church business, etc. 1940-2006 

 Box
35		 Folder
1-5

Worship bulletins 1954-2007 

 Box
35		 Folder
6-24

Newsletters 1974-2007 

 Box
36		 Folder
1-3

Historical material (primarily notes in I. C. Kulp's handwriting) 

 Box
36		 Folder
4

Elmer M. Moyer papers 

Biographical/Historical note

Elmer M. Moyer (1877-1960), ordained minister at Indian Creek in 1907 and elder in 1919; elder-in-charge, 1929-1936.

 Box
36		 Folder
5

Joseph G. Moyer papers 

Biographical/Historical note

Joseph G. Moyer (1912-1983), ordained minister at Indian Creek in 1943 and elder in 1948; elder-in-charge/moderator, circa 1958-1970.

 Box
36		 Folder
6-8

Abraham A. Price papers 

Biographical/Historical note

Abraham/Abram A. Price (1883-1966), ordained minister at Indian Creek in 1918 and elder in 1923; elder-in-charge, 1936-1958; also taught at Indian Creek public school, circa 1905-1917 (see folder 21-16 for schoolteaching records).
Box Folder

Sundry items 

 36 9

Certificates 

Scope and Contents note

Church membership transfer certificates to Indian Creek from other Brethren congregations, 1910-1929; three baptism certificates, 1942; marriage license for Charles and Irene Shelly Young, 1955.

 36 10

Joint Conference of Mennonites, Brethren, Schwenkfelders, and Friends 1938-1941 

 36 11

Busy Men's Bible Class 1930-1951 

 37 1-4

Programs early to mid 20th century 

Scope and Contents note

Many programs from the Eastern District COB and its congregations, as well as Brethren in Christ, Mennonite, and Mennonite Brethren in Christ denominations and Lederach Chapel, Lederach, PA.

 37 5-19

James B. Shisler papers 

Biographical/Historical note

James B. Shisler (1856-1932), ordained minister at Indian Creek in 1897 and elder in 1906; elder-in-charge, 1917-1929. See also folder 20-33.

 Box
37		 Folder
20

Waldo E. A. Ziegler papers 

Biographical/Historical note

Waldo Emerson A. Ziegler (1882-1977), ordained deacon at Indian Creek in 1927. File contains manuscript notes from an Eastern District Meeting, circa 1950.

 Box
37		 Folder
21

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Series E. Brethren directories 

Eastern District, COB directories (incomplete series) 1949-1969 

 Box
38		 Volume
1-12

Atlantic Northeast District, COB directories (incomplete series) 1972-1993 

 Box
38		 Volume
13-24

Indian Creek COB directories (incomplete series) 1951-2006 

 Box
38		 Volume
25-52

Atlantic Northeast Disaster Relief Auction programs (incomplete series) 1987-2003 

 Box
38		 Folder
1-2

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