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 Descriptive Summary Papers of Henry W. & Anna Lohrenz, 1874-1945 M25 Lohrenz, Henry W., 1878-1945 5.0 linear ft. Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies (Fresno, Calif.).
Fresno, California
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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Papers of Henry W. & Anna Lohrenz, M25, Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Fresno, Calif.

 Biography

Henry W. Lohrenz was born in Harvey County, Kansas, on 2 February 1878 to Heinrich and Elizabeth Wiens Lohrenz. He joined the Ebenezer Mennonite Brethren Church in Buhler, Kansas, in 1896. From 1900 to 1908 Lohrenz attended McPherson (Kan.) College, from where he received an A.B. degree in 1908. While a student at McPherson, the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church near Hillsboro, Kansas, called Lohrenz to the ministry in 1904. He was ordained there in 1907. In 1908 Lohrenz was called to be president of the newly-founded Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. He held that position until 1931. During most of those years Lohrenz was also a professor of biology at Tabor. From 1929 to 1932 he was the Dean of the Tabor College Bible School. Lohrenz received an A.M. degree from the University of Kansas in 1911 and a D.D. from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1929. He also briefly attended Columbia University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, and the University of Wichita. In 1932 Lohrenz left Tabor and became an assistant professor of Biology and Bible at Bethel College in nearby Newton, Kansas. He stayed there only until 1934, when he accepted a position as Bible instructor at Corn Bible Academy in Corn, Oklahoma. He returned to Tabor in 1935 as Dean of the Bible School, a position he held until 1941. From 1941 until 1945 he was a professor of Bible there. H. W. Lohrenz's service to the Mennonite Brethren Conference was wide ranging. He is perhaps best remembered in that regard as the chairman of the Board of Foreign Missions from 1919-1936 and Executive Secretary of that board from 1936-1945. His other conference positions included Conference Moderator (1919-1924, 1927-1930 and 1943-1945), Conference Assistant Moderator (1936-1939), Conference Secretary (1905-1906), Conference Assistant Secretary (1909-1915), chairman of the Constitution Committee (1930-1936), Secretary-Treasurer of the Education Committee (1936-1939), Vice Chairman (1936-1939) and Chairman (1943-1945) of the Board of Reference and Counsel, member of the Christian Education Committee (1924-1927), and member of the Peace Committee (1919-1927). Henry W. Lohrenz died 16 March 1945 in Hillsboro, Kansas.

 Scope and Content

This record group contains academic transcripts (1900-1927), student papers written by Lohrenz (1900-1927), material relating to McPherson College (1888-1910), material relating to Tabor College (1908-1932), essays, addresses, sermon and lecture notes, correspondence with a wide variety of persons, particularly other leaders in the Mennonite Brethren Church, material relating to conscientious objectors in World War I, Lohrenz family genealogical material, and other items relating to the life of Henry W. Lohrenz. The record groups also contains a small amount of papers from Lohrenz's wife, Anna Friesen Lohrenz

 Series Description Series I: Biographical and personal information Series II: Administrative records of Tabor College and the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, 1908-1944 Series III: Sermons, lecture and course materials, [19--]-1944 Series IV: Materials relating to conscientious objectors in World War I Series V: Correspondence, 1894-1945 Series VI: additional material added in 1983, 1874-1945 Container List Series I: Biographical and personal material 1 Information on Lohrenz family and poetry Anna Friesen Lohrenz papers Personal notebooks Educational transcripts and student writings, 1900- 1927 Series II: Administrative records of Tabor College & the General Conference of MB Churches 1 Tabor College Board of Directors, 1908-1932 Corporation, 1907-1927 Committee reports, financial reports and fund-raising reports, 1909- 1933 Faculty minutes and curriculum planning reports, 1912- 1925 Reports to Mennonite Brethren conferences, 1908- 1945 Chapel addresses, 1919-1945 Youth presentations, 1919-1936 General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Reference and Counsel, 1920-1943 Board of Foreign Missions, 1932-1943 Series III: Sermons, lecture and course materials 1 Sermons Christmas and New Year Given in hospitals Birthdays and family events Harvest festivals, communion and footwashing Palm Sunday, Easter, Pentecost and Ascension Day Funerals and farewells Weddings and baptisms 2 Ordinations Missions Conference events Bible schools Partial index to sermons and preaching itinerary Sermons arranged chronologically, 1919-1944 Course syllabi and notes 3 Ethics Bible doctrine Homiletics English Bible History of the Mennonite Brethren Church Christian education Teachings of Jesus Life of Jesus Gospels Acts Romans and I Corinthians II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Hebrews I and II Thessalonians I, II and III John, James I and II Peter Revelation Series IV: Materials relating to conscientious objectors in World War I 3 Position statements and minutes of meetings, 1917- 1922 Data on Mennonite Brethren men called to military service Correspondence with government agencies and military, 1917- 1918 Correspondence with Peace Committee, 1917-1920 Correspondence with drafted men, 1918-1919 Series V: Correspondence 4 Adrian, H., 1928-1930 Adrian, P. P., 1922 Baker, Newton, 1917-1918 Balzer, Benjamin, 1919 Balzer, Peter H., 1917 Balzer, Peter V., 1924-1940 Barkman, J. R., 1933 Barnley, H. J., 1918 Bartel, D. D., 1917-1919 Bartsch, Heinrich and Anna, 1930 Bauer, John, 1917 Bechthold, Philip, 1917 Becker, A. J., 1917-1922 Bender, Harold S., 1938 Berg, John, 1917-1929 Berg, P.H., 1935 Bergthold, Daniel F., 1917-1939 Bergthold, D. P Bese, John, 1917 Bestvater, William J., 1931-1938 Bethel Deaconess Home and Hospital, 1942-1944 Block, John, 1927 Boese, John H., 1917 Borntrager, E. J., 1918 Brandt, H. F., 1926-1932 British Embassy, 1918 Buller, John J., 1918 Buller, Peter, 1917 Burkhard, C., 1917 Claassen, P. W., 1911 Conference on Fundamentals, 1920 Congo Inland Mission, 1919 Culler, A. J., 1920 Curtis, Charles, 1918-1920 Dahl, Henry E., 1918 Dahl, Henry F., 1918 Dahl, John E., 1908 Dahl, P. E., 1931-1932 Dahl, Tena, 1935 Detweiler, I. R., 1918 Dick, A. A., 1931-1944 Doolittle, Dudley, 1916-1917 Duerksen, J. F., 1894-1927 Dyck, David, 1920-1925 Ebel, B. E., 1918 Edwards, John A., 1920 Eitzen, A. A., 1918 Eitzen, D. C., 1921-1930 Enns, J. M., 1917-1918 Epp, A. P., 1936 Epp, Jacob, 1921 Epp, J. B., 1917-1922 Esau, Johann, 1919-1920 Ewert, J. G., 1926-1938 Ewert, W. F., 1917 Fadenrecht, John H., 1944 Fast, Peter, 1917 Flaming, G. A., 1917 Flaming, H. C., 1927 Flaming, H. H., 1917-1939 Flaming, Jacob H., 1917 Foote, Paulina, 1925-1927 Ford, Guy Stanton, 1918 Foth, J. H., 1917-1918 Foth, J. S., 1913-1920 Frantz, A. I., 1931 Franz, J. J., 1918-1922 Friesen, B. J., 1923-1926 Friesen, J., 1927 Friesen, P. C., 1916-1918 Fruechting, Friedrich, 1919 Gaebelein, A. C., 1917 Gebhardt, Guy T., 1917 Goebel, P. N., 1917-1918 Goertz, P. S., 1915-1931 Goerzen, F. S., 1910-1911 Gray, Alfred G., 1928 Groening, A. A., 1927 Groening, Abr., 1930 Guenther, John, 1917-1918 Guenther, Peter, 1920 Hamilton, H. G., 1931 Hanneman, Anna, 1922-1935 Harder, D. E., 1921-1925 Harder, P. E. J., 1925 Harding, President Warren G., undated Harms, A. J., 1918-1922 Harms, J. F., 1903-1932 Harms, O. F., 1906 Harms, Tina C., 1922 Hartford Theological Seminary, 1925 Hartzler, J. E., 1922 Heide, Peter C., 1918 Heidebrecht, C. C., 1911-1919 Hein, J. J., 1919 Heinrichs, A. and H., 1917 Heinrichs, Abraham, 1917 Heinrichs, J., 1922 Heinrichs, J. R., 1928 Heinrichs, John, 1917 Heiser, Heinrich, 1917-1918 Herbel, Mrs. Fred, 1917 Heszler, Ludwig, 1918 Hibbard C. V., 1916 Hiebert, Abe E., 1918-1919 Hiebert, D. F., undated Hiebert, J. K., 1908-1930 Hiebert, J. N. C., 1927-1936 Hiebert, John D., 1917 Hiebert, N. C., 1918 Hiebert, N. N., 1909-1938 Hiebert, P. C., 1907-1942 Hillsboro (Kan.) Mennonite Brethren Church, 1934 Hoch, Homer, 1917-1920 Hodel, John J., 1917 Hoeppner, D. R., 1920 Hofer, D. M., 1918-1925 Hole, Allen D., 1919-1920 Hoover, Herbert, 1918 Hoover, William A., 1918 Huebert, G. B., 1926-1944 Janz, B. B., 1928-1935 Janz, Henry P., 1917 Janzen, A. E., 1916-1935 Janzen, C. C., 1915-1931 Janzen, F. A. & Elizabeth, 1920-1923 Janzen, F. F., 1917 Janzen, H. A., 1917 Janzen, Herman, 1918 Just, M. M., 1913-1919 Justice, Department of (U.S.), 1918 Kansas Department of Education, 1926 Kansas, University of, 1917 Kaufman, Ed G., 1929 Keile, Jacob, 1917 Keppel, F. D., 1918 Kiehn, P. D., 1922 Klassen, C. F., 1944 Klassen, G. S., 1918 Klassen, Susie & Gerhard, 1916 Kliewer, J. J., 1917-1931 Kliewer, J. W., 1917-1920 Kohfeld, Henry, 1930 Koller, Charles W., 1941 Koop, Jacob, 1917 Kornelson, Tina, 1929 Kroeker, Helena, 1925 Kroeker, Jacob, 1922-1923 Kroeker, M. A., 1936 Krehbiel, H. P., 1917-1924 Kurtz, D. W., 1917 Labor, Department of (U.S.), 1917 Lange, P. R., 1923-1934 Langeman, Peter, 1937 Langenwalter, J. H., 1921-1922 Langhofer, Henry, 1917 Lathem, A. L., 1921 Lohrenz, Anna, 1925-1931 Lohrenz, Anna & children, 1925 Lohrenz, G. W., 1919-1935 Lohrenz, Katharina, 1913 Lohrenz, John H., 1919-1945 5 McMullen, R. J., 1944 Martin, Paul, 1925 Mendenhall, W. O. 1925-1932 Mennonite Relief Committees, 1920 Mosiman, S. K., 1922 Musselman, S. M., 1921 Neufeld, A. J., 1925-1931 Neufeld, H. A., 1919-1920 Neufeld, K. G., 1927-1931 Nickel, B. P., 1922 Nickel, P. E., 1911-1935 Nickel, T. R., 1923 Pankratz, H. J., 1908-1933 Pankratz, J. H., 1913-1944 Pauls, A. W., 1918 Pauls, B. P., 1928 Penner, A. A., 1923 Penner, H. F., 1917 Penner, P. C., 1917 Penner, P. E., 1931 Peters, Diedrich G., 1935 Red Cross, 1917 Redekop, J. F., 1922 Reedley (Calif.) Mennonite Brethren Church, undated Regehr, J. K., 1918-1926 Regier, Mr. & Mrs., 1909-1918 Regier, Mary J., 1926-1927 Regier, Peter, 1928 Reimche, Christian, 1917 Reimer, Catherine, 1928 Reimer, Heinrich E., 1917 Reimer, J. D., 1933 Reimer, Jacob, 1917 Reimer, John, 1919 Rempel, P. P., 1911-1919 Rempel, Henry D., 1935 Rempel, K., 1939 Revision der Statuten der Konferenz, Komitee für die, 1933 Richert, A. J., 1916 Richert, Abr., 1906 Richert, Herbert, 1922 Richert, J. H. & Anna, 1922-1927 Richert, P. H., 1917-1918 Rogalsky, H., 1922 Ross, Adam G., 1917-1924 Rosthern District Mennonite Brethren Churches (Saskatchewan), 1933 Royer, Galen B., 1918 Sawatzky, A. G., 1930-1933 Schapanski, T. M., undated Schellenberg, A. L., 1917-1923 Schellenberg, Abraham, 1909-1929 Schellenberg, Katharina, 1921-1945 Schellenberg, P. E., 1922-1942 Schenkofsky, Henry, 1921-1922 Schlichting, M. H., 1921-1922 Schmidt, August B., 1931 Schneider, C. F., 1917-1918 Schneider, Samuel, undated Schroeder, Abr., 1918 Schroeter, A. A., 1922-1938 Schroeter, Elizabeth, 1924 Seibel, J. J., 1913-1929 Seibel, Mr. & Mrs. John, 1918 Seibel, Ludwig J., 1917-1928 Seibel, R. C., 1930-1944 Siemens, John, 1923 Smith, A. A., 1933-1943 Snead, A. C., 1933 Spahn, Adam, undated Stobbe, H. H., 1927-1931 Stoesz, A. D., 1923 Stoesz, Dietrich, 1918 Strand Mission, 1919 Strauss, A. F., 1931-1940 Strauss, D. F., 1927-1939 Suderman, J. M., 1936 Sudermann, Anne, 1915 Sudermann, D. E., 1918 Sunday School Times, 1918 Swigart, W. J., 1917 Tabor College Board of Directors, 1927-1933 Taft, G. W., 1931 Thiersten, J. R., 1923-1924 Thiesen, Margaret L., 1927 Thiesen, Ph. E., 1924 Thiessen, H. C., 1917-1933 Thiessen, Herman H., 1927 Thiessen, J. C., 1917-1918 Thiessen, J. F., 1918-1924 Thiessen, N. J., 1917-1918 Thieszen, Jakob M., 1914 Thomssen, G. N., 1916-1917 Toews, David, 1917 Toews, H. F., 1913-1922 Toews, J. B., 1937-1945 Toews, P. F., undated Torrey, R. A., 1920-1924 Troyer, E., 1923 Tschetter, J. M., 1923-1925 Unruh, A. A., 1937 Unruh, A. H., 1926-1940 Unruh, Cornelius, 1923 Unruh, D. P., 1912 Unruh, H. E., 1917 Unruh, P. H., 1917-1922 Vogt, J. W., 1923 Voth, George, 1917 Voth, H. S., 1928-1940 Voth, Heinrich, 1914 Voth, J. H., 1921-1935 Wall, A. C., 1931-1932 Wall, Elizabeth, 1937-1941 Wall, Isaac, 1925 Wall, P. F., 1922-1925 War Department (U.S.), 1918-1924 Warkentin, C. H., 1922-1925 Warkentin, G. D., 1919 Warkentin, J. K., 1927-1930 Warkentin, J. W., 1927-1932 Warkentin, K. H., 1920-1921 Wedel, B. C., 1917 Wedel, P. J., 1924 Western [i.e. Pacific] District Conference of MB Churches, undated Weyand, G., 1927 White, W. P., 1931 Whitmer, Paul E., 1921-1936 Wiebe, A. J., 1921-1923 Wiebe, F. F., 1928 Wiebe, H. D., 1931-1945 Wiebe, J. J., 1929-1934 Wiebe, John A. & Viola, 1913-1945 Wiebe, John P., 1923 Wiebe, P. Z., 1927-1928 Wiens, Bernard, 1921-1924 Wiens, F. J., 1913-1929 Wiens, Gerhard, 1917-1925 Wiens, J. W., 1917-1935 Wiens, John, 1928 Wiens, Peter F., 1927-1932 Willems, G. D., 1936 Williams, Governor R. L., 1917 Wilson, President Woodrow, 1917 Yoder, A. B., 1918 Zabriskie, George A., 1918 Zionsbote, 1918 unsigned or incomplete, 1918-1928 Series VI: Material added in 1983 4 Funeral service, misc. manuscripts, list of H. W. Lohrenz material in possession of Marian Remple Correspondence with wife and children McPherson College Tabor College Correspondence with various persons