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MSS 110 AV
Society of Separatists of Zoar Records
1811- 1946
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number: MSS 110 AV
Title: Society of Separatists of Zoar Records
Dates: 1811- 1946
Media: Manuscripts, printed material, newspaper
clippings, and photographs.
Quantity: 43 cu. ft.
Location: Manuscripts: 3/ 31/ 1,2
Audiovisuals: AV Cage, 3/ 3/ 2/ B
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
After breaking with the established Lutheran church, a group of Separatists fled their
homeland of Württemberg, Germany in search of religious freedom. The group arrived
in Philadelphia on August 14, 1817, where the Quakers befriended them. Soon after,
they contracted to buy a 5,500- acre tract of land on the east bank of the Tuscarawas
River, agreeing to pay the purchase price over a 15- year period. The new community
was named Zoar, meaning “ a sanctuary from evil.” In the fall of 1817, the Separatist
leader, Joseph Bimeler, and other members left to prepare their new home. On
December 1, 1817, the first home in the new village was completed.
The Separatists wanted to create a self- sufficient community where they would be able
to worship freely, but an economic system had to be established first. Since the first
year of farming produced insufficient yields to pay their land debt, private land ownership
was rejected in favor of a form of communism advocated by Johannes Breymaier that
was accepted by most of the members. Under the new system, Bimeler remained the
community’s leader. Both male and female members of the community signed the
Articles of Association, which created the Society of Separatists of Zoar, on April 15,
1819. The Articles were revised in 1824 and in 1833 the Society was incorporated. All
stated the government of the society would be a board of three trustees, a standing
committee of five, an agent general, and a cashier. The Society held all members’
property and wealth. In return for following the decisions of the Society’s trustees,
members received food, clothing and shelter.
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As Zoar grew, local industries like brick and rope- making developed, and a sawmill, flour
mill, and woolen mill were established. The tinshop and foundry manufactured a variety
of goods for sale, while farms produced so much food that many products were sold in
other towns.
Thanks to the communal economy, thrift, and Bimeler’s leadership, Zoar was almost
totally self- sufficient by 1834. However, when Bimeler died in 1853, the Society started
to wane in productivity. Despite their commitment to communism, the Zoarites
floundered without Bimeler’s spiritual and business leadership, and their initiative
declined.
Changing social and economic times also impacted the community. The advent of the
railroad and the rise of mass- production industries threatened Zoar’s small businesses.
Younger members left the community to make their fortunes. Nonmembers were being
hired to work in the fields and in various industries, and older members felt their
presence had an adverse affect on the young Separatists.
On March 10, 1898, members decided to dissolve the Society. According to the final
settlement, they were able to keep their clothing, personal items and their home in the
village. They also received about fifty acres of land and a $ 200 cash dividend. The
collapse of the Society also meant the end of the Separatist religion.
In 1930, the Zoar Historical Society was formed to collect records and artifacts pertaining
to the community’s past. In 1936, Zoar and Tuscarawas County leaders joined with
officials of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ( OSAHS) to form the
Zoar Foundation. In addition to collecting and preserving books and manuscripts
pertaining to Zoar, the Foundation acquired properties in Zoar Village. In 1941, the Zoar
Foundation transferred its possessions and care of Zoar Village to OSAHS.
During the 1940s, many of the Zoar Museum’s manuscripts were brought to the OSAHS
library in Columbus. After 1954, additional items, including account books, were
received. E. B. Nixon of Rhinebeck, New York provided approximately 75 Zoar business
letters and receipts from 1884 to 1897. In 1958, Laura E. Hostetler sold OSAHS 13
items relating to a lawsuit involving Bimeler. Typescript copies of several letters
pertaining to Zoar immigrants, written by Quakers, were received from Mrs. Horatio
Wales of Spring Hill Farm in Massillon, Ohio ( these are now in the Massillon ( Ohio)
Museum Collection. Other papers acquired included those of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm
( 1877- 1942), whose family ran the Zoar Hotel; the partnership of Zimmerman and
Kuecherer, who operated the Zoar store after the dissolution of the Zoar Society; and the
Zoar Post Office, the Zoar Municipality, and the Zoar Foundation. Facsimiles of some of
these letters can be seen on the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, accessible through a
search at http:// www. ohiomemory. org.
According to the 2000 census, Zoar today is a community of approximately 200 families
living in houses built from 1817 to the present. The 12- block historic district is unique in
that it remains a living part of the community. The Ohio Historical Society maintains ten
buildings as museums, but the remainder is primarily comprised of restored residences.
Many of these residences contain home occupations, including Bed and Breakfast
establishments, shops and restaurants, much like in the Zoarites' era.
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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
The collection begins with Society administrative records, documenting the community’s
establishment, its constitution and articles of incorporation, and results of its annual
election of officers. Legal records include those documenting various lawsuits in which
the Society was involved.
Family histories and eulogies yield descriptive facts about some Society members, while
membership applications, contracts, and dissolutions of those contracts provide general
information. Considered applications for “ probationary membership,” if contracts were
not broken or officially renounced, they enabled applicants to be admitted to full
membership in the Society.
The majority of the collection focuses on the Society’s business ledgers, daybooks, and
other records. Account books provide insight into the operations of specific Society
businesses, including the Zoar Furnace Store, the Zoar Society Brewery, Zoar’s tannery,
and its canal mill. An especially complete collection of correspondence, lodging and
board records describe business at the Zoar Hotel from 1842 to 1930. The collection
also provides information about the Zoar Store, which was operated as a partnership by
Zimmerman and Kuecherer after the dissolution of the Zoar Society in 1898 until 1903.
Kuecherer assumed the business until 1925, when F. W. Rowe followed as its operator.
Some ledgers in the collection contain accounting records for a number of Society
businesses. These ledgers have been grouped together and identified as “ General
Records of Society Businesses.”
Society invoices, receipts, and other loose financial records complement the bound
volumes of financial information pertaining not only to the Society’s general business
operations, but also to food, clothing, and other goods and property allocated to
members. Spanning the lifetime of the Society and beyond, these records comprise the
majority of the collection. Business correspondence from 1856 through 1900
complement the information contained in these documents.
Records pertaining to Zoar agencies, including the Zoar Post Office and the Office of the
Union Express, provide detailed information about the Society’s communication with
other communities. Minutes, financial records, and other official documents describe
activities of the Zoar, Ohio Municipal Corporation and the Zoar Foundation. Lillian Ruof
Bimeler Sturm’s newspaper clippings not only describe Zoar in the early years of the 20th
century, but also provide accounts of the Harmony Society and the death of Father
Jacob Henrici, its leader, in 1892.
The collection is not limited to Society business dealings. Music compositions and books
and correspondence of Society members, including those written by those serving in the
Civil War, provide insight into the lives of these individuals. Mrs. Sturm’s extensive
collection of letters, postcards, product advertisements, rewards of merit, and craft
instruction books, and school writings are particularly descriptive of a female’s life during
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The collection concludes with Mrs. Sturm’s photograph albums. These pristine items of
the collection provide visual records of individuals named in other documents in the
collection, from her relatives to other Society members.
ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTION
The collection has been grouped in the following manner. Items have been arranged
chronologically within each series. Individual membership records have been
alphabetized by the individual’s last name.
Series I: Society Administrative Records
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries I: Naturalization Papers, 1818- 1859
Subseries II: Individual Membership Applications and Contracts, 1819- 1827
Subseries III: Individual Membership Contracts, 1831
Subseries IV: Individual Membership Contracts, 1832- 1833
Subseries V: Dissolution of Membership Contracts/ Termination by Departure,
1834- 1859
Subseries VI: Applications for Membership, 1895- 1898
Subseries VII: Birth and Death Lists and Family Records, 1817- 1905
Subseries VIII: Member Eulogies, 1834- 1892
Series III: Legal Records
Subseries I: Society Legal Records, 1817- 1900
Subseries II: Legal Forms Between Society and Members, 1822- 1851
Subseries III: Members’ Marriage Records, 1818- 1830
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries I: Zoar Grist Mill
Subseries II: Zoar Woolen Mill
Subseries III: Zoar Furnace
Subseries IV: Zoar Society Brewery
Subseries V: Zoar Warehouse
Subseries VI: Zoar Store
Subseries VII: Zoar Canal Mill
Subseries VIII: Tannery
Subseries IX: Boarding Houses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- Subseries I: Zoar Hotel Guest Registers
Sub- Subseries II: Zoar Hotel Board and Room Accounts
Sub- Subseries III: Zoar Hotel Order and Expense Books
Sub- Subseries IV: Zoar Hotel Correspondence
Sub- Subseries V: Miscellaneous Documents
Subseries XI: Zoar Tin (“ Tinner”) Shop
Subseries XII: Zoar Cider (“ Cyder”) Mill
Subseries XIII: Zimmerman and Kuecherer Business Papers
Series V: General Records of Society Businesses
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Series VI: Society Financial Records
Subseries I: Loose Records, 1817- 1899
Subseries II: Bound Records, 1833- 1899
Series VII: Society Correspondence
Subseries I: Administrative Correspondence, 1832- 1897
Subseries II: Business Correspondence, 1856- 1900
Subseries III: Harmony Society Correspondence, 1845- 1878
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries I: Zoar Schools, 1832- 1856
Subseries II: Railroad Service to Zoar by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Company, 1882- 1898
Subseries III: Zoar Fire Company, 1845- 1888
Subseries IV: Zoar Post Office, 1827- 1931
Subseries V: Office of the Union Express, 1882- 1883
Subseries VI: Zoar, Ohio Municipal Corporation, 1882- 1883
Subseries VII: Zoar Historical Society Membership Records, 1931- 1932
Subseries VIII: The Zoar Foundation, 1936- 1941
Series IX: Zoar in the Civil War
Series X: Society Ephemera
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries I: Carl David Raiser
Subseries II: Member Correspondence, 1817- 1906
Subseries III: Consular Letters, 1847- 1865
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries I: Correspondence
Sub- Subseries II: Documents
Sub- Subseries III: Ephemera
Sub- Subseries IV: Penmanship Books, Notebooks, Account Books
Sub- Subseries V: Diaries, Memorandum Books, Day Books and
Autograph Books
Series XII: Photographs
Subseries I: Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm’s Photographs
RELATED MATERIALS
Other materials related to the Society of Separatists of Zoar in the Ohio Historical
Society manuscripts department include:
• MIC 70, Tag- Buch fur die Merkwurdigkeiten aufgezeichnet von mir, 1852- 1901.
Negative microfilm, ca. 70 ft., of three manuscript volumes of Beuter’s diary, covering
his spiritual leadership of the Zoar community, 1890- 1901 ( Original in MSS 680,
Nixon Family Papers).
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• MIC 108, Register of births attended by Anna Maria Beuter, 1851- 1880, negative, 10
ft. ( Original in MSS 680, Nixon Family Papers).
• MSS 136, The Peter Kaufmann Papers1806- 1869, including some papers dealing
with Zoar.
• MIC 185, Western Reserve Historical Society Zoar Papers
• MSS 680, Nixon Family Papers
• MSS 984, Society of Separatists at Zoar Papers
• MSS 1276 AV, Jack and Pat Adamson Collection
• AV 9, Zoar, Ohio Photograph Collection
Photographs of Zoar can also be viewed in Ohio Pix, the Society’s online image
database, at http:// www. ohiohistory. org/ etcetera/ exhibits/ ohiopix/.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Ohio
Historical Society.
Preferred Citation: Researchers are requested to cite Society of Separatists of Zoar
Records, MSS 110 AV and the Ohio Historical Society in all
footnote and bibliographic references.
Provenance:
Various sources.
Processed By: Betsy Butler, November- December 2002; June 2003.
Translation: Several items in the collection were written in German. Wolfgang
Fleischhauer, professor emeritus of The Ohio State University,
translated these items. Professor Fleischhauer’s translations
accompany the appropriate items.
Property Rights: The Ohio Historical Society owns the property rights to this
collection.
Copyrights: Consideration of all copyrights is the responsibility of the
author and publisher.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box
numbers shown below.
Series I: Society Administrative Records
Box Folder File Title Dates
1 1 Petition of the Separatists to the Royal Ministry of
the Interior of Wüerttemberg asking permission to
emigrate to Brandenburg
1816
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Box Folder File Title Dates
1 2 Material dealing with Bimeler’s Declaration 1818- 1819
3 Administrative records of the Zoar community 1850s- 1890s
4 Articles of Association 1819, 1824,
1833
5 Constitution ( Handwritten copy in German) 1833
6 Constitution ( Printed text in German) 1833
7 Articles of Incorporation 1832; 1846
8 Poll Book, with results of annual election of officers 1844- 1902
9 Minutes of Society meetings 1845- 1900
10 Documents pertaining to the dissolution of the Zoar
Society
1896- 1899
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries I: Naturalization Papers, 1818- 1859
Box Folder File Title Dates
1 11 Naturalization papers 1818- 1859
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries II: Individual Membership Applications and Contracts, 1817- 1827
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 1 Membership lists 1817- 1859
2 Bertschin, Martha and Flag, Christoph 1823
3 Buehler, Matthaeus; Trogler, Christoph; and
Bachofer, Michael
1821; 1821;
1822
4 Buehlerin, Katharina 1820
5 Haug, Heinrich; Trouthin, Katharina; Seiser,
Freidrich and Wilhelm, and Harrin, Dorothea
1820; 1819;
1820; 1820
6 Laepplin, Sara 1820
7 Lindemann, Johanna 1825
8 Luz, Johann and Ackermaennin, Margaretha 1820; 1820
9 Luzin, Anna Katharina 1823
10 Luzin, Anna Maria, et al. and Morlokin, Anna Maria 1820; 1821
11 Meierin, Barbara and Stade, Christian 1824; 1825
12 Nadele, Sebastian 1824
13 Raiser, Louise and Gottliebe 1823
14 Ruehle, Martin and Schuering, Jacob 1819; 1820
15 Vetter, Dorothea 1826
16 Unnamed individual membership application 1827
17 Membership contracts 1827
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Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries III: Individual Membership Contracts, 1831
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 18 Attich, Johannes 1831
19 Bauer, Martin 1831
20 Breymeyer, Barbara, Johannes and Georg 1831
21 Brunni, Jakob and Fritz, Johannes 1831
22 Brunni, Michael, Barbara and children 1831
23 Christe, Gottlob 1831
24 Henzler, Christian and Rosina 1831
25 Hessin, Anna Maria and Fischer, Christian 1831
26 Huber, Rosina 1831
27 Huberin, Sophia 1831
28 Kittel, Thaddaeus, Maria Barbara, Jakob, and
Taddaeus
1831
29 Kuemmerle, Jakob and Anna Catharina 1831
30 Kuemmerle, Johanna 1831
31 Laessig, Catharina and children 1831
32 Lebold, John George, Nancy and children 1831
33 Mueller, Anna Maria and Rust, Barbara 1831
34 Mueller, Georg and Anna 1831
35 Raiser, Christoph 1831
36 Rauschenberger, Martin, Elisabeth, Martin, Johann
and Elisabeda
1831
37 Rieth, Johannes 1831
38 Roth, Gottfried 1831
39 Sala, Solomon, Delila and children; Cross, Mary 1831
40 Schweizer, Johann Georg and Anna Agathe;
Fischer, Georg Friedrich; Schweizer, Jakob and
Heinrich
1831
41 Wright, David 1831
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries IV: Individual Membership Contracts, 1832- 1833
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 42 Baldwin, James 1832
43 Faxon, William 1832
44 Heid, Maria Magdalena and Eberhardina Carolina 1832
45 Hippin, Johannes and Sibilla 1832
46 Notter, Christian and Anna 1833
47 Notter, Jacob 1833
48 Notter, Johann Georg, Catharina, and child 1833
49 Notter, Sebastian and Anna Maria 1833
50 Sechler, Maurice 1832
51 Stade, Christian 1833
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Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries V: Dissolution of Membership Contracts/ Termination by Departure,
1834- 1859
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 52 Klingenstein, Jacob and Juditha 1834
53 Mueller, Johanna; Schmidt, Mathias 1834; 1834
54 Sala, Solomon 1834
55 Schmidt, Mathias 1834
56 Breymaier, Conrad 1848
57 Kuemmerle/ Koppel, Karoline 1859
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries VI: Applications for Membership, 1895- 1898
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 58 Form letters for applications 1895
59 Herrmann, Friederika and Ottilie 1896
60 Schulz, Theodor 1896- 1897
61 Winter, P. H. 1898
62 Article of Agreement undated
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries VII: Birth and Death Lists and Family Records, 1817- 1905
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 63 Birth certificate for Anna Maria Vetter 1817
64 William Bimeler’s birth lists, death lists, and cholera
death list
1834- 1867;
1852- 1877;
1875- 1905;
1834
65 Rieker family records 1840
66 J. M. Bimeler death notice 1853
67 Birth record, genealogy notes Undated
68 Ruof family records Undated
69 Simon Beuter family history Undated
Series II: Society Membership Records
Subseries VIII: Member Eulogies, 1834- 1892
Box Folder File Title Dates
2 70 Johannes Breymeier’s funeral oration 1834
71 Eulogy of Benjamin Ruof 1873
72 Eulogy of Magdalena Kern 1892
73 Eulogy of Christina Ruof Undated
74 Eulogy of unnamed individual Undated
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Series III: Legal Records
Subseries I: Society Legal Records, 1817- 1900
Box Folder File Title Dates
3 1 Legal records ( includes power of attorney
documents, articles of agreement, documents of
indenture, lot descriptions, land sales and deeds)
1817- 1847
2 Legal records ( includes material, deeds and
agreements concerning sale or purchase of land)
1842- 1859
3 Legal records ( includes power of attorney
documents, legal correspondence and contracts)
1856- 1878
4 Legal records ( includes power of attorney
documents, agreements and contracts)
1880- 1888,
undated
5 Legal documents and correspondence 1894- 1900,
undated
6 Baugher vs. Bimeler 1825- 1826
7 Weiszhaar vs. Zoar 1843- 1855
8 John Gaseley vs. Society of Separatists 1845- 1855
9 Petition, complaint of Boehringer et al. vs. Bimeler,
et al.
1845, 1849
10 Opinion of Judge McLean in John Goesele et al. vs.
Bimeler et al.
1851
11 John Georg Jans vs. J. M. Bimeler lawsuit 1852
12 U. S. Supreme Court, Goesele et al. vs. Bimeler et
al.
1852
13 Goesele et al. documents 1853- 1855
14 John George Boehringer vs. Separatist Society of
Zoar
1855
Series III: Legal Records
Subseries II: Legal Forms Between Society and Members, 1822- 1851
Box Folder File Title Dates
3 15 Forms of notice for petitions, power of attorney,
renunciation of previous civil rights, dissolution of
contract between members and Zoar Society, wills,
and death certificates
1822- 1851
Series III: Legal Records
Subseries III: Members’ Marriage Records, 1818- 1830
Box Folder File Title Dates
3 16 Marriage Records 1818- 1830
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Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries I: Zoar Grist Mill
Box Folder File Title Dates
3 17 Promissory notes, receipts, bills and legal
agreement regarding Andrew Dyer’s appointment to
be in charge of the mill. ( c. f. MSS 680/ Box 2/ Folder
8)
1828- 1882
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries II: Zoar Woolen Mill
Box Folder File Title Dates
3 18 Record of payments to weavers for labor performed 1827- 1829
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries III: Zoar Furnace
Box Item Title Dates
4 Account book, including ledger accounts, bills
receivable, bills payable, dated lists of powers of
attorney, deposits debited and credited, scrap iron
and metal sent, and notes left for collection.
1833- 1853
Zoar Furnace Account Book 1834- 1843
Articles of agreement concerning the sale to
Bimeler of Tuscarawas Steam Furnace together
with certain described lands. Includes other
documentation regarding Zoar Furnace, such as a
bill for 50 gross hundred rounds of pig metal.
1835- 1839
Inventory of Zoar F[ urna] ce Establmt. 1844
Day Book 1847- 1849
5 Day Book 1849- 1850
6 Day Book 1846- 1850
Day Book ( includes records of Zoar Station, 1862-
1869)
1846- 1850
7 Journal ( includes entries pertaining to an
unidentified establishment in Zoar, 1863- 1866)
1850- 1850
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries IV: Zoar Society Brewery
Box Item Title Dates
8 Brewer’s Record of Material Purchased 1869- 1886
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1870- 1873
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1874- 1877
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1878- 1880
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1880- 1882
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Box Item Title Dates
8 Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1882- 1884
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1884- 1886
Brewer’s Record of Material Purchased 1886- 1888
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1888- 1890
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1890- 1892
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1892- 1894
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1895- 1897
Brewer’s Record of Fermented Liquor Made 1897- 1898
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries V: Zoar Warehouse
Box Item Title Dates
9 Zoar Warehouse Wheat Book 1833- 1861,
1866- 1869
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries VI: Zoar Store
Box Item Title Dates
10 Cash- Book No. 5 1845- 1847
Ledger No. 5 1848- 1850
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries VII: Zoar Canal Mill
Box Item Title Dates
11 Ledger 1839- 1865
Wheat Ac. 1869 No. 2 1869- 1884
Payment Orders 1881
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries VIII: Tannery
Box Item Title Dates
12 Daybook of Sales and Receipts
( Also contains weekly statements of ore dug by
people, p. 36- 84)
1833- 1835;
1853- 1854,
1856- 1857
Account of all receipts and expenditures for hides,
skins bought and leather sold and also of the hides
received from Zoar Society and of leather
consumed by the same ( includes saddler and shoe
shops)
1841- 1865
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Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries IX: Boarding Houses
Box File Title Dates
13 Boarding House Book 1842- 1846
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- subseries I: Zoar Hotel Guest Registers
Box File Title Dates
13 Hotel Register 1844- 1849
Hotel Register 1852,
undated
14 Guest Register 1897- 1903
Guest Register 1904- 1905
Guest Register 1905- 1908
Guest Register 1908- 1911
15 Guest Register 1911- 1914
Guest Register 1914- 1917
Guest Register 1917- 1920
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- subseries II: Zoar Hotel Board and Room Accounts
Box File Title Dates
15 Board Account 1877- 1882
Board Account 1882- 1885
Hotel Boarding Account 1885- 1888
Board and Room Account 1888- 1889
Board and Room Account 1889- 1891
16 Board and Room Account 1894- 1897
Board and Room Account 1897- 1900
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- subseries III: Zoar Hotel Order and Expense Books
Box Item Title Dates
16 Record of Items Received and Delivered to Zoar
Society
1873- 1926
Cash Paid by Zoar Hotel 1882- 1887
Employee Wage Book 1883- 1898
17 Order Book 1900- 1904
Expense Account Book 1905- 1914
Expense Account Book 1915- 1922
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Box Item Title Dates
18 1 Account File 1907- 1925
2 Cash Book 1915- 1916
3 Daybook 1916- 1927
4 Monthly Time Book 1924- 1925
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- subseries IV: Zoar Hotel Correspondence
Box Folder File Title Dates
18 5 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1892- 1894
6 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1895
7 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1896
8 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1897- 1906
19 1 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1907
2 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1908
3 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1909
4 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1910- 1917
5 Zoar Hotel Correspondence 1918- 1927
6 Zoar Hotel Correspondence Undated
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries X: Zoar Hotel
Sub- subseries V: Miscellaneous Documents
Box Folder File Title Dates
19 7 Ephemera Undated
8 Hotel rates, receipts, and invoices 1898- 1925
9 Hotel rates, receipts, and invoices 1926- 1934
10 Zoar Hotel legal documents 1905- 1917
11 Zoar Hotel inventories 1930
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries XI: Zoar Tin (“ Tinner”) Shop
Box Item Title Dates
20 Zoar Tin Shop Accounts 1859- 1863
Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries XII: Zoar Cider (“ Cyder”) Mill
Box Item Title Dates
20 Cider Press Accounts 1860- 1863
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Series IV: Records of Individual Zoar Businesses
Subseries XIII: Zimmerman and Kuecherer Business Papers
Box Folder Item/ File Title Dates
20 Journal No. 1 1898- 1901
Bank Account and Check Record No. 1 1898- 1905
Expense Account Book 1899- 1909
Checkbook 1900
21 1 Business papers 1898
2 Business letters 1899
3 Receipted invoices A- F 1899
4 Receipted invoices G- M 1899
5 Receipted invoices N- Z 1899
6 Receipted invoices 1901
22 Invoice file 1900
23 Journal No. 2 1901- 1918
Bank Account and Check Record No. 2 1905- 1913
Cash- Book No. 1 1909- 1913
24 Cash- Book No. 2 1913- 1917
Bank Account and Check Record No. 3 1913- 1920
Cash- Book No. 3 1917- 1921
Bank Account and Check Record No. 4 1920- 1925
F. W. Rowe invoices 1927- 1930
Series V: General Records of Society Businesses
Box Item Title Dates
25 Ledger
Includes accounts and monthly capitulations of
transactions of various Society businesses, such as
the furnace, factory, tannery, saddler, and the boat
industry.
1833- 1855
26 Account Record of a Wagon Maker 1848- 1850
Society Book No. 4. Separate accounts for Zoar
Society, Tailor (“ Taylor”) Shop, Blacksmith Shop,
Saddler, Zoar Factory, Zoar Hotel, Zoar
Coopershop, Shoemaker, Zoar Foundry, Wagon
Maker, Cabinet Shop, Shoe Shop
1857- 1858
One- Leg Saw Mill Book No. 2 1865- 1867
Zoar Society Journal No. 7. Records purchases for
Zoar Society, Zoar Hotel, Tailor (“ Taylors”) Shop,
Blacksmith, Shoe Shop, Saddler, Tannery, Factory,
Medicine.
1870- 1875
Zoar Station No. 3 1872- 1892
27 General Cash Book No. 18 and Zoar Society
Journal No. 8. Contains separate sections for the
Society, Society Drugs, Hardware, Hotel, Tailor
(“ Taylor”) Shop, Shoe Shop, Tin Shop, Canal Mill,
Cooper Shop, Wagon Shop, Cabinet Shop,
1876- 1879
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Box Item Title Dates
Millwright Shop, School, Trustees, Saddler, Garden,
Blacksmith, Tannery, and Woolen Factory.
Day Book of the Cabinet Shop in Zoar 1877- 1887;
1899- 1902
28 Journal, with separate accounts for blacksmith
shop, brewery, canal mill, custom mill, cabinet shop,
cooper shop, factory, foundry, hotel, lumberyard,
millwright shop, planing mill, shoe shop, saddler
shop, tailor shop, tannery, tin shop, wagon[ maker]
shop, and woolen mill.
1880- 1894
Zoar Factory Payment Orders 1881
Series VI: Society Financial Records
Subseries I: Loose Records, 1817- 1899
Box Folder File Title Dates
29 1 Financial records 1817- 1843
2 Financial records 1843
3 Financial records 1844
4 Financial records 1845
5 Financial records 1847
6 Financial records 1848- 1853
7 Financial records 1856- 1868
8 Financial and business records 1871- 1896
9 United States Internal Revenue 1877- 1899
30 1 Invoices 1859
2 Invoices 1860
3 Invoices 1861
4 Invoices 1862
5 Invoices 1863
6 Invoices 1864
7 Invoices 1865
8 Invoices 1866
9 Invoices 1867
10 Invoices 1868
31 1 Invoices 1869
2 Invoices 1870
3 Invoices 1871
4 Invoices 1872- 1874
5 Invoices 1873
6 Invoices 1874
32 1 Invoices 1875
2 Invoices 1876
3 Invoices 1877
33 1 Invoices A- D 1892
2 Invoices E- L 1892
3 Invoices M 1892
34 1 Invoices N- R 1892
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Box Folder File Title Dates
34 2 Invoices S- Z 1892
3 Receipted notes 1892
4 Receipted bills and notes 1893
35 1 Invoices A- C 1894
2 Invoices D- L 1894
3 Invoices N- R 1894
4 Invoices S- W 1894
5 Receipts 1894
6 Receipts and receipted bills 1895
36 1 Bills, invoices, notes and receipts 1896
2 Bills, invoices, notes and receipts 1897
3 Receipts and receipted bills 1898
4 Cash receipts and expenditures 1898- 1899
5 Business form samples 1890s
Series VI: Society Financial Records
Subseries II: Bound Records, 1833- 1899
Box Item Title Dates
37 Society clothing ledger 1833- 1861
Day Book No. 3 1835- 1835
38 Ledger 1834- 1837
39 Bills Payable No. 1 ( board cover without contents,
except memo on inside back cover)
1837- 1847
Ledger and separate index 1837- 1840
40 Day Book No. 8 1837- 1837
41 Ledger 1840- 1849
42 Daybook XIX 1841- 1841
Ledger 1841- 1843
43 Ledger 1842- 1845
44 Day Book ( customers, supplies) 1842- 1847
Cash- Book No. 2 1843- 1844
45 Ledger 1844- 1847
46 Cash Book No. 3 1844- 1845
Cash Book No. 4 1845- 1845
Day Book 1 1846- 1847
47 Ledger, J. M. B. 1847- 1851
48 Cash Book No. 6 1847- 1848
Commercial Day Book 1847- 1858
Checkbook Stubs 1848- 1849
49 Day Book 1847- 1850
Bills Payable 1847- 1872
Cash Book No. 7 1848- 1849
Cash Book No. 8 1849- 1849
50 Cash Book No. 9 1849- 1850
Ledger with index 1848- 1859
51 Commercial Ledger No. 2 with index 1849- 1893
52 Day Book 1850- 1851
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Box Item Title Dates
Cash Book No. 10 1850- 1851
Bill Book No. 3 1851- 1868
Cash Book. No. 11 1851- 1853
53 Journal with separate index 1850- 1853;
1871- 1873
54 Journal 1851- 1853
55 Account Book ( to page 56) 1851- 1858
Day Book ( p. 161- 504) 1866- 1868
Invoice Book 1851- 1858
56 Journal 1852- 1854
57 Day Book 1850- 1852
Journal ( 566 pages; first 46 pages pertain to
Fairfield Furnace, 1852- 1853)
1854- 1856
Day Book 1852- 1856
58 Cash Book No. 12 1853- 1854
Cash Book No. 13 1854- 1856
Cash Book No. 14 1856- 1856
Cash Book No. 15 1856- 1857
Day Book 1856- 1861
Cash Book No. 16 1857- 1859
59 Day Book 1858- 1860
60 Account Book 1858- 1876
61 Cash Book No. 17 1859- 1860
Ledger with index 1859- 1873
62 Monthly Cash Account 1859- 1890
Cash Book No. 18 1860- 1861
63 Day Book 1860- 1862
Cash Book No. 19 1861- 1862
64 Journal 1862- 1866
Cash Book No. 20 1862- 1862
Cash Book No. 21 1862- 1863
Number of Loads and Bushels Per Day ( Coal) 1863- 1874
Cash Book No. 22 1863- 1864
65 Investment Accounts 1864- 1893
Bank Book from First National Bank of Massillon 1864- 1877
Cash Book No. 23 1864- 1865
Journal 1865- 1865
66 Bills Payable and Receivable No. 4 1865- 1898
Cash Book No. 24 1865- 1865
Cash Book No. 25 1865- 1866
Cash Book No. 26 1866- 1867
Cash Book No. 27 1867- 1868
67 Journal No. 15 with index 1867- 1872
Cash Book No. 28 1868- 1868
Cash Book No. 29 1868- 1869
68 Office Memo Book 1869- 1873
Cash Book No. 30 1869- 1870
W. O. & Co. ( Record of loads and bushels) 1869- 1874
Goods Wanted for Stores and Society 1869
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Box Item Title Dates
Bills Receivable 1868- 1887
Bills Payable 1869- 1892
Journal 1868- 1873
Cash Book No. 31 ( includes saddler accounts,
1864- 1868)
1870- 1870
Cash Book No. 32 1870- 1871
Cash Book No. 33 1871- 1871
Cash Book No. 34 1871- 1872
69 Records of Invoices Payable 1871- 1872
Office Memorandum Book 1872- 1874
Lumber Account Book 1872- 1874
Order Lists for Goods Needed 1872, 1873
Cash Book No. 35 1872- 1873
Day Book No. 34 1873- 1876
70 Cash Book No. 36 1873- 1874
Checkbook Stubs 1873- 1874
Office Memorandum Book 1873- 1876
Ledger 1873- 1895
Cash Book No. 37 1874- 1875
Office Memorandum Book No. 3
Includes doctor office visits, 1/ 1875- 5/ 1875
1875- 1876
Order List or Inventory 1874
Checkbook Stubs and Business Postcards 1874- 1876
Store Order List or Inventory 1875- 1876
Order List or Inventory 1874
Office Memorandum Book No. 2 1874- 1875
Checkbook Stubs 1875- 1878
71 Order List or Inventory 1876
Journal/ Day Book No. 35 1876- 1880
Office Memorandum No. 4 1876- 1879
Day Book 1876- 1898
Cash Book No. 40 1878- 1879
Order List or Inventory 1877
Office Memorandum Book 1877- 1878
72 Journal No. 18 1877- 1884
73 Cash Book No. 41 1879- 1880
Cash Book No. 42 1879- 1883
Ledger H 1878- 1896
74 Day Book No. 36 1880- 1884
Grocery purchases debited against ledger accounts 1881- 1882
Bread purchases debited against ledger accounts 1881- 1882
75 Invoice Book 1882- 1892
Book Showing Date of Sales and Number of Lots
Sold in Town of Valley City, Tuscarawas County,
Ohio
1882- 1887
Cash Book No. 46 1884- 1885
76 Journal No. 19 with separate index 1884- 1891
Day Book No. 37 1885- 1889
Stove Coal Account 1887- 1891
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Box Item Title Dates
77 Day Book No. 38 1889- 1899
78 Monthly Cash Book 1890- 1898
Journal No. 20 with separate index 1890- 1897
79 Record of Deposits and Checks Drawn on First
National Bank, Massillon, Ohio
1890- 1900
Ledger 1894- 1898
80 Society Branches 1895- 1898
81 Office Cash Book 1897- 1898
Journal No. 21 1897- 1898
82 Checkbook, Zoar Society, Drawn on First National
Bank, Massillon, Ohio
1897- 1900
83 Cash Book No. 57 1897- 1898
Ledger 1898- 1899
Account Book 1898
Inventory or Order List Undated
Unidentified Index Undated
Index: Journal No. 16, Vol. 45 Undated
Account Book with Member Names Undated
Series VII: Society Correspondence
Subseries I: Administrative Correspondence, 1832- 1897
Box Folder File Title Dates
84 1 Correspondence with state and local government
agencies
1832- 1897
2 Administrative correspondence 1834- 1897
Series VII: Society Correspondence
Subseries II: Business Correspondence, 1856- 1900
Box Folder Item/ File Title Dates
84 Book of copies of Society business correspondence
regarding goods ordered and sold
1856- 1874
Letter Book 1874- 1875
85 1 Business Correspondence Received 1894- 1895
2 Business Correspondence Received 1896 - 1896
3 Business Correspondence Received 1896- 1896
4 Business Correspondence Received 1896– 1896
5 Business Correspondence Received 1897– 1897
6 Business Correspondence Received 1897– 1897
7 Business Correspondence Received 1897- 1897
8 Business Correspondence Received 1898 – 1898
9 Business Correspondence Received 1898- 1898
10 Business Correspondence Received 1899
11 Business Correspondence Received 1900
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Series VII: Society Correspondence
Subseries III: Harmony Society Correspondence, 1845- 1878
Box Folder File Title Dates
86 1 Harmony Society correspondence ( c. f. MSS
680/ Box 2/ Folder 12)
1845- 1878
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries I: Zoar Schools, 1832- 1856
Box Folder File Title Dates
86 2 Notices, poll sheets for school in Lawrence
Township, Tuscarawas County
1832- 1856
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries II: Railroad Service to Zoar by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Company, 1882- 1898
Box Folder File Title Dates
86 3 Business and legal documents and stock
certificates
1882- 1892
4 Correspondence 1897- 1898
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries III: Zoar Fire Company, 1845- 1888
Box Folder File Title Dates
86 5 Fire company poll sheets, election results and
notices of elections ( c. f. MSS 680/ Box 2/ Folder 7)
1845- 1888
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries IV: Zoar Post Office, 1827- 1931
Box Folder File Title Dates
86 6 Zoar Post Office documents 1827- 1848
87 1 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received 1852- 1855
2 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Mail Received and Sent
1858- 1861
3 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Mail Received and Sent
1861- 1868
4 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Mail Received and Sent;
Receipts and Bills for Registered Letters
1869
5 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Receipts and Bills for Registered Letters
1870
6 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received; 1871
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Box Folder File Title Dates
Mail Received and Sent;
Receipts and Bills for Registered Letters
88 1 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Registered Mail Records
1872
2 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Registered Mail Records
1873
3 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Registered Mail Records
1874
4 Register of Newspapers and Periodicals Received;
Registered Mail Records
1875
5 Registered Letter Forms and Records 1876
6 Registered Letter Forms and Records 1877- 1878
7 Registered Letter Forms and Records 1879
89 1 Record of Registered Matter Received and
Delivered
1879- 1920
2 Registry Bills 1880
3 Registry Bills 1881
4 Registry Bills 1882
90 1 Record and Postal Account Book
2 Registered Packet Receipts 1888
3 Registered Packet Receipts 1889
4 Record and Postal Account Book 1892- 1895
5 Register of Registered Letters Sent 1899- 1903
6 Money Order Cash Book 1899- 1905
91 1 Register of Domestic Money Orders Issued 1899- 1910
2 Register of Domestic Money Orders Issued 1899- 1920
3 Miscellaneous
4 Register of Registered Letters Sent 1903- 1907
5 Money Order Cash Book 1905- 1910
6 Account and Record Book 1907- 1910
92 1 Window Registration Book 1907- 1909
2 Registered Letter Receipt Book 1909- 1911
3 Postmasters Account and Record Book 1910- 1913
4 Window Registration Book 1911- 1913
5 Cash Book – Domestic Money Order Office 1910- 1915
6 Register of Money Orders Issued 1911- 1921
7 Postmaster’s Account and Record Book 1913- 1916
8 Window Registration Book 1915- 1918
93 1 Cash Book of Domestic Money Order Office 1915- 1919
2 Postmasters Account and Record Book 1916- 1917
3 Cash Book of Domestic Money Order Office 1919- 1922
4 Cash Book District Post Office 1922- 1923
5 Registry Dispatch Receipt Cards 1930- 1931
6 Undated Items
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Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries V: Office of the Union Express, 1882- 1883
Box Item Title Dates
94 Account Current at Office 1882- 1883
Collections Received and Forwarded 1882- 1883
Agent’s Train Receipt Book 1882- 1883
Outward Way- Bill Copying Book 1882- 1883
Inward Way- Bill and Delivery Book 1882- 1883
General Instructions to Agents, with interleaved
notices of special rates
1882- 1882
Local Tariff/ Shipping Guide 1882
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries VI: Zoar, Ohio Municipal Corporation, 1882- 1883
Box Folder File Title Dates
95 1 Treasurer’s Book of Accounts for the Municipal
Corporation of ( Zoar)
1882- 1883
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries VII: Zoar Historical Society Membership Records, 1931- 1932
Box Folder File Title Dates
95 2 Membership Records 1931- 1932
Series VIII: Records of Zoar Agencies
Subseries VIII: The Zoar Foundation, 1936- 1941
Box Folder File Title Dates
95 3 Articles of Incorporation 1936
4 Minutes of Meetings 1936- 1941
5 Inventory of the Palace Museum, Zoar, Ohio 1946
Series IX: Zoar in the Civil War
Box Folder File Title Dates
96 1 Civil War correspondence of Society members 1862- 1864,
undated
2 Documentation regarding Zoarites’ inability to
“ conscientiously perform militia or military duty”
1863
( Also see Memorandum of Articles Furnished to
Soldiers Now in Potomac Army, part of a book in
box 58)
1862
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Series X: Society Ephemera
Box Folder File Title Dates
96 3 Miscellaneous German handwritten documents of
Society members
Ca. 1800-
1837,
undated
4 Miscellaneous printed material undated
5 Recipes undated
6 Religious writings ( c. f. MSS 680, Box 3, Folder 6) Undated
7 Tables for standard weights and measures; math
tables for interest payments and surveying
undated
8 Music compositions undated
9 Zoar String Band music books for cello and flute undated
10 Histories and accounts of Zoar 1917, 1927,
undated
11 Newspaper clippings regarding Zoarites undated
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries I: Carl David Raiser
Box Item Title Dates
97 Carl David Raiser’s handwritten book 1811
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries II: Member Correspondence, 1817- 1906
Box Folder File Title Dates
98 1 Correspondence of Society members 1817- 1906
2 English transcripts of miscellaneous letters 1856- 1874
3 Johannes Gruberman writings regarding Barbara
Grubermannin
1871
4 Medical correspondence of Society members 1881- 1898
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries III: Consular Letters, 1847- 1865
Box Folder File Title Dates
98 5 Consular Letters. Includes requests for declarations
of inheritance, acknowledgments of receipt of
remittances and power of attorney.
1847- 1865
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Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries I: Correspondence
Box Folder File Title Dates
99 1 Correspondence 1876- 1899
2 Correspondence - Courtship with William Bimeler 1899- 1903
3 Correspondence 1900- 1902
4 Correspondence 1903
5 Correspondence 1904
6 Correspondence 1905
7 Correspondence 1906
8 Correspondence 1907
9 Correspondence 1908
10 Correspondence 1909
11 Correspondence 1910
100 1 Correspondence 1911
2 Correspondence 1912
3 Correspondence 1913
4 Correspondence 1914
5 Correspondence 1915
6 Correspondence 1916
7 Correspondence 1917
8 Correspondence 1918
9 Correspondence 1919
10 Correspondence 1920
11 Correspondence 1921
12 Correspondence 1922
13 Correspondence 1923
14 Correspondence 1924- 1928
101 1 Correspondence - Death of William Bimeler 1928
2 Correspondence 1928- 1929
3 Correspondence 1930
4 Correspondence 1931- 1935
5 Correspondence 1936- 1938
6 Correspondence 1939
7 Correspondence 1940
8 Correspondence 1941
9 Correspondence 1942
10 Correspondence Undated
102 Postcards 1901- 1942,
undated
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries II: Documents
Box Folder File Title Dates
103 1 School papers 1891,
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Box Folder File Title Dates
undated
103 2 Daybook 1898- 1919
3 Contracts, legal documents, and tax and real estate
records
1901- 1934
4 Red Cross financial records 1918
5 Zoar Reunion 1919
6 Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm’s Memorial Card 1942
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries III: Ephemera
Box Folder File Title Dates
103 7 Ephemera 1877- 1930,
undated
8 Advertisements Undated
104 1 Blank postcards Undated
2 Business and calling cards Undated
3 Crafts - 1 Undated
4 Crafts - 2 Undated
5 Invitations and announcements Undated
6 Membership cards and passes 1904- 1932
105 1 Printed material – 1 Undated
2 Printed material – 2 Undated
3 Printed religious material Undated
4 Programs and souvenir menus Undated
5 Rewards of merit Undated
106 1 Souvenir postcards and booklets Undated
2 Three- dimensional cards Undated
3 Travel souvenirs Undated
4 Newspaper clippings about the Harmony Society
and the death of Father Jacob Henrici, its leader
1892,
undated
5 Newspaper clippings about Zoar 1908- 1920s,
undated
107 Album of printed material Undated
Album for postal cards Undated
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries IV: Penmanship books, notebooks, and account books
Box Item Title Dates
108 Conversations As Between Parents and Children,
Designed for the Instruction of Youth
1834
Miscellaneous penmanship exercise books 1845
Book of poetry, Biblical and religious quotations,
and lumber accounts
1871- 1872;
1890- 1891
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Box Item Title Dates
108 Business accounting letters 1884- 1892
School book ca. 1888,
undated
Notebook 1891
“ Out of Sight” tablet 1892
Ward’s Letter Writing Business Forms book ( empty) undated
Mechling’s Weather Guide Memorandum Book 1899
Recipe book 1906
Series XI: Personal Papers of Society Members
Subseries IV: Personal Papers of Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, 1877- 1942
Sub- Subseries V: Diaries, Memorandum Books, Day Books and Autograph Books
Box File Title Dates
109 Diaries, Memorandum Books, Day Books and
Autograph Books
1873- 1931
Series XII: Photographs
Subseries I: Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm’s Photographs
Box Folder File Title Dates
110 Photograph album, including photographs of William
Bimeler, Adeline Bimeler, Alice Rieker, Peter
Bimeler, and Joseph Bimeler
Undated
110 1 Loose photos found in album Undated
111 Photograph album, including photographs of Edgar
Ruof, Mary Beiter, Mary Rieker Ruof, and other
Ruof family members
Undated
112 Photograph album, including photographs of Louis
Zimmerman, Edgar Ruof, Mary Beiter, Otto Seitz,
Wilson Beiter, Lillian Ruof Bimeler Sturm, Alfred
Kuecherer, and Walter Breymaier
Undated
113 Photograph album, including photographs of Mary
Beiter, Mary Ruof, Alice Beiter, George Ruof,
Christina Sturm, John Sturm, and Jacob Ackerman
Undated
114 Three small photograph albums of unidentified
people
Undated
114 1 Loose photographs of Zoar Hotel and people
working in fields
Undated
115 Photograph album of unidentified people Undated
115 1 Photographs of an unidentified couple Undated
