Hebron Colony Records, 1882-1914, 1958
Collection Overview
Title: Hebron Colony Records, 1882-1914, 1958
ID: OGLMC010
Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 00/00/1952. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Ethnicity - German, Hebron, North Dakota, New Salem, North Dakota, Pioneer Life, Religion
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
"Encouraged by the example of the society just discussed, other Evangelical Germans banded themselves together to found a similar organization under the title of German Evangelical Colonization Association of Chicago, Illinois. This body perfected its organization on October 16, 1884. Its purpose, too, was that of settling in the Northwest and of transplanting the Evangelical church into that region. They, too, sent out a deputation to locate a suitable site for settlement. After extensive wanderings the site of the present town of Hebron was decided upon as a nucleus of the proposed colony. They had the benefit of the experience of the New Salem colony and in many ways followed its example. One measure which the officers of the younger organization constantly insisted upon was this, that only such men as were able bodied and willing to battle with the wilderness, and who had at least $500.00 in cash, should venture to go to the settlement. Due, no doubt, to such precautionary measures, the Hebron colony was spared certain unpleasant experiences which a better mutual understanding might have avoided at New Salem. Early in April, 1885, the first allotment of settlers arrived at the present site of Hebron, then a vast unimproved prairie country.
The centralizing factor in these two settlements was and is, even today, the German Evangelical Church."
Source: "Some Facts Concerning the Germans of North Dakota" by Dr. William G. Bek in The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota. vol. 5 (1915): p. 338.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Accruals: Additional material was donated by Jim Mellhouse on June 18, 1970.
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: Mrs. William G. Bek, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Acquisition Method: Donation
Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Hebron Colony Records. OGLMC 10, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid input into Archon in August 2014.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Meeting minutes of the German Evangelical Colonization Society, 1882-1883
- Folder 2: Meeting minutes of the Deutscher Evangelischen Colonisations, 1882-1885
- Folder 3: "Colonization Undertaking of German Evangelical Association", 1884
- In German, with an English translation
- Folder 4: Meeting minutes of German Evangelical St. John's Church, Hebron, North Dakota, 1885-1910
- Folder 5: Correspondence from Joseph Schlenken, Chicago, Illinois, to Dr. William G. Bek, University of North Dakota, regarding the Hebron Colony, 1913-1914
- Folder 6: Pioneer information sheets
- This folder consists of fifty one information sheets from interviews with pioneers in the Hebron and New Salem colonies. The handwriting on the documents can be difficult to read.
- Item 1: William C.D. Klick of Hebron
- Item 2: Rudolp Cubmann of Hebron
- Item 3: Carl Semrath of Hebron
- Item 4: Heinrich Roth of Hebron
- Item 5: Wendel Bratzel of Hebron
- Item 6: Reverend August Debus of Hebron
- Item 7: Waldemar Strich of Hebron
- Item 8: Adolph Strich of New Salem
- Item 9: Dr. A.F.E. Schirbaum of Hebron
- Item 10: Eugene Weigel of Hebron
- Item 11: Frederich Mayer of Hebron
- Item 12: John Kasper of Hebron
- Item 13: Hermann Hollst of Hebron
- Item 14: Jacob Hauser of Hebron
- Item 15: Christoph Birkmeyer of Hebron
- Item 16: Friedrich Schweigert of Hebron
- Item 17: Christian Ewald of Hebron
- Item 18: Jacob Schmaleuberger of Hebron
- Item 19: Gottleib Lutz of Hebron
- Item 20: Jacob Sauter of Hebron
- Item 21: Friedrich Braun of Hebron
- Item 22: John Urban of Hebron
- Item 23: Fred Roesner of rural Hebron
- Item 24: Matheus Sayles of Hebron
- Item 25: John Singer of Hebron
- Item 26: Heinrich Meyer of Hebron
- Item 27: Frederich Martin of rural Hebron
- Item 28: Daniel Lapp of Hebron
- Item 29: George Rabin of Hebron
- Item 30: William Henry Mauer of New Salem
- Item 31: Herman Kroger of New Salem
- Item 32: William Engelter of New Salem
- Item 33: Fritz Jiedlow of rural Blue Grass
- Item 34: John C. Moltzian of Youngstown
- Item 35: William Wiebke of New Salem
- Item 36: John Roeser of New Salem
- Item 37: John Seeger of Blue Grass
- Item 38: Peter Bumann of New Salem
- Item 39: Friedolin Krueger of New Salem
- Item 40: Henry Engelter of New Salem
- Item 41: John Egli of rural New Salem
- Item 42: August Wildi of New Salem
- Item 43: Joseph Bauer of rural New Salem
- Item 44: Fred C. Graf of rural New Salem
- Item 45: E. C. Oster of New Salem
- Item 46: Christ Wegener of New Salem
- Item 47: Philip Blank of New Salem
- Item 48: John Heid of New Salem
- Item 49: Carl Lurder of rural New Salem
- Item 50: John Moltzan of rural New Salem
- Item 51: Fritz Moltzan of rural New Salem
- Item 1: William C.D. Klick of Hebron
- Folder 7: Newspaper articles from Die Wacht Am Missouri regarding the Hebron Colony, 1910
- Includes English translation from German
- Folder 8: The Diamond Jubilee of Peace (Evangelical and Reformed) United Church of Christ in New Salem, North Dakota: 1883-1958
- Folder 9: Miscellaneous historical information on the Hebron Colony
- Folder 1: Meeting minutes of the German Evangelical Colonization Society, 1882-1883
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