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• Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia (1672-1725)
  1697-98 and returned for a visit in 1717. He had learned to know Dutch business people in Russia and through these contacts he came to the Netherlands. During
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• Warendorp, Harmen Hendriksz van (ca. 1560-1632) (category Business People)
  Harmen Hendriksz van Warendorp, a son of Hendrik He(i)linck Seelslager, a shoemaker at Warendorp in Westphalia, Germany, and Elsgen Heyteman, was born
  3 KB (475 words) - 02:14, 30 June 2016
• Business (section The Mennonite People in Business)
  distilleries. No business activity was foreign to the Dutch Mennonites. They numbered among their membership some of the foremost business people in Holland
  29 KB (4,146 words) - 22:58, 15 January 2017
• Hespeler, William (1830-1921) (category Business People)
  he joined his brother's milling, distilling, and general merchandising business. From 1854 to 1868 William served as a partner in the firm of Hespeler
  5 KB (864 words) - 22:59, 15 January 2017
• Debts
  has taken the form of credit to peasant farmers or struggling small business people (development work). Credit unions have become an accepted fixture of
  4 KB (692 words) - 22:25, 28 September 2014
• Brons, Bernhard, Jr. (1831-1911) (category Business People)
  inexhaustible pleasure in work and a successful career in the field of business as well as congregational affairs. He was deacon of the Emden church from
  2 KB (387 words) - 18:18, 28 July 2018
• Friesen, Ted E. (1920-2016) (category Business People)
  from birth. In 1936 he entered the family business known in 1997 as D. W. Friesen & Sons, Ltd. The business began as a general store and post office, but
  5 KB (800 words) - 21:38, 29 October 2019
• Vlamingh, Hans (d. ca. 1672) (category Business People)
  Hans Vlamingh (d. ca. 1672 at Amsterdam), a Men­nonite merchant in Amsterdam who took a warm interest in the oppressed and persecuted Swiss Breth­ren in
  4 KB (606 words) - 07:00, 16 January 2017
• Snyder, Edward Groff (1905-1991) (category Business People)
  of this involvement. Because of his encouragement, other Mennonite business people donated their time and resources to the MEDA program. He and Glennys
  5 KB (797 words) - 21:56, 5 March 2014
• Good, Milton Roy (1911-2008) (category Business People)
  the owner of the firm, and expanded the business over the years by absorbing smaller companies. He sold the business to St. Lawrence Cement in 1973, and retired
  9 KB (1,281 words) - 11:22, 25 October 2019
• Nueva Vida Norristown New Life Mennonite Church (Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  decided to foreclose, and a sale date was set. Congregational leaders and business people from Franconia Conference began meeting in the summer of 2013 to discern
  5 KB (690 words) - 12:21, 15 July 2020
• Martens, Jacob P. (1911-1984) (category Business People)
  while Jacob tended to business interests. Her input was crucial as Jacob regularly consulted her regarding decisions related to business and family. As a businessman
  4 KB (572 words) - 21:46, 5 March 2014
• Temple Society
  Christianity, living a good life, remained with the Templers. They were good business people and promoted cultural endeavors. The contact between the Temple movement
  13 KB (1,905 words) - 23:59, 23 January 2024
• Salem Deaconess Home and Hospital (Salem, Oregon, USA)
  by creating a board of twelve members consisting primarily of local business people, and the name was changed to Salem Memorial Hospital. By this time the
  1 KB (265 words) - 14:18, 23 August 2013
• Schroeder, David David (1808-1877) (category Business People)
  where David and his siblings grew up. His father established a woodworking business in Ekaterinoslav, which he sold after some time and moved south to the
  6 KB (864 words) - 21:55, 5 March 2014
• Neumann, Cornelius “Neil” Henry (1927-2010) (category Business People)
  Cornelius "Neil" Henry Neumann: realtor, notary public, business leader, and churchman; born 14 December 1927 in Spy Hill, Saskatchewan, to Heinrich Dietrich
  4 KB (673 words) - 22:49, 8 April 2021
• Volkert, Jansz (ca. 1610-1681) (category Business People)
  Jansz Volkert, born ca. 1610 at Hoorn, died there 1681, a  well-to-do cloth merchant on the Nieuwedijk at Amsterdam, was a syndic of the Cloth Guild. As
  1 KB (229 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2014
• Shantz, Milo D. (1932-2009) (category Business People)
  1970s. Marcus Shantz said Milo "was a serial entrepreneur, a scattergun of business ideas." Many ideas were unsuccessful but the good ones, "he hit out of
  6 KB (954 words) - 12:02, 13 May 2016
• Doornkaat Koolman, Jan ten (b. 1815) (category Business People)
  marriage, to Jeikelina Kool. He and his brother Fiepko made a thriving business of the distillery. For his native city and his country Jan ten Doornkaat
  2 KB (351 words) - 18:32, 28 July 2018
• Hildebrandt, Kornelius (1833-1920) (category Business People)
  poor clockmaker. With the rise of industry in the settlement, however, the business flourished, and was established as a firm in 1878. In 1903 he transferred
  3 KB (430 words) - 06:51, 12 March 2015

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