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Jansen, Cornelius (1822-1894) (category Business People)
had helped. Through his deep convictions he became the Moses who led his people from Prussia and Russia to the "promised land" and inaugurated a migration

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Roosen, Gerrit (1612-1711) (category Business People)
Gerrit Roosen, (Gerhard; he signed one of his writings as Geeritt Roosen), born at Altona, near Hamburg, Germany, on 8 March 1612, died there 20 November

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Warkentin, Bernhard (1847-1908) (category Business People)
Kansas, USA. Bernhard attended the secondary school in Halbstadt and a business college in Odessa. His father was a miller and had made a trip to Siberia

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Kolb, Abram B. (1862-1925) (category Business People)
Abram Bowman "A. B." Kolb: teacher and publisher; born 10 November 1862 near Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario to Jacob Z. and Maria (Bowman) Kolb. He was

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Shantz, Jacob Yost (1822-1909) (category Business People)
added to his activities. Later he entered the building and contracting business. He promoted various industries in his city, the chief being the Dominion

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DeFehr, Cornelius A. (1881-1979) (category Business People)
never lost his capacity to identify with people in many different circumstances. He was a true servant of his people. DeFehr, Cornelius A. Memories of My Life:

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Memrik Mennonite Settlement (Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)
fanning mills, etc., with an annual turnover of 150,000 rubles. Among the business people were H. Hamm of Zhelanaya and David Warkentin of Kalinovo. At times

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Rempel, Cornelius J. (1912-1994) (category Business People)
children and grandchildren whom he loved dearly, as well as to friends and the people around him. Boldt, Ed. "Remembering Corny: C. J. (Corny) Rempel, 1912-1994

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Teyler van der Hulst, Pieter (1702-1778) (category Business People)
manufacturer and merchant; through inheritance and through his own prosperous business he became a very wealthy man; yet he is said to have been very sober and

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Ediger, Heinrich Abram (1858-1943) (category Business People)
Rosenhof, Melitopol district, 1861-1867, then moved to Berdyansk to start a business. The young Heinrich received his training under David Görz. He graduated

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Isaak, John Phillip (1861-1920) (category Business People)
John Phillip Isaak, a Russian Mennonite Brethren businessman and minister, was born 20 February 1861 in Tiege, Molotschna, in the province of Taurida

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Eckert, Chauncey E. (1873-1951) (category Business People)
periodicals and promised generous settlement assistance. By November 1928 some 400 people had arrived in Yarrow, quickly settling onto five or ten-acre parcels of

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Redekop, John (1932-2021) (category Business People)
He gained many friends over his lifetime and was a mentor to many people in business, church, and everyday life. He ran his race without looking back,

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Millerovo Mennonite Brethren Church (Millerovo, Russia)
whom were business partners, and Wilhelm Isaac Dyck, a businessman and minister, came to Millerovo in the spring of 1903, seeking better business opportunities

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Snyder, Douglas Noah (1941-2019) (category Business People)
Snyder Art businesses. This success allowed him to donate his time and commit to his passion of bi-vocational ministry. He mentored many young people who later

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Friesen, David W. (1879-1951) (category Business People)
replaced by the Fuersorgekomittee (board of business administration), responsible for financial and business matters, including preparation of budgets and

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Tjallings, Binnert (d. 1795) (category Business People)
influence, came to believe that business practices are not compatible with the Christian faith. He gave up his business, studied languages (English, German)

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Hattavier, Izak (d. 1657) (category Business People)
the Reformed (Walloon) or Lutheran church of his home town. Through his business connections becoming acquainted with the troubles of the persecuted Anabaptists

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Vogt, Aganetha Block (1857-1930) (category Business People)
unpaid Mennonite minister who supported his family by running a dry goods business. Together they had ten children, five sons and five daughters. As Andreas

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Barkman, Peter T. (1861-1936) (category Business People)
successful Massey Harris implements business which he owned and operated until 1915. That year he sold the business to his sons and moved to a property

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Harder, John Norman (1910-1985) (category Business People)
her parents’ general store. In 1946, they took over the running of the business. After Mary’s sudden death, John reluctantly agreed to his brother’s suggestion

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Redekop, Jacob J. “Jake” (1930-2010) (category Business People)
Jacob J. "Jake" Redekop: businessman and churchman; born 29 October 1930 in Nieder-Chortitza, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Ukraine to Jacob Johann Redekop

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Plett, Delbert F. (1948-2004) (category Business People)
simple, humble faith of the communitarian Mennonites. Plett's success in business permitted him to leave a sizeable estate, the bulk of which went to the

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Funk, Cornelius C. (1893-1985) (category Business People)
feed/grocery and feed mill business with his sons, which remained his life’s work. When the mill in Yarrow burned in 1964, the business was moved to Clearbrook

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Harder, Mary Tiessen (1913-2006) (category Business People)
they established “Harder’s Dry Goods.” Mary was an active partner in the business. During this time, Mary Harder began to assume leadership roles in the

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Martens, Herbert P. (1913-1961) (category Business People)
tracts to people in small British Columbia interior towns. He loved traveling to these villages and making personal contacts, especially with people who had

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Boese, Martin (1888-1973) (category Business People)
Beamsville with a down payment of $1.75. With his sons he established a trucking business. In 1934, the Boese family bought 33 acres of government land in Virgil

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Klassen, Sieghard Hans “Hardy” (1930-2003) (category Business People)
influenced him in the choice of his occupation. He established an auto repair business in Kitchener, Hardy Klassen Motors Ltd. Soon he became a well known and

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Sawatzky, Jake (1930-1999) (category Business People)
his own construction company that developed into a commercial development business. Jake and Anne made their home in Vancouver. They became members of the

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Martens, John H. (1913-1988) (category Business People)
government and church. During a span of 40 years he was involved in several businesses that included Yarrow Freight & Fuels, Clearbrook Frozen Foods, Glacier

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