COLL/336 Guide to the Eisse Harke Woldring Collection Woldring, Eisse Harke Collection

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Guide to the Eisse Harke Woldring Collection 1910/1920 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Eisse Harke Woldring Collection 1910-1920 COLL/336 Woldring, Eisse Harke, 1884-1961 0.25 1 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Minister of the Gereformeerde Kerken, 1922-1945, and the Gereformeerde Kerken Vrijgemaakt, 1945-1961, in the Netherlands. Letters, written from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to family in Sauwerd, Groningen. They give an account of a young man's life: travel stories; factory work; studies at Calvin Theological Seminary; Thanksgiving in Moline, Michigan; a vacation in Chicago, Illinois; church and social activities; World War I; and pro-German allegiance.
Biographical Information:

Eisse Harke Woldring (1884-1961) was the son of Derk Woldring, a farmer in Zuidwold, the Netherlands, and Elisabeth Dijksterhuis. The younger Woldring came to Grand Rapids in 1910 and worked in local furniture factories for three years when he enrolled in Calvin College. He graduated from Calvin Seminary in 1921. With his wife, Sophia (Fie) Jongsma, also from the Netherlands but whom he married in California in 1918, he returned to the Netherlands, where he studies at the Theological School in Kampen for a year, was declared a candidate and accepted a call to the church in Kornhorn in 1922. He retired from the ministry in 1953 after experiencing a series of mild strokes.

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Detailed List of Contents id18899 Letters 1910-1920 id18900 1 id18901 1 1 General Papers id18902 1 2 Letters 1910 id18903 1 3 Letters 1911 id18904 1 4 Letters 1912, Jan-Feb id18905 1 5 Letters 1912, June-Oct id18906 1 6 Letters 1912, Nov-Dec id18907 1 7 Letters 1913-1915 id18908 1 8 Letters 1916-1917 id18909 1 9 Letters 1918-1920 id18910 1 10 Fie (Sophia) Jongsma Woldring Letters 1918-1920 id18911 1 11 Piet Woldring included in Eisse Woldring Papers