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By Ed Gerritsen, October 1999
Collection Overview
Abstract
Real estate agent, and politician, active in municipal affairs in Lake County and Highland, Indiana. The collection includes campaign material; election documents; correspondence; newspaper clippings; and also details the Dutch immigrant community south of Chicago, Illinois; the agricultural pursuit of some of those immigrants in northern Indiana; plus the minutes of the Farmers' Cooperative Association (Highland, Indiana); and information on a short-lived Dutch immigrant settlement in Kuner, Colorado.
Biographical Note
Bartel Zandstra Jr. was a real estate agent, local politician, and municipal official in the Highland, Indiana, area.
The son (one of sixteen children) of a truck farmer who had immigrated from the Netherlands, Zandstra married Gwendolyn Mae Jonkman. They had two children, Bartel Jay and Anne Kathie (Stoll). He served in the United States Army, 1943-1946, in the European theater.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
3 Boxes ; 1 microfilm reel
Acquisition Source:
David Zandstra, 1991, 1999
Other Note:
Acc. No. 99.17
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1:
Family History, Speeches, and Election Material, 1896-1975],
[
Series 2: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 1930s-1960s],
[
Series 3: Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook, Campaign Posters, and Diplomas, 1919-1949],
[
All]
- Series 1: Family History, Speeches, and Election Material --- 1896-1975
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Family history, geography --- 1896-1995
- Folder 2: Newspaper clippings, Township Assessor --- 1938
- Folder 3: Property deeds, plat maps, etc --- 1926-1942
- Folder 4: Military service --- 1943-1945
- Folder 5-6: Speeches, undated
- Folder 7: Awards, certificates, membership cards --- 1938-1975
- Folder 8: Dealings with Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads --- 1949-1953
- Folder 9: Liquidation of Merchants Savings Bank and other banks --- 1944
- Folder 10: Farmers Cooperative Association of Highland, IN: translations of minutes --- 1915-1929
- Folder 11: Farmers Cooperative Association of Highland, IN: minutes --- 1915-1929
- Folder 12: Farmers Cooperative Association of Highland, IN: minutes --- 1930-1950
- Folder Vault: (1 microfilm reel): Farmers Cooperative Association of Highland, IN: minutes --- 20 Jan 1915 - 26 Jan 1950
Browse by Series:
[Series 1:
Family History, Speeches, and Election Material, 1896-1975],
[
Series 2: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 1930s-1960s],
[
Series 3: Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook, Campaign Posters, and Diplomas, 1919-1949],
[
All]