Collection Overview
Title: Herman Alofs Collection, 1885-1923
ID: COLL/330
Creator: Alofs, Herman (1848-1927)
Extent: 0.25 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Farmer and clerk of the East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan. The collection includes a notebook with poems in Dutch and in English; a certificate of citizenship; correspondence with family in the Netherlands, 1916-1923; and a letter from L. J. Lamberts with questions regarding the congregation at East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church.
Biographical Note
Farmer and clerk of the East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan. He was married to Meitjen Alofs and they had one son, Gerrit.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Citizenship paper --- 1885
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- 30 December 1910
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- 28 February 1915
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- 30 July 1916
- Folder 5: Envelope, Receptie bij de aan Komst van Ds Geerling --- 1919
- Folder 6: Wedding announcement --- 1920
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- 23 December 1922
- Folder 8: Correspondence --- 11 February 1923
- Folder 9: All for Jesus --- undated
- Folder 10: Hoe wonderlijk . . . --- undated
- Folder 11: Kerstzang --- undated
- Folder 12: Notebook --- undated