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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
- Series 2: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings --- 1930s-1960s
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- 1930s
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- 1940s
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- 1950-1955
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- 1956-1957
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- 1958-1959
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- 1960s
- Folder 7: Correspondence, undated
- Folder 8: Newspaper clippings, Lake County Chairman --- 1942
- Folder 9: Newspaper clippings, County Clerk Election --- 1946
- Folder 10: Newspaper clippings, Klen Graft Probe --- 1947
- Folder 11: Correspondence Re: Clerk, Lake County Court --- 1949
- Folder 12: Newspaper clippings, Lt. Governor Election --- 1956
- Folder 13: Newspaper clippings, US Senate Campaign --- 1957
- Folder 14: Newspaper clippings, Lake County Auditor --- 1964
- Folder 15: Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous activities
- Folder 16: Campaign literature --- 1938-1962
- Folder 17: Campaign documents --- 1934-1966
- Folder 18: Election results documents --- 1962-1964
- Folder 19: Election material --- 1962-1963
- Folder 20: Holiday greetings, undated
- Series 3: Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook, Campaign Posters, and Diplomas --- 1919-1949
- Box 3
- Item 1: Scrapbook --- 1945-1949
- Item 2: Diplomas --- 1919, 1925
- Item 3: Campaign posters --- 1938-1946
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]
