Finding aid to the Jacob Eschbach Yoder Collection
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION
The collection includes notes, source material, correspondence, photographs, and
two microfilm reels used in preparation of the book, The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Dr. Samuel L. Horst. Also included are a photocopy of the original Jacob
E. Yoder diaries, 1861-1870, from the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and two
microfilm reels from the Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.
BOX 1
1-1 Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Lynchburg’s Black Education Leader
1866-1905 (pp. i-vi, 1-190)
1-2 Biography Notes (pp. 191-228)
1-3 Yoder Diary, Vol. 1 (1861-1864)
1-4 Yoder Diary, Vol. 2 (1866-1867)
1-5 Yoder Diary, Vol. 3 (1869-1870)
1-6 Annotations to the Yoder Diary (pp. 1-63)
BOX 2
Working Notes and Microfilm
2-1 Articles; Preliminary contacts
2-2 Unchecked sources; Ideas and questions
2-3 Notes on general reading; Bibliographies and archive listing;
Source material (Primary collections); Source material
(Secondary articles); Source material (Primary microfilm)
2-4 Source material (Primary, books); Source material (Primary,
articles); Source material (Secondary, books); Reference;
Bibliographies (Newspapers)
2-5 Dissertations and theses; Sources (Photos); Boyertown (PA)
(General); Schools (Virginia); Schools (Pennsylvania);
Lynchburg and vicinity (General); Lynchburg (Schools);
Churches (Pennsylvania, Mennonite); Churches
(Pennsylvania, non-Mennonite)
2-6 Wickersham, J. P.; Yoder, Jacob, Sr. (Family); Yoder, J. E.
2-7 Freedmen’s Bureau; Peabody Institute; Freedmen’s Aid
Association; Freedmen’s Aid Association (Other
associations); Teachers (Women); Teachers (Individual);
Whitaker family; Baptists; Unidentified; Virginia General
Assembly; Virginia Constitutional Convention; Virginia
Elections
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 2
2-8 White views about blacks; Black views on blacks; Place file;
Boyertown schools; Albion Tourgée; Undated; John W.
Alvord; Charles Chesnutt
2-9 Notes 1830-1865
2-10 Notes 1866
2-11 Notes 1867-1868
2-12 Miscellaneous notes
2-13 Microfilm Reel – Virginia Assistant Commissioner, Reports
of Conditions of Bureau Affairs (National Archives and
Records Service, Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands)
2-14 Microfilm Reel – Virginia, Superintendent of Education,
Letters Sent, 1866-1870 (National Archives and
Records Service, Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands)
BOX 3
3-1 American Freedman’s Union Commission
3-2 Alderson, William T., “The Influence of Military Rule and
the Freedmen’s Bureau on Reconstruction in Virginia,
1865-1870 (Thesis, 1952 – portion)
3-3 Anderson, James Douglas, “Education for Servitude”
(Dissertation, 1973 – portion)
3-4 Baker, Robert Andrew, he American Baptist Home Mission
Society and the South, 1832-1894” (Dissertation, 1947 –
portion)
3-5 Baptists
3-6 Bibliography (Selected)
3-7 Biographical information (Miscellaneous)
3-8 Blacks (Bibliography)
3-9 Census records
3-10 Correspondence (Robert R Corson, 1868-1870)
3-11 Correspondence (Miscellaneous)
3-12 Correspondence (Annie Yoder, 1893-1898)
3-13 Correspondence (Claude Yoder, 1893-1894)
3-14 Correspondence (Jacob Yoder, 1868-1880)
3-15 Correspondence (Post cards)
3-16 Correspondence (Virginia State Library)
3-17 Ferguson, Harry S., “The Participation of the Lynchburg,
Virginia, Negro in Politics, 1865-1900”
3-18 Freedmen’s Association (Pennsylvania)
3-19 Freedmen’s Record (Newspaper)
3-20 Freedmen’s Schools (General)
3-21 Freedmen’s Teacher Project (Computer codes)
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 4
4-1 Gilmer, John H., “Explanation and support of various bills
reported in relation to Negro evidence” (Senate of Virginia,
1866)
4-2 The Independent (Newspaper)
4-3 Journal of Negro History – “Religious Development of the
Negro”
4-4 Lynchburg, Virginia (General)
4-5 Morrison, A. J., “Beginnings of public education in Virginia,
1776-1860”
4-6 Negro education (Lynchburg, 1916)
4-7 Newspaper articles (Lynchburg, Virginia) – I
4-8 Newspaper articles (Lynchburg, Virginia) – II
4-9 Notes and Drafts – I
4-10 Notes and Drafts – II
4-11 Pennsylvania (Boyertown)
4-12 Pennsylvania (Millersville)
4-13 Pennsylvania (Military records)
4-14 Pennsylvania (Trappe)
4-15 Pennsylvania (Washington College)
4-16 Primary Sources (Articles)
BOX 5
5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
5-6
5-7
BOX 6
6-1
6-2
6-3
6-4
6-5
6-6
6-7
6-8
“Public Schools of Lynchburg, Virginia” and other articles
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1870s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1880s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1890s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1900s
School reports (Lynchburg, Virginia)
School reports (Superintendent of Public Instruction)
(Nos. 1-11, 14-15) (portions)
5-8 School reports (Superintendent of Public Instruction)
(Nos. 16-21, Biennial) (portions)
5-9 School statistics (Lynchburg, Virginia)
5-10 Secondary sources (Articles) – I
5-11 Secondary sources (Articles) – II
Source material (Photocopies) – I
Source material (Photocopies) – II
Southern Workman (Newspaper) – I
Southern Workman (Newspaper) – II
Substitute Article (Proposed) 1868 Virginia Convention
Suffrage
Virginia Conventions
Virginia Seminary and College (Lynchburg, Virginia)
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 6
6-9 Virginia State Library (Notes)
6-10 Whitaker family
6-11 Wickersham, James Pyle (1825-1891)
6-12 Yoder family (Genealogical notes)
BOX 7
Photographs
7-1 Jacob Yoder (Childhood home)
7-2 Jacob Yoder (Gravesite)
7-3 Mary (Crossgrove) Whitaker (Mother of Anna Yoder)
7-4 Annie Yoder
7-5 Anna (Whitaker) Yoder
7-6 Anna (Whitaker) Yoder (Family grave markers at Askford,
Connecticut)
7-7 Yoder family
7-8 Yoder home (Lynchburg, Virginia) (923 Monroe Street)
7-9 Jacob Yoder and his school
7-10 Transparencies (Miscellaneous)
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905)
Jacob Eschbach Yoder was born 22 February 1838 in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania, to Jacob Maurer Yoder (d. 1854) and Anna Eschbach Yoder. He attended
local Mennonite schools and the Millersville Normal School where he was educated to
become a teacher. He enlisted in the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Militia in
1863, but apparently returned to teaching after the unit was disbanded. He taught school
in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery County in 1864 and returned to
Millersville Normal School in 1865.
In 1866, Jacob Yoder became a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau and traveled to
Lynchburg, Virginia to teach the newly freed African Americans. He went to
Pennsylvania in 1867 to continue his own education, but returned to Lynchburg to
continue teaching in 1869. Yoder became superintendent of schools for the Freedmen's
Bureau. By the end of the 1870s, Yoder had become an administrator for Lynchburg's
African American schools. In 1881, he was appointed supervisor of Lynchburg's African
American schools.
Jacob Eschbach Yoder married Anna Whitaker 28 June 1871 and they had 7
children. He died in Lynchburg 15 April 1905.
[Biographical notes, Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Jacob E. Yoder. Diaries, 1861-1870. Accession 27680.
Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.]
THE DIARIES OF JACOB E. YODER
The diaries, 1861-1870, of Jacob E. Yoder (1838-1905) of Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, and Lynchburg, Virginia, include a diary, 25 January-25 February 1864,
detailing Yoder's teaching in a school in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, describing
the performance of his students. In this diary he also records the weather and comments
on his personal and religious life. It also contains notes on lectures on teaching taken in
1861, accounts, 1862-1864, class lists and grades of students, and miscellaneous notes.
In the second diary, 1866-1867, Yoder records his experiences teaching in a
Freedmen's Bureau School for African Americans in Lynchburg, Virginia, comments on
the sentiments of the local white population on the end of the Civil War and Union
occupation, and relates his personal experiences while teaching.
In the third diary, 1869-1870, Yoder continues commenting on his experiences as
a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau, recounts trips he made as school superintendent to
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various African American schools in central Virginia, and comments on his personal
experiences in Lynchburg. This volume also contains a list of names and copies of
receipts for money given to Alex Wharton of Lynchburg.
The diaries for 1866-1870 were published as The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Samuel L. Horst.
[Biographical notes, Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Jacob E. Yoder. Diaries, 1861-1870. Accession 27680.
Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.]
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
SAMUEL L. HORST, 1919Samuel Levi Horst, son of Elmer K. Horst and Katherine Buckwalter, was born
18 July 1919 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was reared in Berks County. After
completing elementary school, he was employed at Fein and Glass Shoe Factory in 1933
and later at Nolde and Horst Hosiery in Reading. In factory work he became aware of the
struggles of workers and the need for labor unions.
Drafted in 1940, he registered as a conscientious objector and went into civilian
public service in October 1942 in which he worked in national park, mental hospital, soil
conservation and the national forest service until April 1946. His interrupted college
education was resumed in 1946 at Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and Goshen
College in Indiana where he received his Bachelor of Arts. Employed as a teacher at
Eastern Mennonite in 1949-1951 and 1954-1960, he received a Masters of Education
degree at the University of Virginia, while teaching, and a Master of Arts at the American
University in Washington, DC, in 1966. He was a Johns Hopkins University Fellow in
1967-1968, engaged in doctoral studies in 1968-1972 at the University of Virginia and
resumed teaching at Eastern Mennonite. He received his Ph.D. in history from the
University of Virginia in 1977.
While teaching, Horst published Mennonites in the Confederacy: A study in Civil
War Pacifism (1967) and co-edited Conscience in Crisis: Mennonites and other Peace
Churches in America 1739-1789 (1979). After retirement in 1984, he published
Education for Manhood: The Education of Blacks in Virginia during the Civil War
(1987), edited The Fire of Liberty in their Hearts: the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the
Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866-1870 (1996) and co-authored
Building on the Gospel Foundation: The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
and Washington County, Maryland (2004).
In June 1948, Samuel Horst married Sarah Elizabeth Good, daughter of Allen H.
Good and Hannah L. Gross, who was born 24 July 1921 in Chester County,
Pennsylvania. She died 9 August 1991 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was buried in
Weavers Mennonite Church Cemetery in Harrisonburg. In 1995, Horst married Mary
Ellen Stutzman.
[Biographical notes, Library, Eastern Mennonite University to Lewis H. Averett, Jones Memorial Library,
May, 2004; King, Mary Jane, “Samuel Horst – ‘always a reason why’; Jacket notes, The Fire of Liberty in
their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 18661870 (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1996); Letter, Horst to Rhodes, 3 June 2004; Letter, Horst to
Rhodes, 23 Nov 2004.]
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION
The collection includes notes, source material, correspondence, photographs, and
two microfilm reels used in preparation of the book, The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Dr. Samuel L. Horst. Also included are a photocopy of the original Jacob
E. Yoder diaries, 1861-1870, from the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and two
microfilm reels from the Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]
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2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION
The collection includes notes, source material, correspondence, photographs, and
two microfilm reels used in preparation of the book, The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Dr. Samuel L. Horst. Also included are a photocopy of the original Jacob
E. Yoder diaries, 1861-1870, from the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and two
microfilm reels from the Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.
BOX 1
1-1 Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Lynchburg’s Black Education Leader
1866-1905 (pp. i-vi, 1-190)
1-2 Biography Notes (pp. 191-228)
1-3 Yoder Diary, Vol. 1 (1861-1864)
1-4 Yoder Diary, Vol. 2 (1866-1867)
1-5 Yoder Diary, Vol. 3 (1869-1870)
1-6 Annotations to the Yoder Diary (pp. 1-63)
BOX 2
Working Notes and Microfilm
2-1 Articles; Preliminary contacts
2-2 Unchecked sources; Ideas and questions
2-3 Notes on general reading; Bibliographies and archive listing;
Source material (Primary collections); Source material
(Secondary articles); Source material (Primary microfilm)
2-4 Source material (Primary, books); Source material (Primary,
articles); Source material (Secondary, books); Reference;
Bibliographies (Newspapers)
2-5 Dissertations and theses; Sources (Photos); Boyertown (PA)
(General); Schools (Virginia); Schools (Pennsylvania);
Lynchburg and vicinity (General); Lynchburg (Schools);
Churches (Pennsylvania, Mennonite); Churches
(Pennsylvania, non-Mennonite)
2-6 Wickersham, J. P.; Yoder, Jacob, Sr. (Family); Yoder, J. E.
2-7 Freedmen’s Bureau; Peabody Institute; Freedmen’s Aid
Association; Freedmen’s Aid Association (Other
associations); Teachers (Women); Teachers (Individual);
Whitaker family; Baptists; Unidentified; Virginia General
Assembly; Virginia Constitutional Convention; Virginia
Elections
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 2
2-8 White views about blacks; Black views on blacks; Place file;
Boyertown schools; Albion Tourgée; Undated; John W.
Alvord; Charles Chesnutt
2-9 Notes 1830-1865
2-10 Notes 1866
2-11 Notes 1867-1868
2-12 Miscellaneous notes
2-13 Microfilm Reel – Virginia Assistant Commissioner, Reports
of Conditions of Bureau Affairs (National Archives and
Records Service, Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands)
2-14 Microfilm Reel – Virginia, Superintendent of Education,
Letters Sent, 1866-1870 (National Archives and
Records Service, Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands)
BOX 3
3-1 American Freedman’s Union Commission
3-2 Alderson, William T., “The Influence of Military Rule and
the Freedmen’s Bureau on Reconstruction in Virginia,
1865-1870 (Thesis, 1952 – portion)
3-3 Anderson, James Douglas, “Education for Servitude”
(Dissertation, 1973 – portion)
3-4 Baker, Robert Andrew, he American Baptist Home Mission
Society and the South, 1832-1894” (Dissertation, 1947 –
portion)
3-5 Baptists
3-6 Bibliography (Selected)
3-7 Biographical information (Miscellaneous)
3-8 Blacks (Bibliography)
3-9 Census records
3-10 Correspondence (Robert R Corson, 1868-1870)
3-11 Correspondence (Miscellaneous)
3-12 Correspondence (Annie Yoder, 1893-1898)
3-13 Correspondence (Claude Yoder, 1893-1894)
3-14 Correspondence (Jacob Yoder, 1868-1880)
3-15 Correspondence (Post cards)
3-16 Correspondence (Virginia State Library)
3-17 Ferguson, Harry S., “The Participation of the Lynchburg,
Virginia, Negro in Politics, 1865-1900”
3-18 Freedmen’s Association (Pennsylvania)
3-19 Freedmen’s Record (Newspaper)
3-20 Freedmen’s Schools (General)
3-21 Freedmen’s Teacher Project (Computer codes)
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 4
4-1 Gilmer, John H., “Explanation and support of various bills
reported in relation to Negro evidence” (Senate of Virginia,
1866)
4-2 The Independent (Newspaper)
4-3 Journal of Negro History – “Religious Development of the
Negro”
4-4 Lynchburg, Virginia (General)
4-5 Morrison, A. J., “Beginnings of public education in Virginia,
1776-1860”
4-6 Negro education (Lynchburg, 1916)
4-7 Newspaper articles (Lynchburg, Virginia) – I
4-8 Newspaper articles (Lynchburg, Virginia) – II
4-9 Notes and Drafts – I
4-10 Notes and Drafts – II
4-11 Pennsylvania (Boyertown)
4-12 Pennsylvania (Millersville)
4-13 Pennsylvania (Military records)
4-14 Pennsylvania (Trappe)
4-15 Pennsylvania (Washington College)
4-16 Primary Sources (Articles)
BOX 5
5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
5-6
5-7
BOX 6
6-1
6-2
6-3
6-4
6-5
6-6
6-7
6-8
“Public Schools of Lynchburg, Virginia” and other articles
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1870s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1880s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1890s
School Board minutes (Lynchburg, Virginia) – 1900s
School reports (Lynchburg, Virginia)
School reports (Superintendent of Public Instruction)
(Nos. 1-11, 14-15) (portions)
5-8 School reports (Superintendent of Public Instruction)
(Nos. 16-21, Biennial) (portions)
5-9 School statistics (Lynchburg, Virginia)
5-10 Secondary sources (Articles) – I
5-11 Secondary sources (Articles) – II
Source material (Photocopies) – I
Source material (Photocopies) – II
Southern Workman (Newspaper) – I
Southern Workman (Newspaper) – II
Substitute Article (Proposed) 1868 Virginia Convention
Suffrage
Virginia Conventions
Virginia Seminary and College (Lynchburg, Virginia)
(Continued)
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JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION, Cont’d.
BOX 6
6-9 Virginia State Library (Notes)
6-10 Whitaker family
6-11 Wickersham, James Pyle (1825-1891)
6-12 Yoder family (Genealogical notes)
BOX 7
Photographs
7-1 Jacob Yoder (Childhood home)
7-2 Jacob Yoder (Gravesite)
7-3 Mary (Crossgrove) Whitaker (Mother of Anna Yoder)
7-4 Annie Yoder
7-5 Anna (Whitaker) Yoder
7-6 Anna (Whitaker) Yoder (Family grave markers at Askford,
Connecticut)
7-7 Yoder family
7-8 Yoder home (Lynchburg, Virginia) (923 Monroe Street)
7-9 Jacob Yoder and his school
7-10 Transparencies (Miscellaneous)
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905)
Jacob Eschbach Yoder was born 22 February 1838 in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania, to Jacob Maurer Yoder (d. 1854) and Anna Eschbach Yoder. He attended
local Mennonite schools and the Millersville Normal School where he was educated to
become a teacher. He enlisted in the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Militia in
1863, but apparently returned to teaching after the unit was disbanded. He taught school
in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery County in 1864 and returned to
Millersville Normal School in 1865.
In 1866, Jacob Yoder became a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau and traveled to
Lynchburg, Virginia to teach the newly freed African Americans. He went to
Pennsylvania in 1867 to continue his own education, but returned to Lynchburg to
continue teaching in 1869. Yoder became superintendent of schools for the Freedmen's
Bureau. By the end of the 1870s, Yoder had become an administrator for Lynchburg's
African American schools. In 1881, he was appointed supervisor of Lynchburg's African
American schools.
Jacob Eschbach Yoder married Anna Whitaker 28 June 1871 and they had 7
children. He died in Lynchburg 15 April 1905.
[Biographical notes, Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Jacob E. Yoder. Diaries, 1861-1870. Accession 27680.
Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.]
THE DIARIES OF JACOB E. YODER
The diaries, 1861-1870, of Jacob E. Yoder (1838-1905) of Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, and Lynchburg, Virginia, include a diary, 25 January-25 February 1864,
detailing Yoder's teaching in a school in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, describing
the performance of his students. In this diary he also records the weather and comments
on his personal and religious life. It also contains notes on lectures on teaching taken in
1861, accounts, 1862-1864, class lists and grades of students, and miscellaneous notes.
In the second diary, 1866-1867, Yoder records his experiences teaching in a
Freedmen's Bureau School for African Americans in Lynchburg, Virginia, comments on
the sentiments of the local white population on the end of the Civil War and Union
occupation, and relates his personal experiences while teaching.
In the third diary, 1869-1870, Yoder continues commenting on his experiences as
a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau, recounts trips he made as school superintendent to
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various African American schools in central Virginia, and comments on his personal
experiences in Lynchburg. This volume also contains a list of names and copies of
receipts for money given to Alex Wharton of Lynchburg.
The diaries for 1866-1870 were published as The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Samuel L. Horst.
[Biographical notes, Jacob Eschbach Yoder, Jacob E. Yoder. Diaries, 1861-1870. Accession 27680.
Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.]
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
SAMUEL L. HORST, 1919Samuel Levi Horst, son of Elmer K. Horst and Katherine Buckwalter, was born
18 July 1919 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was reared in Berks County. After
completing elementary school, he was employed at Fein and Glass Shoe Factory in 1933
and later at Nolde and Horst Hosiery in Reading. In factory work he became aware of the
struggles of workers and the need for labor unions.
Drafted in 1940, he registered as a conscientious objector and went into civilian
public service in October 1942 in which he worked in national park, mental hospital, soil
conservation and the national forest service until April 1946. His interrupted college
education was resumed in 1946 at Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and Goshen
College in Indiana where he received his Bachelor of Arts. Employed as a teacher at
Eastern Mennonite in 1949-1951 and 1954-1960, he received a Masters of Education
degree at the University of Virginia, while teaching, and a Master of Arts at the American
University in Washington, DC, in 1966. He was a Johns Hopkins University Fellow in
1967-1968, engaged in doctoral studies in 1968-1972 at the University of Virginia and
resumed teaching at Eastern Mennonite. He received his Ph.D. in history from the
University of Virginia in 1977.
While teaching, Horst published Mennonites in the Confederacy: A study in Civil
War Pacifism (1967) and co-edited Conscience in Crisis: Mennonites and other Peace
Churches in America 1739-1789 (1979). After retirement in 1984, he published
Education for Manhood: The Education of Blacks in Virginia during the Civil War
(1987), edited The Fire of Liberty in their Hearts: the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the
Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866-1870 (1996) and co-authored
Building on the Gospel Foundation: The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
and Washington County, Maryland (2004).
In June 1948, Samuel Horst married Sarah Elizabeth Good, daughter of Allen H.
Good and Hannah L. Gross, who was born 24 July 1921 in Chester County,
Pennsylvania. She died 9 August 1991 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was buried in
Weavers Mennonite Church Cemetery in Harrisonburg. In 1995, Horst married Mary
Ellen Stutzman.
[Biographical notes, Library, Eastern Mennonite University to Lewis H. Averett, Jones Memorial Library,
May, 2004; King, Mary Jane, “Samuel Horst – ‘always a reason why’; Jacket notes, The Fire of Liberty in
their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 18661870 (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1996); Letter, Horst to Rhodes, 3 June 2004; Letter, Horst to
Rhodes, 23 Nov 2004.]
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JACOB ESCHBACH YODER (1838-1905) COLLECTION
The collection includes notes, source material, correspondence, photographs, and
two microfilm reels used in preparation of the book, The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts:
the Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen’s Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia,
1866-1870, by Dr. Samuel L. Horst. Also included are a photocopy of the original Jacob
E. Yoder diaries, 1861-1870, from the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and two
microfilm reels from the Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]
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Yoder, Jacob Eschbach (1838-1905)
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Finding aid to the Jacob Eschbach Yoder collection held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The collection includes notes, photographs, and other research materials used for preparing "The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts" by Dr. Samuel L. Horst.
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George M. Jones Memorial Library
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George M. Jones Memorial Library
Date
2023
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Collection
Citation
George M. Jones Memorial Library, “Finding aid to the Jacob Eschbach Yoder Collection,” Digital Collections, accessed April 27, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/282.