Circa 1882 he began his first assignment, serving at the Darlington Mission, near Fort Reno, for the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Although his ability to learn languages served him well, he required his Indian pupils to speak English and believed that the American Indians would not progress without rejecting native culture. During his years at Darlington he developed into an ethnographer, but his interest in culture often conflicted with his missionary goals. While he saw dissolving the "heathenish culture" as his task, he studied the language, dances, and customs with zeal, publishing accounts in educational journals. In 1884 he married Barbara Baer, and they had one daughter. Barbara Voth died in 1889. In 1892 a weary Voth took a leave of absence and toured his native Russia.
On his return he and his new wife, Martha Moser, founded the first Mennonite mission for the Hopi at Oraibi, in Arizona. There he earned a controversial reputation for forcing his way into Hopi sacred rituals and preaching loudly in the Hopi language. Again, while he focused on ending native customs, Voth carefully recorded Hopi rituals and daily life, collecting an impressive array of artifacts later loaned to the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. Interestingly, in 1912 lightning struck the church he had finished in 1902, and many Hopi claimed that supernatural powers had cursed the building. His second wife Martha Moser died in May 1901 and was buried at Oraibi. In 1901 Voth retired after her death. He later published accounts of the Hopi, reconstructed Hopi altars for the Field Museum and a Hopi house for the Fred Harvey Company at the Grand Canyon, and collected artifacts later displayed in the Henry R. Voth Hopi Indian Collection at Grand Canyon, Arizona. In 1914 he served as the resident minister of the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. From 1914 until his death on June 2, 1931, he held the position of chair of the Mennonite Historical Association of North America. His final years since 1927 he lived in Newton, Kansas area.
Check also Roland C. Jones
see http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/contents/voth_henry_r._1855_1931
Photo: H. R. and Barbara (Baer) Voth, 1884.
Source: Mennonite Life (June 2006)
Heinrich (Henry) Richert VOTH
Birth: 15 Apr 1855
Death: 2 Jun 1931
Spouse 1: Barbara Baer
* Married: 20 July 1884
Spouse 2: Martha MOSER
b: 14 Feb 1862
d: May 1901 at Oraibi.
Children
1. Albert Cornelius VOTH b: 10 Oct 1895
2. Esther Moser VOTH b: 19 Feb 1899
3. Martha Moser VOTH
Spouse 3: Katharina Hirschler.
(GC Mennonite Pioneers, 1973)
Circa 1882 he began his first assignment, serving at the Darlington Mission, near Fort Reno, for the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Although his ability to learn languages served him well, he required his Indian pupils to speak English and believed that the American Indians would not progress without rejecting native culture. During his years at Darlington he developed into an ethnographer, but his interest in culture often conflicted with his missionary goals. While he saw dissolving the "heathenish culture" as his task, he studied the language, dances, and customs with zeal, publishing accounts in educational journals. In 1884 he married Barbara Baer, and they had one daughter. Barbara Voth died in 1889. In 1892 a weary Voth took a leave of absence and toured his native Russia.
On his return he and his new wife, Martha Moser, founded the first Mennonite mission for the Hopi at Oraibi, in Arizona. There he earned a controversial reputation for forcing his way into Hopi sacred rituals and preaching loudly in the Hopi language. Again, while he focused on ending native customs, Voth carefully recorded Hopi rituals and daily life, collecting an impressive array of artifacts later loaned to the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. Interestingly, in 1912 lightning struck the church he had finished in 1902, and many Hopi claimed that supernatural powers had cursed the building. His second wife Martha Moser died in May 1901 and was buried at Oraibi. In 1901 Voth retired after her death. He later published accounts of the Hopi, reconstructed Hopi altars for the Field Museum and a Hopi house for the Fred Harvey Company at the Grand Canyon, and collected artifacts later displayed in the Henry R. Voth Hopi Indian Collection at Grand Canyon, Arizona. In 1914 he served as the resident minister of the Zoar Mennonite Church in Goltry, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. From 1914 until his death on June 2, 1931, he held the position of chair of the Mennonite Historical Association of North America. His final years since 1927 he lived in Newton, Kansas area.
Check also Roland C. Jones
see http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/contents/voth_henry_r._1855_1931
Photo: H. R. and Barbara (Baer) Voth, 1884.
Source: Mennonite Life (June 2006)
Heinrich (Henry) Richert VOTH
Birth: 15 Apr 1855
Death: 2 Jun 1931
Spouse 1: Barbara Baer
* Married: 20 July 1884
Spouse 2: Martha MOSER
b: 14 Feb 1862
d: May 1901 at Oraibi.
Children
1. Albert Cornelius VOTH b: 10 Oct 1895
2. Esther Moser VOTH b: 19 Feb 1899
3. Martha Moser VOTH
Spouse 3: Katharina Hirschler.
(GC Mennonite Pioneers, 1973)
Family Members
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Frieda Edna Voth Regier
1885–1949
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Dr Albert Cornelius Voth
1895–1969
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Esther Moser Voth Frantz
1899–1966
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Martha Maria Voth Dyck
1901–1985
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Harold K. Voth
1907–1910
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Edna Selma Voth
1909–1998
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Eldon Henry Voth
1914–1959
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Waldo C. Voth
1916–1983
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Wanda R Voth Goertz
1921–1999
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Norma Voth Mingenback
1922–2005
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