offered critiques of a paper on Meyer that I delivered at the 1991 symposium
on Law and the Great Plains at the University of Nebraska.

I appreciate the efforts of several archivists. Roy Ledbetter, reference and
research assistant at the Concordia Historical Institute in Clayton, Mis-
souri, made the Theodore Graebner Papers and other collections available
for my review, helped to obtain several of the photographs that are used in
this book, and provided other useful advice and assistance during my visit to
the institute. Anthony Zito, archivist of the Catholic University of America,
enabled me to review the National Catholic Welfare Conference archives
and other collections during my visit to Catholic University. Marsha Trim-
ble of the University of Virginia Law Library's Special Collections likewise
was very helpful during my inspection of the James C. McReynolds Papers.
I also appreciate the assistance of Paul J. Eisloeffel, Betty Louden, and other
librarians at the Nebraska State Historical Association, as well as the li-
brarians at the Manuscript Division in Washington, D.C., and at the Ore-
gon Historical Society. And I am grateful for the dedication of Cumberland
librarians Professor Laurel Rebecca Clapp and Edward L. Craig, Jr.

Raymond Parpart and Clarence Heiden kindly met with me to share their
personal memories of the Meyer case. I am grateful to the Rev. James Craver
of the Zion Lutheran Church in Hampton, Nebraska, who arranged this
meeting. I also thank the Rev. Hubert W. Riedel of the St. John Lutheran
Church in Garfield Heights, Ohio, and the Rev. Edward Anderson of the St.
John Lutheran Church in Denver, Iowa, who provided information about
the Ohio and Iowa language cases, respectively. Special appreciation also is
due to Martha Rahe, a member of Pastor Riedel's congregation, who made
available the diary of her father, who served on the congregation's school
board at the time of the Ohio language case. The Rev. Ferdinand Reith, ar-
chivist of the Nebraska District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod,
also provided useful documents. And I am indebted to Werner Bomemann
von Loeben of Heidelberg, Germany, for unraveling the handwriting of the
German-language records of the Zion Lutheran Church.

Finally, I wish to thank W. Hubert Plummer, who supported my research
for my University of Cincinnati Law Review article concerning the historical
background of the Meyer case when I was an attorney in his office at Op-
penheimer Wolff & Donnelly in New York.

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