157 p. : ill. (some col.), charts, geneal. tables, ports. ; 29 cm.
Notes
"First printing."
Edition statement from spine.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-154) and index.
Contents
Book organization -- Wagner descendants charts: John W. Wagner and Mary Miller ; Ezequiel Chavez Dominguez and Ruth Phyllis Wagner ; Hugh Beaver Wagner and Ruth Spannuth Heffelfinger ; James Thomas Atkinson and Betty Jean Wagner -- Descendants of John W. and Mary (Miller) Wagner: John W. Wagner ; John Adams Wagner ; Hugh B. Wagner ; Ruth Phyllis (Wagner) Dominguez ; Hugh Beaver Wagner ; Betty Jean (Wagner) Atkinson -- Appendix A. Complete John Adams Wagner descendants chart -- Appendix B. Wesley Gephart Wagner's autobiography.
Abstract: Many Pennsylvania Mennonite families trace solid ancestral lines back to immigrant Mennonite and Amish ancestors. Not so for members of Mennonite Lind families, the first of whom settled in Pennsylvania in the 1940s. This began a continual Mennonite Lind presence in Pennsylvania or, for some years, with Lancaster's mission outreach in Africa. Their immigrant Lind ancestor, John "Philip" Lind, arrived in the United States single, a young man of the Moravian faith. He soon married Elizabeth Whitesell, also a Moravian, and they lived in several Pennsylvania locations. Their son Jacob Lind, born near Nazareth, Pennsylvania, went west and settled in Ohio, where he met and married Maggie Ziegler Boyer and became a convinced member of her Mennonite faith. It is Mennonite descendants of their son Norman A. Lind who made homes in Pennsylvania.
"Pastor Croll was an accomplished historian and obviously made use of the best available sources for his text...he discovered, in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,...the first history of Oley, the lengthy manuscript entitled 'Fragment of the past history of Oley', by Dr. Peter G. Bertolet...This was based largely on interviews with Oley Valley residents, many of whom were born in the 18th century....After several competent historical chapters on the settlement and early religious patterns and conflicts in the Valley, Pastor Croll concentrates on some of the major families of Oley." [forward]
