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.
