Lewis James Heatwole

“ Other branches also now reach forth into the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and the provinces of northwest Canada, until our people have become permanently located in twenty-six of the states and four of the Canadian provinces.
A glance at the great tree accompanying this chapter readily shows how it established its main stock with the year 1632 in Europe, and how this, for several generations grew in two separate trunks in America, and which by love according to the law of ingrafting the two trunks became united in one on the principles of General Conference unity. ”

“ The inclination on the part of many Mennonites to keep well to the fore in finding homes along the wilderness border has as a rule been westward, with however some arms from the main body in Pennsylvania extending northwestward to New York and Canada. ”

“ Location of Colony Shelby Co., Mo. 1870|Lapp, Brubaker, Det-Homestead Land weiler, Hershey 1899 Yoder, Hahn, Shenk, Brunk Fishing Shore 1901 Flubacher, Smith, Great Lumber Camps White First Families to Locate [1901 Shantz, Wenger, Cress-Great Wheat Belt man 1902 Brunk, Kiser, Rhodes, Resort for Con- Rich sumptives 1902 Mishler, Roth, Erb, Fine Climate man 1915] Kauffman, Mast, grich, Yoder 59 Inducements for Colonization Neuswander 1905 Thut, Garber, Hilty, Shenk 1906 Bricker, Kolb, Stauffer Great Wheat Belt 1912 Roth, Hoylman, Kauff-Fertile Valley Ulen, Minn. ”