Dielman Kolb, Jr. (1691-1756) (arrival 1717)
Our Ancestors in America: Dielman Kolb, Jr.
Representing the 2nd Generation
Dielman Kolb was born on November 10, 1691, in the Palatine (Pfaltz) at Wolfsheim, Germany. He married Elizabeth Schnebli in 1714. On March 21, 1717, he started from Ibersheim, in the Palatine, for Pennsylvania, arriving at Philadelphia on the 10th of August 1717. He was instrumental in organizing the Mennonite Congregation at Salford, Montgomery County, in 1738. He was one of a committee to arrange and supervise the translation of the “Martyrs’ Mirror” from the Dutch to the German language. Through his influence Christopher Dock was induced to write his “Theory and Practice of Teaching,” the first treatise of this kind ever written in America as far as known and afterwards printed and published by Christopher Saur at Germantown.
Important: If you are a descendant of Dielman Kolb, who came to America in 1717, you start tracing your ancestry from his daughter, Elizabeth, mentioned above (3rd generation) listed above, using Cassel’s History for this purpose.
Taken from the KKC Family Record Book, page 14.
Other Pages:
- Historic Residence of Pioneer Dielman Kolb (KFRB-pg 19)
- Link to the “Dielman Kolb, the second” in Daniel Cassel’s book
- Wikipedia Page for the home of immigrant Dielman Kolb in 1963 Kinsey Road near Rt. 113
- In the fall of 2025, the house went up for sale. Here is the realtor’s sheet for the house.
- There is an extensive write-up about Dielman Kolb, Jr. in the Strassburger Family History Book and the Mennonite Encyclopedia as noted below:
