Michael Denlinger
- Born: 1680, Ibersheim, Germany
- Marriage: Vroni Yoder
- Died: 1736, Lancaster, Pennsylvania at age 56
 Noted events in his life and other information:
• Dates & Events:
Michael Denlinger lived at Ibersheim in 1715 and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717. He owned 300 acres granted by Thomas Penn. He was a Mennonite.
Michael and his wife Vroni migrated to Lanc. Co in 1717 from Ibersheim, Germany. It was at this time the spelling was changed from Dandiler to Donegar and than to Denlinger.
• Dates & Events:
Michael was a Mennonite from the Ibersheim area of the Rhineland, who immigrated to the Conestoga region of Pennsylvania about 1717.
Mary was specifically named as Mary, wife of Jacob Hockman, Jr., in the settlement of her father's estate in 1749 (Ralph Denlinger, The Denlinger Family; Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, July 1980).
• Background Information:
"The Denlingers were Mennonites, a branch of the Anabaptist movement originating in Switzerland in 1525. Persecuted for their beliefs by religious and political authorities, Mennonites left Switzerland for other parts of Europe, including the Palatinate region of southwest Germany. Then, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, “Beginning in 1663, Mennonites emigrated to North America to preserve the faith of their fathers, to seek economic opportunity and adventure, and especially to escape European militarism.”[1] The Denlinger family’s arrival in Pennsylvania in 1715 marked the beginning of a four-decades-long “Great Migration” of Palatine Germans to the state". Source
Michael married Vroni Yoder. (Vroni Yoder was born in 1685 and died in 1735.)
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