Johann Wilhelm (William J.) Lind, son of Johann Jakob Lind & Anna Maria Deines, was born 11 April 1881 in Neu-Dönhof.
He arrived in Baltimore aboard the SS Neckar on 11 September 1902. He settled in Burlington, Iowa.
William Lind studied theology at Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Illinois. He was ordained at the Lutheran Church in Milberger, Kansas, in 1910. He continued to the church in Milberger.
On 1 September 1910, he married Georgina Matilda Borell, daughter of Georg Borell & Carolina Ehrlich.
In 1911, he joined the Ohio Synod. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Lind Hospital in Hoisington, Kansas.
Rev. Lind founded and served many congregations on the plains of Kansas. He served Zion Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Missouri (1919-1922), First Lutheran Church in Dorrance, Kansas (1926-1936) overlapping with Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Kansas (1927-1940), and St. John's Lutheran Church in Daykin, Nebraska (1940-1947).
Pastor Lind died 2 December 1957 in Pomona, California, and is buried in Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.
- Schlager, Lee Ann. The Deines Family: From the German Colony of New Gololobovka and Their Cousins from Old Gololobovka, Russia (2005): 8-20.
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Rev. Wilhelm Lind (ca. 1912).
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Lind Hospital in Hoisington, Kansas.
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