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Name: LINDBERG, Minnie, Miss

Birth Date: 1870

Nationality: American

First Date: 1895

Last Date: 1898

Profession: Africa Inland Mission - arr. Mombasa 27/10/1895, dep. for Machakos 12/11/1895; Founder Member of AIM Mission at Nzawi, Ukamba; ill at Kilungu with blackwater fever c1897; left EA during 1898

Area: Nzawi, Kilungu

Book Reference: North, Grasshoppers

General Information:

Grasshoppers - Jacob Toole died followed by Tom Allen. Soon Mrs Allen and Minnie Lindbergh fell ill and Willis [Hotchkiss] struggled with them to the new railway terminus, Kinani, and on to Mombasa where he helped the ladies board a ship. As they drew away from the quay, he painfully recalled disembarking with 15 others two and a half years before; all so full of hope. Now, he only remained.

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