J. Philip Ensminger of Monroe County

AN INTRODUCTION

Johann Philip Ensminger, born in 1727 in Waldambach, Alsace, France, immigrated to Pennsylvania as a child with his parents, Peter and Mary Catherine Trautmann Ensminger to escape religious persecution. He was part of the Palatine migration to America. He was the fourth generation of Ensminger men to be a blacksmith. His great-grandfather, Philipp Ensmi…