15 Facts About Daniel Lindley

Daniel Lindley was an American missionary in South Africa.

Daniel Lindley was born at Ten Mile Creek, Pennsylvania on 24 August 1801.

Daniel Lindley was the eldest child of Jacob and Hannah Lindley.

Daniel Lindley's father had founded Ohio University so not surprisingly Lindley was educated there and at the Union Seminary in Prince Edward, Virginia.

In 1839 Daniel Lindley returned and decided that with the Zulus out of reach he should minister to the Boers.

Daniel Lindley opened a school for their children and was appointed as a pastor.

On 31 March 1842, Daniel Lindley led the founding congregation of the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State.

In 1847, Daniel Lindley established a station at Inanda, centering his efforts on the Zulus and helping set aside large "native locations" to protect them from land-hungry settlers.

Daniel Lindley moved to the Inanda Mission in 1858 with his wife and eleven children.

Daniel Lindley fired his own bricks to build the mission house which is still standing over 150 years later.

Daniel Lindley died on 3 September 1880 in Morristown, New Jersey.

Daniel Lindley was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.

One of the Daniel Lindley daughters went on teach at the school but the Daniel Lindley family left in April 1873 leaving the organisation that they had established in the hands of the Reverend James Dube.

Daniel Lindley left Inanda having created what would become Inanda Seminary School, the Seminary, a church and several schools based in native huts.

The mission house that Daniel Lindley built at the Inanda Mission is still standing and is still used as the main office at the Seminary.