Johannes Lichtenwalner, a pioneer ancestor, together with his wife, Barbara, and a one year old son, arrived on the ship "Samuel of London," shows that he had been a blacksmith for four years previous to his setting sail for America, at Kreuth province of Brandenburg, Germany. When he had arrived at Philadelphia, he purchased a team loaded on his wagon what household goods he had, together with his wife and son, and followed the tide of the immigrants, and by the newly laid out road came to "Macungie." From Trexler's tavern (now Breinigsville), he followed an old Indian trail, and located in the western part of what is now North Whitehall township, where he settled on a 300 acre tract of vacant land along the Jordan creek, securing a patent for the same in 1738 Just how long he continued on this plantation is not certainly known., but it is evident that he was dissatisfied with the land, the same being rough and hilly, the top soil shallow and gravelly. For these reasons he evidently concluded to take up other land and make a settlement elsewhere. He returned to what is now Upper Macungie Township and settled about 1742 on a tract of land one mile west of the present village of Fogelsville. Here he erected his log cabin. In 1752 he obtained a patent deed for this tract He had been an influential man was one of the organizers of the Jordan Lutheran church and together with George Steininger, was the first trustee of same.

Besides the son brought with him from Germany, he had 7 children. Barbara, wife of Johannes, died in April 1757.