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Charles August Sauer (1891-1972), American pastor, missionary, and author, was born on June 27, 1891, near Wheelersburg, Ohio. He was the son of Christian August and Anna (Miller) Sauer. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he received a B.A. in 1919 and a D.D., 1958, and Ohio State University College of Education, which awarded him an M.A. in 1928.

Sauer married Marguerite Suttles of Albion, Pennsylvania, on August 17, 1920, and they had three sons. Sauer served in the United States Army during World War I.

From 1921 to 1932, he lived in Yeng Byen, Korea, serving as missionary principal of the Mission High School there. From 1932 to 1935, he was an instructor of farm engineering at the Konju Mission School. He was treasurer of the Korean Methodist Church in Seoul, Korea, from 1936 to 1941, and again from 1946 to 1950.

From 1942 to 1946, after missionaries were expelled from Korea, he served as minister in the West Unity, Ohio, Methodist Church. Sauer returned alone to Korea in 1946, to be joined later by his wife. He was treasurer for the National Christian Council Union Projects in Korea, form 1950 to 1962. From 1949 to 1958, he returned to education and his position of principal, working in the Korean Language School.

From 1949 until 1962, Sauer was editor for the Korean edition of The Upper Room. Sauer wrote Korean Language for Beginners in 1925, with reprints in 1950 and 1954; Chinese Characters for Beginners, in 1930; A Pocket Story of John Wesley, in 1967; and Beginner's Lessons in the Book of Genesis, written in Korean , in 1938.

In 1962 he was cited by the Minister of Defense in the Republic of Korea, and later that year he was awarded a Cultural Merit, which is the national medal, by the President of the Republic of Korea. Sauer was a member of the Ohio Annual Conference. He participated in the General Conference of the Korean Methodist Church in 1951, 1954, 1958, and 1960, and served as a delegate to the General Conference of The Methodist Church in 1956. He acted as the editor for Korea in the Encyclopedia of World Methodism. He died on September 13, 1972, at Ashley, Ohio.

Luddwell Hunter Estes (1879-1965) was born to Luddwell Hunter and Ester Taylor Estes on December 27, 1879 in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Estes was educated at McTyeire Institute in McKenzie, Tennessee. He married Sarah Lee Powell on June 11, 1907.

Estes was a member of the Memphis Conference and became assistant secretary of the Memphis Annual Conference in 1907. He served in that capacity until 1913, when he was made secretary of the Conference. Estes was secretary until 1942.

In 1922, he was made secretary of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and served until 1938. In 1939, he was elected secretary of the Uniting Conference.

Estes was elected secretary of the General Conference of the Methodist Church in 1940 and 1944, and became secretary of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 1940, 1944, 1952 and 1956. He was named secretary emeritus for this last session of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, having retired from the Conference in 1952.

Estes also served as district superintendent of the Dyersburg District ( Memphis Conference). He was secretary of the General Epworth League Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1930 to 1938, as well as a member of the Board of Education from 1940 to 1944.

Estes was involved in compiling and publishing various church writings. He was listed in the 1952 edition of Who's Who in American Methodism and other similar volumes. He died on April 28,1965.

Charles Warren Brewbaker (1869-1960) was born October 18, 1869 at State Line, Pennsylvania. On August 30, 1899 he married Nellie M. Stokes. Two daughters were born of their marriage. He was educated at the West Virginia Normal Academy in Buckhannon, the Western College in Toledo, Iowa and the Union BIblical seminary. He also earned the STM and PH.D degrees from the Illinois Wesleyan University. Brewbaker was ordained by the Iowa Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1893. His pastoral appointments included United Brethren Churches in Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In 1913, he was elected by the General Conference of his denomination to serve as General Secretary of the Sunday School and Brotherhood work. From 1929 until 1933 he served as Secretary of Evangelism. After this assignment he was appointed pastor of the United Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio. He served there until his retirement in 1939. Brewbaker was a prolific writer, authoring twelve books and many articles in the areas of Christian Education, Evangelism, and Churchmanship. He traveled nationally and internationally representing the church in the interest of Christian Education. Brewbaker died on May 11, 1960 at the age of 91.

Richard Heber Bennett (1866-1945) was a pastor, moral reform leader, and author. He attended private schools in Richmond and Ashland, Virginia. He received a B.A. in 1883 and am M.A. in 1885 from Randolph- Macon College. From 1883 to 1885 he was an assistant professor at Randolph- Macon. Hebrew was his field of post graduate work. In 1895 he married Mamie Bruce. They had four children.

Bennett was the principal of Woodbourne Academy in Louisa, Virginia from 1885 to 1888. During 1889, he was principal of Spring City, Tennessee, High School. Later that year he was licensed to preach. In November 1889, he joined the Virginia Conference and was assigned to Washington Street in Richmond.

Between 1892 and 1893 Bennett attended Princeton Theological Seminary. He returned to Virginia in the summer of 1893 and worked in the West Mathews Circuit. He was then assigned to Trinity Church in Richmond. After a brief time in the Baltimore Conference, Bennett returned to Richmond in 1894. Later that year he was transferred to Farmville and Norfolk.

Bennett pastored the McKendree Church in Norfolk from 1894 to 1899 and the St. James Church in Richmond from 1900 to 1901. In 1901 he was re-assigned to Norfolk. At the Conference of 1902, he was appointed presiding elder of the Richmond District. Bennett held this position for a year, and then went to Randolph-Macon College to become professor of moral philosophy. During his four years at Randolph- Macon, Bennett became the Virginia State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League.

In 1907, he left his administrative post and returned to the pastorate at the Court Street Church in Lynchburg. After four years he left that church and became the conference's missionary secretary for three years.

During his time at Lynchburg the donated $20,000 to their missionary offering which went to the construction of a building at Soochow University in China.

In 1914, the General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected Bennett secretary of ministerial supply and training. During this time, he also oversaw the correspondence school at Emory University in Atlanta.

In 1926, he was elected field agent for the southern states of the Anti- Saloon League of America. A year later he was elected president of Lander College in Greenwood, South Carolina, a position he held for five years. He returned to his pastoral duties in 1932 at Portsmouth, Virginia. This was followed by appointments at Norfolk and Lawrenceville, Virginia. He retired in 1936.

Maude Dillion (Dillon or Dillan) Spitler, (1876-1962), Evangelical United Brethren Church layperson, attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Missouri University with a Master’s Degree in English. She was cultured and an excellent French linguist, developing her interest in the arts through her scholarly work. Maude was the author of many published articles, including an account of John Kemp, Sr. coming to Ohio in 1805, which is now in the hands of many Ohio Kemp families. She never married.

Lucretia Rose Shearouse Thomason (1937-2001), American United Methodist layperson, was born to Herbert Samuel and Eula Mary Bennett Shearouse in Brooks County, Georgia, on March 2, 1937. She lived and worked in Georgia, Florida and in Virginia. During her career in education, she taught students from the elementary through the graduate level. Thomason earned degrees in English (B.A. 1958) and Education (M.A.T. 1973) from Emory University and the University of Florida (Ed.D. 1979). Thomason is the author of professional and other articles, poetry, fiction, and a memoir.

Thomason was an active layperson in the general, jurisdiction, annual conference and local church levels. When she volunteered to serve on the many different boards, agencies and various ministries confronting the church it was a time of great social change, especially the Women’s Movement. It is in this area that Thomason found her voice for change within the United Methodist Church. Thomason served as an officer on both the General Commission on the Status of Women (COSROW) and United Methodist Women Caucus(UMWC). Her stint at COSROW lasted from 1976-1980 where she served as vice-president, Chair of the Task Force for Women and Planning Committee and member on both the Nominating and Legislative Committees. It was during this time that Thomason developed a close, lifelong relationship with then General Secretary Nancy Grissom Self.

Thomason, with Judy Leaming-Elmer created and organized the United Methodist Women’s Caucus (UMWC) in 1971 as a result feeling frustrated at their standing as both women and clergy spouses within the denomination. As a result of their meeting and close friendship, a formidable force for women’s rights crashed upon the shores of United Methodism. By 1972, the United Methodist Women’s Caucus was organized which pushed and resulted in major role changes for women’s roles within the denomination on all levels. This was accomplished through the various levels of the United Methodist Connection which is made manifest in the legislative changes adopted by various General Conferences of this time period. As an effect of her work with COSROW and UMWC, Thomason was invited in 1978 to serve on the Board of Higher Education and Ministries’ Commission to Study the Itineracy in order to speak on the issues facing contemporary clergy wives’ concerns and frustrations dealing with the appointment process that required many moves and larger parsonage related matters.

Rose was married for forty-two years and, with her husband, the Reverend Robert Thomason. They have two sons, Mark and Bryan, and seven grandchildren. Rose Thomason died on April 8, 2001.

John Emory Godbey, American Methodist preacher, teacher, editor, and author, was born August 11, 1839, in Casey County, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools. His education at St. Charles College, in St. Charles, Missouri, was interrupted by the Civil War. The college was seized by Union troops.

He joined the St. Louis Annual Conference in 1859. Godbey married Mary S. Halloway on November 2, 1865. She died in 1910. He then married Martha Virginia Dunnavant in 1911.

In 1867, while stationed in Washington, Missouri, Godbey opened a private high school, his first educational venture. After two years as presiding elder, he was appointed to First Methodist Episcopal Church, South and afterward to Cook Avenue Church, both in St. Louis.

While in St. Louis, Godbey played an important part in establishing the Southwestern Methodist in 1882. He was elected editor, and served in this post until it was combined with The St. Louis Christian Advocate in 1890. He was then appointed to the presiding eldership of the Kansas City District and served until 1894, when he was elected editor of The Arkansas Methodist in Little Rock. While editing that paper, he was sometime professor of philosophy at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He served in these roles until 1905. He returned to the St. Louis Annual Conference in 1910 and was stationed in Kirkwood, Missouri. He died on February 29, 1932, at the age of 92.

Sylvanus C. Breyfogel (1851-1934), American Evangelical bishop, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on July 20, 1851, the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Seneca Breyfogel.

Breyfogel was licensed in the East Pennsylvania Conference and ordained in 1877. He served in the pastorate and as district superintendent until 1891, when he was elected bishop at the General Conference in Indianapolis. He continued in this office for thirty-nine years until he retired at the General Conference in 1930.

Breyfogel helped to form the retirement program, known as the Superannuation Fund. He also was especially influential in the development of Albright College in Reading.

Breyfogel traveled throughout the United States and Canada, and also visited Europe, Japan and China. And worked with the Federal Council of Churches.

Breyfogel also served as president of the Evangelical School of Theology at Reading, and was the chief sponsor of the Evangelical Correspondence College, organized in 1885.

He wrote several books: Landmarks in the Evangelical Association, 1800-1877; Great Sermons by Great Preachers; The Preachers Assistant; and The Polity of the Evangelical Association. He was married in 1877 to Kate Boas, a member of a prominent Evangelical family. She died August 1, 1928. Breyfogel died at his home in Reading on November 24, 1934.