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Edwin Ronald Garrison (1897-1995), an American bishop, was born to R. Eliot and Susie Enright Garriosn in Frankford, Indiana, on December 26, 1897. Garrison married Edith Heritage on January 20, 1922. They had two daughters, Helen Carolyn (Mrs. Lewis Kauffmann) and Marion Ann (Mrs. J. H. LoPrete). Edith Garrison died July 14, 1971. Edwin married Marion Thompson in 1973. Edwin died on January 3, 1995.

Garrison attended Depauw University (B.A. 1921) and Drew Theological Seminary (B.D. 1925) as well as receiveing other honorary degrees. He was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1927. Between 1928 and 1942 he served churches in Sheridan, Elkhart (St. Paul's), and Bluffton, Indiana. He was District Superintendent of the Wabash District for five years. Between 1950 and 1960 Garrison served as the administrative assistant to Bishop Richard C. Raines. In 1960, he was elected to the episcopacy by the North Central Jurisdiction and assigned to the Dakotas Area. He retired at the North Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1968. In 1992, Garrison received the Drew University School Distinguished Service Award.

Daniel Kumler Flickinger (1824-1911) was an American United Brethren preacher and missionary bishop. He was largely self-educated. Beginning in 1846, he taught several terms in a rural school in Ohio. He married Mary Litner on February 25, 1847. His pastor recommended him for a quarterly conference license to preach, which was granted in April, 1849. He was then licensed by the Miami (Ohio) Conference, United Brethren in Christ, in 1850.

After serving as a junior preacher for a year, he resigned to enter Miami (Ohio) University. After the death, in 1851, of his wife he never returned to the university.

Flickinger accepted an appointment in 1851, but his poor health kept him from taking an assignment in 1852. Instead, he accompanied Bishop J. J. Glossenbrenner to Virginia and married the bishop's daughter Catherine on January 9, 1853.

Flickinger was ordained at the 1853 session of the Miami Conference and assigned to the Dayton Circuit. His second wife died in August 1854. He then offered himself to go to Africa to establish a mission, and departed on January 4, 1855. While in Sierra Leone, he married Susan Woosley, a missionary for the Congregationalists, on October 30, 1855. He and his wife returned to America in 1856, but Flickenger made a return trip to Africa in 1857 to help in the settlement of two missionaries.

Upon his return he was elected secretary of the missionary work for his denomination, but resigned a few months later due to poor health. In 1858 he as reelected to the post and continued in this office until 1885 when he was elected the first missionary bishop for the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. His tenure as bishop lasted four years. He died on August 29, 1911 at Columbus, Ohio, and was buried at Oxford, Ohio.

Jeremiah S. Fitterer (1848-1924) was an Evangelical Association and Evangelical Church minister. In 1874 he united with the Pike Evangelical Church west of Bellevue, Ohio. He received a license to preach in 1881 and served the following churches: Tontogany Circuit, Broken Sword, Bucyrus, Richland County, Columbus, Bradner, Bettsville, Flat Rock, and Mt. Cory. Fitterer was granted supernumerary relation with the Ohio Conference in 1900. He married Rosena E. Mook.

Moses Fifield (1790-1859), American minister, was born in Unity, New Hampshire on December 7, 1790. He taught school for a time. In 1816 he joined the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Celia Knight (1786-1874) on March 5, 1820.

Fifield served the following appointments as an itinerant preacher: Sandwich Circuit, 1816; Harwich, 1817; Providence, Rhode Island, 1819; Warehouse Point, 1822; Springfield, 1820; Connecticut Circuit, 1823; Tolland circuit, 1824. By 1824, his health had deteriorated, and he could no longer fulfill his duties. He chose to leave the ministry and the conference granted him an honorable location. After that time, he moved to Centreville, Rhode Island, and engaged primarily in secular business as a banker. He continued to serve the church in a limited capacity until his death on April 19, 1859.

C. Willard Fetter (1914-2002) American minister, was a fully connected clergy member in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Evangelical United Brethren, and United Methodist Churches. Fetter's parents, Harry C. and Fanny Eck were living in Manheim, Pennsylvania, when Willard was born. After graduating high school in 1931, Fetter attended Lebanon Valley College and graduated in 1935. In 1934 he became a probationary member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He received full membership in the Virginia Conference in 1941. While serving a poor, rural circuit in the mountain region of West Virginia, he married Grace Hockley of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. By 1938, Fetter entered Bonebrake Seminary and graduated in 1941. Otterbein University awarded Fetter an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1957. Fetter later served churches in Akron and Dayton, Ohio with his longest pastoral ministry at Dayton First Church from 1959 to 1979. In addition to his ministerial duties, in 1944 Fetter had a special appointment as Director of War Services for the Church Federation of Dayton. Although Fetter retired in 1979, he continued to preach occasionally while living in Michigan and Florida. C. Willard Fetter died on July 2, 2002.

Cornelio M. Ferrer (1908-1988) Filipino pastor, editor and bishop, was born in Ligayen, Pangasinan, Philippines, on September 16, 1908. He attended Union College of Manila, receiving a B. A. in 1937, while serving student appointments. On February 23, 1935, he was ordained deacon and on November 28, 1937, an elder.

Ferrer was a member of the Phillipine Annual Conference. He married Emilia V. Rosario on April 14, 1934. From 1940 to 1946, Ferrer was a district superintendent. Shortly thereafter he was named a Crusade Scholar and attended Drew University, from which he received an M.A. in 1948. After his graduation he returned to the Philippines for a rural pastorate. From 1950 to 1968 he worked for the National Council of Churches in the Philippines while earning a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines. For years he was the Filipino correspondent of The Christian Century. During the 1950's, Ferrer served as the business manager of the Philippine Christian Advance.

On November 28, 1968, Ferrer was elected to the episcopacy by the Philippines Central Conference and served the Manila Area until 1974, when he retired. He then was a volunteer worker in rural missions. Ferrer died on November 23, 1988.

George Washington Farmer was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a soldier for the Federal Army during the Civil War. He was a member of the itinerancy in Mississippi in 1860-61, and in southern Illinois in the late 1860s and 1870s.

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.

George Edward Epp (1885-1970) was an Evangelical United Brethren bishop and administrator. He was recommended to the ministry by the congregation in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Epp received his theological education at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville, Illinois. Following graduation, he was ordained and received into membership in the Wisconsin Conference of the Evangelical Association.

In 1921, he became executive secretary of the Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association. He was reelected to that office in 1922, following the merger of the United Evangelical Church and the Evangelical Association. He remained executive secretary of the Missionary Society until 1930, when he was elected bishop, a position he held for twenty-eight years. Epp retired in 1958.

Augustus Waldo Drury (1851-1935), Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History at Bonebrake Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, served as the denominational historian during his lifetime. He had a number of academic interests, most notably in theology, history, and later in his career he was interested in secularization, the local histories of Dayton, Ohio area, and William James. Drury is most well known for his biography on Otterbien as well as his three volume history of the United Brethren Church in Christ; Drury received high praise from his denomination for these works.

Drury was a husband and father and had an avid correspondence with a significant number of persons related to the United Brethren Church in Christ. He would regularly receive questions regarding lineage in families and church relations, as well as financial histories--such as a minister's salary at a particular church.