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Samuel H. Baumgartner (1860-1936), an Evangelical Association minister of the Indiana Conference, was born March 2nd, 1860, near Vera Cruz, Indiana and died in 1936. He married Kessie Keipper in 1886.

Baumgartner was licensed as a preacher on probation in April 1887 at Rochester, Indiana, ordained as a deacon in 1889, and an elder in 1891. He served for twelve years in six fields, namely, West Point (Bipus), two; Rochester City, one; Kendallville and Avilla, two; Ft. Wayne First, four; and Wabash, two. Baumgartner was appointed Secretary of Conference by Bishop J. J. Esher in 1891 and consecutively for the following nine times.

In 1899 the conference elected him presiding elder, an office in which he served eight years on the Elkhart and Ft. Wayne districts. In 1907 and 1908 he served First Church in Indianapolis. From 1909 to 1922, he again served as presiding elder on all presiding elder districts of the conference. In 1923, Baumgartner resigned as presiding elder to become solicitor of funds for the liquidation of the debt on the Old Peoples Home, and in 1927, completed forty years of active service to the Evangelical Church.

James E. Keene (1878-1986), American minister, served in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and Evangelical United Brethren denominations. His pastoral service in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference was as follows: Intercourse (1903-1904), Jacksonville Circuit (1904-1908), Denver (1908-1909), Lititz (1909- 1914), Lancaster (1914-1918), Mont Clare (1918-1926), Pine Grove (1926-1933), Cleona and Pleasant Hill (1933- 1943), Avon (1943-1947), and Coatsville (1947-1950).

Jacob Hartzler (1833-1915) was licensed to preach with the Evangelical Association, Central Pennsylvania Conference, in 1856. He served several pastoral assignments before his assignment as editor of the Evangelical Messenger in 1870. In 1880 he moved to Japan where he learned Japanese and was assigned to the Bible Translating Committee. In 1886 he was elected president of the Japanese branch of the Evangelical Alliance, and in 1887 he served as pastor of the Union Church in Tokyo. In the split of the Evangelical Association Hartzler moved with the United Evangelical Church and became an elder in 1894. Hartzler was superannuated in 1911 and died at York, Pennsylvania, 1915.

Luther Olin Burtner (1858-1910) was a United Brethren Church missionary. He attended Shenandoah Institute in Virginia, and graduated from Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1888. In 1885 he was licensed to preach by the Virginia Conference, and in 1888 he was ordained. Burtner then transferred to the Maryland Conference and began his first pastorate at Keedysville, a position he held for four years. From 1892 to 1893 he served at Walkersville.

Later in 1893, he sailed for Sierra Leone, where he was the superintendent in charge of the work of the Foreign Missionary Board of the United Brethren Church. His first furlough was taken in 1896, and while in the United States, he attended the General Conference. Burtner returned to Sierre Leone in 1897, and was one of the few missionaries to escape the massacre of 1898.

Upon his return to the United States, Burtner was appointed to the Hagerstown (Maryland) circuit. In 1898 he was named the presiding elder of the Maryland Conference.

A second missionary tour of duty began in 1901 when he arrived in the Philippines to oversee the work of the Women's Missionary Association. After three years of work, he took a furlough. Between the period of 1904 and 1909 he suffered from failing health and was only able to serve periodically in the home and foreign mission fields.

He married Jennie Light Burtner who served with him on the mission field.

Edmund Simon Lorenz (1854-1942) was born in North Lawrence, Ohio on July 13, 1854 and died on July 10, 1942 in Dayton Ohio and was buried in Woodland Cemetery. He was the eldest son of Reverend Edward and Barbara (Gueth) Lorenz. The Lorenz family emigrated from Germany to the United States of America. Edmund Lorenz graduated from Otterbein University (A.M.) in Westerville, Ohio. Lorenz also attended Union Biblical Seminary, Yale Theological Seminary (LL.D.), and the University of Leipzig (D.Mus.). He served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio (1884-1886) After that Lorenz became president of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, in October, 1887. With his excellent executive abilities, he began to formulate and put into effect larger plans for the internal work and permanent support of the college. Failing health compelled his retirement in 1889.

Edmund Lorenz was music editor, composer and hymns written mainly for the United Brethren Church in Christ. He published his first book in 1875. Since then he has edited fifty books which include Sunday school song books, gospel song books, hymnals, anthem books, books for male voices and for primary classes, services and cantatas, sheet music and even organ music. His compositions are wholly of a religious character. In 1894, he founded the Choir Leader, in 1897 the Choir Herald, monthly periodicals devoted to choir music, and now recognized as being the leading publications of their class in the world. The Kirchenchor, a German choir monthly, also edited by him, was founded in 1897. Lorenz was an active member of the Y.M.C.A. His works include: Gates of Praise, with Isaiah Baltzell (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, by W. J. Shuey, 1884); Notes of Victory, with William Ogden (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing Company, 1885); Garnered Sheaves of Song for the Sunday School, with Isaiah Baltzell (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1888); Songs of the Morning, with Isaiah Baltzell (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1889); The Otterbein Hymnal (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1892); Practical Church Music (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909); The Beginners’ Choir, with Ira Wilson (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1911); Church Music: What a Minister Should Know About It (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1923); Music in Work and Worship (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925); The Singing Church, 1937. His publishing company (Lorenz Publishing Co in Dayton, Ohio) become one of America's largest and most influential publishers of church music. His daughter, Justina, married Bishop John Balmer Showers.

Ernest Isaac Obee (1874-1952), Methodist Protestant Church missionary and minister, was born at Whitehouse, Ohio on October 15, 1874. Obee attended Adrian College and upon graduation in 1904 was quickly accepted as a missionary to Japan with support by the Christian Endeavor Society. Just before his missionary appointment he married Lotta Shields in August. Eventually they gave birth to five children. Together they spent twenty-four years in Japan before returning to the Ohio Annual Conference to pastor various local churches.

While in Japan Obee's duties included President of the Nagoya Boys Middle School, Mission Treasurer and District Missionary. Under his administration the Boy's School would eventually enroll over one-thousand students. Upon returning to the United States in 1928 he would become the pastor of the following Methodist Protestant congregations: Lewistown, Arlington, Rush Creek and Mount Cory. By 1940, the annual conference granted him superannuated status (retirement) but Obee continued to be a short-term supple pastor to various local churches when needed. Many of these churches were considered to be home mission charges.

Unfortunately, Ernest and Lotta were not able to enjoy their retirement together because of her untimely death in 1940. Two years later Obee married Paula Smelser who would outlive him. Obee died in Lima, Ohio, on March 20, 1952. His funeral took place at the Allentown Church on April 2 and subsequent burial was at the Whitehouse cemetery.

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.

The Reverend James Reiley (1784-1841) was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 1784, the son of Cornelius and Abigail Reiley. His parents and his wife's parents were among the early Episcopalians in Pennsylvania. He was converted in 1804, admitted in 1807, and was effective (with the exception of two years) until 1841. He was a member of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty-four years. Reverend Reiley was in charge of the Saint Mary's Circuit when he died on September 28, 1841.

George W. Andrew (1896-?), American minister and educator, served in the Methodist Protestant Church. He was originally from Indiana, received his education at High Point College in North Carolina where, prior to entering the ministry, he studied to be an engineer. He was licensed to preach in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1928 in the Indiana Conference. He did not serve in the Indiana Conference, but was loaned to the Board of Missions. He and his wife were asked to teach at the Alvan Drew School in Kentucky. While teaching, he established preaching points and held services in the mountain country. They taught at the school for four years, from 1922 to 1926. Andrew left the school to complete his A.B. degree and was later ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church in the North Carolina Conference in 1928. After some illness, he accepted the pastorate of the College Church at Tehuaca, Texas and served from 1930 until 1934. He was then asked to return to the Alvan Drew School as superintendent but left in 1939 due to failing health and moved to Texas. Information about them after that date is incomplete.

Anna Smith (1876-1963) was an Evangelical United Brethren Church missionary to Sierra Leone. She attended school in Houghton, New York. Smith taught in public schools and then married William Boardman (?-1902). They went to Africa in 1902 and were Stationed at the Kunzu mission in Sierra Leone. Soon after their arrival in Africa Boardman died, but Smith carried on her work until she was furloughed in 1904. From 1904 to 1906 she was a field worker in the United States.

After returning to Africa in 1906 she married Reverend J. Hal Smith (1862-1915), and they became the first missionaries into Kono Land in the interior of Sierra Leone. Anna smith worked diligently at language study of the Kono dialect, and she successfully translated the four Gospels, as well as creating a dictionary and basic grammar book. Due to ill health she was forced to return to the United States in 1908. She remained on furlough until 1909. Smith returned to Sierra Leone later in 1909. A second furlough was taken from 1911 to 1912. From 1912 to 1914 she was again in Africa, but was forced to return to the United States due to failing health.

Unable to return to Africa, Smith began work with the Board of Foreign Missions as a fund raiser. She was elected Special Secretary in 1916 of the United Brethren Mission Board. In 1942 she retired. Soon after Smith became pastor of the Wayne Valley Evangelical United Brethren Church near Cory Pennsylvania (Erie Conference).

The Mende are one of the major ethnic groups in Sierra Leone occupying mainly the eastern and southern regions. Together with the Kono, Susu, and Yalunka ethnic groups, the Mende comprised one half of the population. The Mende language is a language of the Mende branch of the Niger-Congo family.