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Charles Samuel Braden (1878-1970) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary and educator. He received his B.A. (1909) and Doctor of Divinity (1943) degree from Baker University in Kansas. In 1912, Braden earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1926. He also studied at Columbia from 1911-1912. In 1911 he married Grace Eleanor McMurray.

Braden was appointed a missionary in July 1912 and a month later arrived in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In 1914 he was ordained into the ministry. Braden left Bolivia in 1915 and went to Santiago, Chile, where he was a professor and president of the Union Theological Seminary. In addition, he managed the Union Book Store and was the editor of El Heraldo Christiano. While Braden was in Chile (1916-1922), he pastored several churches including First Church in Santiago.

Upon his return to the United States, he became the assistant secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Foreign Missions and the secretary of the Methodist Life Service Commission. He taught in the department of religion and literature of religions at Northwestern University from 1926 until his retirement in 1954. Braden was active in several professional organizations and the author of numerous articles and books.

Grace McMurray Braden (1888-1951) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to Bolivia and Chile with her husband, Charles S. Braden. Grace Braden received a B.A. from Baker University in Kansas in 1909 and taught high school in Cheney, Kansas, from 1909 to 1911 before her missionary appointment.

Herman C. Anderson (1888-1966) was born January 10, 1888, at Beaver Crossing, Nebraska. He received his education at the Academy at York, Nebraska; at Western Union College (now Westmar University), Lamars, Iowa; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Garrett Theological Seminary, Chicago; and at the New York Biblical Institute. In 1912, he was licensed to preach by the Nebraska Conference of the United Evangelical Church, and was ordained deacon in 1916. In 1919 he began his service as a missionary in China's Hunan Province. He returned to the United States in 1922 to receive his elder's orders and to wed Ethel Glyde Lea, who returned with him to China. From 1926 to 1929, he served as a pastor in Indiana, and from 1929 to 1944 in Texas. He retired to Wichita Falls. He died on June 4, 1966.

Jenny Sophia Lind (1893-1988), American Missionary, was born on August 31, 1983 in Tioga, Pennsylvania. Her father, August Lind, was born in Sweden on October 27, 1857 and came to America as a young man, locating at Morris Run for short time, later coming to Tioga, where he spent the rest of his life. He was married to Matilda Johnson who died June 10, 1920, and he was an active member of the Tioga Methodist Church during his entire life in Tioga. Her parents were of thrifty, industrious Swedish stock. She received her education in the Mansfield State Normal School, Pennsylvania; Missionary Training Institute, Nyack in New York; Hartford School of Missions and School of Religious Education (Bachelor of Religious Education). She worked as a pre-missionary employment for sixteen years in rural schools, Tioga in Pennsylvania (1912-1914), Alleghany County academy in Cumberland, Maryland (1914-1917), Kuling American School in China (1924-1926), and Public School in Morristown, New Jersey (1927-1928). She returned to the U.S.A. when the Kuling school was closed by Civil War.

Lind was appointed a missionary on May 28, 1929 by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and return to China. She taught in Knowles Bible Training School, Kuikiang, China (September 1929-1935), Knowles-Rulison Joint School as well as Principal and Treasurer (November 1936-June 1942), Baldwin Girls School and Nanchang Academy, China (April 1948-June 1950), Colegio Americano, Porto Alegre, Brazil (March 1945-February 1947), at Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan (January 1951-February 1953), Fukuoka Jo Gakuin, Fukuoka, Japan (September 1954-July 1957), and Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan (September 1957-July 1960). After official retirement in 1961, she taught at the Kuling American School to Yokohama, Japan to 1964. Lind went furloughs (1935-September 1936; August 1942-March 1945). During that furloughs, she attended numerous schools of high education. She died on March 27, 1988.

Roger Stillman Guptill (1888-1973) was born in Berwick, Maine on July 20, 1888, the second son of Frank Stillman and Hila Pinkham Guptill. He was educated in Berwick and graduated from Berwick High School in 1907. He recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College in 1911, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from Boston University in 1914, a Master of Arts degree from Hartford Seminary in 1927, and a Doctor of Divinity degree from LaGrange College in 1967.

He was ordained a deacon in the Maine Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1912. After graduating from Boston University, he served as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for twelve years, until a serious illness forced him to return to the United States. The next twelve years, he served with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church and several pastorates in New England. In 1938, he became the Stewart Missionary Foundation Professor of Missions at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he taught for a period of twenty-two years. Guptill was also the secretary for the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa. After retirement, he taught several years at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, before moving to the Penney Retirement Community at Penney Farms, Florida. Guptill died on June 15, 1973 and was buried on the grounds of Penny Farms.

In 1914, Dr. Guptill was married to Constance Sanborn, who died in 1960. He then married Ethelyn Cook. Guptill was survived by three birth children and a stepson.

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.

Born in West Virginia, Edwin Fisher (1920-2003), an American missionary, graduated from Morris Harvey College in 1943, and Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1946. He was admitted to the West Virginia Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1939, and ordained to the itinerant ministry in 1946. He married Mary Eunice Harpold in 1943. Together they served as missionaries to the Philippines from 1946 to 1952. After returning to the United States, Fisher was assistant secretary in the Division of World Missions for the Evangelical United Brethren Church, then elected area secretary in 1968. He served as executive secretary in the World Division, China Program from 1970 until his retirement in 1985.

Coleman Clark Hartzler (1887-1976) and his wife, Lucy, were missionaries to the Congo.

Coleman Hartzler was born on July 24, 1887 in Brookfield, Missouri. He graduated from Missouri Wesleyan College in 1910 and received his M.A. degree from the University of Southern California in 1914. The following year he graduated from Garrett Biblical Institute.

Lucinda Lee Padrick was born on November 19, 1890 in Escondido, California. She graduated from the State Normal School at Los Angeles, California and attended the University of Southern California from 1914 to 1915.

The Hartzlers sailed for Africa in December of 1916 with their infant son, James. They spent over twenty-five years in the Congo at five different stations: Kambove(1917-1918), Mulungwishi(1918), Kabongo(1919- 1933), Kanene and Jadotville(1933-1942). While there, the Hartzlers helped to build and establish schools and ministered to the people. Lucy gave birth to three more sons, one of whom died in infancy. The others, Omar and Lynn, assisted them in their missionary work. In 1934, in recognition of his services, the Belgian monarch conferred upon Coleman Hartzler the " Order of the Lion." In about 1942, Coleman Hartzler suffered medical problems which forced their return to the United States.

The Hartzlers were never able to return to the Congo. For the remainder of his career, Coleman served as a pastor and preacher in various places, primarily in Southern California. Their son, Omar, returned to Africa as a missionary. Lucy Hartzler died on June 27, 1970 in Los Angeles. Coleman Hartzler died on July 4, 1976.

Mildred Anne Paine (1893-1988), American Missionary to Japan, was born on July 25, 1893 in Barre, New York. She was the daughter of Emory Conydon Paine and Martha V. Waterman Paine. Her grandfather, Colonel Elisha Wright, was a primary founder of the community of Barre and the Barre Methodist Church in 1833.

She graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and went on to earn a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Oberlin College in 1919. Paine earned a Master’s Degree from Boston University in 1927, and a Psychology degree from New York University in 1935, as well as further theological training.

Paine was briefly employed as a school teacher near her home before she entered the Women’s Foreign Missionary Service with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1920. She sailed to Japan that year, and spent her first five years abroad learning Japanese and working in Kagoshima.

In 1923, a devastating earthquake demolished the Methodist Social Evangelistic Center in East Tokyo, and left a community of people displaced and impoverished. Members of the Methodist Mission observed pressing needs in the community for social aid, schooling for children, and religious education. In 1928, Paine was given supervisory responsibilities over all aspects of a new community center named Ai Kei Gakuen, which opened its doors in 1930. She oversaw the building’s construction and organized its functions, including the school, health clinic, religious education, and other community services.

After the Japanese entered WWII in 1941, Paine and her fellow American missionaries were cut off from all contact with the United States, but Paine continued her work at Ai Kei Gakuen undeterred until she was interned by the Japanese government in 1942. After one year of internment, Paine was released and allowed to return to the United States. After the war, Paine continued her missionary work at Ai Kei Gakuen until her retirement in 1962.

Following WWII, the Japanese government distinguished Paine with two honors. The first was a citation given by the Welfare Ministry of Japan in 1958, for her “devotion to children, boys and youth welfare.” In 1960, she was honored with the 4th Class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in recognition of her social work at Ai Kei Gakuen

Paine died in September 1988 in Asheville, North Carolina.

Arthur Linn Becker (1879-?), Methodist missionary, was born in Ray, Indiana on May 12, 1879. His parents moved to Reading, Michigan prior to his fifth birthday. He graduated high school in 1899 and enrolled in Albion College that same year. Becker became interested in foreign missionary work in his senior year. He graduated from Albion College in 1903. Becker was then appointed to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Mission Board in 1903. His first responsibility as a missionary was as an educational missionary in Pyeng Yang.

Becker traveled to Tokyo, Japan, in 1905 where he met and married Louise Ann Smith, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Becker brought his wife back to Pyeng Yang. They had three children, two daughters and a son. Two of their children were born prior to the family's visit to the United States in 1910. Their second daughter was born after the family moved to Seoul.

Becker assisted in the foundation of the Chosen Christian College, now Yonsei University, in 1918. He was involved in the administration of its policies and curriculum from its establishment to his retirement.

Due to World War II, the Beckers were forced to evacuate. They were reassigned to Lucknow Christian College in India where Becker served as a physics instructor. The Becker family later returned to the United States and settled in Michigan where they retired. They were recalled to Korea in 1946 after World War II. Becker served as the President of Yonsei University during the Korean War from 1950-1953.

Dr. and Mrs. Becker returned to the United States to reenter retirement in California. His wife passed away in 1961. In 1965, Becker moved to Frasier Meadows Manor in Boulder, Colorado in 1965 with the help of his granddaughter, Mrs. Claud Morel, a resident of the town. He spent his time transcribing details of his experiences with assistance from his daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Becker McCune, during the summer of 1974.