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Newton Tennis Gottschall (1893-1979) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to Indonesia and Hawaii. Gottschall was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on April 2, 1893. He received a bachelor of science in education degree from the University of Missouri in 1920 and a bachelor of arts from the University of Missouri in 1921. Gottschall graduated from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1929 and earned an M.A. from Northwestern University in 1930.

Upon arrival in Indonesia in 1920, he began education work. In July 192, he married Charlotte Agnes Swank of Rossville, Indiana. That same year he was received on trial in the Netherlands Indies Mission Conference. In 1923 he was granted full connection and ordained a deacon. In 1925 he was ordained an elder. From 1929-1935 Gottschall was the principal at the Methodist Boys' School in Medan.

Gottschall returned to the United States in 1935 and pastored several churches in Indiana. He was also appointed missionary secretary for the North West Indiana Conference, a position he held from 1940 to 1948. In 1949 Gottschall resumed his missionary activities in Hawaii and remained there until 1955.

Newton Gottschall died on January 26, 1979 at Wesley Manor in Frankfort, Indiana, at the age of 85. He is buried in the Rossville, Indiana Cemetery.

Ethel Glyde Anderson (nee Lea) (1897-1961) was born March 7, 1897 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and later moved with her family to Elgin, Illinois. She was educated at Elgin High School; Elgin Junior College; and Northwestern University. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an accomplished musician. She joined the First Methodist Church in Elgin around 1909. After completing her B.S., she taught mathematics and music in high school for two years. In 1921 she was appointed missionary to China by the United Evangelical Church, and in 1922 married H. C. Anderson. She returned to the United States with her husband. She died in 1961.

Faithe Richardson (1899-?) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to India. She received a B.A. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1922 and an M.A. from the University of Colorado in 1923. In 1925, she began missionary work in the central province of India where she was a teacher and the principal at Steven's Girls' School in Jubbulpore, a position she held until 1938. From 1939 to 1940, Richardson was head mistress at the Alderman Girls' School in Jubbulpore. She then returned to Johnson Girls' School where she was head mistress for six years. While she was serving in this position, she was also the principal at the Training Institute for Women at Hawa Bagh (1943-1946).

Mary Dumm (1916-2002) was a Methodist Episcopal Church medical missionary to India. She received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1938, and an M. A. (1940) and a Ph.D. (1943) from Bryn Mawr College. Dumm was also a Harvard Medical School research fellow in biological chemistry.

From 1942 to 1944 she was an instructor of physiology and biochemistry at Bryn Mawr. In 1944 she became an instructor in the biochemistry department in the College of Medicine at New York University and remained there until 1956. While at N.Y.U. she also worked in the department of medicine with a research group conducting studies on nutrition and metabolic disease. Dumm became an adjunct assistant professor in biochemistry in 1950.

In 1956 she went to India and began work at Christian Medical College in Vellore, North Arcot, where she lectured in biochemistry and nutrition and was active in research.