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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.

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.