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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.

Gertrude M. Feely (1903-1996) was a Methodist Episcopal Church, South, missionary in Japan. Feely received her B.S. from the University of Missouri in 1927. She earned an M.A. from Scarritt College in Tennessee in 1930 and a Ph.d. in education from Columbia University in 1950.

Feely was a missionary for more than forty years, and worked in several Japanese cities. From 1931 to 1933, she taught English and language study at the Kure Naval Station and at Kobe. While in Oita from 1933 to 1941, Feely was involved with youth work and taught English.

In 1941, she went to the Philippines and during the Second World War was interned by the Japanese. She spent time on the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Camps and stayed with a group of Methodist missionaries at Harris Memorial Training School for some time before she was finally interned in Los Banos. She served as an interpreter for two and a half years of the war.

Upon her liberation on February 23, 1945, Feely was furloughed to the United States, where she remained until 1949. Feely returned to Japan later in 1949 and became the director of the Kobe Christian Youth Center, which opened in 1953. She continued to teach, working at the Night School, at the Palmore Institute and at Seiwa Junior College, where she was an instructor in the Old Testament. In 1954, Feely was ordained by the Church of Japan. She retired in 1972.

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.