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John G. Zinser (1806-1883) was an early Evangelical Association minister. He entered the ministry in 1828 and served for fifty-four years. Zinser was involved in many of the first publishing efforts of the denomination and was a member of the first Board of Publications. In 1864 he also appointed the first superintendent of the first Evangelical Association orphanage in Tiffin, Ohio, which was founded to house orphans of casualties of the Civil War.

William Horn (1839-1917) was born in Germany, May 1, 1839, and came to the United States in 1855. He settled in Wisconsin. He was ordained an elder in 1866. In 1871, Horn was elected editor of the Evangelische Magazine. Eight years later he was elected editor of Der Christliche Botschafter, the oldest German church paper in America. In 1891 he was elected bishop. Horn died April 27, 1917.

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.

Zella M. Glidden (1907-1994), American Methodist missionary, served in Angola during the first half of the twentieth century. She was a professor at the William Taylor Memorial Institute in the Quessua District of Angola until 1947.