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Julia Chester Emery was appointed secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions in 1876, after her sister Mary Abbott Emery resigned the position. During her forty-year tenure she directed the expansion of the Woman’s Auxiliary into every domestic and missionary diocese of The Episcopal Church and was key to the founding and growth of the United Offering (now the United Thank Offering). She traveled overseas extensively to promote the Auxiliary by addressing the woman’s missionary congress in London in 1897, representing the Diocese of New York at the Pan-Anglican Congress in 1908, and visiting mission stations throughout Europe and Asia. In addition, she authored several books, including “A Century of Endeavor” (1921), the centennial history of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. Julia Emery is commemorated in the Episcopal Calendar of the Church Year on January 9th.

In addition to Mary Abbott and Julia Chester, their sisters, Susan Lavinia Emery (1846-1914) and Margaret Theresa Emery (1849-1925) were involved with The Episcopal Church and the Woman’s Auxiliary, although to a much lesser degree.

Samuel Bowman was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on May 21, 1800,and received his education at the Academy of Wilkes-Barre. He then pursued legal studies under the tutelage of Charles Chauncy of Philadelphia before turning to the ordained ministry. He was ordained priest 1824 and began his ministry at St. John’s Church in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

In 1825, Bowman became rector of Trinity Church in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he met his first wife, Susan Sitgreaves. Together they would have a daughter, Ellen Ledlie Bowman (Vail). In 1827, Bowman accepted the invitation to serve as co-rector at St. James Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He became rector in 1830 and remained there until his death.

In 1843, Bowman received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Hobart College. He was an active member of the Public School Board and Trustee and Secretary to the Board of Franklin and Marshall College. Bowman played a significant role in incorporating St. James’ Orphan Asylum in 1838; founding St. John’s, Lancaster, the pioneer free church of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in 1853; establishing the Yeates Institute, a preparatory school for boys; and establishing the Bishop Bowman Home in 1857. On May 28, 1858, he was consecrated Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania but served for only three years before his death on August 3, 1861.

Samuel Farmar Jarvis was born on January 20, 1786, the son of the Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis, second Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College and was ordained in 1811 before serving at St. Michael’s Church in Bloomingdale, New York, followed by St. James’ Church in New York City (1813-1820) and St. Paul’s Church in Boston (1820-1826). During this period, he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1819) and taught Biblical Learning at the newly established General Theological Seminary (GTS) (1819-1820). In 1820, he transferred to Boston, where he served as the Rector of St. Paul’s Church.

Jarvis resigned from St. Paul’s in 1826 and spent the next nine years living in Europe, at which time he assembled his collection of fine Italian paintings. He returned to the United States in 1835 and began a professorship of Oriental Literature at Washington (Trinity) College; however, he resigned to become the Rector of Christ Church (Holy Trinity Church) in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1837. He would resign from that position in 1842.

Jarvis additionally served as Historiographer for The Episcopal Church (appointed in 1838) and wrote multiple books on the history of the church. He was a Trusteed of both Washington College and GTS and elected as a deputy to the 1844, 1847, and 1850 General Conventions. He died on March 26, 1851.

Edgar Legare Pennington, was born on January 15, 1891, in Madison, Georgia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1911) and Bachelor of Laws (1914) from the University of Georgia and practiced law for three years prior to serving in the United States Navy, during which time he survived the sinking of the USS President Lincoln by a German U-boat in 1918. After World War I, he pursued religious studies and was ordained in 1922. He served in multiple churches before rejoining the US Navy during World War II. He then served as Rector of St. John’s Church in Mobile, Alabama, until his death on September 10, 1951.

Pennington contributed not only to the understanding of The Episcopal Church’s history, particularly its American Colonial period, but also to the development of historical practices in The Episcopal Church. He was a co-founder of the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, member of the Church Historical Society, and Historiographer of The Episcopal Church from 1949 to 1951.

Howard Albert Johnson (1915–1974) was an Episcopal clergyman, theologian, author, and educator. He was born on October 8, 1915, to Mark Peter Johnson and Jessie Lulu (Howard). He earned an Associate of Arts degree from Riverside Junior College in 1934, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1936, and a Bachelor of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1939.

He was ordained to the diaconate in July 1939 and to the priesthood in March 1940 by Bishop Stevens of the Diocese of Fond du Lac. His early ministry included service as Vicar of St. Andrew’s Mission in Elsinore, California (1939–1940), and Minister of All Saints’ Church in Pasadena (1940–1941). In 1942, he worked as Assistant Student Worker at the Procter Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. He then served as Assistant Minister of St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. from 1943 to 1946. From 1946 to 1948, he was Assistant at St. Alban’s Church in Copenhagen and a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Johnson was Associate Professor of Theology at the University of the South from 1949 to 1953 and served as Adjunct Professor of Religion at Columbia University from 1954 to 1958. Concurrently, he was Canon Theologian at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City from 1954 to 1964. He was a visiting lecturer in Hong Kong and Macao in 1969 and served briefly as Rector of St. Paul’s Church in Oakland, California (1969–1970).

In addition to his academic and clerical work, Johnson was an author, editor, and contributor to numerous theological and religious publications. He died on June 13, 1974.

Deaconess Evelyn M. Ashcroft was a missionary to China and the Philippines from 1937-1969. She taught at St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai, China from its opening in 1937 until she was transferred to the Philippines in 1951. From 1951-1952 she assisted the Sisters of St. Mary's at Sagada in the Mountain Province. From late 1952-1969 she served at Marygarth Mission of St. Michael and All Angel in Tadian, Kayan also in the Mountain Province. She retired on May 10, 1969.