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Father Woitkewitsch was a Vincentian priest. He served the Kamenka Parish from 1827 to 1828. Sources: Joseph Schnurr, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen, Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart, 1980), p. 248.

Rev. F.A. Willman served the Ebenezer German Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, from 1914 to 1918. He was born in Germany about 1852 and immigrated to the United States in 1855. In 1900 he was pastor of an Evangelical Church in Lorain, Ohio; in 1905 he was in Ackley, Iowa and in 1910 he was in McPherson County, South Dakota.

The Rev. Daniel Willi was born in 1739 in Chur near Graubünden, Switzerland. He died on 17 November 1788 in Sarepta.

He served the congregations in Anton (1777-1786) and Rosenheim (1777-1787).

Father Wendelin Wiesner, O.F.M.Cap., was born Rudolph Wiesner, son of Jakob Wiesner & Anna Maria Schäfer. He was born on 16 October 1875 in Kamenka.

He entered the religious life in 1895 and professed on 89 September 1896. He served St. Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria, Kansas.

He died 23 January 1961 and is buried in the Capuchin plot of St. Fidelis Cemetery in Victoria, Kansas.

Ludwig Balthasar Wernborner was born 11 March 1741 in Nieder-Rosbach, Hessen-Nassau (Prussia), son of Pastor Johann Daniel Wernborner.

On 17 April 1758, he began theological studies in Gießen (Hessen), and was ordained in 1766 in Friedberg (Hessen).

He arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer along with many families that settled in the colony of Katharinenstadt.

From 1768 to 1774, he served as pastor of the Katharinenstadt (South) parish.

The Rev. David Weigum was born in Ludwigstal in the Province of Ekaterinoslav on 24 October 1874, to Joseph W. Weigum and Christine Weidner. He died in Liestal, Switzerland, on 24 October 1952.

He was married in Oftringen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, on 13 May 1903 to Klara Pleuss, daughter of Samuel P. Pleuss and Marie Weber. She was born in Rothrist also in the Canton of Aargau on 29 November 1872 and died in Riehen in the Canton of Basel on 31 December 1965.

Father Weinmayer was born in Neu-Kolonie. He studied in Bavaria and Vienna. He served in the parish of Pfeifer from 1921 to 1928. Sources: Joseph Schnurr, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen, Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart, 1980), p. 369.

The Rev. Emil Wegener, son of the Rev. Armin Wegener, was born on 4 October 1893 in Arkhangelsk. He served the congregation in Norka in 1914.

Pastor Weber served Ebenezer German Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, from 1949-1955. The records for the Pacific Conference of Congregational Churches do not indicate that he served other churches.

Jakob Weber, son of Jakob Weber, was born on 7 August 1870 in Balzer. He began to draw very early in life. In 1892, he moved to Saratov, where he became acquainted with famous Saratov painters such as V. Borisov-Musatov, and V. Konovalov.