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Johannes Huppenbauer, son of Johann Bartholomäus Huppenbauer & Anna Friederike Ludmann, was born 9 May 1816 in Untertürkheim in Württemburg.

He studied theology at the Basel Missionary Society and was ordained 2 October 1841.

His first marriage was on 3 October 1841 in Basel to Maria Dorothea Salathé (born 6 February 1816 in Basel). She died and Pastor Huppenbauer remarried in 1849 in the colony of Sarepta with Henriette Karoline Glitsch, who was born on 22 November 1827 in Tystrup-Christiansfeld, Schleswig.

Johann Samuel Huber, son of Joseph Huber (a cooper) and Anna Maria Ferenbach, was born 1778 in Mahlberg near Freiburg in Baden (Germany). He was baptized 20 December 1778 in Mahlberg. He died 30 January 1858 in Moscow.

On 23 February 1808, he married Johanna Luise Wigand in Sarepta. She was born 27 December 1788 in Moscow, the daughter of Johannes Wigand, a professor and preacher at the Brethren congregation in St. Petersburg, and Sarah Dorothea Ferber. She died in November 1868 in Moscow.

Pastor Hopp was born in Russia on 14 December 1869 in the colony of Frank and came to the United States at the age of 19. He married on 2 February 1889 to Charlotte Miller. He later married Lena Burkhardt, widow of Henry Traut.

Father Hopfauf was born in 1881 in Karlsruhe (Beresan colonies). He was ordained on 24 May 1905. He served in Hölzel and Mariental.

Pastor Oliver Christoph Holm served the parish in Bettinger from 1820 to 1822; in Orenburg from 1823 to 1839; and in Yagodnaya Polyana from 1841 to 1849.

Christfried Otto Hörschelmann was born 15 July 1858 in Kosch, Livland. He was ordained on 13 November 1883. He died 17 October 1939 in Reval.

Pastor Hörschelmann served the parish in Bettinger (and surrounding parishes) from 1908 to 1933. He was its last pastor.

Karl Theodor Hölz, son of Pastor Franz Karl Hölz & Louise Amalie Jahn, was born 29 November 1837 in Warenburg.

He studied theology at the University of Dorpat [in Estonia] and was ordained in the 5th Sunday after Easter on 5 May 1863.

Following his ordination, Pastor Hölz served the Volga German congregations in Weizenfeld (1863-1883) and Reinhard (1883-1896).

He went to St. Petersburg in 1896 where he died on 7 November 1897.

Pastor Karl Leopold Hölz, the son of the Rev. Franz Karl Hölz, was born 30 July 1855 in Warenburg. He served the parish there from 1884 to 1909. He died on 12 November 1913.

Pastor Karl Julius Hölz was born 20 May 1841 in the Saratov District. He served the parish in Rosenheim from 1881 until his death there on 21 February 1894.

Franz Karl Hölz, son of  Franz Bernhard Hölz (1773-1837),  was born 18 October 1806 in Wermelskirchen b. Remscheid (Germany). He and his family moved to Russia in 1814.

He studied theology at the University of Dorpat (Estonia) from 1828-1830, and was ordained in 1831.

He served the parish in the Volga German colony of Warenburg from 1834 until his death there on 6 October 1883. He is the father of the Rev. Karl Theodor Hölz, the Rev. Karl Julius Hölz, and the Rev. Karl Leopold Hölz.