Garman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Mennonite minister.
Emma Richards was ordained as the first female Mennonite minister at Lombard Mennonite Church in 1973.
The Rev. John Bauman, a Mennonite minister, officiated.
Some attended the Quaker Meeting temporarily while they waited for a Mennonite minister to arrive, and then helped to build the first Mennonite Meetinghouse.
Christian Neff (1863-1946), a Mennonite minister in Germany, is often called the "father" of the Mennonite World Conference.
Willem Carel Mauve (1803 - 1869, Haarlem), was a Mennonite minister and writer.
It was founded by Peter Unzicker, a Mennonite minister, who brought a colony of Mennonites from Cullom, Illinois, in 1906.
Klaas Reimer (1770-1837), a Mennonite minister from Gdansk, settled in Molotschna in 1805.
His father Jacob Denner was a Mennonite minister and a dyer.
He was from the Netherlands, the son of a Mennonite minister, and was drawn to Judaism.