“Saturday, Oct. 3 . . . Releases and Departures - -The following named missionaries have been honorably released and sailed for New York per s.s ‘Lusitania’ on October 3rd, 1914: From the Swiss and German mission - -Charles L Cottrell, Wallace R Tolman, Alma Bangerter, F B Matheson, Lawrence W Sloan, Lawrence A Wallace, Asael H Woodruff, Kimball Young, George M Watson, Hial M Hales, John G Crook, Joseph L Storrs, Ernest Nelson, Frederich A Babbel, Rudolph Bienz, Joseph L Wirthlin, August D Gehrke, Emil A Kroesche, Fred Aegerter, Robert Schmid, Lebrecht G Barg, Herman P Schneider, Lawrence H Evans, Alma Kasteller, George Muller, Le Grand Hardy, Elmer N Jacobs, Homer F Bushman Jr, Levi H Allen, Harold H Cutler, Janius A West, Earl A Johnson, George Risenmay and A Eugene Merrill. From the British mission –Amos C Hatch. From the Netherlands mission- -Henry J Watkins, Estel L Wright and John F Barlow. (Mill.Star, 76:656).” [BMMH,1914]. (source abbreviations)