Lillian (nicknames, "Lillie" or "Lizzie") A. Resler[a][b][c] was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1851.

[7] He, with only a small salary, moved to Westerville, Ohio, to give his children the benefit of Otterbein University, as soon as Keister was ready to enter, which was in 1866.

1847), professor of Hebrew and Church History in United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, from 1875.

The church of her choice, the United Brethren in Christ, organized the Woman's Missionary Association in 1875, of which she was corresponding secretary for the first year.

One year, she traveled in association work over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) in the U.S.. Twice, she went on short trips abroad, first in 1884, when the illness of her sister studying in Germany called her there, and again in 1888, when she was one of two delegates sent by the Woman's Missionary Association to the World's Missionary Conference in London.

[11] In 1921, with Alice Estella Bell, she published History of the Women's Missionary Association of the United Brethren in Christ.

[11] She was buried at the Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville, Ohio, U.S.[4] The dedication and renaming of the First United Brethren Church of Omaha, Nebraska, at Nineteenth and Lothrop Streets, occurred December 5, 1909, the new name being "The Lillian Resler Harford Memorial United Brethren Church of Omaha".