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[[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Addison Meeting Room]] is an assembly affiliated in its latter years with the [[Tunbridge Wells Brethren]], that started in Chicago in 1866 thru at least 1951, and moved to Oak Park when [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/ Bible Truth Publishers] relocated there from St. Louis, Missouri, thru the 1980's when it relocated again to Addison, Illinois where it presently meets as a TW-N assembly. John Nelson Darby also included Chicago in his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862.
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[[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Addison Meeting Room]] is an assembly affiliated in its latter years with the [[Tunbridge Wells Brethren]], that started in Chicago in 1866 with a married couple that had emigrated that year from [[England]], involved with a meeting that had started in that part of England a year prior by a J.C., as per [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/chapter-11/walter-potter/gathering-up-the-fragments/w-potter/la139533 ''Gathering Up the Fragments''] by Walter Potter (who joined them in 1868). 
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This meeting met thru at least 1951, and moved to Oak Park when [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/ Bible Truth Publishers] relocated there from St. Louis, Missouri, thru the 1980's when it relocated again to Addison, Illinois where it presently meets as a TW-N assembly. John Nelson Darby also included Chicago in his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862.
  
 
For many years, they hosted an annual conference in late summer that was sometimes attended by as many as 1500 brethren, initially at a Missouri-Synod Lutheran [https://www.cuchicago.edu/ Concordia University], then in 1957 they started at [[Wheaton College]], and some of the people stayed in dorms named after Nate Saint and Jim Elliot who died in 1956. Then, by the late 1970's they met at hotels founded by John Willard Marriott, Sr. (1900-1984), an LDS entrepreneur. Recent conference recordings may be found at [https://www.bibleconferencerecordings.com/conferences/chicago-il/chicago-conference-2022/ BCR].
 
For many years, they hosted an annual conference in late summer that was sometimes attended by as many as 1500 brethren, initially at a Missouri-Synod Lutheran [https://www.cuchicago.edu/ Concordia University], then in 1957 they started at [[Wheaton College]], and some of the people stayed in dorms named after Nate Saint and Jim Elliot who died in 1956. Then, by the late 1970's they met at hotels founded by John Willard Marriott, Sr. (1900-1984), an LDS entrepreneur. Recent conference recordings may be found at [https://www.bibleconferencerecordings.com/conferences/chicago-il/chicago-conference-2022/ BCR].
  
 
=Locations=
 
=Locations=
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* cottage meeting 1866-1868+
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* Room 10 & 12, 816(?) Clark St. +1880+
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* 259 W. Madison St. +1880+
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* 121 Dearborn St. +1884+
 
* 1865 Ogden Ave. +1911+
 
* 1865 Ogden Ave. +1911+
  

Revision as of 20:17, 13 July 2024

Addison Meeting Room is an assembly affiliated in its latter years with the Tunbridge Wells Brethren, that started in Chicago in 1866 with a married couple that had emigrated that year from England, involved with a meeting that had started in that part of England a year prior by a J.C., as per Gathering Up the Fragments by Walter Potter (who joined them in 1868).

This meeting met thru at least 1951, and moved to Oak Park when Bible Truth Publishers relocated there from St. Louis, Missouri, thru the 1980's when it relocated again to Addison, Illinois where it presently meets as a TW-N assembly. John Nelson Darby also included Chicago in his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862.

For many years, they hosted an annual conference in late summer that was sometimes attended by as many as 1500 brethren, initially at a Missouri-Synod Lutheran Concordia University, then in 1957 they started at Wheaton College, and some of the people stayed in dorms named after Nate Saint and Jim Elliot who died in 1956. Then, by the late 1970's they met at hotels founded by John Willard Marriott, Sr. (1900-1984), an LDS entrepreneur. Recent conference recordings may be found at BCR.

Locations

  • cottage meeting 1866-1868+
  • Room 10 & 12, 816(?) Clark St. +1880+
  • 259 W. Madison St. +1880+
  • 121 Dearborn St. +1884+
  • 1865 Ogden Ave. +1911+

Meeting Times

  • Su C 9am, B 10:30am, G 7:30pm; Tues R 7:30pm; Thu P 7:30pm +1911+

Correspondents

  • Walter Potter +1911+
    • 1210 West Erie St.
  • William E. Clough +1911+
    • Business: 17 West South Water St.
    • Resience: 3229 Groveland Ave.
  • William P. Haight +1911+
    • 6947 Normal Blvd.

Probable Alum

  • June Dorthine Wagner LaBolle (b. June 6, 1912) corr. 1944-1951 @ Dothan Meeting Room, AL
  • Ronald William J. LaBolle (1937-2015) corr. +1985-2015 @ Atlanta Meeting Room, which presently meets as the Decatur Meeting Room, GA; Son of John Howard LaBolle (1909-1987) & "Sally" Sarah Elizabeth Claywell LaBolle-Harris (1915-2004); Siblings: Patricia Joyce LaBolle Bachman (1931-1999) & Donald H. LaBolle (b. 1937).

Also See

Sources

  • Lists of Meetings
  • Ancestry.com
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