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Canada

  • William Bell Dawson (1854-1944) Engineer @ Dominion Bridge Company 1882-1884; Asst. Engineer @ Canadian Pacific Railway 1884; Director @ Dominion Survey of Tides and Currents 1884-1924
  • John A. Hammond (1843-1939) member of the Geological Survey of Canada that laid the west route for the Canadian Pacific Railway
    • corr. @ Sackville Meeting Room, NB (EB/TW) 1894-1927+
    • The descendants of John's youngest brother Henry (1845-1916) include many assembly leaders including that of the Guignard, Hayhoe, DeGraaf, Roossinck families. Henry served in leadership in the early 1900's at Natural History Hall in Montreal, now known as the Newman Place Christian Assembly, one of the eldest surviving assemblies in Canada, founded in 1856.
  • James William Marshall (1835-1892) 1891 RR Clerk
    • son Frederick Marshall (1866-1945) served 44 years (1893-1937) as a RR conductor;
    • James was the earliest known correspondent (1879-1889+) for the London Meeting Room, ON (one of four of the oldest existent Exclusive meetings in Ontario, Canada.

United States

  • John Fiske Barnard (1829-1910) 1875 Gen. Supt. @ Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs RR; later President of the Ohio & Mississippi RR, the GM of the Hannibal & St. Joseph RR, President of the Atchison Union Depot @ St. Joseph, and director of several other companies including the Hannibal Union Depot Co., and the Kansas City Union Depot Co.
    • accommodated John Nelson Darby to Council Bluffs & San Francisco on his final trip to the U.S., see "History of Work of God in America" by Philip Franklin Jensen (1897-1972);
    • son John Alfred Barnard (1861-1910) GM of the Ohio, Indiana & Western RR & GM of Peoria & Eastern RR; His first wife was Louise Ingalls, dau. of Melville Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinatti, Chicago & St. Louis RR;
    • son Robert Christie Barnard (1869-1942) Supt. @ Cleveland, Akron & Columbus RR; Sec. @ Dayton Union RR;
    • son Wilfred Keefer Barnard (1879-1936) spent several years in RR, including supervision of main line and terminal construction on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake R.R., and the Pacific Electric R.R. at Los Angeles.
  • T.J. Frazier - civil engineer @ B&O RR
    • Unknown if Frazier was PB, but he was the great-grandfather of Ruth E. Sherman (1925-2013), charter member of the Giffin Park Church, an assembly planted in 1948 in St. Clairsville, Ohio by James Hyslop.
      • A sister of James Hyslop, Daisy, married Phil Clarkson who, with his brother Lew, were instrumental starting (and popularizing) the "Family Bible Hour" service in open brethren chapels in North America. Phil was also in radio ministry at Moody Bible Institute and an elder at Woodside Bible Chapel in the Chicago area.
  • Edward Ostoff (1876-1952) 1930 Section Foreman @ Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR
    • one of the first five led to Christ (1918) by Oliver Garfield Smith
    • Clayton Gospel Hall, IA 2nd assembly founded by Smith
    • son Edwin William Osthoff (1902-1994) also foreman in 1930 in the Steam RR industry;
  • Frank & George T. Pope - brother carpenters @ Union Pacific RR;
  • Fred F. Schumacher (b. 1877 Germany) 1920 RR laborer @ Solon Springs, WI

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