Gresham Meeting Room, OR

Gresham Meeting Room is a TW exclusive assembly in Gresham, Multnomah, Oregon that was founded prior to 1920 by Fred Shelley and Claude Stockton. Claude was residing in Gresham by 1910 as a teamster, unknown whether he was in fellowship by that point, and in 1918 he was employed as a carpenter for Ed Osborn. From +1910-1914+,

Elizabeth Kean Halliday resided in Gresham, in fellowship with the same circles, previously +1881-1908+ in Hensel, Pembina, North Dakota born at Perth, Ontario in 1846.

Gottlieb Fudickar arrived by 1923, his son Charles was residing by 1920 with the Shelley family, as did Marian Nash & Charlie Nash, teenage cousins of the Shelleys and children of John Bright Nash (b. 1879 Seward, Lincoln metro, NE - d. 1910 Junction City, Geary, KS) & Ellen Irene Woodford Nash-Fudickar (b. 1881 Hiawatha (near Abilene), Rhinehart or Liberty Twp., Dickinson, KS - d. 1915 Hiawatha, Rhinehart, Dickinson, KS). After John Nash's death in 1910 of a several week illness, his widow Ellen married Gottlieb Fudickar on Nov. 23, 1914 until her death on March 4, 1915. Her obit in the Junction City Sentinel contains a Christ-honoring tribute.

The Sester family arrived by 1930, followed by the Morgan family by 1933, the Klinski family by 1937, and John Ruskin Gill resided in Gresham from +1944-1955+.

Gill edited the seminal Notes of Interest in the 1910's thru the early 1920's, a rebranding of Letters of Interest in the Lord's Work which circulated among TW-Lowe brethren beginning in the 1890's. Notes of Interest was restarted in 1993 by Gill's granddaughter Carol's husband Paul Stanley Jacobsen (1930-2021) which continued until his promotion to Glory. John Ruskin Gill was also a notable laboring brother. The meeting room in Gresham has continued faithfully for over a century.

Early Alumni

• Elizabeth Kean Halliday +1910-1914+ (1846-1916)
• Marian Anna Nash Hodges-Coulon +1920+ (1905-1981)
• Charles "Charlie" Benjamin Nash +1920+ (1906-1997)

Correspondents

Current references available upon request.

• Claude Emmit Stockton +1910?/+1920-1927+ (1883-1958)
• Fred Duncan Shelley +1920-1930+ (1877-1951)
• Gottlieb Fudickar +1923+ (1876-1943)
• William Hofmann Sester +1930-1951+; +1958-1994+ (1904-1999)
• Fred John Morgan +1933-1951+ (1894-1965)
• Alvin Edward Klinski +1937-1944+ (1897-1977)
• John Ruskin Gill +1944-1955+ (1873-1962)
• Stanley Henry Midford +1949-1974 (1892-1974)
• Hector Morgan +1955-1983 (1899-1983)
• Elmo Francis Richards +1958-1977 (1893-1977)
• Roy Alfred Areta +1977-1981+ (1908-2003)
• Arthur Richard Mittelstadt +1977-1989+ (1910-1994)
• Oscar Theodore Froese +1985-2020 (1921-2020)
• John William Sester 1937/+1994-2013+ (1937-2022)
• William A. Mittelstadt +1994-2005+ (b. 1950)

Also See

• Who's Who at Gresham Meeting Room, OR 1910-present (alumni)

Sources

• TW-EB LoG's 1901-2010
• GTF's
• Ancestry.com
• FindaGrave.com
• Newspapers.com