Who's Who at Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall, PA

Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall, Bryn Mawr, Montgomery/Delaware, PA (OB) 1906-present

Early Correspondents

• Hector Campbell @ Ardmore +1922+
• William George Ilott +1926-1930+

Families

Amadio family

T&T 1974-4: Bryn Mawr, PA: "Our dear brother Albert Amadio went to be with the Lord on July 20th, aged 79. He was born in Italy and born again in Ardmore, Pa. on his 23rd birthday. After, he was baptized and received into fellowship and has been a steady influence ever since. A large number of relatives and friends gathered at the funeral take by our brothers Jim Smith and Bill Oliver."

T&T 1977-12: "Mrs. Albert (Bessie) Amadio of Bryn Mawr, PA., on Aug. 31, age 72. Our dear sister was born near Port Glasgow, Scotland and saved in the same district at 14 years of age. She and others in her family in Scotland were reached as the result of an older sister being brought to the Sunday School. After a time of concern, she was saved through Isaiah 12:2 following a regular Sunday night gospel meeting. She has been faithful in the Bryn Mawr assembly since coming here in younger years. The funeral was shared by William and David Oliver."

WiS 1977-11: B.M., PA: "Our beloved sister Mrs. Albert Amadio went to be with the Lord on Aug. 31, 1977 aged 73. Her maiden name Elizabeth McPherson (sic), she was saved at Port Glasgow, Scotland when 15 and has been in fellowship in this Assembly for 53 years. She leaves 2 sons and one daughter, Mary, of this Assembly. Her husband predeceased her a few years, the family has that 'Blessed Hope'."

• Alberto "Albert" Amadio 1918-1974 (b. 1895 Castel di Lama, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy - d. 1974 Bryn Mawr, PA), son of Amedeo Amadio (b. 1856 Italy) & Giulia Celani Amadio. Albert was saved on 1-6-1918 on his birthday, and inducted in Ardmore on 4-28-1918 to WWI, serving overseas from 6-15-1918 to 3-27-1919 in the Def. Sector, Meuse-Argonne, Flanders, & Escout-Handes-Offs with no injuries. He was stationed as a Private with 31st Co., 8th Batt., 155th Dep. Brig. until 5-27-1918, then with Co. C in the 145th Infantry until his honorable discharge on 4-14-1919 at Camp Dix in New Jersey upon demobilization. In 1942, he was employed as a building mechanic for Philadelphia Electric Co. (now PECO), at 10th & Chestnut St., and may have retired with this company that was founded in 1881 and currently provides electricity to most of the area.
• Elizabeth "Bessie" Chalmers McPherson Amadio 1924-1977 (b. 1905 Port Glasgow, Scot. - d. 1977 Ardmore, PA), daughter of John Crawford McPherson (b. 1861 Ladyburn, Greenock, Scot. - d. 1939 Port Glasgow, Scot.) & Mary Martin Chalmers McPherson (b. 1865 Greenock West, Renfrew, Scot. - d. 1940 Port Glasgow, Scot.).

Campbell family

1922 @ 60 Grand View Ave., Ardmore

• Hector Campbell +1922+

Crook family

WiS 1939-9: B.M., PA: "Mrs. Frank W. Crook, after a lingering illness, passed on home to glory August the 5th. For many years associated with the Bryn Mawr assembly. A good woman gone and will be missed. W.H. Hunter spoke at the services."

• Francis "Frank" Walter Crook (b. 1861 Edinburgh, Scot.; emig. 1885; d. 1949 Bryn Mawr, PA), son of James Crook (b. 1836 Liverpool, Lancashire, Eng.) & Marion "Mary" Clayton Crook (b. 1836 Liverpool, Eng.). In 1949, Frank was a retired merchant tailor.
• Charlotte Graham Crook +1939 (b. 1863 PA; m. 1889; d. 1939 Bryn Mawr, PA)
  • Bessie Elizabeth Crook (b. 1890 PA)
  • Francis "Frank" Crook (b. 1892 Phil., PA). 1942 @ Fairfield, CT.
  • Hannah Hawthorne Crook Kinloch (b. 1894 Phil., PA - d. 1959 Wayne, Delaware, PA). Husband: Dr. Henry Sachtleben Kinloch (b. 1887 Charleston, SC - d. 1971 Rosemont, Chester, PA), son of St. John Phillips Kinloch (1857-1942 Charleston, SC) & Mary Bohun Sachtleben Kinloch (b. 1860 St. Stephens, Charleston, SC - d. 1924 Columbia, Richland, SC). Episcopal wedding. Dr. Kinloch was a retired chief surgeon for the Maryland Casualty Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, a 1911 grad of the U of Penn Medical School, served a residency at Bryn Mawr hospital, and a Navy lieutenant in WWI as a surgeon aboard the destroyer USS Talbot.
  • John Graham Crook (b. 1897 Phil., PA - d. 1933 Rochester, Monroe, NY). In 1930, John was an auto salesman. Wife: Eleanor Margaret Maria Sours Crook-Walker (1898-1970 Rochester, NY), daughter of Albert T. Sours (b. 1852 Irondequoit, Monroe, NY - d. 1876 Rochester, NY) & Mary Angelina Noonan Sours (1876-1940 Rochester, NY).
  • Marion Crook (b. 1899 Phil., PA). Primary schoolteacher in 1950 in Lower Merion Twp., Montgomery, PA.
  • Ethel V. Crook (1903-1980 Phil., PA). In 1950, Ethel was employed as a nurse in a graduate hospital in Phil.
  • Charles Walter Crook (b. 1905 Phil., PA - d. 1983 Burlington, NJ). 1940 @ Burlington, NJ. Wife: Naomi Frances Borden Crook (b. 1903 Burlington, NJ - d. 1992 Mount Holly, Burlington, NJ).
  • William Matthews Crook (b. 1906 Phil., PA - d. 1993 Gladwyne, Montgomery, PA). Wife (1933 @ Narberth, PA): Dorothy Williamson Crook (b. 1907 Chicago, IL - d. 1965 Montgomery Co., PA).

Ilott family

• William George Ilott @ Avon Rd. +1926-1933+ (b. 1875 Reading/Woolstone, Berks, Eng., emig. 1908, d. 1945 San Mateo, CA), son of William Ilott (b. 1852 Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng. - d. 1930 Reading, Berkshire, Eng.) & Ann Medcraf Ilott (b. 1858 Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. - d. 1946 Reading, Berkshire, Eng.). William worked 1920 @ Supt. Private Estate, 1940 @ Gardener. Sister: Mrs. Frank Plunkett (Philadelphia, PA).
• Ethel Clara Killey Ilott +1926-1933+ (b. 1873 Tottenham, London, Eng. - d. 1957 Los Angeles, CA), dau. of Henry Killey (b. 1842 Clerkenwell, Middlesex, Eng., 1920 @ Lower Merion, Montgomery, PA, d. 1922 Haverford, Montgomery, PA), house painter and decorator & Emma Ewer Killey (b. 1844 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng. - d. 1918 Eton, Berkshire, Eng.).
  • Ethel Joyce Ilott Goodrich +1926-1929+ (b. 1911 Radnor Twp., PA - d. 2003 San Jose, Santa Clara, CA. Also lived in Washington, D.C.. Husband: Norman Standish Goodrich (b. 1909 Glenwood, Pope, MN - d. 1992 NV), son of William "Will" Leonard Goodrich (b. 1875 Ionia, MI - d. 1915 Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN) & Camilla Marie Hirsch Goodrich (b. 1877 WI - d. 1925 Minneapolis, MN). Camilla was a member of a now defunct Bethesda English Lutheran @ 50th St. & 31st Ave. S. pastored by Henry Truman Gordon (b. 1889 Portland, ND - d. 1963 Wausau, WI).

Sources

• Ancestry.com
• OB AB's: 1922, 1927, 1936, 1941+
• Truth & Tidings: 1974-4; 1977-12
• Words in Season: 1939-9