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See Branches of Plymouth Brethren to explain abbreviation types (although in short: OB (& TW-P) are Halls & Chapels within the "open brethren" (although GH's (generally) maintain a separate network from the Chapels). EB/TW/TW-N are "Careful" Brethren (similar to OB Halls), and BC are (generally) independent community churches with early or indirect PB influence, and will (usually) not consider themselves "Brethren").  AA/CA refers to assemblies of African or Caribbean origin, or predominant demographic, although all ethnicities are overly welcome in any assemblies.

The above primer link expands on the abbreviations, and also contains introduction to this (and other) sheets within the overall History. There have been scores of branches with their own distinctive networks and strengths within the history of the PB, and many branches continue to flourish today, and while no assembly or gathering is identical to the others, each is thought to maintain a fervent desire for simplicity in gathering around the Lord Jesus, though practices and secondary doctrines may vary culturally and/or preferentially as autonomous (yet inter-dependent) local churches.

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East Central WI

Brown County (Green Bay metro)

Green Bay

Door County

Sturgeon Bay

  • Jacksonport Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1995-2019+
    • Egg Harbor Gospel Hall 1995-2015
    • Gospel preached in Door County in 1988 by Lorne Mitchell & George Patterson.

Fond du Lac County (Fond du Lac metro)

Campbellsport

Fox Cities

Outagamie/Calumet/Winnebago counties

Appleton

Kewaunee County (Green Bay metro)

Casco

  • Country Bible Church, Casco, WI (OB) 1948-2023+
    • Casco Gospel Chapel +1951+
    • L&L 1948-11: Gospel Messengers on Tour stayed in Casco on Aug. 20-21, 1948, did street meetings in Luxembburg, Algoma and Casco, baptized eight in Casco, the street meetings were so interesting to the Lutherans and Methodists that a Methodist minister offered up the use of his church, and Ed Dillon was invited to follow up.

Marathon County (Wausau metro)

Marathon

  • Marathon Meeting Room, WI (German TW-Lowe-EB) +1905-1908+
    • c/o George D.H. Hoeppner +1905+
      • previously @ Mylrea, WI +1901-1903+
    • c/o Adam Wurz +1905-1908+

Mosinee

  • Mosinee Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1985-1992; (TW-N-EB) 1992-2021+
    • c/o Paul D. Shepherd +1985+; Heinz Brinkmann +1985-2005+

Stettin

Wausau

  • Bible Truth Chapel, Wausau, WI (KLC-EB) +1901-1992; (KLC-OB) 1992-2023+
    • Wausau Meeting Room +1901-1905+; Bible Truth Hall +1922-1936+; Bible Truth Assembly +1946+
    • @ 318 S. Third Ave. +1922-1936+; 518 S. Fifth Ave. +1946+; 1600 N. 1st Ave. ?-present;
    • c/o August Block +1901-1905+; Herman Schuett, 728 Turner St. +1946+; Julius Heuss @ Schofield +1946+
    • see BTC's website
    • In 1927, Adolph Helling (Dillenburg, Germany) gave a special gospel service (in German) at the BTH.

Oconto County (Green Bay metro)

Oconto

Wood County (Wausau metro)

Wisconsin Rapids

Northeastern WI

Forest County

Argonne

  • Argonne Meeting Room, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1909; (TW-EB) +1909-1927+
    • North Crandon Meeting Room +1901-1917+
    • c/o W.H. Roberts

Langlade County

Antigo

Oneida County

Rhinelander

Three Lakes

  • Three Lakes Meeting Room, WI (Polish TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1909; (TW-EB) 1909-1951+
    • c/o Joseph "Joe" Godlevski +1901-1951+; Mrs. Lucille Boscho +1901-1905+; W. Andrzywski +1908-1917+; Albert Andrzywski +1923+, +1944-1951+; George Godlevski +1927-1944+;

Northwestern WI

Barron County

Cumberland

Douglas County

Superior

Rusk County

Sheldon

Southcentral WI

Madison CSA

Dane County (Madison metro)

Black Earth

  • Black Earth Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1932-2023+
    • c/o Charles Binius 1932+
    • T&T 2001-4: Initial Gospel meetings by Archie Stewart & Stephen Mick on May 20, 1927 at Woodman Hall in the middle of town, filled nightly, and nine professed. Then Mr. Hamilton and Archie Stewart had nine weeks of meetings with ten more professions. Twelve baptized with 500 in attendance. First believers met at Beetown. In the winter of 1932, Warke & Hamilton did meetings, and twelve broke bread afterwards for the first time at Black Earth.
    • @ 1316 Center St.

Green County (Madison metro

Brodhead

Rock County (Janesville/Beloit metro)

Beloit

Janesville

Southeastern WI

Kenosha County (Chicago metro)

Kenosha

  • Grace Bible Chapel, Kenosha, WI (OB) +1946-2023+
    • Kenosha Christian Assembly, WI]] (KLC-EB) +1946+; Grace Bible Chapel (OB) 2000?-present
    • @ 6633-30th Ave. +1946+
    • c/o William Eckhardt & Emil Schneider +1946+

Milwaukee metro

Milwaukee County (Milwaukee metro)

Milwaukee

  • 49th & Oklahoma Christian Assembly, WI (German KLC-EB) 1940's-2010
    • hive from Kenosha German assembly.
    • @ upper room over a restaurant or tavern in the 1940's; @ home of Mrs. Regina Felten, Ste. 10, 2825 N. 33rd +1946+; 3056 S. 49th St. +1950's+, old Lutheran church.
    • c/o Henry Knautz, 7336 W. Coldspring Rd., West Allis +1946+;
  • Wauwautosa Bible Chapel, WI (EB) +1878-1881; (KLC-EB) 1881-1922/1933; (OB) 1922-2023+
    • Bible Truth Chapel 1922+; Milwaukee Christian Assembly; Wauwautosa Community Chapel;
    • @ 380 Milwaukee St. +1880+
    • c/o H. Sanderson @ 208 Division St. +1880+; S. Canner @ 406 E. Water St. +1880+;
    • This was a large assembly in 1933 that became OB, and several left at that time to start another Grant meeting in homes, which folded in 2000.
  • Milwaukee Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1927-1973+
    • c/o Albert Andryeski +1927-1933+; Charley Godlevski +1927+; Robert H. Lundberg +1944-1951+; Robert Thomas, Sr. +1962-1973+

Racine County

Racine

  • Racine Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1944-1951+; +1966+
    • c/o Mansfield Lundberg +1944-1951+; Mrs. G.G. Youngstrum +1944-1951+; Woodrow Keisling +1966+

Walworth County

Lake Geneva

  • Lake Geneva Bible Chapel, WI (OB) 1894-2023+
    • Lake Geneva Gospel Hall +1904-1927+
    • c/o Frank Johnson +1904+; O.H. McColm @ 1300 Dodge St. +1927+

Williams Bay

Waukesha County

Oconomowoc

Waukesha

  • Waukesha Gospel Chapel, WI (OB) +1936-1943+
    • @ Grand & Colorado Aves. +1936-1943+
    • c/o Chester Foat +1936+; Melvin Johnson +1941+; Philip J. Strong, Jr. +1943+
  • Waukesha Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1949-1951+
    • c/o Dr. Arthur August Sunier (b. 1899 West Lucas, IA - d. 1989 Winter Park, Orange, FL). Wife: Frances Sunier (b. 1899 Oak Park, IL - d. 1998 Winter Park, FL)
      • faculty @ Rochester, N.Y., then Carroll University (Waukesha) teaching chemistry
      • son of Aime Sunier (1837-1907) who was a jeweler & watchmaker in Iowa City for many years, with his wife Susanne (1855-1938), both originally from Switzerland.
        • Aime & Susanne were among the first TW exclusives to reside in Iowa City, Iowa, arriving by 1889, and remained. There was a meeting room developed (there) by 1927.

Sheboygan metro

Sheboygan County

Sheboygan

  • Bible Truth Chapel (OB) +1943-1960+
  • Bible Truth Hall, Sheboygan, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1896-1908; (Lowe-EB) 1908-1926; (KLC-EB) 1926-1965+
    • Sheboygan Meeting Room +1896-1908+
    • c/o J.W. Felten +1896-1908+
    • In 1943, Joan Engelbert, Annette Alberts & Roger Alberts of the Bible Truth hall recited Christmas poems and S.S. children sang carols for the City Home.
    • Mathilda Rudy Felten 1916?-1965 (b. 1897 Butler Co., IA - d. 1965 Sheboygan, WI), daughter of John & Katherine Rudy. Relocated to Sheboygan with her family in 1916. Husband (1919): William Felten retired from Vollrath Co., as a pattern dept. supt. Beston Simmons (Windsor, ON) officiated her memorial. Children: Pearl Allen (Zion, IL), Frances Leonard (Wajima), Arlisle Beers (Elgin, IL), Joyce Detert (Wilmington, MA), & Virginia Masterson (West Hartford, CT). Siblings: John Rudy (Pasadena, CA), Lydia Rudy (Portland, OR) & Mrs. Theodore Felten (Sheboygan, WI).

Sheboygan Falls

Waushara County

Hancock

Springwater

Southwestern WI

Crawford County

Mount Sterling

Grant County (Platteville micro)

Beetown

Blue River

  • Blue River Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1932-2023+
    • OR 1932-12: Blue River, WI: "Br. Steve Mick is following up the tent work in a rented store, with manifest blessing. Some fifteen souls have been saved and others are interested."

La Crosse County (La Crosse, WI / Onalaska, MN metro)

La Crosse

  • La Crosse Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1890-2023+
    • @ Clinton St. +1922-1927+
    • c/o A.H. Redpath, 1908 Charles St. +1904+; C.O. Dahl @ 1113 Gillette St. +1922+; L.R. Sundvay @ 1209 W. Ave., S +1927+
    • TBM 1891: La Crosse, Winconsin (sic): "We had our brother Alexander Matthews here for three months, labouring for the Lord with blessing. He is now in Minneapolis."

Monroe County

Wilton

Sauk County

Mylrea ?

  • Mylrea Meeting Room, WI (German TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1903+
    • c/o George Hoeppner
      • later @ Marathon, WI (German EB) +1905+

Prairie Du Sac

Vernon County

Mount Sterling

Ontario

  • Ontario Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1954-2023+
    • Gospel preaching by Chauncey Yost, Alex Studnicka & Louis Brandt in the area starting in 1952. 75 in attendance of a tent meeting by Paul Elliot & Alex Studnicka, ten professed including Lee Stenerson (later @ La Crosse).

Viroqua

Westby

West Central WI

Chippewa County (Eau Claire metro)

Chippewa Falls

Clark County

Stanley

  • KLC sister +1946+
    • c/o Mrs. Florence Cummins, RR#2
      • breaks bread at Sheldon
  • Stanley Meeting Room, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1896-1909; (TW-EB) 1909-1933+; +1973-1992; (TW-N-EB) 1992-2010+
    • c/o James P. Clauson +1896-1908+;
    • c/o Mrs. Mattie Kenyon @ Withee +1896+
    • c/o Miss Hattie Colby @ Thorp +1896+
    • c/o Mrs. Charles Cook +1896-1927+
      • @ Thorp +1896-1917+, +1933+
    • c/o M. McMiller +1896-1901+, +1911+
      • lived in Chippewa Falls +1903-1905+
    • c/o Mrs. C. Einfeldt @ Greenwood +1908-1911+
    • c/o John Chalkley +1911+
    • c/o Mrs. J.B. Dougherty +1914-1927+
    • c/o Mrs. Sam B. Mills +1914-1933+
    • c/o Miss Edith Ness +1973-2010+

Eau Claire County (Eau Claire / Menomonie metro)

Eau Claire (also in Chippewa County)

Porter's Mills

Jackson County

Black River Falls

  • Black River Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1941-2023+
    • Pine Hills Gospel Hall 1944-1991
    • Sam Hamilton held Gospel meetings in the Pine Hills schoolhouse in 1926, and in another area schoolhouse later. Elgie Jamison & Walter Elgies had meetings, including one Elgies had at Shamrock Hall in 1949/1950 where he died while preaching. Breaking of Bread in the summer of 1941 in the home of Henry Gaede. 1944 acquired a building at Pine Hills. Relocated to Black River Falls in 1991.
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