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
Joseph Shier Doupe (1838-1910) 1871 joined the Manitoba & NW Territories Survey, became well-known for his early government & railway surveys in Vancouver and the Northwest Territories. 1879 founding member of the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society.
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.
John Jenkinson, Jr. (b. 1873 ON) @ 338 Manitoba Ave.
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.
John McConnell (b. 1854 QC - d. 1946 Ottawa, ON) retired 1923 from Canadian Pacific Railway.
affiliated with the exclusive PB as early as 1891. Affiliated with the River Mead Meeting Room 1923-1927 which in a neighborhood of the same name, in Gatineau, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa, Ontario.
motorman @ 1901, switchman @ 1911.
William Hector O'Neill (b. 1849 QC - d. 1913 Seattle, WA) sailor & RR engineer
J.W. Robertson - Agent @ Esquimalt and Nanaimo (E & N) Railway +1943-1948+ while serving as founding correspondent of Cowichan Lake Gospel Hall on Vancouver Island, B.C. which became Hope Gospel Hall, BC +1954-1960.
first Brethren preacher in Ontario, arriving in 1845.
In 1855, he resided in Huron County, near Clinton, where he read the Bible frequently to men building the Grand Trunk Railway to Goderich.
Frank Williams - Canadian Pacific Railway settler in 1930 to Paradise Valley, southeast of Edmonton, the founder of an OB Moyerton Assembly in 1932, which later dissolved, the remnant founding Paradise Valley Gospel Hall, AB in 1944, which continues. See Alberta history.
Scotland
Fife, Scotland - Railway Mission Hall founded in 1920 at Ladybank, Cupar. Later (1947) known as Ladybank Gospel Hall (OB).
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.
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.
Victor Paul Flint (1914-2002) - 1940 stenographer @ Northern Pacific Railway, Walla Walla, WA
he and his wife Helen Marie Sharpe Flint attended Walla Walla Meeting Room (TW-EB) around 1940, likely discovered on account of their occasional attendance at Hope Bible Chapel (OB) in Seattle when they were in college. Paul later taught at Emmaus Bible College 1949-1983.
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.
Lott Frederick (1870-1947) section foreman 1910+ @ Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (BR&P) railway (1885-1932), which was succeed by the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad.
one of the earliest correspondents +1911-1927+ for Indiana Gospel Hall (OB) in the Pittsburgh CSA of Pennsylvania, founded in 1910 and presently active.
A.C. Frieseke credited in 1897 with inventing a railway telegraph, as well as in 1886 for inventing an electric time recorder.
He built on a bluff 2 miles north of Arkansas City where he lived for 49 years, the text, “Christ died for the ungodly.” It was 476 feet long, 18 feet high and can be read two miles away. An invalid for 3 years and no longer able to take care of text, the Railway auxiliary permanently set the stone in concrete at an expense of $250.
William Kiddy (b. 1865 Scot. - d. 1932 Monongahela, Washington, PA)
in fellowship with Detroit assemblies including the West Chicago Assembly, MI which is where his wife was saved in 1930. Robert was said to be a good friend of Harold Paisley.
apprentice ship carpenter @ Blackfriars, Glasgow, Scot., boarded with the Bingham family +1881+; emig. 1888 @ NYC on the Devonia as carpenter; ship carpenter @ Winthrop, Suffolk, MA in 1900; In 1911, he was a railroad carpenter, still living in Winthrop. By 1913, he had removed to Boston (with his mother Elizabeth and siblings Jacob & Mabel), as a railroad carpenter, and retired by 1930.
wife (1883): Margaret "Bessy" Bingham Shillady (b. 1852 Drumgooland, Co. Down, Ireland - d. 1934 Roxbury, MA), daughter of Joseph Bingham (b. 1819 Ireland - d. 1905 Banbridge, Ireland) & Anne Jane McGaffin Bingham (b. 1824 Drumgooland, Ireland - d. 1916 Glasgow, Scot.); Bessy was a mantle maker in 1881 @ Glasgow. Her parents were married in 1850 @ Banbridge, Ireland.
David Suiter (b. 1868 County Tyrone, N.I., immigrated 1888, d. 1926 Philadelphia, PA) +1900-1920+ Bill Clerk @ Pennsylvania Railroad
The Aberdeen Meeting Room, a TW-exclusive assembly in Idaho met initially in German in a railway station in nearby American Falls, that is now underwater.
