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* William Newton Parsons (b. 1809 [[England|Eng.]] - d. 1888 Ingersoll, [[Ontario|ON]]) railway station master @ Beamsville, Lincoln, [[Ontario]] in 1861 while in fellowship with the EB [[Clinton Township Meeting Room, ON]], and presumably later at [[Ingersoll Meeting Room, ON]].
* Tom Renton - signal inspector @ Old Grand Trunk Railway; early (1875) conference organizer at [[West Fifth Bible Chapel, Hamilton, ON]]. See [[A Century in Retrospect - James Gunn]], Chapter Eight, for more detail.
* 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, [[British Columbia|B.C.]] which became [[Hope Gospel Hall, BC]] +1954-1960.
** lay preacher & elder at [[Bethany Gospel Chapel, Newport News, VA|Bethany Gospel Chapel]] (OB) in Newport News, [[Virginia]]
* Charles Francis Claridge - 1930 railroad carpenter @ St. Louis. (b. 1868 Otter Creek, Jersey, [[Illinois|IL]] - d. 1934 St. Louis, [[Missouri|MO]]).** in fellowship with [[North End Bible Hall, MO|North End Bible Hall]] (OB) in St. Louis, [[Missouri|MO]] +1925-1934.
* T.J. Frazier - civil engineer @ B&O RR
** 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.
** son [[Robert James Sherrard]] (1931-2010) co-founded the [[Hillview Bible Chapel, CA|San Jose Gospel Chapel]] now known as Hillview Bible Chapel, where he remained active until his home-calling.
* Samuel Shillady (b. 1858 Drumgooland, Co. Down, Ireland - d. 1931 Boston, MA)
** correspondent +1922+ @ [[Cliff Street Gospel Hall, MA|Cliff Street Gospel Hall]] in [[Massachusetts]].
** apprentice ship carpenter @ Blackfriars, Glasgow, [[Scotland|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, [[Northern Ireland|N.I.]], immigrated 1888, d. 1926 Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania|PA]]) +1900-1920+ Bill Clerk @ Pennsylvania Railroad