Revision as of 22:23, 27 July 2021

Canada

• Luc Bergeron
  • founder @ Shediac chretienne reunis, New Brunswick
  • responded to the Gospel given by Raj Manuel in 1982 at the railway shops in Moncton, where the Canadian National Railway was based until 1988.

• Abraham Dennis Burdon (b. 1814 London, Eng. - d. 1897 Welland, ON) railway inspector
  • 1861 in fellowship with Sarnia Meeting Room in Ontario. EB, later TW assembly.

• James W.E. Collins (b. 1837 Eng. - d. 1906 Lambton, ON) Engineer @ Great Western Railway
  • correspondent @ Sarnia Meeting Room (EB) in Ontario.

• 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
  • grad BA 1874 McGill University

• 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.
  • corr. early 1890's @ Winnipeg Meeting Room, MB
  • grad 1861 McGill University

• Edward Charles Barry Featherstonhaugh (b. 1851 Guelph, ON - d. 1945 Montreal, QC)
  • in fellowship with Natural History Hall as early as 1871, and in leadership 1903-1945.
  • his brother Robert Lea F. Featherstonhaugh (b. 1854 Brantford, ON - d. 1890 Montreal QC) served in 1877 as a Grand Trunk Railway clerk.

• Leslie McIntosh Grant (b. 1917 Innisfail, AB - d. 2011 Kenmore, WA)
  • planted Grace and Truth Gospel Hall, Edmonton, AB (KLC)
  • his father-in-law, Ellsworth Smiley, worked 31 years for the Northern Pacific Railway in Minnesota, relocating to Idaho in 1949.

• John A. Hammond (1843-1939) member of the Geological Survey of Canada that laid the west route for the Canadian Pacific Railway
  • corr. @ Sackville Meeting Room, NB (EB/TW) 1894-1927+
  • 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.

• Lloyd Allison Kindersides (b. 1906 Temple Sowerby, Westmorland, Eng. - d. 1994 Hemet, Riverside, CA)
  • in fellowship at Heather Bible Chapel, Vancouver, BC where he was an engineer, then in Aladema, California, with Southern Pacific Railway during WWII.

• James William Marshall (1835-1892) 1891 RR Clerk
  • 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
  • his wife Charlotte was in fellowship in 1871 @ Natural History Hall in Montreal, Quebec.

• William Newton Parsons (b. 1809 Eng. - d. 1888 Ingersoll, 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.

• 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.

• Joseph Medlicott Scriven
  • 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.
  • accommodated John Nelson Darby to Council Bluffs & San Francisco on his final trip to the U.S., see "History of Work of God in America" by Philip Franklin Jensen (1897-1972);
  • 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.

• Mr. Barnard (b. 1831 USA) engineer
  • possible brother of John Fiske Barnard
  • in fellowship 1851 @ Sherbrooke Meeting Room, EB assembly in Quebec

• B.J. Cheetham (b. 1924 Hinton, W.V. - d. 1980 Hampton, VA) pipe fitter 34 years @ C&O railroad
  • lay preacher & elder at Bethany Gospel Chapel (OB) in Newport News, Virginia

• 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.

• A.C. Frieseke credited in 1897 with inventing a railway telegraph, as well as in 1886 for inventing an electric time recorder.
  • corr. @ Pine & Orange Exclusive Brethren Assembly, FL 1879 in Jacksonville, Florida.

• Frank Bryson Gill (1876-1955) clerk & historian @ Union Pacific RR
  • 1933 corr. @ Omaha Meeting Room, NE, TW-EB assembly
  • see Nebraska

• Ellis Edmonds - engineer @ C&O railroad
  • 1934 in fellowship @ Bethany Gospel Chapel (OB) in Newport News, Virginia

• Robert Henry (b. 1883 Cookstown, Tyrone, Ireland, emig. 1900)
  • founding contact @ Collingdale Gospel Chapel (OB) 1914-1927+ in Pennsylvania
  • 1910 night watchman @ Penn RR; 1920-1930 clerk @ RR

• Joseph Alma Hollister 1880 Railroad Yard Master; also a shoemaker;
  • Fort Scott Meeting Room, KS 1879 home assembly

• Frederick Thompson Horton (b. 1860 Galesburg, IL - d. 1938 Arkansas City, KS) train dispatcher 45 years @ Santa Fe railway
  • Arkansas City Gospel Hall, KS correspondent 1889-1938, saved in 1882 under meetings held by John Smith and Charles W. Ross.
  • 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)
  • co-founder @ Donora Gospel Hall (OB) in Pennsylvania in 1920, correspondent until 1932.
  • area scalper @ RR Shops in 1910
  • eldest son William Kiddy, Jr. (b. 1887 Lonaconing, MD - d. 1938 Elrama, PA) P & L.E. engineer

• John Howard LaBolle (1909-1987) RR switchman
  • probable alum of the Chicago Meeting Room
  • John's son Ronald William J. LaBolle (1937-2015) served the Atlanta Meeting Room in 1985.

• John Thomas McGraw (b. 1854 Burnley, Eng. - d. 1915 Richmond, VA)
  • served as a correspondent in 1908 for an EB-TW Richmond Meeting Room in Virginia.
  • self-employed +1882-1910+ as a hardware merchant @ 1442 E. Main in Richmond that included railway materials among their stock.

• John Baker Nash (b. 1879 NE - d. 1910 Smoky Hill, KS) RR switchman
  • 1905 correspondent @ EB Pleasant Dale Meeting Room in Lancaster County, Nebraska, later lived in Omaha.

• Edward Ostoff (1876-1952) 1930 Section Foreman @ Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR
  • one of the first five led to Christ (1918) by Oliver Garfield Smith
  • Clayton Gospel Hall, IA 2nd assembly founded by Smith
  • son Edwin William Osthoff (1902-1994) also foreman in 1930 in the Steam RR industry;

• Frank & George T. Pope - brother carpenters @ Union Pacific RR;
  • both corr. @ Blair Meeting Room, NE 1889
  • father Geo. Sr. 1890 also carpenter @ Union Pacific RR
  • see Nebraska

• Bernard L. Redford (b. 1886 Richmond, VA - d. 1970 Hampton, VA) retired from C&O railroad
  • ministered at Bethany Gospel Chapel, Newport News, VA as early as 1927 from Richmond, in fellowship as early as 1943 until his death.

• John Paul Rockey (b. 1926 Norfolk, VA - d. 2015 Cedar Falls, IA) Seaboard Airline RR, Conrail, & Amtrak
  • 1965-1973 @ Matoaca Gospel Hall in Virginia, then 1973-2005 @ Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall in Pennsylvania, then 2005-2015 @ Cedar Falls Gospel Hall in Iowa all OB.

• Fred F. Schumacher (b. 1877 Germany) 1920 RR laborer @ Solon Springs, WI
  • corr. @ Pender Meeting Room, NE 1896 in Thurston County on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska.

• Robert Andrew Sherrard +1917-1930's Conductor @ Detroit United Railway (D.U.R.)
  • 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 San Jose Gospel Chapel now known as Hillview Bible Chapel, where he remained active until his home-calling.

• David Suiter (b. 1868 County Tyrone, N.I., immigrated 1888, d. 1926 Philadelphia, PA) +1900-1920+ Bill Clerk @ Pennsylvania Railroad
  • correspondent +1927+ @ West Philadelphia Gospel Hall, PA (OB) 1914-1967+

• George Henry Weidman (b. 1888 Harrisburg, PA - d. 1940 Woodland Twp., Burlington, N.J.)
  • 1927 contact for Boas Street Gospel Hall in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
  • 1920 machinist in the steam RR industry in Harrisburg

• W.F. Wilson +1878-1880+ Chicago & Lake Huron RR (now part of Grand Trunk Western Railroad)
  • earliest known EB correspondent @ Port Huron Meeting Room in Michigan.

Misc RR

• From the late 1890's, the Sunday School of Grace Chapel, Tenafly, NJ, then known as Tenafly Hall, met in the nearby railway station. See New Jersey history.