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=Canada=
* 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 [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/ Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society].
** corr. early 1890's @ [[Winnipeg Meeting Room, MB]]
** grad 1861 [[McGill University]]
* [[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 [http://www.newmanplace.ca/en/ Newman Place Christian Assembly], one of the eldest surviving assemblies in Canada, founded in 1856.
* [[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.
=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 [[HWGA_7|"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.
* 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, OH|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, IL|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]]
* [[Joseph Alma Hollister]] 1880 Railroad Yard Master; also a shoemaker;
** [[Fort Scott Meeting Room, KS]] 1879 home assembly
* John Howard LaBolle (1909-1987) RR switchman
** probable alum of the [[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Chicago Meeting Room]]
** John's son Ronald William J. LaBolle (1937-2015) served the [[Decatur Meeting Room, GA|Atlanta Meeting Room]] in 1985.
* [[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]]
* 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 [[Hillview Bible Chapel, CA|San Jose Gospel Chapel]] now known as Hillview Bible Chapel, where he remained active until his home-calling.
==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]].
* 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 [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/ Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society].
** corr. early 1890's @ [[Winnipeg Meeting Room, MB]]
** grad 1861 [[McGill University]]
* [[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 [http://www.newmanplace.ca/en/ Newman Place Christian Assembly], one of the eldest surviving assemblies in Canada, founded in 1856.
* [[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.
=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 [[HWGA_7|"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.
* 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, OH|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, IL|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]]
* [[Joseph Alma Hollister]] 1880 Railroad Yard Master; also a shoemaker;
** [[Fort Scott Meeting Room, KS]] 1879 home assembly
* John Howard LaBolle (1909-1987) RR switchman
** probable alum of the [[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Chicago Meeting Room]]
** John's son Ronald William J. LaBolle (1937-2015) served the [[Decatur Meeting Room, GA|Atlanta Meeting Room]] in 1985.
* [[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]]
* 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 [[Hillview Bible Chapel, CA|San Jose Gospel Chapel]] now known as Hillview Bible Chapel, where he remained active until his home-calling.
==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]].