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=Earliest Brethren=
In 1865, [[Thomas Elwood Broadfoot]] (b. 1842 Huron County, Ontario, Canada - d. 1927 Wichita, KS) married Charlotte Ritchie (b. 1842 ON - d. 1925 Wichita, KS) in Prescott, Ontario, her parents were born in [[Scotland]]. Thomas was a son of James Broadfoot (b. 1803 [[Scotland|Scot.]]) and Janet Broadfoot (b. 1817 [[Scotland|Scot.]]), and the family relocated to Kansas somewhere between 1865 and 1879, as in the latter year, William Martin recalled in an evangelistic letter (reprinted in May 1967 Words in Season) to his younger brother Dr. A.E. Martin visiting Thomas near Abilene, [[Kansas]] and being led to Christ. A.E. subsequently received tracts and books including C.H. Mackintosh's "Notes on Exodus" that resulted in him also being led to Christ.
In 1884, Thomas' brother Alexander "Sandy" Broadfoot (b. 1850 Canada - d. 1916 Atlantic, IA) obtained his medical degree in Toronto, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] and settled in Enterprise, Kansas to setup his practice. It is presently unknown when they were introduced to the Brethren, but eventually Sandy became a popular itinerant preacher throughout the Midwest. Their sister, Catherine (b. 1838 ON - d. 1929 Carlton, KS) married John Robson (b. 1833 [[England]] - d. 1880 Carlton, KS), and these were the parents of Robert Alexander Robson, who would be among the founders of Grace and Truth.
==Tunbridge-Wells Exclusives==
From the Topeka State Journal, Sept. 14, 1914: "Abilene Preacher Egged: Saloon Rowdies at Breckenridge, Minn., Insult Kansas Minister on Street": "While Rev. F.H. Nicholson of Abilene, a preacher of the Plymouth Brethren denomination, was speaking in the street here, eggs were hurled at him from a saloon in front of which he was standing. A crowd of more than a hundred present at the time, was not slow in showing that their sympathies were with the speaker rather than the rowdies. Rev. Nicholson has been preaching for about fourteen years and is well known in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa."