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Gresham Meeting Room is a TW exclusive assembly in Gresham, Multnomah, [[Oregon]] that was founded by 1923 prior to 1920 by Fred Shelly, Gottlieb Fudickar Shelley and Claud Claude Stockton. Prior to that, from +1911-1914+, Mrs. F.A. Halliday resided Claude was residing in Greshamby 1910 as a teamster, unknown whether he was in fellowship with the same circlesby that point, previously and in 1918 he was employed as a carpenter for Ed Osborn. From +19011910-19081914+ in Hensel, [[North Dakota]].
Elizabeth Kean Halliday resided in Gresham, in fellowship with the same circles, previously +1881-1908+ in Hensel, Pembina, [[North Dakota]] born at Perth, [[Ontario]] in 1846. Gottlieb Fudickar arrived by 1923, his son Charles was residing by 1920 with the Shelley family, as did Marian Nash & Charlie Nash, teenage cousins of the Shelleys and children of John Bright Nash (b. 1879 Seward, Lincoln metro, [[Nebraska|NE]] - d. 1910 Junction City, Geary, [[Kansas|KS]]) & Ellen Irene Woodford Nash-Fudickar (b. 1881 Hiawatha (near Abilene), Rhinehart or Liberty Twp., Dickinson, KS - d. 1915 Hiawatha, Rhinehart, Dickinson, KS). After John Nash's death in 1910 of a several week illness, his widow Ellen married Gottlieb Fudickar on Nov. 23, 1914 until her death on March 4, 1915. Her [https://www.newspapers.com/image/427815348/?terms=CorrespondentsEllen%20Woodford&match=1 obit] in the Junction City Sentinel contains a Christ-honoring tribute. The Sester family arrived by 1930, followed by the Morgan family by 1933, the Klinski family by 1937, and John Ruskin Gill resided in Gresham from +1944-1955+.* MrsGill edited the seminal ''Notes of Interest'' in the 1910's thru the early 1920's, a rebranding of ''Letters of Interest in the Lord's Work'' which circulated among TW-Lowe brethren beginning in the 1890's. ''Notes of Interest'' was restarted in 1993 by Gill's granddaughter Carol's husband Paul Stanley Jacobsen (1930-2021) which continued until his promotion to Glory. F John Ruskin Gill was also a notable laboring brother.A The meeting room in Gresham has continued faithfully for over a century. =Early Alumni=* Elizabeth Kean Halliday +19111910-1914+(1846-1916)* Marian Anna Nash Hodges-Coulon +1920+ (1905-1981)* Charles "Charlie" Benjamin Nash +1920+ (1906-1997) ==Correspondents==Current references available upon request. * Claude Emmit Stockton +1910?/+1920-1927+ (1883-1958) * Fred Shelly Duncan Shelley +19231920-1930+(1877-1951)* Gottlieb Fudickar +1923+* Claud Stockton +1923(1876-1927+1943)* William H. Hofmann Sester +1930-1951+; +1958-1994+(1904-1999) * Fred J. John Morgan +1933-1951+(1894-1965) * Alvin Edward Klinski +1937-1944+(1897-1977) * John Ruskin Gill +1944-1955+(1873-1962)* H. Stanley Henry Midford +1949-1973+1974 (1892-1974) * Hector Morgan +1955-1981+1983 (1899-1983)* Elmo Francis Richards +1958-1973+1977 (1893-1977)* Roy Alfred Areta +1977-1981+(1908-2003)* Arthur Richard Mittelstadt +1977-1989+(1910-1994)* Oscar T. Theodore Froese +1985-2010+2020 (1921-'''2020''')* John W. William Sester 1937/+1994-20102013+(1937-'''2022''')* William A. Mittelstadt +1994-2005+(b. 1950)
=Also See=
* [[Who's Who at Gresham Meeting Room, OR]] 19111910-present(alumni)
=Sources=
* TW-EB LoG's 1901-2010
* GTF's
* Ancestry.com
* FindaGrave.com
* Newspapers.com