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Gresham Meeting Room is a TW exclusive assembly in Gresham, Multnomah, [[Oregon]] that was technically founded prior to 1920 by Fred Shelley and Claude Stocktonabout 1914. Claude Some Baptists in the area reached out to Frank Gill of the [[Portland Meeting Room, OR|Portland Meeting Room]], which met from 1901 until about 1977 when it was residing in absorbed into the Gresham meeting room. Frank traveled by 1910 as streetcar to Gresham and held a teamsterseries of meetings outlining the ground of gathering for those interested, unknown whether he and eventually a table was in fellowship by that point, setup there. Frank was employed with the Union Pacific [[Railroad|railroad]] and in 1918 he eventually was employed as a carpenter for Ed Osborntransferred to Omaha, [[Nebraska]]. From +1910-1914+,
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=Ellen%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 (from the Troutdale/Springdale assembly) by 1933, the Klinski family by 1937, and John Ruskin Gill (from the Portland assembly) was in fellowship with Gresham from +1944-1955+. Gill 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. John Ruskin Gill was also a notable laboring brother. Arthur Richard Mittelstadt (1910-1994) arrived from [[Minnesota]] in Portland in 1936 where he was assigned to work a year for the Wolamet National Forest under the auspices of the CCC, which was a Roosevelt-era program to assist in the Depression for unemployed, young men to learn the value of work, administrated by the Army. The Mittelstadt's function for them was as a camp cook. He had been in TW fellowship in Minnesota, and was received into fellowship after marrying in 1937, after commuting occasionally during his work assignment. In the mid-1970's when the Portland assembly folded into the Gresham meeting, Mittelstadt was among those who transferred there, and he became a correspondent which he served until, at least, the late 1980's, he died in 1994. Many others have served as correspondents over the years with the meeting room in Gresham has continued , and nearly 110 years later, it continues faithfully for over a centuryin the old paths.
=Early Alumni=
Current references available upon request.
* Claude Emmit Stockton +1910'''1914?'''/+1920-1927+ (1883-1958) * Fred Duncan Shelley '''1914?'''/+1920-1930+ (1877-1951)
* Gottlieb Fudickar +1923+ (1876-1943)
* William Hofmann Sester +1930-1951+; +1958-1994+ (1904-1999) * Fred John Morgan +1933-1951+ (1894-1965) * Alvin Edward Klinski +1937-1944+ (1897-1977)
* John Ruskin Gill +1944-1955+ (1873-1962)
* Stanley Henry Midford +1949-1974 (1892-1974)
* Hector Morgan +1955-1983 (1899-1983)
* Elmo Francis Richards +1958-1977 (1893-1977)