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==Cheshire County==
===Jaffrey===
* East Jaffrey gospel work (OB) 1938-1939
** 1938-12 LaL: "Hugh Thorpe had a week of gospel meetings in a hall in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire. This is a pioneer effort. As the result of a few meetings last summer, a husband and wife professed salvation. Three others who profess to have been saved years ago are not content with the "systems". To our knowledge this state is without an "assembly" as we know them. Pray for this work."
*** Hugh Thorpe evangelized (with Joe Pearson) in Crapaud, [[Prince Edward Island]] in 1932 which, followed by Russell Harris, John Spreeman, Herb Harris & Albert Joyce, resulted in the first assembly being planted there in 1934. Thorpe also ministered in 1922 in [[Barbados]], and Port Howe, [[Nova Scotia]].
===Keene===
* [[Keene Gospel Hall, NH]] (OB) +1922+
** @ 20th & Dickerson (Dickinson?) Sts., Downtown ** c/o Dr. Albert Atherton Taft +1922+ (b. 1867 Hancock, Hillsborough, NH - d. 1946 West Swanzey, Cheshire, NH), son of Dr. Albert Hamilton Taft (b. 1837 Nelson, Cheshire, NH - d. 1906 Winthrop, Suffolk, NH) & Mary Louette Atherton Taft (1845-1924 Winchester, Cheshire, NH). Wife: Ermine "Minnie" Mercier Taft (b. 1879 Springfield, Hampden, [[Massachusetts|MA]] - d. 1939 Keene, NH), the youngest of 17 children of Edward Mercier (b. 1830 Saint-Roch-des-Aulnais, [[Quebec|QC]] - d. 1908 Springfield, MA) & Lucie Archambault Mercier (b. 1834 St. Jude, St. Hyacinthe, QC - d. 1911 Springfield, MA). Dr. & Mrs. Taft had no children of their own.
The Taft family emigrated from London, England & Louth, Ireland to the U.S., arriving in Braintree (now Greater Boston), MA in 1667. With regard to relation to the 27th President of the U.S., William Howard Taft (1857-1930), Albert's g5-grandfather Robert II (1674-1748) & Pres. Taft's g3-grandfather Joseph (1680-1747) were brothers, sons of Robert Taft (b. 1640 Leinster, Louth, Ireland - d. 1724 Mendon, Worcester, MA).
Albert's parents moved to Winchester by 1880 where Albert Sr. established a medical practice. Albert grad Winchester High & Dartmouth, interned a year at the [https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/ Mary Hitchcock] hospital, then in Hanover. He also spent a year at the [https://www.carneyhospital.org/ Carney] and [https://www.semc.org/ St. Elizabeth] hospitals in Boston. Subsequently he served as medical superintendent at [https://www.workhouses.org.uk/US-MA-Boston/#google_vignette Long Island & Deer Island] hospitals for poor Irish immigrants. About 1906, Dr. Taft settled in Keene where he established a private practice where he remained until retiring in the late 1930's, and living with relatives until his death.
* [[Keene Meeting Room, NH]] (TW-EB) +1962+
** c/o Omer Henri Vadnais (b. 1905 L'Ange Gardiene, Rouville, QC - d. 1997 Westmoreland, Cheshire, NH), son of Polydore Vadnais (1863-1953) & Celina Coiteux Vadnais (1888-1946).
Omer emigrated to the U.S. in 1947, and later to Keene (from Weare, NH) in 1955 where he was employed under MacMillin Construction as its superintendent, retiring in 1975. Likely in fellowship with the assembly in Boston while residing in Weare. Omer was converted to Christ, with his wife, Adele Nadeau Vadnais (b. 1901 Saint-Ann, Berlin, NH - d. 1960 Keene, NH) from Roman Catholicism somewhere after 1927 when they had a Catholic wedding in Hampden, MA, and by 1931 they were residing in Verdun, QC both affiliated (census-wise) with the PB, presumably in fellowship at Natural History Hall in Montreal, although there was also an open meeting in Verdun by 1936 (and perhaps as early as 1931) so there is that too. One of their children was Valerie A. Vadnais Jangro (b. 1935 Montreal, QC - d. 2009 Jessup, MD), active with the Evangelical Free.
==Rockingham County==