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==Kosin family==
Wesley left Presby because the Northern Presby rejected the Virgin Birth, and joined the IFCA, and pastored the Bensenville Bible Church, then in the army, and the mom moved them to 321 E. Union, Wheaton. Then he became Clearing Bible Church near Midway Airport, where he would walk Sunday afternoons with his family. Left Clearing when Fred was a young teenager and trusted the Lord (at Clearing which became a real estate office... PGM... train downtown Wheaton east and the 2nd stop was a couple blocks from BC, and Don Taylor would get on the train to PGM, and met Wes, and was sitting next to the window reading his Bible and Don sat next to him, and they began talking about the Lord, and Don invited him to attend Bethany, and excited about assembly principles around 1951. in 1942. was assistant super. with Harry Soldeneir (super.) at Pacific Garden Mission, then was concerned for Cook County Jail as it did not have any Protestant chaplains (only Catholic & Jewish), and was commended by Bethany to that. He would read the arrest reports and find inmates to visit, and eventually the warden offered him a chaplaincy at Cook County Jail cabinet in another office, and then offered his own office. in 1953, then to the Shoshone Indians of Wyoming in 1959 where he and Gladys did translation work. In 1980, they relocated to [[South Carolina]] for his wife's health reasons. Wesley placed Scriptures on highway billboards, newspapers and in the yellow pages of phone books, and had a 15 minute radio program.
* Wesley Louis Kosin '''1951-1959''' (b. 1909 Chi., IL - d. 1995 Hayward, Alameda, [[California|CA]]), son of Carl Hermann Friedrich [Charles Frederick Herman] Kosin (1882-1935 Chi., IL) & Mabelle "Mabel" Burrow Kosin-Flight (b. 1886 Eng.; emig. 1888-1889; m. 1906 Chi., IL; d. 1940 Chi., IL). Mabel was a daughter of Louis Burrow (b. 1851 Hucklan, Devon, Eng. - d. 1893 Forest Park, Cook, IL) & Elizabeth Ann Rolls Burrow-Jones (b. 1860 Binegar, Somerset, Eng. - d. 1936 Chi., IL). Louis was employed in 1881 in Faversham, Kent. Eng. as a carpenter. Elizabeth Rolls Burrow-Jones' father's name was Charles Rolls, but no definite relation to the open brethren author Charles Jubilee Rolls, grandson of the co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Charles' parents were involved in 1909 with [https://hueninkwrites.medium.com/chicago-lutheran-history-first-st-john-lutheran-church-8fea67eb493d First Saint John Lutheran (started 1863), his dad Carl was an insurance agent in 1910. Wesley had two sisters including one step: Bessie Bertha Kosin Schneider (1907-1999 Chi., IL) & Dorothy Mildred Flight White (b. 1913 Chi., IL - d. 1976 Riverside, CA)
