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From at least 1889-1933, this was a TW exclusive assembly. In 1890, it met in a home, and the attendance was 17, as per the U.S. Religious Census. From 1894-1908, it met in an "old stone school house", five miles southeast of Chapman. By 1933, the assembly was not meeting as such, but Walter Lawrence remained in fellowship in residency.
=Locations=
* home meeting +1890+
* "old stone school house" 5 mi. SE of Chapman, KS +1894-1908+
* home of Watson A. Cleveland +1911+
=Meeting Times=
* 1894-1896: Sun Breaking of Bread 10:00am; Thu Prayer and/or Reading Meeting 2:30pm
* 1908: Sun BoB 10:30am, no midweek meeting.
=Misc.=
In the July 1955 issue of the (tight) open brethren magazine ''Words in Season'', it was reported in the ministry news section that Allen Clark Ferguson (1899-1990) had been in Seattle, [[Washington]] doing evangelistic outreach in the Greenwood district, trying to "reach many homes", likely in conjunction with [[Clearview Gospel Hall, WA|Clearview Gospel Hall]], then located in Seattle proper and known as West Woodlands Gospel Hall.
Allen was born in 1899 in Chapman to Clayton James Ferguson (b. 1874 Longford, KS - 1933 Yuma, [[Arizona|AZ]]) & Harriett "Hattie" Pierce Arnold Ferguson (b. 1865 Manchester, Ontario, [[New York]] - d. 1955 Los Angeles, CA). Longford is only 34 miles from Chapman. In the 1950's, Allen was a full-time itinerant preacher among the opens but his daughter Eileen Margaret Ferguson married Dr. George William Groth, son of Dr. George William Groth Sr. of Sierra Madre, [[California]] in 1948, where there was a longstanding TW assembly, which might suggest that Allen was TW for awhile while growing up. He also resided awhile in Monrovia and Arcadia, [[California]] where he may have been in fellowship at some point with [[Monrovia Gospel Hall, CA|Monrovia Gospel Hall]], a tight open meeting in the Los Angeles area.
=Sources=
* 1894-1933 EB AAB's
* Ancestry.com