Watch Tower History

 

Please read post “Update to the Update” below this one.     Below is a “new” photograph of the Allegheny Bible House family from 1907.  ...

 Issues with my health are slowly being resolved. Some time this month I will be in Spokane for a procedure they cannot do here. This is dia...

  Please read post "Update" below this one. Images in this post from Tom, with grateful thanks.

  Hi everyone, Please help me keep this blog alive through your contributions. I was diagnosed with cancer today. No decision on treatment y...

(With grateful thanks to Bernhard who originally provided key information for this article and Lyn Millner of the Florida Gulf Coast Univers...

 Adams mentioned Russell in one of the 1907 issues of Spirit of the Word. I do not have and cannot locate any of those issue. Can you? I nee...

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 Charles D. Rice, born in Auburn, New York, April 1859. Living in Hartford, Connecticut in 1903. He was married to Anna, maiden name unknown...

 I  need biographies for these individuals: Carrie Ingersol of Beverly, Massachusetts, was born about 1848. The 1880 census notes her as sin...

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 I have a short list of people who become important to vol 3 at least in a minor way. I know almost nothing about them. Can you help? First ...

 Because Bible Harmony was based on two previous works, Adams labeled this as the second edition. In fact, it was not. He adopted the same c...

 

 I have several pages of notes in shorthand from 1910. Can you translate this for me?

I am thankful for the documents and monetary help I receive. What I need is a persistent and adept gang of researchers, questers. Here is a ...

 If you can add even the smallest detail, please do so.  Separates from Barbour               First issue of Spirit of the Word [continu...

 I need to know what business or residents were at 67 Schermerhorn Street, New York City in 1890.

 I need basic biography - more if you can find it - for these people. They adhered to Adams' later theology.

 Sent by Raymond, to whom we owe considerable thanks. The Connecticut Western News, February 3, 1898 Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch Her auto...

  Because of slowed income - Covid issues - I'm very low on research funds. I have located some A. P. Adams material I cannot otherwise ...

 There is an article in the June 9, 1905 Boston Globe about Adams and his followers. I do not have access to this paper. Do you? Will you pl...

 For comment or suggestions.             A guide to Beverly, Massachusetts, described it as “a little religious society in Beverly that has ...

 I'm posting this unedited selection for comments, and with the hope that it will prompt blog readers to find more about these people. R...