Watch Tower History

Signs in the Heavens             Pretend and real heavenly events panicked those who looked for signs in the sun, moon and stars. On Se...

We started a new chapter. Mostly it's just notes, but some of it exists in rough draft. This chapter focuses on their expectations for 1...

5.0 out of 5 stars THE FIRST IN-DEPTH HISTORY OF THE ORGINS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES , June 4, 2014 By E. Jones    V...

We think a man named William Carlton Irish was associated with Barbour and and maybe Russell. Can we you find his name in Herald of the Morn...

An update to our current research is on the private blog. If you subscribe to it, you may want to visit the blog and read what will be chapt...

Separate Identity, vol 1 is now on B&N and Amazon. But we'd appreciate it if you buy it from lulu. We fund our research from the sal...

We need a list of Watch Tower congregations formed before 1900. Anyone?

Taken from a family history web page             John Newton Fox was born June 4, 1839 , according to his death certificate or...

One of the already completed chapters for volume 2 is entitled Advertising the Message. We discuss a special edition of Plan of the Ages pub...

Visitors to the United Cemeteries (chartered originally as Rosemont, Mount Hope and Evergreen United Cemeteries in 1905) will usually ...

We need to identify the author of this poem which appeard in Zion's Watch Tower in the 1880s.   I searched through the 1881-81 (t...

We are unable to pay for these. Total cost is $49.00.

            We need solid biographical information for John Judkins Jones, a physician in Indiana in the 1880s. Anyone?            D...

"Ton," who you know from this blog and who contributed endlessly to our project has died. We are profoundly sad. We wish his famil...

Quoted by Russell in the September 1880 issue of Zion's Watch Tower

Communion             The timing and nature of the Lord’s Evening Meal became an issue between the annual celebrations of 1880 and 1881...

I posted rough draft material from what will be (unless the outline changes) chapter two in the next volume. Here's a bit of update. Thi...

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He is sometimes noted as R. W. in Zion's Watch Tower. We need a full biography. We think he was born about 1830. He seems to have died b...

            One definition of intelligence is the ability to make connections. Someone with a higher level of intelligence makes them in...

The previous post isn't about this blog, but the private, invitation only blog. We have no plans to shut this one down. The private blo...

Has anyone read the post on the private blog? Seems to me that it's worth at least one comment. Bruce and I expend a considerable amo...

W. F Carson, whose letter to Russell is in reprints page 245.

We need additional information about these two individuals: Amon Hipsher and Lorenzo Jackson Baldwin   Amon Hipsher was a reside...

I posted an update to our current research. If you have access to the closed blog you may want to go there now. Rachael

We also need the full name of the person noted in Zion's Watch Tower in January 1880 only as V. N. J. from Springfield, Massachsetts.

I know this is asking the impossible, or the nearly impossible. We need to answer the following questions: What was William I. Mann d...

This is an update of sorts. Separate Identity continues to sell though slowly. If you read it and liked it, you can help by leaving a re...

Russell spoke here in 1877 and in the 1880s.

The Restitution's readers had a lively congregation in Plymouth. Most of Cole's audience would have come from that group.

Hotel Arrivals

An archive of Isaac Hoskins' papers are on ebay. We can't afford this. If you bid on it and win, would you make copies for us?

Thanks to Ton!             We have received No. 1 Vol. 1 of a paper published in New York called, Zion’s Day Star, edited by A. D. Jo...