Watch Tower History

A letter from Ongley appears in the April 1874 issue of Bible Examiner. It shows him to be sharing a ministry with C. F. Sweet. Sweet in tur...

George D. Clowes is a mystery. It took two days to come up with his first name and middle initial. Clowes was a disfellowshipped by the Meth...

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It's out: It's a limited interest academic book, hence this form of publication. If it sells well enough to warrant it, it will go o...

One of those who attended the Wrochester Conference in 1872.

The pdf file of the Jan 1874 Midnight Cry and Herald of the Morning cost us about thirty dollars. We have a limited budget. Next on our list...

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Camp near Harrison Landing ...

In the comments there is a question about J. T. Ongley. He's a mystery. Here'sall I have: I don’t know much about J. T. Ongley. He w...

Barker was a dentist from Meriden, Connecticut. He published The Watchman's Cry, the principal voice of the 1873 movement. He compiled H...

This page draws many visitors. Be aware that is out of date and that more complete information is found in Volume 1 of Separate Identity. Pu...

From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 22, 1873

Used With Permission of Miss Downing's Family

5. In All the Earth The United Kingdom was the target of the first concentrated international missionary activity. It is impossi...