Watch Tower History

We have one chapter and a bunch of edits to go before volume one of our next book is released. (for those who don't know or have forgot...

I usually post articles like this on my personal blog, but this one will go here. I’m smooshing [yes I know that’s not a standard English ...

1. Any and all of the semi-monthly issues of Herald of the Morning except the June 15, 1877, issue. We especially need the issues for April...

This is what we have. Can you add detail. ...? A. H. Macmillan reported a later claim made by “Pittsburgh newspapers” that Russell “wa...

newspaper article mentioned by A. H. Macmillan that claimed that Russell and his associates were on the sixth street bridge on passover day ...

Several have presumed that the Watch Tower Society some how supports this project or that they feed us information. This is our own personal...

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From the Adair County News (Columbia, KY) August 5, 1909

I have an hour or so before I go teach my one class of the day. I’m using it to organize the mass of photocopies we received. There are ma...

of all the newspaper articles ... I found bunches of them that are new to  us. Some of these answer questions we've had and some are jus...

We need some basic biography for Mr. Williams ....

In early to mid 1888 Blunden was arrested in Harrisburg, PA, for handing out tracts in from of a Methodist church. We would like to see orig...

We posted a chapter on early Watch Tower finances. It profiles some of the first directors and discusses early donnors and such. We need t...

      In 1912, J J Ross, a Baptist clergyman in Canada, published a booklet “Some Facts about the Self Styled Pastor Russell.” I...

These sample pages will give you an idea of what to expect, at least in apperance, and some idea of content. We don't have a release d...

These are from chapter 7 of the new book.

Mr. Schulz made this list for someone else. I think it may be interesting to you too. It's a short description of the chapters to be fou...

We’re close to the break point for what would be volume one of our next book. When chapter eight is finished and we do a thorough re-wri...

We haven’t had to restate "the rules" for some time. And I suppose that’s not exactly what I’m doing now. We post minor bits of ou...

My answer to a recent email: I forwarded your email to Mr. Schulz. The information on our public blog about William Imre Mann is old rese...

We need the first name of Mrs. Bell, the wife of Rev. William Bell, head master of Dover College, Dover, Kent, England, in the 1880s.

One of those who read our history blogs needs a really clear, color scan of the 1931 Convention Program. Anyone? that was quick! thanks

We need solid biographical information about Joseph Dunn, apparently a clergyman, living in Hague, New York, in 1901. Anyone?

A convention photograph with some familiar faces. The front row is A H MacMillan, J F Rutherford, C T Russell, E W Brenneisen, F F Cook ...

John A Bohnet was a well-known name in Watch Tower history. Donator of Miracle Wheat, manager of the cemetery where CTR was buried, he ...

... wherein I interview B. W. Schulz, pretty much against his will ... Enjoy it while it lasts. -Rachael An Interview R: So, you’re r...