Watch Tower History

by "Jerome" (a slight revision of an article first published on Blog 2 in May 2011) A Church of God General Conference hist...

the gentleman from Colorado would stay off this blog and my personal blog, I should be much obliged.

  Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1904

We make a surprising amount of progress by solving little mysteries. We don't solve them all, of course. But when we do, we're often...

A really good photography of Co-operative Hall at 14 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

We need a volunteer to transcribe the Herald of the Morning atonement articles from 1878 into a Word or WordPerfect document. Anyone? This...

We get many visitors, but few leave comments. Some feedback would be nice, even if it is something like, "I read your post. I really [l...

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Work on the last chapter of volume one continues. We face several challenges, the most important of which is making obscure theological argu...

From the very last page of the very last issue of John H Paton’s World’s Hope, Volume 34, number 16, August 15, 1916. If he had on...

tracing down a G. Wood, resident in St. Maur, France, in the late 1870s. Full name would be great, occupation is important, anything at all ...

Any historical docmentation for the Springfield and Alton Bay Second Adventist conferences in 1878. Newspaper articles would be good. Photos...

A Watch Tower evangelist was in Buffalo, New York, in September 1886. Can you help us put a name to these advertisements?

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...