Watch Tower History

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Tavender associated with Russell from 1878 to his death in the 1890s. He finds some mention in Zion's Watch Tower, but because it is onl...

This chapter is about 20 percent done. I'm presenting it as is for comments and thoughts. This post deleted.

I am trying to contact the party who purchased this letter by J. C. Sunderlin to his wife via Live Autioneers. Anyone able to help?

Review from Atlantic Monthly, March 1888 (capitalization retained) Millennial Dawn, vol. i.; the Plan of the Ages. (Zion’s Watch Tower, Pitt...

This image is courtesy of C. Gross who ownes the original. It's a advertisement for Zion's Day Star that Jones pasted into the insid...

I've posted photos of books and booklets before. This time I thought I'd show you another kind of documentation. This is a photo of ...

I no longer need von Zech's Erklarung, Supplement to Zion's Watch Tower, December 1885 , thanks to a very nice sister who mailed me ...

Albert Delmont Jones Albert Delmont Jones [i] is the most frustrating to research of all of the principal contributors to Zion’...

John Corbin Sunderlin He was born June 20, 1835, at Fort Ann, New York. His original name was John Corbin Vorce, but his mother ...

John Corbin Sunderlin died in Blairstown, New Jersey, April 23, 1911. His death date notice is in The New York Times, April 26, 1911. Does a...

Rough draft Chapter 5A. Cite as B. W. Schulz and R. M. de Vienne: Development of Eccesia Among Readers of Zion's Watch Tower: 1879-1887,...

I am researching the fragmentation that occurred among Watch Tower readers in the 1880s. William Conley is one of the people who will find a...

I get repeated "hits" from someone searching for a photo of William Brookman. The photo is in the earlier posts section. As far as...

Rachael de Vienne and I have written an article about Nelson Barbour. It appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Journal From the Radical Reform...

I urgently need a clear photocopy of: F. W. Grant: "Food for Thinking Christians:" A Review of a Tract So Called, no date but c. 1...

One occasionally sees his name printed as Nelson Homer Barbour. This is wrong. The British patent for his steam generating machine gives his...

Orion Green was one of the delegates to the Worchester Prophetic Conference in 1872. The conference examined confilicting chronological view...

I'm getting may referrals from Wickipedia for material on Nelson Barbour. His biography is found in the Older Posts section. There is a ...

I need help locating volumes 3 and 5 of Paton's magazine The World's Hope.

Continuous Sermon When announcing one of his early speaking tours, Russell wrote: “By the above, it will be seen that the stay at each place...

A Chicago newspaper ran the following on August 18, 1881. The article does not explain what the distubance actually was. Anyone in New Jerse...