Watch Tower History

A recent comment on an earlier post asks for more information on the early work in Canada. The poster asks for a booklet. Sorry, I do not ha...

Holmes Wilber Deming was born August 11, 1852. He married Alice Lucinda Cooley on Janaury 8, 1898. His death was announced in the October 19...

H. W. Deming, 1939 Not Demming as one issue of Zion's Watch Tower says, but Deming. He was the first known Watch Tower recognized colpor...

The M. C. van Hook of Zion's Watch Tower appears to be the same as the man listed in the 1880 Census as living in Twin, Ohio. That place...

"Brothers Leigh, Demming and van Hook" are mentioned together as working in Ohio and N. Kentucky. Van Hook is also associated with...

A "brother Boyer" is mentioned in Zion's Watch Tower. In 1882 he was in Pittsburgh. He was a former temerance worker. Anyone k...

I need some help locating Pittsburgh newspapers on microfilm for the years 1877-1883. We're researching the publication of Food for Thin...

I'm seeking photographs of Calista B. Downing, Horace A. Randle and William Robert Fuller, the first Watch Tower missionaries in China. ...

Russell reproduced a chart showing world population broken down by religion. Here is the original.

Russell initially tried to place Millennial Dawn in bookstores. Here's an add from an Atlanta bookstore. The well known Bill Arp review ...

Our blog seems to have generated very limited interest and almost no discussion. Rachael deVienne and I are considering taking it down. If t...

Urgently in Favorable Season Russell and his associates reacted to Barbour’s assaults by seeking to persuade and unify the small groups that...