Watch Tower History

Hicks was a resident of Union Mills, Indiana. He published for a few month a magazine entitled Voice of the Word. We have virtually no infor...

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One of our regular readers is seeking scans, photocopies or originals of the Italian Watchtower between 1903 and 1940. Contact me if you can...

by "Jerome" A name that occurs in many histories of the Watchtower Society (although omitted from the Proclaimers book) is H...

We believe there is a connection between an M. Joblin and the Russells and maybe Stetson and Storrs. I haven't been able to make it yet....

I appreciate that some of you may be curious about our personal details. Without meaning to be unkind, we do not intend to post them or answ...

First names for three early Watch Tower evangelists, Sisters Cox, Wier, and Harper, all active in Kentucky in the 1890s.

We need biographical information for the D. Widner mentioned in the April 1883 issue of Zion's Watch Tower. We need biographical infor...

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Any report, including notes by anyone attending, personal letters or any thing at all that describes the annual meeting of the Watch Tower S...

We need a clear recording of F. W. Franz's remarks on his personal history made the District Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1978. An...

We have not placed this material here for you to appropriate as your own without credit. Please credit us if you use what you find here. Als...

Our Wish List There are several major items that we would like to see. They’re all expensive or involve travel we can’t afford. 1. We wo...

J. A. Maynard: Russellism, 1928. Carlyle Boynton Haynes: Russellism: Or the Coming of a False Christ. No date. Joseph Kyle: Russellism: A ...

By "Jerome" In Bible Examiner (hereafter abbreviated to BE) for October 1877, page 6, the editor George Storrs made one of his...

This is raw material from what will be chapter six or seven. This chapter focuses on new congregations, new workers and the character of the...

We're nearing completion of a lengthy biography of George Storrs, focusing on his separation and conflict with Millerite Adventism, his ...

The May 23, 1844, Midnight Cry ? We need to see the full text of Miller's letter re Storrs found in that issue.

Walsh is credited with introducing the non-resurrection of the wicked dead doctrine to Storrs. Within the documentation we have (original, n...

Teachings of "millenial dawn" shown to be unscriptural : being a brief review of doctrines found in their own published works Auth...

Life and Advent Union             In 1863 Storrs and his associates formed the Life and Advent Union to promote the teaching that the wicke...

Note the Age to Come phrasing.

We sent a partially completed chapter off to Jan Stilson, a historian who writes about Arbrahamic Faith issues. The Abrahamic Faith congrega...

Jerome has written a well-researched article on the interplay between Adventists, Age to Come belief and Russell's place in the Age to C...

I've posted the first section of Chapter 2 of our work in progress. It defines the broad influences on Russell's theology, pointing ...

Walsh and Storrs associated for a period in the 1840s and 50s. A biography of Walsh is found here: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17021

Do we know the name of Rose Ball's father?

Some of your questions may be answered by the new post on the private blog.

by "Jerome" (Note: The article below was first published on the closed blog in June of last year. Since there has been some recent...