Watch Tower History

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...

  Horace A. Randle is mentioned in the Proclaimers book (page 418) and his story has been well told on the two history blogs. A medi...

Does anyone know if the UK based post card photographer H. A. Randall is Horace A. Randall?

This picture has already appeared on other related blogs, and shows John Paton’s Larger Hope Church in his home town of Almont. Pato...

  Paton’s Larger Hope Church (a former Advent Christian Church building) in his home town of Almont apparently closed before the end ...

We need to see a clear photocopy of J. W. Brite's Eternity: On the Plan of the Ages. This was published by Paton in 1891. A copy is at H...

  From an eight page tract published in London by Horace Randle in 1901. You can see his picture and read details of his accept...

The Wikipedia articles relevant to Jehovah’s Witnesses and related groups and personalities are incredibly inaccurate. We do not support t...

Today someone commented on a post from 2009. They claimed that Storrs baptized the Russells in 1874. Because the comment is now burried in t...

I have the date 1895 in my files for this, but without consulting the Boonville Advertiser cannot verify that. This is J F Rutherfo...

Much reprinted picture that is found in some editions of Great Battle in Ecclesiastical Heavens and also the Finished Mystery.

Russell lectured in London, Ontario, in 1908. The Essex, New York, Free Press of February 28, 1906, reported:

Letter from H. Randle, Missionary Doctor in China, resigning his appointment.

We don’t post key material or chapter extracts here anymore. Because of harassment from some who believe all research into this subject is...

  Here is a mystery from a 1928 convention report. The Messenger for July 31, 1928, spread across pages 4 and 5 - The Bethel family at...

 

  A 16 page program of the train tour from 1913. The booklet lists all the places scheduled for meetings and gives some handy hi...

by "Jerome" PREFACE There are three posts on this subject which I have published in reverse order – simply so that reader...

Transcript of debate in the Northern Ensign for March 3, 1896 THE “MILLENNIAL DAWN” CONTOVERSY – DEBATE BETWEEN MR HOUSTON AND TH...