Watch Tower History

Hello my brother. Just a quick note to congratulate you and Rachael de Vienne on your amazing book "Organizational Identity Among Re...

To make writing volume 2 of Separate Identity worth while, we need to sell more books than we have. If you’ve read it and like it, tell ...

Copy cost is excessive: twenty dollars plus 80 cents. We won't buy this, but if any of you are interested, email me for the details. All...

The Editor’s Eastern Trip               In the June 1880 issue of Zion’s Watch Tower , Russell announced plans for a month-long sp...

Paton in his parlor   (This article first appeared on Blog 2 in January 2013)   A key platform of early Watch Tower theology wa...

Someone sent this to us. ... For their privacy, I'm not including their name ... but how nice. Bruce, Rachael . . . My copy of A ...

Can we connect Levi Allen to Elizabeth [Lizzie A.] Allen? or her father? Troy, New York, Daily Times August 25, 1895

There is quite a lot of detail in this photograph, which obviously shows the gravestone for Charles T Russell and nearby, the Pyramid ...

Showing cemetery manager, J Adam Bohnet, and the farmhouse that became the cemetery office.

We’re looking for examples, usually newspaper notices, of Paton visiting areas where there were also Watch Tower congregations. Our prim...

We need a volunteer (we have no money to pay you) who will make a youtube slide show featuring key points from our book and highlighting the...

Tell everyone you know about our book. Direct them to lulu.com. Tell them to search the title. If you post on other web sites, recomend ou...

We need to locate: The Christian Gleaner published in Rochester, NY by William H. Spencer in 1874. This was a very short-lived magazine. ...

Russell and other Watch Tower evangelists visited Newark, New Jersey, several times in the 1880s. I've looked everywhere I can think of ...

We appreciate your help. Some of you send us things. Occasionally it’s something we have, but often we’ve never seen it. Those who send ...

... to transcribe two newspaper articles.

So far there are three really nice reviews out there. Two are on lulu and one on a controversialist site. Here they are: Histories of ...