Watch Tower History

Most will be familiar with this picture of the first convention away from Pittsburgh, taken in Chicago in 1893. The picture comes from the ...

Jewell's poems were also published on postcards and in a book and at least two booklets.

The photographs that accompany this article may be somewhat disappointing if you were perhaps expecting the lost sarcophagus of Cheops...

New York City. DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:--   I have been working in Mount Vernon during the past week: sold 160 DAWNS--making ab...

One of the problems of writing articles about historic sites from a distance is that you have to rely on photographic evidence, or ...

Notice in The Pennsylvania School Journal October 1870

  Maria Russell was admited in 1864 with the class starting in the 1864-1865 school year.

If you’re so inclined, we have several areas of real need. We need help finding some things, and for others we do not have funds to purs...

I don't have permission to publish this with the writer's name, but the content made me happy so I'm sharing it with you: I...

This is the original filing for United Cemeteries, or an extract of it showing the original trustees. Our friend asks if it were possible ...

Thanks to a friend of this research, we've located the original organizing doucments for the United Cemeteries. We are in the process of...

September 2, 1889 W. T. Bown , sworn             I live in 32 nd Ward, Pittsburgh, Pa (Mount Washington) 67 years of age last Ja...

June 2, 1890 Delmont Jones affirmed:               I am about 58 years old; live in Mount Washington , 32 nd Ward, Pittsbu...

We seldom become personal on this blog. I have a for fun blog where I do that, but none of us does that here. This is an exception. Bruce ...

From the Pittsburgh Press for July 29, 1921. When the Pittsburgh Press for July 29, 1921, carried this brief news story from Chicag...

Part of a longer article, none of which is relevant to this history: An Advent Camp Meeting             This is the season of camp ...

This was William Conley's place. Like the Russells' Cedar Avenue properties, it is also unoccupied at present, and the current o...

Remember the clipping from the Buffalo newspaper a few posts back? Further research shows the speaker to have been John B. Adamson. His vi...

  These two properties are currently for sale. The owners will turn them into whatever you want for a price tag of over $400,000 per...

Much of our research outside Watch Tower publications starts with an educated guess. The newspaper clipping below is an example Click I...

            I understand that those who visit our blog arrive here with differing viewpoints and experiences – and with differing views o...

Mentioned in reprints page 541. We need help identifying him. He might be Robert R. Cossars an immigrant from Canada, later resident in Niag...

The section about interested clergy will move to an earlier chapter. It does not fit well here, but it does elsewhere. That chatper exists ...

It was song 4 in Songs of the Bride, and it appears in Watch Tower songbooks until 1928

This is very rough draft. Some of it will change dramatically I think. But this is where we are now. Just remember this is very rough draft ...

We get about 100 visits a day. It seems to me that out of that 100 visits, at least one helpful comment would show up. If you have a comment...

I'm posting this at Mr. Schulz' request. He is eternally hopeful that additional helpful thoughts might be forthcoming. If you have ...