Watch Tower History

            Several blog readers have tried to help, sending us links and pointing to various sources. This is good. With the exception...

In January of this year the blog published a detailed article on Henry Weber, who had been a vice president of the Watch Tower Society. He ...

We've had several queries about the Russell divorce transcript. Its in the official record. You can obtain it from the court in Pittsbur...

by Jerome Gertrude Antonette Woodcock Seibert (sometimes spelled Antoinette) was born in 1864 and died in 1928. A Woodc...

Photo by kind permission of the author of the book Watchtower of Allegheny Historical Tour, copyright protected.

(The author is currently researching an article on Gertrude Seibert, the unofficial poetess of the Bible Student movement for many years. ...

We are still busy with the textbooks we agreed to write, but research continues. We now believe that Nelson Barbour had another wife, and th...

A good clear scan or photocopy of J. W. Brite: Eternity: On "The Plan of the Ages." Published by J. H Paton in 1891. There's a...

We are all influenced by our surroundings, and this short article is just to illustrate how Charles Taze Russell might have been influence...

by Jerome Charles G Buehler as pictured in the 1909 convention report Back in 2014 I wrote a series of articles on this blog on th...

by Jerome Photograph from the Fitchburg Sentinel, Mass, for April 22, 1891 What links the Scopes monkey trial of 1925, this blog’...