Watch Tower History

            I appreciate the kind words of support and the helpful comments. So does Mr. Schulz, who, while somewhat restricted because...

We left up a post from 2009 for its research value to others but with a note saying it was dated and to rely instead on the contents of Sepa...

I've split the chapter Out of Babylon in two. I've turned the section on adherent clergy into its own chapter. Not far enough along ...

Update: I think this is probably the same writer as G. A. Rose, whose letter appears in the July 1883, Watch Tower. Sadly there are so many ...

This material is a slight abridgment of material that originally appeared on Blog 2. It was originally written nearly 25 years ago, as t...

We need to establish the identity of a J. W. B. from Pierce City, Missouri. He was resident there in the 1880s, and he was Sunday (Sabbath)...

I post our work here so you can see where our research is heading and to allow blog readers to give us feedback. It is frustrating when I po...

I have a brain like a sieve. Back in the day - when I was researching my master's thesis - I found a statement telling how many former c...

While turning pages in one of our research folders I ran across a post card sent by a C. A. Russell of Marion, Ohio to the Lawrence Manthey ...

I'm not formatting this; take it as is. I'm posting this for some sort of feedback. This is only an extract. It will be rewritten. I...

            ...but alas, I don't have these covers on mine...

A little outside the usual era covered by this blog, but interesting nonetheless.

An opposition writer made this claim: He cites no source. We need the exact source. Can you find it?

Out of Babylon             There is almost no record of the internal structure of the earliest congregations or of the nature of th...

This letter appeared in the June 1886 issue of Zion's Watch Tower. I need help identifying the writer. California, June 3, 1886. ...