Watch Tower History

We need to know if he shows up in The Watch Tower in the 1920s and 1930s. Anyone help?

William E. Richards             W. E. Richards was born in Illinois in May 1861 and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church as a yout...

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St Paul Enterprise, 1917

The Lady Canvasser             A notice appeared in the Monongahela, Pennsylvania, Daily Republican of May 7, 1887, saying that, “T...

Minor progress on this man: Fred W. Marting (b. 1853) received a copy of Food for Thinking Christians in the fall of 1881 and began ci...

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Captain John Riley Phillips, born August 24, 1839, near Meadowville, son of James and Osa (Johnson) Phillips, grandson of Jacob Phillips,...

Here's an excerpt from a new chapter. This is not making me happy. Not at all. We need to identify these people. If you want to help, th...

After talking it out with Mr. Schulz, we think the lawyer mentioned in a previous post was Adam C. Bowman of West Virginia, a lawyer in coal...

From the Pittsburgh Press in 1917. Maria’s older sister was a keen supporter of ZWT theology for a number of years, although you woul...

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...from all this serious research... A sad tale noted in the Bible Students' newspaper, the St Paul Enterprise, involving Miracle Whea...

"Brothers Van der Ahe, Cain, Grable, Hughes, and Sisters Raynor and Vogel and others are doing remarkably well, and we trust that befor...

A lawyer's letter appears in the November 1885 Watch Tower. He tells of his ministry while in Chicago to try a case. There is no name. C...

We need to identify the person named in this brief statement found in Zion's Watch Tower: The Chicago friends will be glad to kno...

Do any of you have a subscription to http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ? If so, will you search it for us?

H. L. Gillis of West Virginia started associating in 1885. We need a full biography. Can you help?

Dissension was not uncommon. It arose on several grounds. Those with similar, but ultimately opposition views attended Watch Tower meet...