Watch Tower History

... but I'd like to limit the topics to events before 1918. If you choose to submit something, you should be aware of the following: ...

We need to determine if the "sister" "M. Thompson" baptized in 1887 (see ZWT May 1887) was Mrs. Mark Thompson of Newark,...

from Jerome It may or may not help with identification, but below is another shot of the platform with J F Rutherford standing. The previ...

...the Golden Age and New Era Enterprise for details of the convention, but alas, no clues as to the people on the speaker's stand for t...

I'm posting this for one of our blog readers. He would like to identify people appearing in this panoramic photo of the Cedar Point conv...

Samuel T. Tackabury Samuel T. Tackabury was born in New York, April 12, 1832, to Irish immigrant parents. He entered the work in Ma...

A state archive holds a letter written by S. T. Tackabury. We're arranging to get a scan, but have low expectations for the letter. A ...

by Jerome The 1922 Cedar Point, Ohio, convention of the IBSA is a remembered historical event for several reasons. But a little known ...

The Importance of Being Ernest             The 1973 Yearbook relates an event in 1910 when Pastor Russell visited the town of Otle...

by Jerome For some time I have been working my way through a visual search of the St Paul Enterprise newspaper (later named the New Era ...

We can attach this ad to Rogers through his letter to Russell: Grand Rapids, Mich. DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:--I will tell you briefl...