Watch Tower History

"Chicago Daily Tribune March 21 1881" Several people in America and all around the world expected the coming of Christ and...

From the December 16, 1910, Oceana Herald.

Can you add more? George Stubbs, Jr. was born April 18, 1855, in Fullarton, Ontario, into an English immigrant family. He was the sec...

Unless important, new information shows up in my inbox, we think this is 'final' in rough draft; Thanks to Jerome and Bernhard for c...

We need to identity T. B. Hewitt, an Ohio resident in 1901. He signed a memorial attendance report and is mentioned just the one time in The...

Comments are helpful; additional research would be stellar: New Castle, Pennsylvania             The New Castle congregation had ...

A firm identity for W. A. Wallace, once a phrenologist, and then for a while a Millennial Dawn Colporteur in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio....

We need help improving this. We need more detailed biography and a clearer identification of those mentioned here. We need to know if A. C. ...

We need the full name of a Dr. A. Lewis of New Castle, Pennsylvania. He lived there in the 1880s and 1890s. Update: Dr. Lewis is Andrew Le...

It is unlikely that we will use this material, but some of our blog readers may be interested. Paton published a book of poems by one of his...

Herewith is one of those mysteries we'd like to solve: A letter from an O. R. to Paton appears in the February 15, 1911, World's H...

Nsukka Journal of History Today at 2:05 AM To B. W. Schulz Message body   Dear Bruce, I am happy to inform you t...

The invitation only blog is a failed experiment. I am reopening this blog.

The private blog is up and running. The first post by Jerome is up. I'm still taking requests to read the blog.

Comments will close on April 19, 2017. I am willing to entertain requests for the private blog from those who did not comment on this blog...

I am reopening the private, invitation only blog. You must apply for access which is limited to those who have previously left comments on t...

This blog does not serve the purpose for which it was intended. The number of deleted and disallowed comments is increasing because som...

by Jerome One of the keys I’ve found for researching history is to try to be a good communicator. That may mean sending dozens of ex...

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When dealing with an abusive comment we think we may have marked more than one person's comments as 'spam.' If you try to post a...

One of our blog readers sent me this. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And I can say without too much of a smile that I've introduc...

We've asked before that readers not link to this blog through facebook. The message was clear, but apparently some still do not understa...

I despair of receiving analytical comments. But at Bruce's request, here it is with some additions and revisions. Usual rules. Ev...

With some English language assistance from Rachael:             The article of ZWT February 1881, entitled “Lay up for yourselves tre...