Watch Tower History

I think that it's time to post my Introductory Essay for volume 2. It is partial, incomplete, in rough draft, and a work in progress. It...

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I'm working on my intro essay for volume 2 of Separate Identity. An interview with a long-serving Witness elder has led me to this quest...

Comment now. Usual rules. You've seen bits of this before. Some new material. Evangelical Voice             Personal evangeli...

Mike C who has around 38 copies of Daily Heavenly Manna at last counting, kindly found me the signature of Malcom Rutherford, the only son ...

Do you know who wrote Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose? The author was Harry Peloyan, a member of the NY Bethel family and ...

Some time ago I wrote that we are open to well-researched articles considering Russell's newspaper sermons and the development of the Ru...

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I need biography beyond what appears in Watchtower publications. Anyone? Contact me directly at rm de vienne [at] yahoo [dot] com

I need scans of some opposition booklets published in the 1950s. Please share if you have them. Among those I need are: Oswald J. Smith: T...

(with grateful thanks to Bernhard)

C. R. Cutting, an evangelist, wrote an anti-Witness tract in the late 1950s claiming to have been one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I have th...

We have had several offers to translate our books into Italian, Spanish, French. They all lack a detailed proposal. Write up a detailed p...

It was interesting to see the marriage certificate for Nathan H’s parents. As to whether his father was Donal or Donald, most entries on ...

Jerome suggested that his father's name was Donald instead of the Donal as written by N. H. Knorr on an immigration document. Donal is t...

Because of the actions of someone using the State of Idaho IP address we will no longer post large segments of work in progress. I really w...

We need more information than we have. Donal Ellsworth Knorr [Alternate spelling is Elsworth] was born April 10, 1872. We do not know his ...

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I need Watchtower letters, printed, personal or anything else dated between 1940 and 1960 with an emphasis on the 1942-1953 period. Even if ...

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I'm still really sick. Be good. Do not stress me. Just do not. But comments are open again.

I am back in the hospital and expect to remain here for at least a week. Until I am discharged blog comments are turned off. The reason fo...

by Jerome William Morris Wright (1848-1906) was one of many Bible Students well-known in his day, but now largely forgotten by reade...

These books, though they vary between flawed and boring, give you background to Russell era beliefs. As always, read with your mind turned o...

Corrected Quotation Right now this is part of chapter one, vol. 2. Separate Identity. This may change. It may become a chapter of its own....

Some of you are interested in the antecedents and backgrounds to Russell's beliefs. These books will help you. That I'm listing them...

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Unrevised rough draft. Comments, please. And thanks to those who commented on the previous post.             I do not have space to fu...

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