Watch Tower History

The good news is that Separate Identity, vol 2 is still on track for a March 2020 release. The Bad News is that it will cost about $40.00 ...

I need a volunteer to transcribe some older letters, mostly by J. F. Rutherford. Many of the scans and images I have are not suitable to rep...

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Rufus was Jonas' nephew. Some of you may be interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Life-of-Christ-Farrar-1875-First-American-Edition-Fin...

I need scans of Watchtower letters from 1950-1980.

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If our readers do not find this blog interesting enough to prompt a comment, I cannot see adding additional content until there is something...

https://ia800209.us.archive.org/16/items/TheGoldenLink/1891-The-Golden-Link.pdf

I've put out a call for things like this before with little success, but I'm repeating it anyway. I need opposition material, magazi...

Bruce is alive and well and sharing atrocious jokes on twitter...

In July 1918 Malcolm Rutherford wrote a long letter to his father, Joseph F Rutherford, who was then incarcerated in Atlanta Federal Penite...

(reprinted) Those who love the Photodrama of Creation will recognize these frames from the end of the sequence on the flood, with ...

I'll be away from my blog until Tuesday, December 3, 2019. If you email me, expect a delay before I can answer.

This is a brief tale of a search that in some ways led to disappointment. Being based in the UK I was asked if I could find the last restin...

This first appeared in the 1948 song book.

I need examples of Catholic opposition to Russell 1916 and before. Anyone?

I will appreciate thoughtful comments on this. A Townman’s Teaching.             Editor Advertiser: In complying with a request for ...

There are many anti-Russell tracts and booklets in British libraries to which I have no access. My research will benefit from copies. Can y...

I need what biographical information there is on a G. Andrae, a physician living in Steglitz, a Borough of Berlin in the 1920s.

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Not about the era we consider on this blog but interesting. I do not have permission to reproduce it, so I give it to you through a link: ...

(reprinted) The above contact card was for Mrs M A Boder. Mary Ann Dunbar (1860-1948) was from Scots-Irish background and married ...

Republished from elsewhere with permission. Trivia perhaps, but fun. I understand that Bruce is carrying on further research on Isabel, so ...

While in St. Louis Jones was employed by Arthur R. Jones & Co. I suspect a family relationship. Jones & Co. were seen as disreputabl...

(rewritten and revised from a few years back - for those who enjoy the trivia as well as the scholarly stuff) Albert Delmont Jones (...

In 1884 Jones, newly wealthy, founded a charity called Day Star Universal Relief Fund. I have insufficient documentation. If you can find ...

Blog readers will get out of this blog what they put into it. Lack of comments means fewer blog posts. If you do not provide us with reason ...

Albert Royal Delmont Jones' soon to be second ex-wife went on the stage in 1903. So did his third ex-wife in 1922. It was...

Some of our regular readers know that Rachael wrote a YA novel some years ago. Two or three of you read it. It's not at all related to o...

I can trace him to NYC in 1877 and believe he was there maybe as early as 1876 or even 1875, but cannot prove that. I do not have time to fo...

A visitor to the grave of Joseph Lytle Russell in the Allegheny Cemetery. From Watch Tower of Allegheny Historical Tour book by James...

I sent this email to "Jerome," but anyone can help. I wish Ton was still alive. He'd untangle this ... But, alas, he is not .....

by Jerome Interest in the bad boy of Watch Tower history “Albert Delmont Jones” caused me to have a look again at newspaper accounts of h...

I cannot read all of this. Can you?

This is from the Cincinnati, Ohio, Catholic Telegraph of Nov 24, 1881. The image is poor. I can't read it. Can you. A clear transcriptio...

As it stands now, almost finished, it has 597 pages. There are 149 illustrations, including many photographs that haven't seen the light...

From The Guardian [London, England] June 10, 1882: Zion's Day Star, a journal published at New York in the interests of the Millenni...

This appeared in the Christadelphia Advocate of January 1889 in response to an argument over the proper name for believers. [Depending on yo...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1800-BENJAMIN-FARNHAM-Dissertation-on-the-PROPHECIES-Revelations-MILLENNIALISM-/282729421444 Way too expensive fo...

For COMMENT. Usual rules. You may take a copy for yourself. Rough drafts will change. Never rely on a rough draft. Not ready for proof readi...

I owe several answers to their emails. Be patient, please. I'm experiencing work overload. Do we know if P. S. L. Johnson's privat...

(reprinted) by Jerome Allegheny cemetery entrance (for the Russell family plot) Plan of graves in the Russell family pl...