Watch Tower History

 Help! I can read perhaps one word out of ten. Can you translate this? I've added four images. One is the entire document. The other thr...

Guest post by Gary      In 1967, scholar James Frederick Willis, a native of Heber Springs, Arkansas, described an event termed the ‘Clebu...

 From the April 29, 1902, Indianapolis, Indiana, Journal :

A letter found in the September 15, 1918, Watch Tower is signed J. W. W., England. Internally, the letter indicates he was an elder in the M...

This letter appeared in the September1, 1911, issue of Paton's magazine, The World's Hope.  Paton's followers met in Almont, Mic...

 For a future - hopefully not all that distant - project, I need a collection of all the articles no matter how insignificant published abou...

 

This was posted to something from 2015. No one will see it there, so I'm moving it here: Hamilton L. Gillis of Terra Alta wrote severa...

 I continue to work on Separate Identity, vol. 3. The research is much more difficult than it was for the first two volumes. Fortunately, an...

  Edmund Kohler from 1927 newspaper So who built the pyramid? No it wasn’t Djoser or Khufu or other ancient Egyptians. We are talking ...

 For another project:

 

Five of the original directors of Zion's Watch Tower Society as it existed in 1884. This is a composite picture put together by Bernhard...

  From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 22, 1914. According to the full story, the police stopped the showing of the Photodrama half way thr...

 I've run across this name. What is his connection to The Watch Tower? Anyone know?

 This sentence is attributed to Russell: "A man's sin in this life will be but an angel, a black angel perhaps, but an angel nevert...

One of the historical documents researchers have long wanted to see is the transcript of the Ross libel trial. The court copy disappeared de...