Watch Tower History

UPDATED I'm reluctant to point my readers to poorly researched, often opposition, web sites. Yet, the most pointed complaint form academ...

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Last May was this blog's seventeenth anniversary. It has, I believe, become a valuable resource for historians and the merely curious. W...

Our thanks to Bernhard for his hard work. He rescued this from the previously posted group photo, a truly significant contribution to preser...

 Library of Congress files:

 Anyone have the talent or equipment to clean this photo? [Click on image to see it entire.]

 A. D. Jones using a pseudonym. A major life-crash. 

 This is in very rough draft, the introductory matter to chapter three, Separate Identity, vol. 3. This post will come down within the week...

            The discovery of the undertaker’s bill for Pastor Russell was behind a recent article on Josiah Bushy Kepner. This covered what ...

      The Watch Tower Society owned a cemetery for a number of years in the latter days of CTR. Originally purchased in 1905 it covered arou...

     CTR and the Bible Student movement used every modern means available to spread the word. One of the lesser known and lesser successfu...

  The Jersey City News , October 29, 1898, Final Edition.

  The New York Post  of December 27, 1896, mentions Jones' "yacht." I believe but cannot prove with irrefutable certainty that...

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       At its start, photo journalism was a costly business involving wood engravings to reproduce the layers of a photograph for printing. ...

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 In 1883 Albert and Carrie Jones were living at 62 1/2 Columbia in Newark. This was an apartment in a four story boarding house. Can you fin...

  The Jane Crossley Affair               Jane Crossley was the widow of John W. Crossley, a well-known carpet manufacturer and merchant. [...

  L. W. Frost [1844-1891] was a trustee of the Delmont Kaolin Company, one of A. D. Jones' schemes. He had a colorful history, running a...

 I had, and probably still have but misfiled, a newspaper article that told how A. D. Jones accumulated his wealth. I need it desperately an...

 I've been mostly confined to my comfy chair. Sick and dizzy and feeling like the antique I am. So no writing the last week or so, but i...

 I need a firm identity and basic biography for William Sultzer, a partner with Jones in the purchase of property in New York State about 18...

 From The [Pittsburgh] Index , August 22, 1908. WILLIAMS- Mrs . Birda Evaline Williams, aged 44 years, wife of Edward A. Williams and presid...