Watch Tower History

 From The Manchester, Vermont, Journal , June 22, 1876 The Rutland, Vermont, Weekly Herald , December 18, 1862. The Lambertville, New Jersey...

       This is the story of an almost forgotten donor to the Watch Tower Society, whose financial contributions played an important part in ...

 Seriously wounded, he was removed from the front lines. A single letter and this are the only records other than official records and a new...

 

 This booklet is important because it contains the best explanation of  Paton's Universalism (in my opinion anyway) and shows that he ev...

 I am close to publishing a middle grade / young adult novel. This was prompted by my experience teaching. My last ten years teaching were s...

     This postcard was sent from Boston, Mass. on 8 May 1907. It gives no space for a message, so the sender has written the words “Since ...

  I am open to articles on any facet of Russell era Watch Tower history. Articles must be footnoted to original sources using the following ...

  As of today, the all time visits to this blog stand at about 1, 035, 000. 

 Thanks to a friend of this blog, the handbill for Russell's speech in Japan. Click on the image to see it entire. 

       In 1948 Jimmie Skinner wrote the song Doin’ my Time .      The version I remember went:      Doin’ my time      With a ball and...

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 ...