Henry on the Parlor Wall

 A little while ago this blog had an article on Henry Weber and how his photograph was on the wall in the parlor of the Bible House.

https://jeromehistory.blogspot.com/2023/05/more-on-henry-weber.html

Careful image manipulation allowed the viewer to see the photograph face on, and the picture is now part of the history display in the Warwick world headquarters.

The question was raised as to which volume of Millennial Dawn Henry was holding. It can now be acknowledged that the suggestion in the linked article was wrong. A recent visitor to Warwick took a photograph, which clearly shows it to be volume 2, The Time is at Hand.

This means that the photograph might date from earlier than was thought before. Volume 2 was published in 1889 and Volume 3 was issued in 1891. Of course, Henry could just have been holding his favorite volume rather than the latest volume published. It is difficult to gauge a person’s age in those days, particularly a man with a large beard, and people often did look older in that era. What we do know for certain is that Henry’s association with Watch Tower went back to the early 1880s, and he became a director of the Watch Tower Society on April 11, 1892 when he was in his late 50s. He became Vice President of the Society on January 6, 1894, and remained in that position until his death in 1904.

He was obviously very close to CTR, who conducted his funeral service, for his photograph to be on the wall in the Bible House parlor.