History and stuff

The history of the 19th century Bible Student movement, with occasional more recent developments among those who stayed with the Watch Tower Society. A place for historians who love this subject. Not a place for polemics or for debating beliefs; simply history written as neutrally as possible. Enjoy! Some reprinted pieces first appeared on: truthhistory.blogspot.com

History and stuff

The history of the 19th century Bible Student movement, with occasional more recent developments among those who stayed with the Watch Tower Society. A place for historians who love this subject. Not a place for polemics or for debating beliefs; simply history written as neutrally as possible. Enjoy! Some reprinted pieces first appeared on: truthhistory.blogspot.com

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Thursday, 23 April 2020

Gertrude Antonette Woodcock Seibert

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Gertrude Antonette Woodcock Seibert is a familiar name to students of Watch Tower history. She was a poet, a compiler, and indefatigable ...

1. Gertrude and The Finished Mystery

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Gertrude Antonette Woodcock Seibert (sometimes spelled Antoinette) was born in 1864 and died in 1928. A Woodcock family history wr...
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2. Gertrude and Poems of Dawn

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The previous article on this blog about Gertrude Seibert mentioned her contributions in Poems of Dawn (1912) but did not credit her as...

3. Gertrude and the Time Capsule

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From: The Daily News (Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) for Saturday, June 19, 1948, page 6. Old can found in porch In fulfilling a pr...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

A nice play on words

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Menta Sturgeon was CTR's traveling companion on his last journey. There is no mention of CTR in this cutting from the Sheboyean Press (W...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Thomas Birney

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Thomas Birney is of interest to Watch Tower historians in that he was Charles Taze Russell’s Uncle. Thomas’ sister was Ann Eliza, CTR’s moth...

Joseph F Rutherford's date of birth

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Official records for births, marriages and deaths are somewhat hit and miss in 19 th century America, depending where you lived. This re...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

Ernest, Rose and William, c.1900

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Ernest Charles Henninges, Rose Ball Henninges, and William E Van Amburgh in c.1900

W E Van Amburgh

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W E Van Amburgh is the very tall man standing at the back. The back of this photograph reads June 2, 1904, Millennial Dawn Bible ­C­lass...
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Ernest Charles Henninges

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Ernest Charles Henninges was born on 12 July, 1871. He became a Bible Student c. 1891. He married Rose Ball on 11 September 1897. He died...

Rose and Ernest

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Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Introduction to Russell family history

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Back in 2012 I spent a considerable amount of time trying to establish when CTR’s father, Joseph L Russell married Ann Eliza Birney and then...

1. Three Weddings (but no funeral this time)

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Genealogical researchers in Britain are well and truly spoiled for resources when compared with other countries. Civil registration (where t...
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