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Saturday, 26 December 2020

The Russells' Music Publishing Business

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As well as the haberdashery stores, the Russells (Joseph Lytle and son Charles Taze) were involved in various business ventures, some of the...
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Thursday, 24 December 2020

Debates

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Debates sometimes featured in the early Bible Students’ witnessing efforts. CTR was featured in two famous ones, against E L Eaton in 1903 a...
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Monday, 30 November 2020

Bernhard's book

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 If you recently bought Bernhard's book on Bible House, there is now an extra section of material that will be incorporated into future ...
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Friday, 20 November 2020

Pastor Russell's chair

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Some of us collect books. Some of us collect newspapers, postcards, magazines and ephemera, all in connection with a love of early “truth” h...
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Monday, 2 November 2020

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

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With apologies to The Sound of Music.   A series of articles on Maria Frances Ackley’s history before she married Charles Taze Russell. In...

1. The family background

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First, a little bit about the back story of the Ackley family. Mahlon Foster Ackley (1807-1873) was born in New Jersey. Selena Ann Hammond...

2. The early years

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There are fleeting references to Maria as a child in census returns, but she comes into her own from around 1867. As a teenager (although I ...

3. The later years - from 1870

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Maria’s personal skills began to be highlighted in the local papers. The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette for June 24, 1871 described a meeting of ...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Guess Who?

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This is a little bit of light reader participation, which some with long memories and diverse readng habits may have seen elsewhere. Can you...
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Saturday, 10 October 2020

1881 Organizational Document

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Many readers here will already be familiar with the handwritten organizational document dated February 1881. It outlines the plans of the pr...
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Saturday, 26 September 2020

Whatever happened to those faces in the old photographs?

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When the Apollo 11 astronauts were hurtling back to earth in 1969 after the first moon walk, ground control picked up some unusual sounds. I...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

Allegheny Cemetery Registers

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For those who take an interest in such things, below are the burial registers for some of Charles Taze Russell's relatives, buried in th...
Sunday, 6 September 2020

As sold on eBay

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Film of C T Russell from the Photodrama of Creation.   When sold on eBay the blurb gave the following story: This is a genuine stri...
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Friday, 28 August 2020

J F Rutherford's first book (revisited)

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Many years ago I did an article on J F Rutherford’s first book. It can be found reprinted on this blog if you use the search terms “J ...