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Charles Taze Russell was born to Scotch-Irish parents, [8] immigrant Joseph Lytle/Lytel / ˈ l ɪ t əl / Russell and Ann Eliza Birney, on February 16, 1852, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Russell was the second of five children, of whom two survived into adulthood. His mother died when he was nine years old. [9]
Macmillan provides a first-person account of the early history of Jehovah's Witnesses from his meeting of Charles Taze Russell in 1900 to the time of the writing of the book (1957). He served with three of the Presidents of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society : Russell, Rutherford , and Knorr (who wrote the book's introduction).
Jehovah's Witnesses' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).
A second faction maintained the original commune, the Old House of David led by Judge T. H. Dewhirst, had 350 members in 1935, 24 of whom were clergy, and in 1955 had 150 members with 10 clergy. [6] (As of 2010, the group was reported to have three surviving members. [7]) Dewhirst's faction believed that Mary Purnell had no right to usurp ...
Rutherford was born on November 8, 1869, to James Calvin Rutherford and Leonora Strickland and raised in near-poverty in a Baptist farm family. Some sources list his place of birth as Boonville, Missouri, but according to his death certificate he was born in Versailles, Missouri. [21] [22] Rutherford developed an interest in law from the age of ...
Charles Handy Russell, American merchant and banker; Charles L. Russell (1844–1910), U.S. Army corporal and Medal of Honor recipient; Charles Sawyer Russell (1831–1866), American Civil War general; Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), American evangelist; Charles Thaddeus Russell (1875–1952), African-American architect from Richmond, Virginia
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Charles Taze Russell, (February 16, 1852 - October 31, 1916), also known as Pastor Russell, was an American Protestant evangelist. In 1881 he founded one of the first Bible Societies in the United States , the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society , whose schism led to the modern Bible Students and Jehovah's Witnesses .