Watchtower: People Important to Charles Taze Russell by Doug Mason - 2010

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People who wereimportant to

Charles Taze

Russell

©2010 Doug Mason

[email protected]


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Ernest Henninges (p. 133)

Maria Russell (p. 47)

George Storrs (p. 102)

George Stetson (p. 129)

William Miller (p. 68)

William H. Conley (p. 38)

Nelson H. Barbour (p. 20)

Rose Ball (Henninges ) (p. 133) G. N. Peters (p. 95)

John H. Paton (p. 28)

Charles Taze Russell (p. 55)

Jonas Wendell (p. 1)


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Nelson Horatio Barbour

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John H. Paton

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William Henry Conley

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William Henry Conley (11 June 1840 – 25 July 1897) was a Pittsburgh philanthropist andbusinessman. He was the first president of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society from 1881 to 1884,

with Charles Taze Russell as secretary and treasurer. The Society later evolved into the chiefadministrative organization of Jehovah's Witnesses.

W. H. Conley was a prominent, wealthy member of the Allegheny City community. He was a

member of the boards of directors of the Third National Bank of Allegheny and the Home for

Colored Children and St. John's General Hospital. He was married to Sarah Shaffer (1841-1908).

Business and charitable interests

William Conley worked as bookkeeper for the the owners of a metal fabrication company. In 1873,Thomas B. Riter, formed a partnership with Conley, which became Riter & Conley Company . The

business gradually grew into a highly-respected worldwide supplier to the drilling, mining,

manufacturing, and marine industries. Conley was also a stockholder in, and director of, the Third

National Bank of Allegheny.

Conley and his wife were active in several Pittsburgh charities, including an orphanage and school

for children of African-American heritage, as well as a local hospital.

Watch Tower affiliation

William H. and Sarah Conley were two of the five original Allegheny Bible Students. Joseph Russell,

his daughter Margaret, and his son Charles T., were the other three. The Conley and Russell families

became acquainted about 1869 at Adventist meetings held by Jonas Wendell, George Stetson and

George Storrs.

When the Watch Tower Society was founded in February 1881, William Conley donated $3500

(70%) of the $5000 original capital. Joseph Russell donated $1000 (20%), and Charles Taze Russell

donated $500 (10%). Arrangements were made with commercial firms to handle printingoperations in various cities of Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, as well as in Britain. In 1884, Zion’s

Watch Tower Tract Society was legally incorporated with Charles T. Russell as president.

After 1882, Conley is not mentioned in Watch Tower literature in reference to his tenure as

president. Russell refers to Conley in the June 1894 issue of The Watch Tower only as "one of the

original Allegheny Bible Students".

- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 11/21/2009

http://pastorrussell.blogspot.com/2009/11/william-h-conley-1840-1897.html

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Maria Russell

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One example from numerous articles by Maria Russell.

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Charles and Maria Russell

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William Miller

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Zion’s Watchtower, Vol 4. No 10, May 1883

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G. N. Peters

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George Storrs

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Zion’s Watchtower, Vol 1. No 7, January 1880

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George Stetson was a minister, school teacher and a physician, who

followed the Christian pathway for over forty years.

In his early years, Stetson was associated with Henry Grew and

George Storrs, and in his later years with Jonas Wendell and

Charles Taze Russell.

Stetson and Wendell wrote for George Storrs’ magazine The Herald

of Life and the Coming Kingdom , and for other magazines such as

The World’s Crisis .

In the early 1870s, they worked together in several Advent

Christian churches throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio. While he

was pastor in Pittsburgh in 1872, Stetson met Charles Taze Russell.

Stetson led the Edinboro, Pennsylvania congregation for the

following six years until his death. His dying request was that Pastor

Russell give his funeral sermon, where over twelve hundred

attended.

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