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Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell, or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement. He was an early Christian Zionist.
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culture · Founder of the Bible Student movement (1852–1916) · publisher · writer · religious leader · filmmaker · merchant · also Charles Taze Russell, C. T. Russell, Charles Russell, Russell
Born 16 February 1852 · Died 31 October 1916 · Q313456
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2026· 3 entries
The Press Democrat: Charles Russell Johnson
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Legacy obituary: Charles Russell Johnson Obituary (2026) - Palm Desert, CA - All California Cremation
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1975· 1 entry
The Watch Tower Society stated that gross receipts from the "Miracle Wheat" fundraiser totaled "about $1800" (current value $62,000), of which "Russell himself did not get a penny"
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1938· 1 entry
From complications related to Hodgkin's disease
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1931· 1 entry
While those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929
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1927· 1 entry
Though his books are still published by several independent groups
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1916· 4 entries
At age 64 near Pampa, Texas, while returning to Brooklyn by train
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Died 1916-10-31.
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Used the Jewish press to stress that 1914 prophetically marked the time when Gentile nations no longer had earthly authority; he said that all Jews were, from that time onward, permitted and guided by God to gather to
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A seventh volume titled The Finished Mystery was published in 1917; this was advertised as his "posthumous work"
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1914· 1 entry
By the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
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1913· 2 entries
The High Court of Ontario returned a verdict of "No Bill" ruling that Russell was not entitled to damages because, the libel was not likely to result in any violence within Canada
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Russell had repeatedly lied under oath by affirming that he was ordained, but denying the same when cross-examined, by affirming that he knew the Greek language, but when shown by Counselor Staunton an extract from the N
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1912· 1 entry
The Continent, a Presbyterian journal, stated that in North America Russell's writings had achieved a greater circulation "than the combined circulation of the writings of all the priests and preachers in North America"
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1911· 1 entry
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that Russell was accused of gaining profit from a strain of wheat named "Miracle Wheat" by K
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1910· 2 entries
Conducted a meeting at the New York Hippodrome Theatre, with thousands of Jews attending
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The secular journal Overland Monthly calculated that by 1909, Russell's writings had become the most widely distributed, privately produced English-language works in the United States
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1908· 1 entry
Russell transferred the headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society to Brooklyn, New York where it remained until 2016, when it was relocated to Warwick, New York
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1906· 2 entries
Filed for divorce under a claim of mental cruelty
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With Russell charged to pay alimony
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1903· 2 entries
Filed for legal separation on the grounds of mental cruelty, referring to forced celibacy and frequent cold, indifferent treatment by him
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Newspapers began publishing his written sermons
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1897· 1 entry
Russell's wife, Maria, left him after a disagreement over the management of Zion's Watch Tower magazine
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1893· 1 entry
A paper was written and circulated to Bible Students in Pittsburgh by associates Otto van Zech, Elmer Bryan, J
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1886· 1 entry
After reportedly not making back most of the money spent publishing these three titles, he began publication of what was intended to be a seven-volume series
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1884· 2 entries
With Russell as president, and in 1886 its name was changed to Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
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The corporation was registered, with Russell as president
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1881· 3 entries
Co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society with William Henry Conley as president
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Russell founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with William Henry Conley as president and Russell as secretary-treasurer; they intended to disseminate tracts, papers, doctrinal treatises and Bibles
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Russell published his first work to gain wide distribution: Food for Thinking Christians
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1879· 2 entries
Russell married Maria Frances Ackley after a few months' acquaintance
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“s arguments, the presentation had inspired him with a renewed zeal and belief that the Bible is the word of God. Marriage On March 13, 1879, Russell married Maria Frances Ackley after a few months”
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1878· 1 entry
(favor from Jacob to Jesus, then disfavor from Jesus until 1878)
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1870· 1 entry
At age eighteen, he attended a presentation by Adventist minister Jonas Wendell
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1852· 1 entry
Born 1852-02-16.
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