The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is a non-stock, not-for-profit organization headquartered in Warwick, New York. It is the main legal entity used worldwide by Jehovah's Witnesse
Charles Taze Russell, president (1884–1916) of the Watch Tower Society and founder of the Bible Student movement; colorized
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, president of the Watch Tower Society (1917–1942)
The former Watch Tower Society headquarters in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also known as Judge Rutherford, was an American religious leader and the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. He played a primary role
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
…write out resignations when they were appointed so Russell could dismiss them by simply filling in the date. In 1909, Russell instructed legal counsel Joseph Franklin Rutherford to determine whether the Watch Tower Society's headquarters could be moved to Brooklyn, New York. Rutherford reported that because it had been established…
Joseph F. Rutherford (1911)
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Rutherford with Cadillac V-16 from the Watchtower publication The Messenger (1931)
Rutherfords's 1940 booklet, Fifth Column, accused the Catholic Church of promoting mob violence against Jehovah's Witnesses.