Catalog of Historical Files From the Treasurer's Office (June 7, 1991)

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Not a Watch Tower publication

A list of historical files kept in the Society's treasurer's office (1991).

Documents and Letters: Documents connected with the Society and its leaders that were never issued as publications: personal letters (Rutherford's letters from prison in 1918, C. J. Woodworth, Olin Moyle), corporate records (charters and amendments, the British companies, annual reports, tax returns, certificates of incorporation), government files (Australian files 1942–1976, U.S. Selective Service memoranda, a 1948 CIA report, the 1941 ACLU report), Richard Rawe's draft case papers and the Beth Sarim deed, and later correspondence between Witnesses and the Society or its legal department (1996–2008), with personal statements of former members. Letters of the Society to bodies of elders are in the Letters series with its other letters. Handwritten documents and forms are shown as images of the scanned pages.

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Catalog of Some Historical Files from Executive Office:

NY 127 Assignment of phonograph patent rights June 21, 1940, J. G. Kurzen Jr. to WTB&TS, Inc.

NY 174 Approval to Quote Goodspeed in Watchtower - Letter from Edgar J. Goodspeed, Aug. 8, 1944.

PA 3 Petition for change of name to Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society

PA 14 Deed No. 764 United Cemeteries, Pittsburgh, PA

PA 32 RUTHERFORD, J. F. - Excerpts of papers Cooper County, MO as to apptment as judge.

PA 63 Letters Patent #1074137 "Paul Jones" claim, Nome USA to J. F. Rutherford.

PA 64 Letters Patent #1081358 "Blarney Stone" Claim, Nome, USA to J. F. Rutherford.

PA 82 CFT of ownership of shares to J. F. Rutherford in London Co. of Kingdom Witnesses.

PA 89 German Drawing of Society's building at Magdeburg.

PA 232 First Book of Accounts Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, Feb. 16, 1881.

PA 233 Letter by C. T. Russell to WTB&TS. Donations in Exchange for Voting Shares.

PA 234 Letter by C. T. Russell to WTB&TS Donating Voting Shares to Society.

PA 235 Will and testament of Charles Taze Russell appointing editorial committee.

PA 236 Legal opinion by Sparks, Fuller & Stricker re: transfer of voting shares.

PA 237 Declaration of Trust - W. E. Van Amburgh-all possessions.

PA 243 Agreement between WTB&TS and Anna L. Bell re: use of Emphatic Diaglott.

PA 264 Contract & Power of Atty, book contract between A.H. Macmillan & Prentice-Hall, Inc.

PA 271 Decree quieting title Nome, Alaska/Rutherford claim.

PA 422 Letter of retraction of charges of communism - Dec. 5, 1949, C. B. Cates, Gen., Marine Corps.

PA 550 Divorce decree, docket entries & photostat of court opinion, C & M Russell.

LIBEL - C. T. Russell v. Ross, Canada - File

The Bible In Living English File

New World Translation - File

Two files: One entitled "Before the Rebellion of 1917; the other - After the Rebellion of 1917 & 1918. Both of these files contain many onion-skin copies of letters to Rutherford from Van Amburgh, Macmillian, and other people. Also, copies of letters Rutherford wrote the brothers from prison and elsewhere.

Copies of meeting minutes from the time when Rutherford was in prison and when he was released. Also, the "Testimony of W.E. Spill at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the WTB&TS, held in the offices of the Society at 310 Martin Building, Pittsburgh, PA., July 30, 1919." Both files contain information about the early workings of the organization and the rebellion in 1917, etc.

A few of the letters in the back of the file lableled "Before Rebellion of 1917" are dated 1916 and addressed to C. T. Russell. Also in the back of this file is the letter Macmillian read to the Bethel family when Russell died, and the announcement to the Bethel Family as to who would fill the vacancy on Board of Director.

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Catalog of Historical Files From the Treasurer's Office (June 7, 1991)