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People who wereimportant toCharles Taze<strong>Russell</strong>©2010 Doug Masondoug_mason1940@yahoo.com.au
Ernest Henninges (p. 133)George Storrs (p. 102)William Miller (p. 68)Nelson H. Barbour (p. 20)Charles Taze <strong>Russell</strong> (p. 55)George Stetson (p. 129)William H. Conley (p. 38)John H. Paton (p. 28)Maria <strong>Russell</strong> (p. 47)Jonas Wendell (p. 1)Rose Ball (Henninges ) (p. 133) G. N. Peters (p. 95)
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Nelson Horatio Barbour20
John H. Paton28
William Henry Conley38
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 <strong>Russell</strong> 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 amember of the boards of directors of the Third National Bank of Allegheny and the Home forColored Children and St. John's General Hospital. He was married to Sarah Shaffer (1841-1908).Business and charitable interestsWilliam 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. Thebusiness 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 ThirdNational Bank of Allegheny.Conley and his wife were active in several Pittsburgh charities, including an orphanage and schoolfor children of African-American heritage, as well as a local hospital.Watch Tower affiliationWilliam H. and Sarah Conley were two of the five original Allegheny Bible Students. Joseph <strong>Russell</strong>,his daughter Margaret, and his son Charles T., were the other three. The Conley and <strong>Russell</strong> familiesbecame acquainted about 1869 at Adventist meetings held by Jonas Wendell, George Stetson andGeorge Storrs.When the Watch Tower Society was founded in February 1881, William Conley donated $3500(70%) of the $5000 original capital. Joseph <strong>Russell</strong> donated $1000 (20%), and Charles Taze <strong>Russell</strong>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’sWatch Tower Tract Society was legally incorporated with Charles T. <strong>Russell</strong> as president.After 1882, Conley is not mentioned in Watch Tower literature in reference to his tenure aspresident. <strong>Russell</strong> refers to Conley in the June 1894 issue of The Watch Tower only as "one of theoriginal Allegheny Bible Students".- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 11/21/2009http://pastorrussell.blogspot.com/2009/11/william-h-conley-1840-1897.html40
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One example from numerous articles by Maria <strong>Russell</strong>.48
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George Stetson was a minister, school teacher and a physician, whofollowed the Christian pathway for over forty years.In his early years, Stetson was associated with Henry Grew andGeorge Storrs, and in his later years with Jonas Wendell andCharles Taze <strong>Russell</strong>.Stetson and Wendell wrote for George Storrs’ magazine The Heraldof Life and the Coming Kingdom, and for other magazines such asThe World’s Crisis.In the early 1870s, they worked together in several AdventChristian churches throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio. While hewas pastor in Pittsburgh in 1872, Stetson met Charles Taze <strong>Russell</strong>.Stetson led the Edinboro, Pennsylvania congregation for thefollowing six years until his death. His dying request was that Pastor<strong>Russell</strong> give his funeral sermon, where over twelve hundredattended.131
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Ernest and Rose Henninges133
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