The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society's own 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses chapter marking one hundred years since 1917, documenting Joseph Rutherford's 6 January 1917 election as the Society's second president in Brooklyn, New York, following Charles Taze Russell's death, and the leadership dispute that followed.
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Reliability Tier1
The organization's own published yearbook, tier 1, used here for the 6 January 1917 dating and place of Rutherford's election, corroborated by the general founding chronology on Wikipedia's history article below. NotesUsed for the 6 January 1917 dating and Brooklyn, New York location of Rutherford's election, and the leadership dispute that followed it.
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PublisherWatch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
URLhttps://www.jw.org/en/library/books/2017-yearbook/jw-100-years-1917/
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Source Jehovah's Witnesses, One Hundred Years: 1917 (2017 Yearbook, jw.org)
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