August 30: Nelson H. Barbour and the Early Origins of the Jehovah's Witnesses

Nelson H. Barbour died this day in 1905. The author of Evidences for the Coming of the Lord in 1873, Barbour fell out with a young follower named C.T. Russell over questions of doctrine. C.T. Russell would go on to be a founder of the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses.