Someone recently (I think?) posted a message stating that Charles T. Russell stole Barbour's magazine subscription list!!!
Where was that posted? Does anyone have more details?
Doesn't sound like a very nice thing Charles did!
--VM44
Russell stole Barbour's Mailing List!
by VM44 6 Replies latest jw friends
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GermanXJW
He was the co-editor and gave a lot of money to the project. So far about stealing. I think it was also his property.
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johnny cip
not sure on that one , but do know that russell made deals with other religious papers that were closing down to get their mailing lists. keep in mind that russell was in lots of news papers nation wide and used them to get subcribers to the wt . that's how he made his $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ . john
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tarzan
go to www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/72590/1.ashx
i don't know how to make it into a Hyperlink.
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tarzan
i tried it but it crashes... i just did a google search for "russell barbour mailing list" and it gave me that address, try it. it does not crash when i access it threw google.
hug! Tarzan confused :-(
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Justin
I believe that the post in question (which crashes) is a statement by Farkel to the effect that Russell stole the mailing list, and when asked about this Farkel said he would do further research to substantiate it.
In my own research I have come across a supplement to the first issue of Zion's Watch Tower (that of July, 1879). See http://reslight.addr.com/supplement.html . The supplement was sent only to readers of Herald of the Morning, which indicates that Russell must have had use of the mailing list. It was used to explain Russell's falling out with Barbour. But does this mean that Russell "stole" the list?
Russell claimed to have been co-editor of The Herald, based both on his financial contributions and also the fact that his name for a time appeared with Barbour's as editors on the front page. If Russell was, in fact, the co-editor, then his use of the mailing list would not seem to represent a stealing of intellectual property. Did Russell remove the original list, so that the names were no longer available for Barbour to use - did he actually physically steal a list of names? There is no indication of this.
In the absence of any information representing Barbour's side of the story, this supplement to the original Watch Tower seems to be all we have to rely upon for historical information.
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Farkel
: Someone recently (I think?) posted a message stating that Charles T. Russell stole Barbour's magazine subscription list!!!
Yes, that was me. My source is Barbara Anderson who has amassed more research about the life and times of Charles Russell than anyone living. I called for her today and her mother told me she and her husband Joe were in Mexico on vacation and won't return until next weekend.
For those of you who are not familiar with Barb, she was the Watchtower's lead researcher at Bethel for years and even did research for them after she left Bethel. She is the one who broke the child-abuse scandal wide open a few years ago. Isn't it just a little more than interesting that the mighty WTS would use just a "hank of hair and a hunk of bone" (as Rutherford called women) second-class woman as their lead researcher? They made a big mistake by DFing her. Trust me.
Farkel