Charles Taze Russell: No
The USA, with the primary founder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Charles Taze Russell* the first president of the Jehovah's Witness Journal "The Wathtower" magazine is buried in in Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh, USA. In a plot owned by their Bethel headquarters.United Cemeteries226 Cemetery Ln.Pittsburgh, PA 15237-2722Tel (412) 931-1017*Jehovah's Witnesses do not view Russell as their founder but refer to Jesus as their founder and Russell as their "brother".
Charles Taze Russell was 27 years old when he started publishing the Watchtower magazine in 1879.
The actual founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses was Joseph Rutherford. Rutherford created the "Jehovah's visible organization" dogma by rejecting the core Biblical teachings of Russell and the Bible Students. https://rlctr.blogspot.com/p/jws.html
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Yes. It was one of the methods employed by C.T.Russell, the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses, to make various predictions about the year 1914. Details are found in the book 'Studies in the Scriptures' Vol 'Thy Kingdom Come'.
The modern day history of Jehovah's Witnesses started in 1870 with Charles Taze Russell*, the prime mover of a religiously independent bible study group who went on to be the first President of the Watchtower Society that prints the principle religious bible study journal of Jehovah's Witnesses "The Watchtower" magazine in July 1979. The readers of "The Watchtower" formed more bible study groups and sought to share the things they were learning. Russell died in 1916 but the Bible Students continued. They adopted the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" in 1931.*Jehovah's Witnesses do not view Russell as their "founder" or a Prophet but a Minister in a position of leadership during the early days of their modern day organization.
The modern day history of Jehovah's Witnesses started in 1870 with Charles Taze Russell*, the prime mover of a religiously independent bible study group who went on to be the first President of the Watchtower Society that prints the principle religious bible study journal of Jehovah's Witnesses "The Watchtower" magazine in July 1979. The readers of "The Watchtower" formed more bible study groups and sought to share the things they were learning. Russell died in 1916 but the Bible Students continued. They adopted the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" in 1931.*Jehovah's Witnesses do not view Russell as their "founder" or a Prophet but a Minister in a position of leadership during the early days of their modern day organization.
The term founding father is a term that generally means " A man who founds or establishes something" The Founding father of Jehovah's Witnesses according to this definition therefore would be Jesus since he is the "chief cornerstone" or founder of their beliefs. The modern day history of Jehovah's Witnesses started at the turn of the last century with a man called Charles Taze Russell and a group of bible students (as Jehovah's Witnesses were for some time known) setting up a bible study group in an attempt to return to the teachings of Jesus as outlined in scripture free from pagan dogman.
Charles Russell founded the Watchtower magazine and the Watchtower Society, a legal entity used by Jehovah's Witnesses. He did not found Jehovah's Witnesses, as Jehovah has had his Witnesses since the time of Abel. Jesus is the founder of Christianity, at which point in time all of Jehovah's faithful Witnesses who prior to this had been Jewish, began to include people of all nationalities in the newly established Christian Congregation. Mistakenly, a number of people thought the Bible Students, as Jehovah's Witnesses were known back then, were followers of Pastor Russell. Actually, this was not the case; we follow no human. Our leader or head is Jesus Christ. Because of this erroneous belief, as well as in attempts to discredit the fact that we were (and are) practicing Christians serving Jehovah under the headship of his Son Jesus Christ, they branded us with this apellation, which some still resort to down to this day. Additionally Yes the russelites is what many people called the Bible students at that time but as stated before it was not their actual name. Jehovah's Witnesses never did claim to be called by such a name because they knew who they were following even though Brother Russell was of major importance, he was not their leader, only the most high Jehovah God and Jesus Christ are. The term "Russelites" was never a name that Jehovah's Witnesses or the Bible Students officially adopted or embraced. It also was not ever endorced by Charles Russel himself. It was a term coined by some on the outside of the organization.
Charles Taze Russell founded no religion, but he was the founder of the modern-day Bible Students movement. He was not the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses as is often claimed. He did not believe in such an organization. He spent nearly his entire life preaching against such an organization. He spent nearly his entire life preaching against the kind of message that is presented by the Jehovah's Witnesses organization. https://rlctr.blogspot.com/p/jws.html
As a general rule they are not. The only Jehovah's Witness I am aware of that had a pyramid tombstone was the President of the Watchtower Society and founder Charles Taze Russell. He believed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was designed and provided by Jehovah God to assist in making predictions of when God's Kingdom would arrive. See links below