The group emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
The group emerged from the Bible Student movement with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford. The Bible Student movement was founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society.