The Free Tract Society was founded in 1897 in Salt Lake City by William M. Bowen, who moved it to San Francisco and eventually to Los Angeles in 1900.

The Society once printed more than 650 different tracts in 20 languages. They were mass communications before radio or film. During the Great Depression they churned out 20 million pieces a year.

THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. Share full article. June 2, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 2, 1887, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Russell incorporated many of Barbour’s ideas as his own, and in 1881, Russell founded Zion’s Watchtower Tract Society. The name was officially changed in 1886 to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society ...

Read Part 1 of this story.. The Jehovah’s Witnesses — aka the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society — first came to Brooklyn in 1908, in hopes of having their sermons syndicated in newspapers alongside ...

Last month, the sect, officially known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and best known to the outside world for its Bible publishing and door-to-door proselytizing, bought the Ramapo tract, ...

A Garland charity tops a list of the country's least efficient charities, according to an online news report using data from a watchdog. But, officials of the Garland-based American Tract Society ...

Jose Lopez sued the national Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., alleging Bible instructor Gonzales Campos sexually abused him in 1986 when he ...

THE MONTHLY TRACT SOCIETY. Share full article. Dec. 25, 1876. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 25, 1876, Page 5 Buy Reprints.