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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles Taze Russell was born February 16, 1852, and became an Adventist minister in Pittsburgh. In July 1879 he launched Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, a monthly magazine, then co-founded and eventually led the Watch Tower Tract Society starting in 1881. Between 1886 and 1904 he published his six-volume Millennial Dawn series — later retitled Studies in the Scriptures — which sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide during his lifetime. After Russell died on October 31, 1916, his successor Joseph Rutherford's leadership triggered a crisis: by 1931, as many as three-quarters of the 50,000 Bible Students had left, fracturing into separate groups. The remnant that stayed took the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931; the Watch Tower Society stopped printing Russell's work in 1927.