Freemasonry & Fraternalism
Stories for the American Freemason's Fireside
by C. W. Towle
This is a collection of stories intended to be morality tales for Masons and
their admirers. While there are a variety of themes presented, Victorian
values of family and chivalry appear in contrast with previous Masonic
imagery that drew on the Enlightenment.
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the
District of Columbia ~ 1898
by John P Sheiry
The election of Brother William McKinley as president in 1896 was the beginning of an extraordinarily visible era for Freemasonry in Washington, when
its profile and processions were enhanced by the fact that Masons would
occupy the White House for the majority of the next fifty-six years.
How Washington Lost His Birthday and Other Masonic Essays:
Gaston Lichtenstein’s How George Washington Lost His Birthday
This book by Gaston Lichtenstein is an antiquarian’s pleasure.
Lichtenstein, who was eclectic in his writing career, produced work on
Freemasonry, Iberian prisoners of war, Atlantic City piers, colonial North
Carolina, and in the case of this book, George Washington’s birthday.
Anti-Masonry and the Murder of Morgan:
Lee S. Tillotson’s Ancient Craft Masonry in Vermont
Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes
The anti-Masonic movement during the 1820s and 1830s is sometimes
related by scholars to the development of the American party system.
Certainly individuals migrated to the Know Nothing and Whig movements and
eventually to the incipient Republican party, but more research is needed.
Earl Warren’s Masonic Lodge:
Herbert Phillips’ Fifty Year History of Sequoia Lodge
Long before Earl Warren was a famous governor of California and then
an important Chief Justice of the United States, he was forging a career in
Freemasonry. He worked his way up the stairs of the Masonic hierarchy to
become Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California.
Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M.
1812 and 1813
Edited and Introduced by Isaiah Akin
These books contain the Meeting minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M.
of Washington DC for 1812 and 1813, along with articles about the people
mentioned and the Washington Navy Yard where many of them worked, and
gives insight into Freemasonry in early America.
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