Author: Scottish Rite. Deliberation

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781230090917

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and Select Master in Monroe Council, No. I, Detroit, January 14, 1858, March 5, I859, he organized River Raisin Council, Monroe, Mich., and was appointed T. I. G. M. August 3, I859. January I0. I860, he was elected G. T. I. of the Grand Council, and elected T. I. G. M. in I863. He is the oldest P. G. M. in the State. He was Knighted in Monroe Coniniandery, No. 4, October 29, I857; elected Prelate in 1858, Gcneralissimo in I859, and Eminent Commander in 1860. He afterward helped to organize Monroe Commandery, No. I9, and became its first Eminent Commander. He was Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery in I860. In all of these Bodies he was a worker in distinction from a dreamer, and being an all-round man, evenly balanced, his remarkable equipoise enabled him to do all things well. The value of his labors in those early days is now found in the prosperity enjoyed by the grand and constituent Bodies in which his wisdom and counsel largely prevailed. But it is in Scottish Rite Freemasonry where his greatest love found a resting-place and his talents an opportunity to return a hundred-fold benefit to humanity by proper investment. He received all the Grades of Scottish Rite Masonry in Ohio Consistory, Cincinnati, in May, I859, and assisted in the organization of Carson Grand Lodge of Perfection and Carson Council of Princes of Jerusalem, in Detroit in I861: organized Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix and Michigan Sovereign Consistory in the spring of I862, and was the first T. P. G. M. of Carson Lodge, and also the first and for eighteen years the Commander-in-Chief of Michigan Sovereign Consistory. On the 21st of May, I862, he was crowned a S. G. I. G. by the Supreme Council, and on the following day was honored by being made an Active and...