Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies

Scope and Contents This collection consists of Frank B. Spengler's materials on his involvement with the Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies. This Scottish Rite body was considered irregular by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction. This council was also known as the Thompson-Folger Supreme Council and formed in 1881 by Hopkins Thompson and Robert B. Folger, who were members of the NMJ's Supreme...

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Court case records from the Supreme Court of New York County on the suit between Max Scheuer, Sovereign Grand Commander of and for the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty-Third and Last Degree, A.A.S.R., for the United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies, against Leon M. Abbott, Sovereign Grand Commander of and for the Supreme Council, Thirty-Third Degree, A.A.S.R., for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America.

Scope and Contents Folders 1-7: Wheeler Cable Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1897. This collection of correspondence was found at the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and was taken to the Supreme Council archives in May, 193[?]. The bulk of the letters were sent from various Cerneau bodies to Wheeler Cable, Grand Secretary and later, Sovereign Grand Commander, Massachusetts body. Several notable members of the Cerneauites are represented, including William H. Peckham, M. W. Bayliss, P.F.D. Hibbs, James McGrath,...