Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

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A Princes of Jerusalem lifetime membership certificate issued by Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction to Harvey Benjamin Legee, and dated 1940 January 23.

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Program for 128th Annual Convocation, Supreme Council 33°, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, on Cincinnati, Ohio in Sept. 21-26, 1940. It includes biography and photo of Melvin M. Johnson, program day by day of meetings, committees, official tableau, photographs of the Cincinnati Masonic Temple

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Program for the Ladies Accompanying Members of the Supreme Council, Providence, Rhode Island, dated Sept. 16-18, 1902. It includes a theatre trip, a trip to Newport, the Colosseum, and carriage rides

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Resolution between Supreme Council, AASR, NMJ and Prince Hall, NJ, which concerns the recognition of autonomous jurisdictions, but allowing fraternal visitation between organizations. Both copies are signed by Robert O. Ralston and Samuel Brogdon, Jr. and dated January 23, 1995. It also includes 3 color photographs of the signing occasion in the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library.

Abstract Leon Martin Abbott (1867-1932) was a prominent and influential Freemason, lawyer, and philanthropist. He was born on August 28, 1867, to Joseph Brown Abbott (1835-1892) and Lydia Cole Martin (1838-1893). Educated in Keene, New Hampshire, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1891. Abbott practiced law in Boston, turning down offers of judgeships and political office to remain a private citizen. He became Sovereign Grand Commander of...