Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction
Organization
Places
- Lexington (Mass.) (Residence)
Found in 429 Collections and/or Records:
Providence Sovereign Consistory charter, 1868 December 15
Item
Identifier: A2022-064
Rabboni Council of Princes of Jerusalem charter issued by the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1866 May 19
Item
Identifier: A2022-102
Recognition of the two Supreme Councils, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction and Prince Hall, 1995 January 23
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: A2012-061
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1995 January 23
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Records of John W. McNaughton, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 2006-2017
Collection
Identifier: A2019-025
Records of Leon M. Abbott, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1908-1932
Collection
Identifier: A2021-074
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...
Dates:
1908-1932; Majority of material found within 1921-1932
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Records of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1915-1979
Collection
Identifier: A2019-001
Abstract
Melvin Maynard Johnson (1871-1957) was a prominent and influential Freemason, lawyer and academic. Johnson was born on May 11, 1871, in Waltham Massachusetts. He attended Tufts College and Boston University School of Law (BUSL). Following a successful career as an attorney, he returned to BUSL as a professor in 1918. He was Dean of the Law School from 1935 to1942. Johnson was the first full-time Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, a position he held...
Dates:
1915-1979; Majority of material found within 1933-1953
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Records of the Sale of the Supreme Council Headquarters in Lexington, Mass., 2010
Collection
Identifier: A2016-109
Records of the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1866-2000
Collection
Identifier: A1992-083
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the business of the Office of the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction from 1866-2000 with the bulk of the material from 1980-1998. It includes a limited amount of records from Leon M. Abbott and Melvin M. Johnson (see their respective separate collections, A2021/074 and A2019/001) with the bulk of the material from George A. Newbury, Stanley F. Maxwell, George E. Bushnell, Francis George Paul, and Robert Odel Ralston.The bulk...
Dates:
1866-2000; Majority of material found within 1980-1998
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Register of 32° members of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 1897-1902
Item
Identifier: A1993-078
Scope and Contents
Two handwritten registers from consistories in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of 32° members based off annual returns from 1897-1902.
Dates:
1897-1902
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Report from the Deputy for Connecticut, 1866 May 15
Item
Identifier: A2019-097-013
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection includes applications, minutes of meetings, meeting notices, correspondence, schedule of returns, and a statement on the assassination of President Lincoln
Dates:
1866 May 15