Johnson, Melvin Maynard, 1871-1957

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The following topics are mentioned: James Isaac Buchanan, Pennsylvania, Spanish Supreme Council, Melvin M. Johnson, Lausanne, Southern Jurisdiction, Canada

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Program of May Flower Lodge, Middleboro, Mass, dated March 3, 1914. Program includes photos of the first and the present Worshipful Masters, banquet menu, and toasts given. Title page is autographed by Melvin M. Johnson.

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Collection of travel diaries of Melvin M. Johnson which includes trips to France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, England, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Italy. These diaries concern Masonic business in foreign countries during his administration as Sovereign Grand Commander, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

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Three photographs of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Photographs likely taken when Johnson was a member of Monitor Lodge in Waltham, and "S.G.W." or Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 1909.

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...

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The following topics are mentioned: John H. Cowles, the Great Depression, Melvin M. Johnson, anti-semitism, cerneau bodies, DeMolay, anti-catholicism