Frank B. Spengler Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1951

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 Council "revived" Cerneau's Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States of America, Their Territories and Dependencies. Both men withdrew their membership in the NMJ's Supreme Council and were subsequently expelled by the NMJ in 1882. Andrew F. Donnell and Frank B. Spengler later served in the Supreme Grand Council. Donnell, a newspaper reporter based in Melrose, Massachusetts, served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the group from 1944 until at least 1951. Spengler, a medical doctor based in Baldwinsville, New York, was his Lieutenant Grand Commander.