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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Frank B. Spengler Cerneau Masonic collection, 1891-1951

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2013-011
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...
Dates: 1891-1951

Insurance certificate issued to Addie B. Bell by the National Charity Department of Electa Chapter, No. 10, 1949 April 1

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1998-085-001
Scope and Contents

National Grand Orient insurance certificate issued for Addie B. Bell and signed by William Fitzpatrick, M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander. The certificate was issued by the National Charity Department, Electa Chapter No. 10, Alliance, Ohio on April 1, 1949. The beneficiaries were her two children.

Dates: 1949 April 1

Johnson - Spurious Supreme Council, 1943-1945

 File
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to "United Supreme Council of Washington, D.C.", which, per George W. Crawford, is not recognized as legitimate by the Northern Supreme Council (Prince Hall).

Dates: 1943-1945

Letters between Harvey Newton Brown from Grand Master Charles R. Bonnemort of the Grand Lodge of France, 1965

 Collection — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2013-045-001
Scope and Contents Correspondence includes a typescript letter to Harvey Newton Brown from Grand Master Charles R. Bonnefort. Letter concerns Brown's affiliation with Anglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 343, in Texas which was chartered by the Grande Loge de France. G. M. Bonnemort explained that this membership constitutes affiliation with a clandestine lodge and is a violation of his obligation to Masons in Rhode Island (Brown is also a member of Berlin Lodge No. 46 of Rhode Island). Also includes the response of Harvey...
Dates: 1965

Mark Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Sobieski Lodge, No. 134, 1921 June 27

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2000-025-003
Scope and Contents A clandestine Mark Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's case is fully detailed in...
Dates: 1921 June 27

Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Sobieski Lodge, No. 134, 1921 June 27

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2000-025-002
Scope and Contents A clandestine Master Mason certificate issued by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), to John Kulczycki and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's International Masonic Federation also used the...
Dates: 1921 June 27