Freemasonry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9043 Collections and/or Records:
Records for the Valley of Rochester, 1866-2005
Collection
Identifier: A2007-044
Scope and Contents
The collection contains: meeting minutes of the Rochester Lodge of Perfection, Council Princes of Jerusalem, Chapter of Rose Croix, and Consistory, as well as Germania Lodge of Perfection. Also included are ledgers of death, suspensions, withdrawals, and dues of active members, committee meetings, memorial book, Oath of Fealty Book, bylaws, and legal papers of the Scottish Rite Valley of Rochester from 1866-2005.The collection is arranged in 7 series and totals approximately 18...
Dates:
1866-2005
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 Sykes Lodge, No. 1040, 1865-1933
Collection
Identifier: A1988-013
Scope and Contents
This collection includes minutebooks (Volume 1 through 6) and notes by booklet's owner that documents the lodge's history up to 1912.
Dates:
1865-1905
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Records of the Loge des Neuf Soeurs in Paris, France, 1782-1806
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: A1989-004
Scope and Contents
This collection of original manuscripts, circulars, notices, extracts, addresses, and tableaus concerning Loge des Neuf Soeurs in Paris from 1782-1806 is bound as a book by Marquis de Pastoret. Included are several passages mentioning the role of Benjamin Franklin and the Freemasons in the American and French Revolutions, handwritten catechism for the now extinct Rite of Adoption, invitations, and other notes by Pastoret. Also includes two printed tableaus of lodge members.
Dates:
1782-1806
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 Consistory of Boston, 1862-1867
Collection
Identifier: A2019-097
Scope and Contents
This collection includes applications, minutes of meetings, meeting notices, correspondence, schedule of returns, and a statement on the assassination of President Lincoln
Dates:
1862-1867
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
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
Red Book of Grand Commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 1966-1967
Item
Identifier: A2023-064-001