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Note: The two most current sets of Annual Proceedings, covering 2010 to current, are available to Members only because of privacy concerns. As those are released to the public by the Grand Lodge, they will be added here as well. If you are not a Kansas Mason and have specific […]
Note: The two most current sets of Annual Proceedings, covering 2010 to current, are available to Members only because of privacy concerns. As those are released to the public by the Grand Lodge, they will be added here as well. If you are not a Kansas Mason and have specific […]
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) Member of: Apollo University Lodge #357, Oxford England Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best […]
Henry Washburn – Born in Woodstock, Vermont, Member in: Terre Haute, Indiana Washburn attended the common schools. He became a tanner and a currier, and taught school for several years. He moved to Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1850. He graduated from the New York State and National Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He commenced […]
Giacomo Casanova, byname Jacques, Chevalier de Seingalt, (born April 2, 1725, Venice [Italy]— died June 4, 1798, Dux, Bohemia [now Duchcov, Czech Republic]) Initiated: 1750 in Lyons, France – Raised: 1750 Paris, France An ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the […]
Member of: Hope Lodge, Kurrachee, Scinde, India Sir Richard Burton, in full Sir Richard Francis Burton, (born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, England—died October 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now in Italy]), English scholar-explorer and Orientalist who was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities. He published 43 volumes on his explorations […]
Frederick Gustavus Schwatka (29 September 1849 – 2 November 1892) Member of: St. John’s Lodge No. 37, Yreka, California Frederick Gustavus Schwatka; army officer, explorer, and author. In 1859 Frederick moved with his family from the Midwest to Salem, Oregon, where he attended Willamette University and was later apprenticed to a […]