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General Grand Chapter logo Signage at the Order of the Eastern Star birthplace, the Little Red Schoolhouse. The Order was created by Rob Morris in 1850 when he was teaching at the Eureka Masonic College in Richland, Mississippi. While confined by illness, he set down the principles of the order in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855, he had ...
Elizabeth Golcher Butler (October 16, 1831 – July 13, 1906) was a British-born American women's activist and a pioneer in the Order of the Eastern Star. With the establishment of the General Grand Chapter, which would have full control over the ritual, Butler was elected to its highest office, becoming its first Most Worthy Grand Matron (1876 ...
Rob Morris was born on August 31, 1818, in New York City. His father's name was Robert Peckham (1789–1825) and his mother was Charlotte Lavinia Shaw Peckham (1786–1837). Charlotte and Robert Peckham had five children. The first two, John Fales Peckham and Mary Shaw Peckham, died in infancy. The third child, John Anson Peckham was born in ...
With Georgiana Thomas he set about getting the ritual and organization approved by the official of the Lodge and the first Chapter of the Prince Hall Order of the Eastern Star was opened on December 1, 1874. The organization spread and in 1907 a Conference of Grand Chapters, Order of the Eastern Star. [2]
Robert Macoy (October 4, 1815 – January 9, 1895) [1] was born in Armagh, Ulster County, Ireland. He moved to the United States at the age of 4 months. [2] He was a prominent Freemason, and was instrumental in the founding of the Order of the Eastern Star [3] and the Order of the Amaranth. [4] He also founded what may be the largest Masonic ...
Perry Belmont, a Freemason, sold the building to the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1935 for $100,000, on the condition that the Right Worthy Grand Secretary would live in the building. [5] On May 8, 1973, the Belmont House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Lorraine J. Pitkin (July 15, 1845 - 1922) was an American women's activist and political postmaster. She served as Most Worthy Grand Matron (1880–86) and Right Worthy Grand Secretary of the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.) of the Illinois Grand Chapter.
In the 1920s, there were two books published on the History of the Order. Both have the title "History of the Order of the Eastern Star". One is by Willis D. Engle and is available as a reprint. A much more extensive version was written by Jean M'kee Kenaston and this book apparently contained a biography of Morris.