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Chapter Facts West Virginia Alpha (WV Α) Bethany College: 1903: 5: Inactive: West Virginia Beta (WV Β) West Virginia University: 1903: 6: Inactive: Charter revoked in 2019 West Virginia Gamma (WV Γ) Marshall University: 1947: 100: Active: West Virginia Delta (WV Δ) Davis & Elkins College: 1949: 110: Active: West Virginia Epsilon (WV Ε ...
The other four lodges in the Territory: Montezuma, Chapman, Aztec, and Union all voted in favor of forming the new Grand Lodge. Eight men, William W. Griffin, Gustave Elsberg, A.Z. Huggins, George W. Stebbins, W.B. Stapp, William L. Rynerson, John S Crouch, and S.B. Newcomb, convened on the 6th of August in the second-floor rooms of Montezuma ...
A convention to create a new lodge took place in 1864, and then at the war's end, on April 12, 1865, the day when Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was formally disbanded by ceremony at Appomattox Court House, the Grand Lodge of West Virginia was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia. William Bates was its first Grand Master. [6]
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA is the first Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, founded in 1801.Its official full name is "The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of ...
Reformed as a colony in 1948. ^ Created from Square & Compass, established in 1905. Reformed as a colony in 1979 and 2019. ^ Formed from the Masonic Club, established 1902. Reformed as a colony in 1982. ^ Formed from Pythagoras, established 1906. ^ Reformed as a colony in 1986. ^ Formed from a chapter of the Acacia Club, established 1904.
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 ...
Merged with. Delta Zeta (1946), and scattered. Phi Omega Pi ( ΦΩΠ) was a national collegiate sorority operating in the United States from 1922 until 1946 when its chapters were absorbed by several larger sororities, and merged with the national sorority, Delta Zeta .