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The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873. The order is based on some teachings from the Bible [1] and is open to people of all religious ...
www.villageoffredoniany.com. Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. [2] The population was 9,871 as of the 2020 census. [3] Fredonia is in the town of Pomfret south of Lake Erie. The village is the home of the State University of New York at Fredonia (in the northwest part of the village).
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 ...
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 ...
Fredonia Commons Historic District is a national historic district located at Fredonia in Chautauqua County, New York. The district encompasses the central core of Fredonia; the main civic buildings, churches and commercial structures clustered around the commons. The district includes approximately 25 structures including the Fenner Fire ...
Fredonia Village Hall and Opera House, July 2015. The 1891 Fredonia Opera House is located in the Village Hall, in downtown Fredonia, New York at 9-11 Church St. Currently a year-round performing arts center, it offers a variety of live performances, presents a cinema series of first run Independent and foreign films, and serves as a rental venue for community meetings, debates, weddings and ...
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 ...
The Perry Belmont House, sometimes referred to as the International Temple of the Order of the Eastern Star, though there are no ritual or ceremonial spaces in the building, is the world headquarters of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, one of several organizations affiliated with Freemasonry.