Morman Tabernacle
After joining the Freemasons in Canada, Morgan is denied admittance to chapters in Batavia, NY, and then threatens to break the oath of silence and publish a book in 1826 revealing secret rituals. His disappearance, and presumed murder by masons, causes a backlash against the group, led by the journalist and Whig political strategist, Thurlow Weed. This results in the founding of the short-lived Anti-Mason Party, aimed at tarnishing Freemason Andrew Jackson in particular. Party members include John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Thad Stevens and Henry Seward.
“Making a mason” simulating the induction ceremony
Masons
Freemasons Chart
W. R. Fish - Mayoral race in N.O.
George H. Stuart - founder YMCA
Amherst College, pioneers pseudo-science of phrenology, study of cranium size and shape as “explanation” of character and mental capacity, concludes that Africans were inferior and coarse, while Jews were inherently deceitful and acquisitive, lectures and publishes along with brother Lorenzo, and his wife, akin to “physical anthropology” work of Samuel Morton and Josiah Nott claiming that blacks were “another species.”
Mason's group shot including George Washington and Andrew Jackson
A slave owner with a plantation called “Boxwood” in Memphis and a hot springs resort in Georgia. He pens multiple letters recording his slavery transactions between the two states.
Others
Invitation to Franklin Masonic Lodge
Morman Tabernacle
William Morgan (1774-1826)
Rosslyn Chapel
Photography Book
Co-owner of Templeton & Goodwin Slave Dealers located in Richmond, Virginia.
Freemason in Garb
Humble carpenter and blacksmith who becomes leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) after Joseph Smith killed in 1844 for espousing polygamy. He leads followers to a new home in Salt Lake City in 1847 and sets up a theocracy with himself as President of the Church. In 1851 Millard Fillmore names his the 1st Territorial Governor of Utah. Young rules the territory with an iron fist, almost as a separate nation which he names Deseret or “honeybee” in the Book of Mormon. In 1855 Buchanan says he intends to “clean up Utah,” naming a new Governor and sending troops. But Young wins in the end and retains his dominant position in both the Church and the Territory until his death in 1877.
Brigham Young (1801-1887)
Prominent Men Outside Politics
Orson Squire Fowler
Mormons
George Washington Gordon
William Goodwin (1796-1864)
The Tabernacle, built from 1864 to 1867, was designed by Brigham Young and LDS civil engineer, Henry Grow. Its unique elliptical shape is topped by a roof 250’ long and 150’ wide.
Gunslinger
A cdv backmark from Salt Lake featuring the Tabernacle.
Mr. D. R. Parker