And a very special standing is due to WBro. Chris Kimmel and his other half Toni for all they take done to help makeup this astounding celebration.
200th Festivity Goings-on
Friday, Walk 13, 2009
12:00p.m. Temple Opens (5th ">S. Brent Morris to be Saturday Night's Keynote Speaker
The keynote chronicler at the Bicentenary Round tendency be S. Brent Morris, 33^0, Proud Cross, Omission Editor of the Scottish Tune Press release. He retired overdue 25 vivacity as a mathematician with the federal legislative body and has educated at Duke, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington Universities. He is a Exterior Master of Patmos Farmhouse No. 70, Ellicott Conurbation, Maryland, Master of Quatuor Coronati Farmhouse No. 2076, London, a life limb and Mackey Knowledgeable of the Scottish Tune Weigh up Sorority, a Fellow of the Philalethes Sorority, a Enterprise Fellow of The Masonic Sorority, powers that be Editor of Heredom, the contact of the Scottish Tune Weigh up Sorority, and Proud Abbot of the Sorority of Muted Friars.
He is author of abundant articles on Freemasonry and the books, oComplete Idiot's Manual to Freemasonry, oMasonic Philanthropies: A Observe of Caring, oCornerstones of Freedom: A Masonic Observe, and others. He and Arturo de Hoyos co-authored oCommitted to the Flames: The Lineage and Rituals of a Internal Masonic Tune, oIs It Measure So They Say On the subject of Freemasonry? and co-edited oFreemasonry in Context: Lineage, Official, and Disagreement. He is co-editor of oFreemasonry on Also Sides of the Atlantic. He is with a limb of the Gravestone, York Tune, the Red Cross of Constantine, the Imperial Categorize of Scotland, and the Coupled Masonic Degrees.
QUESTIONS: You can familiarity Chris Kimmel, PM, chairman at:
812.886.4763 - home/812.881.8983 - cell/812.882.5973 - dynasty
Email - kimmel.chris@gmail. com / Farmhouse website - http://www.vincennes1.org
From the Vincennes Farmhouse No. 1 website:
From Masonic citations we learn that Masonry came to Indiana Royal, which is now the states of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan, by way of our sister take part in, Kentucky.
To Vincennes Farmhouse No. 1, F. & A.M.,was prearranged the celebrity of nucleus the oldest Masonic Farmhouse in regular existance in the Indiana Royal. As before as 1807, oppressive Masons pleasing to form a Farmhouse in Vincennes and did assertion the Proud Farmhouse of Kentucky for a Warrant. In January 1808 the requested allowance was arranged, but territory out cold close of the celebrate, and the allowance expired. The Proud Farmhouse of Kentucky issued a instantaneous allowance in September of 1808, and on Walk 13, 1809, Brother Jonathon Taylor, Exterior Master of Abraham's Farmhouse No. 8, of Louisville, Kentucky, installed the officers and set the craft to work. The officers installed were William Jones, WM, John Caldwell, SW, and Nationwide Washington Johnston, JW.
On September 7, 1809, the dynasty was ever constituted as Vincennes Farmhouse No. 15, F. & A.M. under a charter issued by the Proud Farmhouse of Kentucky. The Inventive officers installed under the new charter were Brothers George Wallace, WM, William Jones, SW, Nationwide W. Johnston, JW, Parmenas Beckes, the Treasurer, John D. Hays, Secretary, Charles Smith, SD, Jonathon Crowd, JD, Peter Jones, Keeper, and Charles Fisher, Tyler.
At a original seminar understood in Corydon on December 3, 1817, Nationwide W. Johnston as a diplomat of Vincennes Farmhouse No. 15, with gathering from the Lodges to be found at Salem, Madison, Vevay, Lawrenceburg, Charlestown, Revolution Sun, Corydon, and Brookville, adopted the following resolution: "That it is tactful and advisable that a Proud Farmhouse obligation be at this time formed in the Scrutinize of Indiana. Follow to be prearranged to the Proud Master of Kentucky."
The seminar for the beyond repair celebrate of the M.W. Proud Farmhouse of Indiana was understood at Madison, Indiana, January 12,1818, at which time Brother Alexander Buckner was select our first Utmost Respectful Master. On January 13, 1818, Vincennes Farmhouse was nominated No. 1, and Brother Nationwide W. Johnston was awaited to swear in Brother Elihu Hefty as the first Respectful Master of Vincennes Farmhouse No. 1, F. & A.M.
Nationwide W. Johnston was the greatest immense limb of this dynasty and it was through his innermost pains that Freemasonry was brought appearing in Indiana Royal. In the take part in, Brother Johnston was a man of accent and took an active part in the formation of Scrutinize and Territorial Representatives. It is thought the few men, if any, did more to expand respectable legislation to start the wheels of Scrutinize Representatives moving in the authorize classify than he.
