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Andrew Johnson wearing the uniform of a Knight Templar.. Andrew Jackson - 7th President of the United States.Likely initiated in St. Tammany Lodge #1 between 1788 and 1800; Royal Arch Mason, likely receiving the degrees in lodge, but was never a member of a Chapter; Grand Master of Tennessee in 1822, 1823.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee established the Masonic University in Clarksville, Tennessee, for the education of the children and orphans of indigent Masons. [1]: 87 The Masonic University began operation 1849 as the "Masonic College" with an enrollment of 105 students.
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Author of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1723) and The New Book of Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons (1738) [36] Joseph Anderson (1757–1837), U.S. senator from Tennessee and first comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. Military Lodge No. 19 of Pennsylvania and Lodge No. 36 in the New Jersey ...
Masonic Hall was a two-story brick building with a large hall on the first floor, and smaller apartments on the second floor for use by lodges and the Holy Royal Arch Chapter. [3]: 76 The Tennessee General Assembly met in Masonic Hall from 1824 until 1853 when it moved into the Tennessee State Capitol. [4]: 110 Masonic Hall burned in 1856.
Overton was a prominent Tennessee jurist and Freemason, who practiced law with another young lawyer and Freemason, Andrew Jackson. On my way to this place the gentlemen of Rogersville requested me to procure from the Grand Lodge of No Caro: a dispensation for a masonic lodge at that place.
The building was acquired by the state of Tennessee and repurposed as the Middle Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital in 1941. [2] It was used as offices for the Tennessee Department of Health in the 1970s and 1980s. [2] [5] The property was unoccupied from 1999 to 2009, when the state of Tennessee suggested demolishing it to save money. [6]