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In 1872 he was appointed as a pension agent at Portland, Maine. He served as commander of the Department of Maine of the Grand Army of the Republic. He also served as commander of the Maine Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 1880, he became adjutant general of the Maine state militia, and
He became a master mason at the Ancient Land-Mark Lodge No. 17 in Portland, Maine on January 13, 1888. [2] He served as the Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Maine, Knights Templar (Freemasonry), in 1909. [2] He received the 32° as a Scottish Rite mason on January 31, 1889.
In 2013, the headquarters building was sold to the town of Lexington, [18] with the offices of the Sovereign Grand Commander moving into the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library located next door. In December 2023, Past Sovereign Grand Commander, David Glattly criticized the Supreme Council over internal bickering and financial mismanagement ...
At this point, the organization was known as the Knights of the Star of Bethlehem. The Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania was instituted in 1870 and the Eminent Grand Commandery of North America in 1871. The order prospered for a while but membership declined between 18778 and 1884 and the organization was reorganized under the above name.
While he was vice president, he served as a corporal with Company A of the Maine State Guard (a.k.a. Maine Coast Guards) at Fort McClary in Kittery, Maine from July to September 1864. Vice President Henry Wilson , who served under President Grant from 1873 until he died in 1875, was colonel of the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ...
In January 1880, there was a dispute about who was the newly elected governor of Maine, and the Maine State House was occupied by a band of armed men. The outgoing governor, Alonzo Garcelon, summoned Chamberlain, the commander of the Maine Militia, to take charge. Chamberlain sent home the armed men, and arranged for the Augusta police to keep ...
The 20th Maine and the adjacent 83rd Pennsylvania together captured many men from both Alabama regiments (including Lt. Col. Michael Bulger, commander of the 47th), [4] as well as several other men of the 4th Alabama and 4th and 5th Texas regiments of the same division. Had the 20th Maine retreated from the hill, the entire Union line would ...
As Past Grandmaster in 1877, he published the Maine Masonic Text Book, which is still used by the Grand Lodge of Maine today. [ 6 ] In the Scottish Rite , Northern Masonic Jurisdiction , he was Lieutenant Grand Commander from 1862 to 1863 and Sovereign Grand Commander from 1867 to 1878, the first SGC after the Union of 1867.