William Taft

William Taft

Brother William Taft September 15th 1857 – March 8th 1930 Member of: Kilwinning Lodge #356 in Cincinnati, Ohio Served as the 27th President of the United States and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the only person to have held both...
Oscar I

Oscar I

Brother Oscar I of Sweden July 4th 1799 – July 8th 1859 Past Grand Master of Norwegian Order of Freemasons King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his...
Charles Smith

Charles Smith

Brother Charles Smith February 9th 1897 – November 8th 1935 Member of: Lodge Gascoyne, #62, Gascoyne. Austrilia Australian aviator. In 1928, he earned global fame when he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. He also made the first...
Benjamin Latrobe

Benjamin Latrobe

Brother Benjamin Latrobe May 1st 1764 – September 3rd 1820 Member of: Lodge of Antiquity #2, London, England Later a Lodge in Richmond, Virginia British subject and neoclassical architect. Latrobe was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the...
Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Brother Ernest Shackleton February 15th 1874 – January 5th 1922 Member of: Navy Lodge # 2612, London, England Polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic...