Brother Frederick Schwatka September 29, 1849 – November 2, 1892 Member of: St. John’s Lodge No. 37, Yreka, California Brother Frederick Schwatka was a United States Army lieutenant with degrees in medicine and law and a noted explorer of northern Canada and...
Brother Giovanni Casanova April 2nd 1725 – June 4th 1798 Initiated: 1750 Lyons, France Raised: 1750 Paris, France Brother Giovanni Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is...
Brother Oscar Wilde October 16th 1854 – November 30th 1900 Member of: Apollo University Lodge #357, Oxford England Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of...
Brother Arthur Doyle May 22nd 1859 – July 7th 1930 Member of: Phoenix Lodge #257 Southsea, Hampshire British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first...
Brother Lew Wallace April 10th 1827 – February 15th 1905 Member of: Fountain Lodge #60 Covington, Indiana American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels...
