Brother Moses Cleaveland January 29th 1754 – November 16th 1806 Member of: Moriah Lodge #15, Brooklyn , Connecticut Lawyer, politician, soldier and surveyor, from Connecticut who founded the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Western Reserve in...
Brother John James Audubon April 26th 1785 – January 27th 1851 In 1905, the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor. Its mission “is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on...
Brother Virgil “Gus” Grissom April 3rd 1926 – January 27th 1967 Member of: Mitchell Lodge # 228 Mitchell, Indiana One of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, a United States Air Force test pilot and a mechanical engineer. He was the second...
Brother William Clark August 1st 1770 – September 1st 1838 Member of: St. Louis Lodge #111 St. Louis Missouri American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in Prestatehood, Kentucky before later settling in what...
Brother Wally Schirra March 12th 1923 – May 3rd 2007 Member of: Canaveral Lodge # 339 Cocoa Beach, Florida American naval officer and aviator, and one of the original Mercury 7 chosen. He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962,...
