This President was only one of two US Presidents to be Grand Master of their State Jurisdiction. He was Grand Master of Tennessee.

This symbol represents a method of control of an initiate, and is removed when love and care replace the need for physical control.

This Grand Master of Masons of Massachusetts was famous for a midnight ride at the beginning of the American Revolution.

This year, eleven representatives from the three Masonic Lodges in the Territory of Nebraska convened to form the Grand Lodge of Nebraska?

The minimum age requirement in Nebraska to petition a Lodge for membership.

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This President was made a Master Mason in 1909. Two years later in 1911 he helped form a new Masonic Lodge and was it's first Worshipful Master. He served as Secretary of his Lodge from 1912 to 1916 when he was elected Master again.

This is a symbol of obligation and a reminder to him who gives it to remember his promises. It is universally used as a salute to the Master.

The third Chief Justice of the United States, serving in that office 34 years with great integrity. He was also Grand Master of Virginia.

In November of 1854 several Masons met at Green, Kenney and Co's log store located in St. Marys, Iowa for the purpose of taking the initial steps to procure a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Illinois to form this first Lodge in the Nebraska Territory.

The document given to brethren who are members of a lodge under dispensation, who have demonstrated their fitness to receive this document empowering them to work as Masons.

The founder of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, Laurence Dermott, wrote this Book of Constitutions for his Grand Lodge in 1756. When the Ancients and the Moderns merged in 1813, this Book of Constitutions ceased to be used in England. But to this day some Grand Lodges in America still apply this name to their Constitutions.

This President's four sons all became Master Masons. One in 1933, two in 1935 and the last was raised 1953.

Bro. Carl Claudy states that superstition in the middle ages maintained that a man's body must be buried while perfect, if his soul were to go to heaven. The destroyed, eaten flesh of a body prevented resurrection. Masonry has used this idea as a symbol of a penalty if we fail to stay true to our obligations.

This Mason served in the Army, studied law and passed the bar and became District Attorney, a defender of the American Indian, elected to Congress, elected Governor of Tennessee, was Commander-in-Chief of Texas Army in 1836, elected President of the Republic of Texas, and probably saved the life of fellow Freemason, the defeated Santa Anna from the angry Texans.

On May 29th, 1855 Brethren met to form this second lodge in the Nebraska Territory, under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Missouri, and it was named after its first Worshipful Master.

These are the final words of the Regius Poem and mean "So may it be."

This President was proud of the fact that he enjoyed attending lodge and meeting on the level with his brothers from all walks of life. He especially enjoyed attending his Lodge during the time period when the Worshipful Master of his Lodge was the gardener of and estate adjoining this Presidents estate.

If the Lodge is considered as a symbol of the world, then this symbol denotes the universality of Masonry.

This Mason undertook the assignment to organize the teachings of the Old Charges into a modern form of Constitutions in 1723 and then revised them in 1738?

On January 26th, 1857 nineteen Master Masons met in the home of Brother George Armstrong under authority of a dispensation from the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Iowa to form this third Lodge in the Nebraska Territory.

Except to conduct a funeral, open installation of lodge officers, or the dedication of Masonic temples with Masonic ceremonies, and for the laying of a cornerstone with Masonic ceremonies, no meeting of a subordinate lodge shall be held on this day.

This President's administration was so popular he did not have an opponent in 1820, which has happened at only one other time, when Washington was elected. He was made an Entered Apprentice Mason at the age of 17.

This is a symbol of control of conduct, a standard of right living. Operative Masons used this to test a perfect square or "try a square."

This Mason traveled throughout England, recording and committing to memory the various forms of ritualistic work being used by the many Masonic Lodges. In 1772 he publishedIllustrations of Masonry, a series of lectures, which perfected the Masonic ritual used at the time.

One Hundred and Thirteen of these old documents are known to exist, and spell out many of the earliest known details or regulations of Freemasonry.

A rejected petitioner for initiation must wait this period of time before he may repetition the Lodge.