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%#! Ibid , 21 .
%##! Titus Elwood David , A Century of Freemasonry , 42 .
%###! Staff Report , “ Architect ’ s Comments at the Cornerstone Ceremony ”, The Voice of Freemasonry , Vol . 23 No . 2 , 6 .
%#$! Christopher Weeks , AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington , D . C ., Johns
Hopkins University Press , Baltimore and London , 1974,113-114 . Weeks is incorrect in stating that the 13th Street building was given up because it was too small ; the loss of the building was because of decreased income .
%$! See Ralph H . Gauker , History of the Scottish Rite Bodies in the District of Columbia , Centennial Edition , Mithra Lodge of Perfection , Washington , D . C ., 1970 , 1-74 .
%$#! Donald B . Cole , John J . McDonough eds ., Benjamin Brown French , Witness to the
Young Republic : A Yankee ’ s Journal , 1828-1870 , University Press of New England , Hanover and London , 1989 , 165 , 189-1909 , 211 , 303 .
%$##! John Vergalia , “ Benjamin B . French ”, Voice of Freemasonry , Vol . 20 No . 3 , 13 .
%$###! Bro . French was a close friend of Albert Pike and worked incessantly to get him a
pardon the Civil War . Fred W . Allsopp , Albert Pike , Parke-Harper Company , Little Rock , Arkansas , 1928 , 180 , 220 .
%#%! Vergalia , “ Benjamin B . French ”, 13 .
%%! Bro . French may have been the only Grand Master of the Grand Lodge to be
impersonated after his death : Grand Master Renah Camalier costumed himself up as French for the 100th anniversary observation of Washington Centennial Lodge No . 14 . Robert F . Ensslin , Centennial Celebration : Washington Centennial Lodge , Gibson Brothers , Washington , 1953 , 6 . Bro . Camalier , who while in the Navy during World War II was assigned to be stenographer for President Franklin Roosevelt , gave the Japanese Pagoda by the Tidal Basin . A personal gift to him in 1957 , he donated it to the city . “ Japanese Pagoda ”, http :// citywalkingguide . com / westnationalmall / japanesepagoda , ac . 3 Dec 2010 . He deposited his FD memorabilia in the National Archives : ARC Identifier 558734 / Local Identifier DM-CAMAL-M103 . Chief Rabban of Alamas Temple , he was successful in involving President Truman in Shriner charities .!
%%#! Vergalia , “ Benjamin B . French ”, op cit .
%%##! Steven C . Bullock , Revolutionary Brotherhood : Freemasonry and the
Transformation of the American Social Order , 1730-1840 , University of North Carolina Press , Chapel Hill & London , 1996 , 316 . Bullock hypothesizes that anti-Masonry changed Masonry itself , forcing it to be more acceptable to the public .
%%###! For an overview of Victorian Freemasonry see Mark C . Phillips , “ The Influence of Victorian Progress on Scottish Rite Freemasonry ”, Heredom , Vol . 16 , 2008 , 101 ff .
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