SOCIAL: Master’s Table Dinner | Corner Brewery
If you are free and interested in learning more about Ann Arbor Fraternity No. 262, be sure to stop by Wednesday at 6:30PM for dinner and fellowship at our monthly Masters Table dinner.
Corner Brewery is a cozy microbrewery, located in Ypsilanti, MI - just north of the Depot Town area. Large tables, laughs and a menu full of both food and drink await you!
Our Master’s Table Dinners are monthly social events and are open to ALL Masons, candidates, their male friends and those interested in Freemasonry.
Corner Brewery
720 Norris Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48198
http://www.cornerbrewery.com
MORE INFO: http://bit.ly/2010-04-masters-table
Famous Masons
This list is by no means complete, but it indicates some of the world’s great leaders who are known to have been Men and Masons.
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke - Founder/publisher “Chicago Defender”
Allen, Richard - Founder/first bishop AME Church
Armstrong, Louis - Brilliant jazz musician
Armstrong, Neil - Astronaut, first man to walk on the moon
Atkins, Chet - Musician
Basie, William “Count” - Musician, orchestra leader/composer
Bellamy, Rev. Francis - Authored U.S. Pledge of Allegiance
Blake, James Herbert “Eubie” - Composer/pianist
Bond, Julian - National Chairman of the NAACP
Booth, Rev. William - Founder of the Salvation Army
Bosch, Hieronymus - Renaissance Surrealist painter
Bradley, Thomas - Former mayor of Los Angeles, California
Brundridge, Avery - Olympic Committee
Bryan, Richard - U.S. Senator
Burns, Conrad - U.S. Senator
Burns, Robert- National poet of Scotland
Burton, Harold H. - Supreme Court Justice
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - Flew over North Pole
Byrd, Robert - U.S. Senator
Byrnes, James F. - Supreme Court Justice
Caine, Michael - Actor
Calvo, Father Francisco - Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
Carnahan, Melvin - Governor of Missouri
Carson, Christopher “Kit” - Frontiersman, scout and explorer
Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer
Catton, John - Supreme Court Justice
Cheney, Richard - Vice President of U.S. under President George W. Bush
Chrysler, Walter P. - Automotive fame
Churchill, Winston - British Leader
Citroen, Andre - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Clark, Roy - Country Western Star
Clark, Thomas C. - Supreme Court Justice
Clark, William - Explorer
Clarke, John H. - Supreme Court Justice
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - writer
Clinton, DeWitt - Governor and founder of Public School System (NY)
Cobb, Ty - Baseball Player
Cody, “Buffalo Bill” William - Indian fighter, Wild West Show
Cohan, George M. - Broadway star
Cole, Nat ‘King’ - Great ballad singer
Collodi, Carlo - Writer of ‘Pinocchio’
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor
Combs, Earle Bryan - Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooper, Gordon - Astronaut
Crockett, David - American Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Cushing, William - Supreme Court Justice
DeMille, Cecil B. - Movie director
Dempsey, Jack - Sports
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Devanter, Willis Van - Supreme Court Justice
Diefenbaker, John G. - Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
Disney, Walt - Cartoonist/movies
Dole, Robert - US Senator
Doolittle, General James - Famous Air Force Pilot
Douglas, William O. - Supreme Court Justice
Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical Co.
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes
Drake, Edwin L - American Pioneer of the Oil industry
DuBois, W.E.B. - Educator/scholar
Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of the Red Cross
Edward VII - King of England
Edward VIII - King of England who abdicated the throne in less than 1 year
Ellington, Duke - Composer, Arranger and Stylist
Ellsworth, Oliver - Supreme Court Justice
Ervin Jr, Samual J. - Headed “Watergate” committee
Evers, Medger Wiley - Civil rights leader
Faber, Eberhard - Head of the famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor
Field, Stephen J. - Supreme Court Justice
Fields, W.C. - Actor
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 - 1961
Fitch, John - Inventor of the Steamboat
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Invented Penicillin
Ford, Gerald R. - President of the U.S.
Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Forten, James - Abolitionist/manufacturer
Fortune, Timothy Thomas - Journalist
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
Gable, Clark - Actor
Garfield, James A. - President of the U.S.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe - Italian freedom fighter
Gatling, Richard J. - Built the “Gatling Gun”
George VI - King of England during W.W. II
Gibbon, Edward - Writer; authored ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
Gilbert, Sir William S. - Was the librettist for “Pirates of Penzance”
Gillette, King C. - Gillette Razor Co.
Glenn, John H. - First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Godfrey, Arthur - Actor
Goldwater, Barry - Former U.S. Senator
Grassley, Charles - U.S. Senator
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of “Little Orphan Annie”
Grissom, Virgil - Astronaut
Grock - Swiss Circus Clown
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace - Inventor of the “Guillotine”
Haley, Alex - Author of Acclaimed TV Series “Roots” and other works
Hampton, Lionel - Orchestra leader/composer
Hancock, John - 1 of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independance
Handel, George Fredrick - Musical Composer
Handy, William C. - Composer “Father of the Blues”
Harding, Warren G. - President of the U.S.
Hardy, Oliver - Actor - Comedian
Harlan, John M. - Supreme Court Justice
Harvey, Paul - Radio personality
Hatfield, Mark - U.S. Senator
Hawkins, Augustus F. - U.S. Congressman California
Haydn, Franz Joseph - Austrian composer, master of the symphonic movement
Hedges, Cornelius - “Father” of Yellowstone National Park
Helms, Jesse - U.S. Senator
Henry, Patrick - Patriot
Henson, Josiah - Inspired the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Henson, Matthew - explorer
Hilton, Charles C. - American Hotelier
Hoban, James - Architect for the U.S. Capitol and White House
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotory press, revolutionized newspaper printing
Hollings, Ernest - U.S. Senator
Hooks, Benjamin L. - Former Executive Director NAACP
Hoover, Frank - Vaccum cleaner fame
Hoover, J. Edgar - Director of FBI
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Hornsby, Rogers - Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Houdini, Harry - Magician
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Humphrey, Hubert H. - Vice President of the U.S.
Irwin, Jim - Astronaut
Ives, Burl - American Actor, Television and Movies
Jackson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Jackson, Reverend Jesse - Minister; Civil Rights Leader
Jackson, Robert H. - Supreme Court Justice
James, Daniel “Chappie” - General U.S. Air Force
Jenner, Edward - Inventor of Vaccination
Johnson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Johnson, John H. - Publisher, EBONY and Jet magazines
Johnston, Jr. , J. Bennett - U.S. Senator
Jolson, Al - Actor in the first audio motion picture, ‘the Jazz Singer’
Jones, Anson - 5th President of the Republic of Texas
Jones, John Paul - Naval Commander
Jones, Melvin - One of the founders of the Lions International
Juarez, Benito - President of Mexico
Keaton, Buster - Movie pioneer
Kemp, Jack - Quarterback Buffalo Bills, Congressman
Key, Francis Scott - Authored the words to the U.S. National Anthem
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Knox, Henry - Revolutionary War General
Lafayette, Marquis de - Supporter of American Freedom
Lake, Simon - Built first submarine which was successful in the open sea
Lamar, Joseph E. - Supreme Court Justice
Lamar, Mirabeau B. - 3rd President of the Republic of Texas
Land, Frank S. - Founder of the Order of DeMolay
Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer
Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Tea
Livingston, Robert - Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory
Lloyd, Harold C. - Entertainer
Lopez, Antonio (de Santa Anna) - Military leader in Texas-Mexico battles
Lott, Trent - U.S. Senator
MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander of Armed Forces in Phillipines
MacDonald, Sir John A. - Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
Marshall, James W. - Discovered Gold at Sutter’s Mill California 1848
Marshall, John - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 - 1835
Marshall, Thurgood - Supreme Court Justice
Mathews, Stanley - Supreme Court Justice
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mayo, Dr. William and Charles - Began Mayo Clinic
Mays, Benjamin - Educator/former president Atlanta University
Maytag, Fredrick - Consumer Home Appliances Corporate Pioneer
McKinley, William - President of the U.S.
Menninger, Karl A. - Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Mesmer, Franz Anton - practiced Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism
Metcalfe, Ralph H. - Olympic champion, 1932 & 1936
Mfume, Kweisi - President and CEO of the NAACP
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Miller, Glenn - Musician
Minton, Sherman - Supreme Court Justice
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor; he starred in over 400 western films
Monroe, James - President of the U.S.
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
Moody, William H. - Supreme Court Justice
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Murphy, Audie - Most decorated American Soldier of WWII
Naismith, James - Inventor of Basketball
Nelson, Samuel - Supreme Court Justice
New, Harry S. - Postmaster General who established Airmail
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian Minister
Nunn, Sam - U.S. Senator
Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer
Otis, James - Famous for “Taxations without Representation is Tyranny”
Palmer, Arnold - Golf Pro
Papst, Charles F. - Coined the term “Athletes Foot”
Paterson, William - Supreme Court Justice
Peale, Norman Vincent - Founder of “Guidepost” Magazine
Peary, Robert E. - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Penney, James C. - Retailer (JCPenney)
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Pike, Albert - American poet, attorney, frontiersman and Confederate general
Pippen, Scottie - Modern American Athlete (#33, Chicago Bulls Forward)
Pitney, Mahlon - Supreme Court Justice
Poinsett, Joel R. - U.S. Minister to Mexico who developed the Poinsettia flower
Polk, James Knox - President of the U.S.
Pullman, George - Built first sleeping car on train.
Pushkin, Aleksander - Russian Poet
Reed, Stanley F. - Supreme Court Justice
Revere, Paul - Famous American Patriot
Rhodes, Cecil - “Rhodes Scholarship”
Richards, Michael - Comedian and Actor (“Kramer” on Seinfeld)
Richardson, Elliot - Attorney General
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Great American Air Force Ace
Rickey, Branch - Baseball legend
Ringling Brothers - Circus performers; All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Robinson, Sugar Ray - American boxer
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will - of Cherokee ancestry, Actor and American political humorist
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - President of the U.S.
Roosevelt, Theodore - President of the U.S.
Rutledge, Wiley B. - Supreme Court Justice
Salten, Felix - Creator of Disney’s “Bambi”
San Martin, Jose - Political Leader and “Liberator” of South America
Sanders, Harland - “Colonel Sanders” of KFC Fame
Sarnoff, David - Father of Television
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Schirra, Wally - Astronaut
Schoonover, George - Founder of “The Builder”
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sellers, Peter - Comedian, Actor
Seneca - Native American war chief, also known as Red Jacket
Shakespeare, William - Writer
Sibelius, Jean - Composer (Finland)
Simpson, Alan - U.S. Senator
Skelton, Red - Entertainer
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Stanford, Leland - Drove the gold spike linking the intercontinental railroad; also Stanford University
Starr, Bart - Football legend
Stewart, Potter - Supreme Court Justice
Still, Andrew T. - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Stokes, Carl B. - Former mayor, Cleveland, OH
Stokes, Louis - U.S. Congressman Ohio
Stratton, Charles “Tom Thumb” - Entertainer
Swayne, Noah H. - Supreme Court Justice
Switzer, Carl “Alfalfa” - Child Actor from “Our Gang / Little Rascals”
Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver’s Travels
Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S.
Tecumseh - Great chief and unifier of North American native tribes
Teets, John W. - Chairman and President of Dial Corporation
Thomas, Craig - U.S. Senator
Thomas, Danny - Raised and gave millions for children’s medical research
Thomas, Dave - Founder of Wendys Restaurant
Thomas, Lowell - Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Thompson, Tommy - Governor of Wisconsin
Thurmond, Strom - U.S. Senator
Tillis, Mel - Musician
Todd, Thomas - Supreme Court Justice
Tolstoi, Leo - Author
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
Trimble, Robert - Supreme Court Justice
Truman, Harry S. - President of the U.S.
Vinson, Frederick M. - Supreme Court Justice
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Von Goethe, Johannes - German poet, author of “Faust”
Von Tirpitz, Alfred - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - Tallest human on record being; almost 9 feet tall
Wagner, Honus - Baseball legend
Wallace, Governor George C. - Presidential Candidate who was nearly assassinated
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote “Ben Hur”
Wallenda, Enrico - Circus legend
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Warren, Earl - Supreme Court Justice
Washington, Booker T. - Educator and author
Washington, George - First President of US
Wayne, John - Actor
Webb, Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wells, H. G. - Author
Whiteman, Paul - “King of Jazz”
Williams, Egbert Austin “Bert” - Actor/ comedian
Williamson, Harry A. - Author/Masonic historian
Woodbury, Levi - Supreme Court Justice
Woods, William B. - Supreme Court Justice
Wyler, William - Director of “Ben Hur”
Young, Andrew - Former mayor of Atlanta, GA
Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933
Ziegfeld, Florenz - His Ziegfeld’s Follies began in 1907
