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The Masonic Book Club, Vol. 21: Masonic Odes and Poems

The Masonic Book Club, Vol. 21: Masonic Odes and Poems

Morris, Rob
Carr, Robin L.

Paperback

Historical FiguresSecret SocietiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1637236700
ISBN13: 9781637236703
Publisher: Westphalia Press
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It wasn't long before he adopted the Morris name and became a part of that family. Several years later, when he began his prolific writing career, Robert Williams Morris decided to change his first name to Rob so as not to be confused with the famous Robert Morris of Revolutionary fame. Of his younger years we know little, but the young man soon became a teacher at the Sylvan Academy in Oxford, Mississippi where he petitioned and joined Oxford Lodge No. 33 being raised to Master Mason on March 3, 1845. It seems that in that place young Rob developed a love for the principles and ritual of Freemasonry for he joined and received all the degrees in both the York and Scottish Rites and began to lecture about the craft. Just thirteen short years later Rob Morris was the Grand Master of Kentucky, 1858-59. Although Morris taught in the schools of Kentucky and Mississippi, he was a civil engineer and geologist by profession and a soldier when ever needed. Yet, it would seem that he actually made his livelihood by teaching and writing about Freemasonry. His travels were legend. He traveled throughout all of the United States and through much of Canada. He visited the Holy Land and established a Lodge in 1873 in that land. It was called Royal Solomon Lodge and it was said that Rob Morris became its first Worshipful Master in 1873 in a ceremony held in what was purported to be King Solomon's Quarry beneath the city of Jerusalem. This Lodge which was chartered under the Grand Lodge of Canada stumbled along for several years and finally closed its doors in 1907.

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