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Knight Templar Grand Jurisdictions of the United States
For All Members of the Order of the Temple.
Admitted to the Union.
Organized Grand Com’nd’ry.
Grand Recorders.
States.
Name.
Post Office.
Alabama
1819
1862
E. R. Hastings
Montgomery.
Arkansas
1836
1872
James A. Henry
Little Rock.
California
1850
1858
T. H. Caswell
San Francisco
Colorado
1876
1876
E. C. Parmelee
Denver.
Connecticut
1827
Joseph K. Wheeler
Hartford.
Georgia
1860
S. P. Hamilton
Savannah.
Illinois
1818
1857
Gil. W. Barnard
Chicago.
Indiana
1816
1854
W. H. Smythe
Indianapolis.
Iowa
1846
1864
Alfred Wingate
Des Moines
Kansas
1861
1868
Dwight Byington
Leavenworth.
Kentucky
1792
1847
L. D. Croninger
Covington.
Louisiana
1812
1864
Richard Lambert
New Orleans.
Maine
1820
1852
Stephen Berry
Portland.
Maryland
1871
J. H. Miller
Baltimore.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island
1805
Benjamin W. Rowell
Lynn.
Michigan
1837
1857
John A. Gerow
Detroit.
Minnesota
1858
1865
Thomas Montgomery
St. Paul.
Mississippi
1817
1857
John L. Power
Jackson.
Missouri
1821
1860
William H. Mayo
St. Louis.
Montana
1889
1888
Cornelius Hedges
Helena.
Nebraska
1867
1871
William R. Bowen
Omaha.
New Hampshire
1860
George P. Cleaves
Concord.
New Jersey
1860
Charles Bechtel
Trenton.
New York
1840
Robert Macoy
Brooklyn.
North Carolina
1881
H. H. Munson
Wilmington.
North Dakota
1889
1890
F. J. Thompson
Fargo.
Ohio
1802
1843
John N. Bell
Dayton.
Oregon
1859
1887
J. F. Robinson
Eugene City.
Pennsylvania
1844
M. H. Smith
Philadelphia.
South Dakota
1889
1884
W. H. Holt
Sioux Falls.
Tennessee
1796
1859
Wilbur F. Foster
Nashville.
Texas
1845
1855
Robert Brewster
Houston.
Vermont
1791
1831
W. G. Reynolds Burlington.
Virginia
1822
William B. Isaacs
Richmond.
Washington
1889
1887
Yancy C. Blalock
Walla Walla.
West Virginia
1863
1874
R. C. Dunuington
Fairmont.
Wisconsin
1848
1859
J. W. Laflin
Milwaukee.
Wyoming
1890
1888
A. J. Parshall
Cheyenne.