KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIR

York CLE, society formed in U. 8. A. during PoliCivil War to stop the war; membershjj liquor about 250,000. last states KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, a branch o a embly the Masonic order. Different theorie organize, have been advanced as to the origin o the the Knights Templar, of their first con workers nection with the Masons and the develop they ment of the a ociation as it is today for a Can they claim descent from the Oru statistics, saders of the Middle Ages? Enquirer labor must be referred to literature on th convict subject. The earliest reference to th rights, Knights Templar in the United State as allied to Masonry fs in a ‘Lodge Warrant” of the Royal Arch Lodge, Boston, Ma ., August 25, 1769. The first in England was the Phoenix Lodge, October 21, 1778, and in Scotland, the Kilwinning Lodge, October, 1779. The Grand Lodge of York authorized the degree Knight Templar in 1780. A Grand Lodge of Knights Templar in the United States was instituted June 11, 1816. Wherever the British soldiers were encamped in that period lodges sprung up. Grand Master L. P. Newby, $15,426, 1922.