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Happy Birthday, Brother Wayne
Posted by Mark 26 May 2007
Today marks the 100th birthday of John Wayne, and tinseltown is really going to town over it. I am sure we will all see plenty of this today and in the coming week with reviews and screenings of his many films. Perhaps not many people know that as well as being a legendary and iconic Hollywood star he was also an active Freemason. Wayne, a member of Glendale DeMolay Chapter at high school, was initiated in July 1970 into Marion McDaniel Lodge No. 56 in Tucson, Arizona. Later that year he also joined the York Rite and became an active Shriner at the Al Malaikah Shrine Temple in Los Angeles. He was born on 26th May 1907, and died on 11th June 1979.
In fact, sticking with the Alamo theme, many early American heroes were Freemasons, including:
- James Bowie. Famous American frontiersman, died at the Alamo. Humble Cottage Lodge No. 19, Opelousas, Louisiana.
- Christopher "Kit" Carson. American frontiersman. Montezuma Lodge No. 109, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Moses Cleaveland. American pioneer, soldier and lawyer. Initiated in a military lodge and the became W. Master of Moriah Lodge, Connecticut.
- William F Cody. (Buffalo Bill). American frontiersman and Indian scout. Platte Valley Lodge No. 15 Nebraska.
- Samuel Colt. American manufacturer. Most famous for hand guns.
- Davey Crockett. American frontiersman. Gained immortality at the Alamo.
- Richard J Gatling. American inventor of the repeating gun. Center Lodge No. 23, Indianapolis.
- Sam Houston. American pioneer and first president of Texas. Cumberland Lodge No. 8, Nashville, Tennessee.
- William B Travis. American commander at the Alamo. Alabama Lodge No. 3, Claiborne, Alabama.
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