Item 104220 - Strathglass Commandery parade, Rumford Falls, 1908
- Item 104220 - Strathglass Commandery parade, Rumford Falls, 1908
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- Item 104220
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Image Info This postcard shows the Strathglass Commandery, No. 21 (Rumford Royal Arch Chapter, Knights Templar), parading through Rumford Falls and across Memorial Bridge on June 24, 1908.
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The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar for Maine was organized on May 5, 1852. In 1908, the officers of the Strathglass Commandery were Oliver A. Pettengill, Commander; Gerald A. Peabody, Generalissimo; and Ralph M. Woodsum, Captain General, as noted at the fifty-seventh annual conclave held at Masonic Hall in Portland on May 7, 1908. At that time, the Strathglass Commandery had 146 members.