On November 30, 1864, in the City of New York, Baron August Hugo de Bulow, Sovereign Grand Inspector General, and an active member of the Supreme Council of France, A.A.S.R., organized a Supreme Council of the State of New York, which title was subsequently changed to the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, of the 33rd and last degree of the A.A.S.R. for the United States of America, its territories and dependencies. The officers were as follows:

                    Baron August Hugo de Bulow                                                      Sovereign Grand Commander

                Patrick Reason                                                                           Lieutenant Grand Commander

                Dr. Peter W. Ray                                                                  Adjoint Lieut. Grand Commander

                Ramson Wake                                                                                                    Grand Orator

                George Lawrence                                                                                           Grand Secretary

                Alexander Peters                                                                                   Master of Ceremonies

Baron Auguste Hugo de Bulow served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council from 1864 to 1870; from 1870 to 1879, Patrick Reason; from 1879 to 1892, Dr. Peter W. Ray, he being recorded as the third Sovereign Grand Commander; from 1892 to 1897, A.B. Allen; from 1897 to 1911, D.F. Seville; from 1911 to 1920, H.M. Rennick; from 1920 to 1948, Dr. W.H. Benderson; from 1948 to 1973, Dr. Wm. J. Fitzpatrick; from 1973 to 1989, Illustrious John H. Burns; from 1989  to 1995, Illustrious James M. Boone; from 1995 to present, Illustrious James L. Headd, M.P.S.G.C.

 

Baron Auguste Hugo de Bulow conferred the Scottish Rite Degrees on four other brethren and created them Deputy Inspectors General, 33rd degree, as follows:

                Dr. Peter W. Ray                                                                                              for New York

                Jonathan Miller                                                                                              for Pennsylvania

                Levi Anderson                                                                                                    for Delaware

                Lemuel G. Griffin                                                                                                for Maryland

On October 17, 1898, during the administration of D.F. Seville as Sovereign Grand Commander, the Supreme Council was incorporated in Washington, District of Columbia, under the name of National Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of A.A.S.R. 33rd of North America, bearing Instrument No. 3149, recorded in Volume 8, folio 341, of the incorporated records of the District of Columbia.

The above original incorporation was continued in perpetuity on October 14, 1948, by certificate of re-incorporation of the National Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the A.A.S.R. 3rd degree, for North America, bearing Instrument No. 32049 and recorded in Volume 69, folio 389, of the incorporation records of the District of Columbia, That is the incorporation under which it operates at the present time.

 

The foregoing, according to recent research, being the most accurate history of the National Supreme Council, all other versions of said history as hereinafter given will be corrected to conform herewith.

 

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