Joseph L. Shell Daylight Lodge No. 837

Free and Accepted Masons

      Masons are men of good character who strive to improve themselves and make the world a better place; men who go about their jobs and professions with no hint they are Freemasons except for the way they lead their lives.  They are leaders who made great contribution to the world and made a difference for the betterment of humanity and country.

 MASONIC PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

George Washington, PM; Andrew Jackson, PGM; James Knox Polk; James Buchanan, PM; Andrew Johnson; James Abram Garfield; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Warren Gamaliel Harding; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman, PGM; and Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 33 Degree.

MASONIC SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Benjamin Franklin; George Walton; Robert Treat Paine; Joseph Hewes; William Hooper; John Hancock; William Whipple; and Richard Stockton.

MASONIC SIGNERS OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

Daniel Carroll; Jonathan Bayard Smith; Henry Laurens; John Hancock; John Harvie; John Dickinson; Cornelius Harnett and Daniel Roberdeau.

ASTRONAUT FREEMASONS

Gordon Cooper; Don Eisle; Edgar Mitchell; Virgil Grissom; Walter Schirra; Paul Weitz; Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin; Thomas Stafford; and Fred Haise and John Glenn.

HISTORICAL MASONS

Gilbert Lafayette; Paul Revere; Joseph Warren; DeWitt Clinton; Ephraim Kirby; Albert Mackey; John Barney; Joel Candee; Samuel Colt; Charles Moore; Joel Poinsett; John Sousa; Samuel Clemens; Lorenzo Dow; John Fitch; Wilbur Brucker; Meriweather Lewis; William Clark; John Logan; Jacob Morton; O. H. Perry; Richard Byrd; Bruce Clark; Charles Lindbergh; and Rev. Frances Bellamy; Davy Crockett; John Paul Jones; Sam Houston.

PROMINENT MASONS OF WWI AND WWII

Gen. John J. Pershing; Gen. Charles P. Summerall; Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune; Maj. Gen. Edward F. McGlachlin; Maj. Gen. Frank Parker; Maj. Gen. Merritt W. Ireland; Maj. Gen. Henry H. Bandholtz; Gen. George C. Marshall; Admiral Ernest J. King; Gen. Henry H. Arnold; Gen. Douglas MacArthur; Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright; Gen. Omar N. Bradley; Gen. Mark W. Clark; Admiral H. Kent Hewitt; Lt. Gen. James Doolittle; Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge; Lt. Gen. Paul L. Ransom; Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing; Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler; and Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

PROMINENT MASONS IN PUBLIC LIFE

Lauritz Melchior; Clyde Beatty; Ty Cobb; Mickey Cochrane; Eddie Rickenbacker; Harry Blackstone; Darryl Zanuck; Richard Arlen; Rex Allen; Henry Ford; Hoot Gibson; Bob Burns; Wallace Beery; Jack Dempsey; Tom Mix; Eddy Arnold; Will Rogers; Buffalo Bill Cody; Conan Doyle; Rod Cameron; George Brent; Robert Livingston; Kit Carlson; Arnold Palmer; Charles Coburn; Barry Goldwater; David Sarnoff; J. C. Penney; Cy Young; John Wayne; Emmett Kelly; Gene Autry; Joseph Fort Newton; Norman Vincent Peale; George M. Cohan; Red Skelton; Ken Maynard; Hubert Humphrey; John L. Lewis; Eddie Cantor; Robert E. Peary; Harold Lloyd; Irving Berlin; Cecile B. DeMille; L. Van Beethoven; Roy Acuff; Simon Bolivar; Burl Ives; Norm Crosby; Harry Houdini; Ernest Borgnine; Sir Alexander Fleming; Duke Ellington; Charles W. Mayo; Arthur Godfrey; Clark Gable, Wolfgang A. Mozart; Dr. Norman Peale; Rudyard Kipling; and much more.