Joseph L. Shell Daylight Lodge 837

MASONS IN OUR HISTORY

Many notable Masons were founders and builders of this great nation and are readily recognizable by names, faces and for their many great accomplishments:

OUR MASONIC PRESIDENTS

George Washington, PM; Andrew Jackson, PGM; James Knox Polk; James Buchanan, PM; Andrew Jackson; 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. 33rd Degree.

MASONIC SIGNERS OF "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE"

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

MASONIC SIGNERS OF "THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION"

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

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 Lindberg; John Paul Jones; Sam Houston and Rev. Frances Bellamy.

ASTRONAUT MASONS

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

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 Carson; 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; Cecil B. DeMille; L. Van Beethoven; Ernest Borgnine; Burl Ives; Clark Gable; Roy Acuff; Wolfgang Mozart and more...

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. 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.

These Masons were men of good character who go about their jobs and professions with no hint that they are Freemasons except for the way they lead their lives, who strive to improve themselves and make the world a better place to live for all of us to enjoy.