Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction Sovereign Grand Commander Samuel Crocker Lawrence with Active Members of Supreme Council
1909
Elmer Chickering (1857-1915)
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall 17-5/16"h x 21-5/16"w
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Collection
2014.058.14

Sepia-tone photograph of Masonic Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction Sovereign Grand Commander Samuel Crocker Lawrence with Active Members of the Supreme Council. Image shows two rows of men, with front row seated in chairs. Seven men are pictured in total. The men are identified as: back row (L to R), James Codding, Grand Secretary General; William Geake, Standard Bearer; Robert Shirrefs, Marshall; Thomas Balding, Master of Ceremonies. Front row (L to R): Barton Smith,Grand Lieutenant Commander; Samuel Crocker Lawrence, Sovereign Grand Commander; Newton Arnold, Grand Treasurer General. The photograph is mounted on board and is in a discolored mat that has some staining on the proper left hand side.

Civil War veteran and first Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts, Samuel Crocker Lawrence (1832–1911), served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction from 1909 to 1910. He is pictured here, at center, with Active Members of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction’s Supreme Council, the governing body of the jurisdiction. The men in this portrait wear distinctive round jewels suspended from ribbons that indicate their role in the organization.