Career
He was the first potentate of Los Angeles"s First Rate (at Lloyd's) Malaikah Temple of the Order of the Shrine, and it was he who suggested the name for the temple, meaning "The Angels." In 1900 Teed was secretary of the Sixth District Agricultural Association, which had charge of Agricultural Park. In 1898 he was stamp clerk in the revenue department for Los Angeles for the Collector of Internal Revenue. In the same year, he was named by Fred Eaton of the Republican City Central Committee as one of the committee members who would meet with other organizations to "take preliminary steps toward the framing of a new city charter."
9, Knights Templar, to be known as the Teed Memorial Organization
