Background
Many references state that Rob Morris was born on August 31, 1818, near Boston, Massachusetts. However, there is some evidence that he was born Robert Williams Peckham, in New York, and that he adopted the name of his foster parents after the death of his birth parents, later shortening his name to Rob to avoid confusion with another poet named Robert Morris. He grew up in New York, where he (apparently)cite?.
Career
He also created the first ritual for what was to become the Order of the also went to college. While teaching at the Eureka Masonic College ("The Little Red Brick School Building") in Richland, Mississippi in 1849-1850, he wrote "s first ritual, titled The Rosary of the He organized a "Supreme Constellation" in 1845 to charter Star chapters. In 1866, because of his planned travel abroad, he handed over the organizational authority of to Robert Macoy.
He later served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky in 1858-1859.
Upon being given a job as professor of the Masonic University, he moved to Louisiana Grange, Kentucky in 1860. His health began to fail in 1887, and in June 1888, he became paralyzed.
He died on July 31, 1888, and is buried at Louisiana Grange, Kentucky. The Rob Morris Home is kept as a shrine to Rob Morris by the Kentucky Grand Chapter of the Order of the.
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Quotations:
"The Level and the Square".