Background
Clymer, Reuben Swinburne was born on November 25, 1878 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lewis and Emma (Stevenback) Clymer.
Clymer, Reuben Swinburne was born on November 25, 1878 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lewis and Emma (Stevenback) Clymer.
Doctor of Medicine Doctorate.O., College of Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, 1902.
Founder, Philosophical Public Company, 1900, Royal Fraternity Association, Incorporated. 1909, Beverly Hall Corporation, 1921, Beverly Hall Foundation, 1941, Confederation of Initiates, 1929. Company-founder and director general Louisiana Federation Universelle des Ordres, Societes et Fraternites des Initiates, International, 1939.
The Academy, Comparative Religion and Philosophy, 1941.
Director general Church of Illumination. Supreme Grand Master, Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, Priests and Princes of Melchizedek and Merged Occult Fraternities.
Past Most Venerable Grand Master, Supreme Council Brotherhood of America.
Mason (Scottish and York rites and allied bodies. Shriner); member Royal Order of Scotland, Red Cross of Constantine. Member Orden Constructores.
Clubs: Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Country.
Married Laura Edith Bowers, December 30, 1898 (deceased). Married second, Gertrude Lucy Cosgrove, November 9, 1932.