antimasonic

At first the "antimasonic" movement was confined to western New York, but the moment it took a political turn it spread across northern Ohio,

A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

[22] The antimasonic movement (p. 292) was such a movement for reform; the Owenite movement was another.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Chief among these interested parties were groups of students in the young and burgeoning American college system. 4 The antimasonic suppression and exposition had been strongest in New York and New England, and it was accordingly in these areas that the first neo-masonic orders were founded once the ferocity of the antimasonic rhetoric began to cool in the mid 1830s.

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Freemasonic influence had peeked directly after the revolution, and a few Greek Letter societies, including Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary in 1776, and Kappa Alpha at Union College in 1825, were formed in rough emulation of the Masonic structure. 2 The pivotal Morgan incident of 1826, where a group of Freemasons were suspected of killing a member of their lodge who threatened to publish society secrets, lead to an outbreak of antimasonic propaganda and heralded in a decade of widespread suppression of masonic lodges.

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