Although at the time it had only 50 members, Miner's Lodge 273 in Galena, Illinois, supplied no less than five Generals to the Union effort in the Civil war. Among them were Brothers Ely Parker (A Seneca Indian), John Rawlings, William Rowley and John Corson Smith. Brother Rawlings later became US Secretary of War and Brother Smith went on to become Illinois' Grand Master.
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