Albert Gallatin Mackey (original) (raw)

Mackey, Encyclopedia 1966. frontispiece

March 12, 1807 - June 20, 1881Dr. Mackey practiced medicine until 1854, after which literary and masonic pursuits fully occupied his time. In July, 1865, President Johnson appointed him Collector of the Port. Later defeated in a senatoral race, he moved to Washington, D.C. in 1870. Compiler of A Lexicon of Freemasonry in 1845, he went on to publish many books on Freemasonry, most notably his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. At various times he edited such publications as the Western Masonic Miscellany (1849-54), the Masonic Quarterly Review (1857-58), the American Freemason (1859-60), and Mackey’s National Freemason (1871-74) and the Voice of Freemasonry (1875-79). Initiated, Passed and Raised: 1841 _Saint Andrews Lodge No. 10, South Carolina_Worshipful Master : 1842 _Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, Charleston_Founding member : 1851 _Landmark Lodge No. 76_Grand Secretary : 1842-1867 _South Carolina_Affiliated : 1870 Landmark Lodge No. 19, D.C. Source: Albert G. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.