SGIG at age 36 years, 2 months, and 10 days
October 16, 1888 – October 19, 1923
Total Duration of Supreme Council Tenure: 35 years and 3 days
Alabama – October 16, 1888 – October 19, 1923
Duration of Supreme Council Tenure for Alabama: 35 years and 3 days
Puerto Rico – December 1, 1901 – January 14, 1916
Duration of Supreme Council Tenure for Puerto Rico: 15 years, 1 months, and 13 days
Born: August 9, 1848 – Died: December 4, 1930
Life span: 82 years, 3 months, and 25 days
Attorney-at-Law
Progress in Scottish Rite Masonry:
– 4°-32°: month, day, year, place and by whom Degrees were communicated unconfirmed.
– KCCH: October 23, 1884; 33°, IGH: elected October 23, 1884; coroneted by Ill. Albert Pike, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander month, day, and year unconfirmed; SGIG: elected October 23, 1884; elected for the second time October 16, 1888; crowned October 16, 1888; retired from Active Membership and transferred to the list of Emeriti Members October 19, 1923.
Scottish Rite Bodies created during tenure:
– 1897, October 20 – Birmingham Lodge of Perfection, No. 2, Birmingham.
– 1899, October 20 – Hermes Chapter of Rose Croix, No. 1, Montgomery.
– 1899, October 20 – Birmingham Chapter of Rose Croix, No. 2, Birmingham.
– 1899, October 20 – Birmingham Council of Kadosh, No. 1, Birmingham.
– 1899, October 20 – Birmingham Consistory, No. 1, Birmingham.
– 1901, October 24 – Mobile Lodge of Perfection, No. 3, Mobile.
– 1903, May 21 – Mobile Chapter of Rose Croix, No. 3, Mobile.
– 1907, October 23 – Mobile Council of Kadosh, No. 2, Mobile.
– 1907, October 23 – Mobile Consistory, Mobile.
– 1911, October 19 – Puerto Rico Lodge of Perfection, No. 1, San Juan.
– 1911, October 19 – Regeneracion Chapter of Rose Croix, No. 1, San Juan.
– 1911, October 19 – Boringuen Council of Kadosh, No. 1, San Juan.
– 1911, October 19 – San Juan Consistory, No. 1, San Juan.
– 1913, October 24 – Humacao Lodge of Perfection, No. 2, Humacao.
– 1913, October 24 – Amor Fraternal Chapter of Rose Croix, Humacao.
– 1915, October 22 – Mitchell Council of Kadosh, Montgomery.
– 1917, October 20 – Holbrook Consistory, Montgomery.
Offices in the Supreme Council:
– Grand Sword-Bearer: October 23, 1899 – October 23, 1901.
– Grand Standard Bearer: October 23, 1901 – October 24, 1903.
– Grand Minister of State: October 24, 1903 – November 1, 1907.
– Grand Chancellor: November 1, 1907 – June 1, 1908.
– Grand Prior: June 1, 1908 – October 7, 1912.
– Lieutenant Grand Commander: appointed October 7, 1912; elected October 21, 1913; installed October 25, 1913 – October 7, 1914.
– Grand Commander: elected and installed October 7, 1914; retired with the rank of Past Grand Commander October 18, 1921.
Committees Membership:
– Doings of Inspectors and Deputies: 1893; 1921,
– Foreign Relations: 1893.
– Fraternal Assistance and Education: 1909, 1911, 1913.
– Jurisprudence and Legislation: 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913; 1921.
– Library and Building: 1895.
– Library: 1921.
– Revision of Ritual: 1899, 1901.
– State of the Order and Unfinished Business: 1888, 1890.
Special Committees Membership:
– Church of Rome: 1913.
Other Scottish Rite Honors:
– January 5, 1910: Lieutenant Grand Commander Honorary of the Supreme Council of Italy.
Special Committees Membership:
Church of Rome: 1913.
Scottish Rite Biography:
Brother Moore was initiated September 27, passed October 27, and raised to the Degrees of Master Mason November 22, 1873, in Rockford (Coosa County, Alabama) Lodge No. 137. After receiving the Degrees of the Scottish Rite in 1880, he was elected Venerable Master of Alabama Lodge of Perfection, No. 1, Montgomery, and subsequently was appointed by Grand Commander Albert Pike as Deputy of the Supreme Council for Alabama.
Brother Moore was nominated as an Active Member of the Supreme Council by Grand Commander Albert Pike, who came from Washington to Montgomery, accompanied by Secretary General W. M. Ireland, to confer the Degree upon him. This he declined on account of the fact that one of the Brethren who had served as Deputy expected to receive that honor. He then received the Thirty-third Degree, Honorary.
– On October 16, 1888, his election to Active Membership having been renewed, he was crowned by General Pike in Washington, D.C., Sovereign Grand Inspector General in Alabama and an Active Member of the Supreme Council.
Illustrious Moore held an appointive office in the Supreme Council, and was successively elected Grand Minister of State, Grand Chancellor, Grand Prior, and Lieutenant Grand Commander. On October 7, 1914, he was elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.
Bibliography:
– Brownell, John H. Gems from the Quarry… 1893:310.
– Moore, George Fleming. The Souvenir of the Celebration… Washington: W. F. Roberts, 1901. N.p.
– Moore, George Fleming. Albert Pike the Mason. Delivered, in part, at the Centennial Celebration, Washington, D.C. January 6, 1910. The New Age, January, 1910:52-55.
– Moore, George Fleming. Alexander V. Griswold, First Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the United States and Freemason. The New Age, July, 1910:64-66.
– Moore, George Fleming. John Anthony Quitman: Jurist, Soldier, Statesman, and Freemason. The New Age, October, 1910:337-341.
– Moore, George Fleming. The Landmarks of Freemasonry. The New Age, November, 1910:449-452; December, 1910, 548-551; January, 1911:79-84; February, 1911:177-180; March, 1911:280-286; April, 1911:398-399; May, 1911:529-530; June, 1911:622-623; August, 1911:195-197; January, 1912:76-79; February, 1912:178-182; March, 1912:273-276; April, 1912:388-390; July, 1912:77-80; August, 1912:196-198
– Moore, George Fleming. William Frank Pierce, 33º, President of the Board of Trustees of “The New Age” Magazine. The New Age, November, 1910:458-461.
– Moore, George Fleming. Cagliostro. The New Age, January, 1911:68-74.
– Moore, George Fleming. Harper Samuel Cunningham. In Memoriam. The New Age, April, 1911:418-419.
– Moore, George Fleming. Samuel Crocker Lawrence. In Memoriam. The New Age, October, 1911:401-403.
– Moore, George Fleming. The Bogy. The New Age, August, 1912:165-167.
– Moore, George Fleming. Essays on Some Masonic Symbols. The New Age, September, 1912:281-284.
– Moore, George Fleming. The Grand Constitutions of 1786. The New Age, November, 1912:491-498.
– Moore, George Fleming. The Great Masonic Illusion. The New Age, February, 1913:157-158.
– Moore, George Fleming. What Is Freemasonry? The New Age, April, 1913:353-355.
– The Five First Officers of the Supreme Council… George F. Moore, Lieut. Grand Commander. The New Age, November, 1913:463.
– Moore, George Fleming. Philosophical Problems. The New Age, July, 1914:3-8.
– Moore, George Fleming. Important Facts in Scottish Rite History. The New Age, August, 1914:67-75.
– Valedictory of George Fleming Moore. The New Age, October, 1914:166.
– Lobingier, Charles Sumner. The Supreme Council, 33°… 1931:543-544; 706-707.
– In Memoriam. Transactions. 1931:310-317.
– Carter, James D. History of the Supreme Council… Washington: 1971:386-565.