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Title

Roster Stonewall Jackson Lodge No. 7, K. of P.

Authors

• Knights of Pythias

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor
• S.C. Toof & Co. (Memphis, Tenn.), printer (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016149993)

Call number

MS 56, Codex 023.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977544385103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106369582
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39z90j20

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1873-1928

Summary

An oversize, red leather volume containing the list of members for the Stonewall Jackson Lodge No. 7, Knights of Pythias in Greenville, Mississippi spanning the years from 1873 to 1928. The members are listed by year of admission. Pre-printed columns provide the age, residence, occupation, date of admission, and remarks for each member. The volume displays the varied backgrounds of the lodge's members including clerks, engineers, farmers, hotel keepers, judges, lawyers, local officials, merchants, ministers, photographers, and shoemakers. There were many Jewish members including Jacob Alexander, mayor of Greenville; Nathan Goldstein, city councilman; and Joshua Skinner, president of Citizens Bank. The pre-printed volume has leaves with columns, rows, and headings spanning one opening. Printed along the top of each opening is: Roll of members, Stonewall Jackson Lodge No. 7, K. of P. Title is stamped in gold on cover. Label on inside front cover reads: S. C. Toof, proprietors Franklin Printing House, blank book manufactury, Memphis.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2016.11.12.00001).
   

Subjects topical

• Knights of Pythias--Stonewall Jackson Lodge No. 7 (Greenville, Miss.)--Membership
• Knights of Pythias--Stonewall Jackson Lodge No. 7 (Greenville, Miss.)--History--Sources
• Knights of Pythias
• Fraternal organizations--Membership
• Jews--Mississippi--Greenville--History--Sources
• Jews
• Fraternal organizations
• Mississippi--Greenville
• History

Genres

• Sources
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Registers (Lists)
• Registers (Lists)
• Blank forms
• Blank forms
• Forms (documents)
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Manuscripts, American--20th century

Licenses

• Text

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