The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-03

Grand Commander Of Scottish Ritz
Masons and Confederate Leader.

Grand Commander Of Scottish Rite
Masons and Confederate Leader.
WASHINGTON CRY, April General AL
bert Pike, grand commander Of the Scot
fish Rite Masons Of the southern jurisdic-
ton, and chief of the Royal Order Of Scot
land for this country, died this evening.
1t is said General Pike has appointed
Josiah III. Drummond, of Maine, as head
of the Royal Order of Scotland, and it is
probable his successor in the Scottish rite
will be either 6urgeon-General ]. NJ.
Brown. of the navy, Thomas H. Caswell,
of California, or Thomas S. Dudley, of
Kentucky. Albert Pike was we'll known
to all persons interested in Free Masonry,
having held the highest offices in the
order and written many works regarding it.
[Albert Pike was born in Boston, Mass, Decem-
Der ., 1909. He entered Harvard in 1896, and
after partial course became principal OF New
buryport grammar school, In March, 1881, he
set out for the partially explored regions of the
West, travelling by stage to Cincinnati, by
steamer to Nashville, thence on foot to Paducah,
then by keelboat down the Ohio, and by steamer
up the Mississippi. In August, 1851, he accom-
panied caravan OF ten wagons as one of party
of forty men, under Captain Charles Bent, from
st. Louis to Santa Fc. He arrived at Taos on
November 10, having walked 500 miles from
Cimarron river, where his horse ran off in
storm After resting few days, he went on
foot from Taos to Santa Fe and remained there
IS clerk until September, 1882, then Joining
party of forty five, with which he went down
the Pecos river aud into the Staked plain,
then to the headwatcrs Of the BRACES, part of the
time without food or water. Finally Pike, with
four others, LETT the company and reached Fort
Smith, Ark, in December. The following spring
he turned his attention to teaching, and in 1855
haf0 10f1 c7i <Nt 1rt<,
cate. In 1884 he purchased entire CONTROL but dis
posed Of the paper two years later to engage in the
practice of law, for which he fitted himself
during his editorial career. In 1859 he contrib
uted to Blackwoods Magazine the unique
production entitled "Hymns to the Gods"
which he had written several years before
while teaching in New England and which at
once gave him an honored place among Ameri-
can poets. As q lawyer he attained
high reputation in the Southwest, though he
still devoted part OF his time to literary pur-
suits. During the Mexican war he commanded
q squadron in the regiment OF Arkansas mounted
volunteers in 1S4647, was at Buena Vista,
aud in 1St7, rode with forty-one men
from saltillo to Chihuahua, receiving the
surrender of the city of Mapima on
the way. At the beginning of the civil war he
became confederate commissioner, negotiating
treaties OF amity aud alliance with several In
dian tribss. While thus engaged he was ap-
pointed bTigadier general, and organised bodies
OF Indians, with which he took part in the bat
ties OF Pea Ridge and Elkhorn. In 1865 he en-
gagged in the practice of law at Memphis. During
1867 he became editor OF the Memphis Appeal
but in 1865 he sold his interest in the PAPER and
removed to Washington City, where he p.acticed
his profession in the supreme and district courts
He retired in 1850, and has since
devoted his attention to literature aud
Free Masonry. His works include
"Prose Sketches aud Poems Boston
1854; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court
Of Arkansas (5 vols, Little Rock, ls40-5l; ssNu-
gae," collection of poems, including the
Hymns to the Gods and two other similar
collections. He has held high Office as Free
Mason, and has prepared for his order about
twenty-five volumes of ritualistic aud other
worEs1