William J. Brown (architect)
William J. Brown( died 1970) was an American architect based in Cedar Rapids in the U.S. state of Iowa.
He is also known by his full name, William Jay Brown.
William J. Brown studied architecture at the University of Illinois.
He worked for prominent architects in Chicago and New York including Holabird& Roche, Kenneth M. Murchison, and John Russell Pope.
He and his older brother Frederick G. Brown established the Brown Brothers architectural firm.
One of their first projects, in 1910, was the Knights of Pythias Hall, but in 1911 Frederick died.
William J. Brown stayed and supervised the completion of the Knights of Pythias Building in 1912.
He later was partner, along with Edward H. Healey, in the firm Brown and Healy/ Brown and Healey, which was active in the 1950s.
The firm was later Brown, Healey, and Bock.
Yet later it was Brown, Healey, Stone and Sauer.
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Marshall Vaughan
Marshall Vaughan( March 16, 1884 – 1959) was an Ontario merchant and political figure.
He represented Welland in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1934 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County, Ontario, the son of Wilford Vaughan.
He was a wholesale dealer in seeds.
In 1911, he married Evelyn Maud House.
Vaughan was the first mayor of Welland, serving in 1917 and 1918.
He was a recruiter for the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.
He was a Mason and a member of the Orange Order and the Knights of Pythias.
He died in 1959 and was buried in Hamilton.
Carey W. Henderson
Carey Wayland Henderson( 1844-1880) was a mayor of Bloomington, Indiana at the age of 32 years old.
He served from 1876- 1878.
He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He was born in Putnamville, Indiana.
By occupation he was an attorney and a law clerk for the Post Office Department in Washington DC in 1880.
He also served as a clerk in his younger years with the Indiana Legislature.
Henderson was a graduate of Indiana University and is listed as a freshman in 1862.
He died at the age of 36 not long after his arrival in Washington DC in 1880, ending a career in politics and public service.
He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery.
John R. MacDonald
John R. MacDonald was a Michigan politician.
He was a member of Knights of the Loyal Guard, Freemasons, Shriners and Knights of Pythias.
Aristotle
Aristotle ("Aristotélēs", ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition.
Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy".
His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.
Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him, and it was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry.
As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.
Little is known about his life.
Aristotle was born in the city of Stagira in Northern Greece.
His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian.
At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC).
Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.
He established a library in the Lyceum which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication.
Aristotle's views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship.
Their influence extended from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and were not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics.
Some of Aristotle's zoological observations found in his biology, such as on the hectocotyl (reproductive) arm of the octopus, were disbelieved until the 19th century.
His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, studied by medieval scholars such as Peter Abelard and John Buridan.
Aristotle's influence on logic also continued well into the 19th century.
He influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.
Aristotle was revered among medieval Muslim scholars as "The First Teacher" and among medieval Christians like Thomas Aquinas as simply "The Philosopher".
His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics, such as in the thinking of Alasdair MacIntyre and Philippa Foot.
Robert McAllister (politician)
Robert McAllister( January 9, 1876 – October 10, 1963) was a businessman and politician in New Brunswick, Canada.
He represented St. John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Conservative member from 1931 to 1960.
He was the son of James McAllister and Jessie Main, both of Scottish origin.
In 1902, McAllister married a Miss Humphrey.
He was a dyer and cleaner.
McAllister served as county warden.
He was a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He was first elected to the provincial assembly in a 1931 by-election held after John M. Baxter was appointed a judge.
He died in 1963 of arteriosclerosis.
Robert Watson Grimmer
Robert Watson Grimmer( October 25, 1866 – November 4, 1948) was a merchant and politician from New Brunswick, Canada.
He represented Charlotte County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1815 to 1821 and Charlotte in the House of Commons of Canada from 1921 to 1930 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, the son of William Wey Grimmer and Margaret Wilson.
In 1859, he married Mary B. Harrison.
Grimmer served on the town council for Saint Stephen and was mayor from 1908 to 1909.
He also served on the St. Stephen Water Commission and as a school trustee.
Grimmer was a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Pythias
Pythias , also known as Pythias the Elder, was a Greek biologist and embryologist.
She was the adoptive daughter of Hermias of Atarneus, as well as Aristotle's first wife.
Samuel W. Starks
Samuel W. Starks( March 10, 1866 – April 3, 1908) was an African American community leader who achieved national prominence through his leadership in the fraternal order the Knights of Pythias.
Starks was the first African American to serve as a state librarian when he was appointed as the West Virginia state librarian in 1901.
Justus H. Rathbone
Justus Henry Rathbone( October 29, 1839 in Deerfield, New York – December 9, 1889 in Lima, Ohio) was the founder of the international fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias.
He graduated from Colgate University and attended Carlisle Seminary.
He was a music composer and actor.
In 1863 he moved to Washington D.C. as a government clerk in the United States Treasury Department, where he founded the Knights of Pythias on February 19, 1864.
Rathbone wrote the ritual for the Knights of Pythias which is based on the mythological friendship of Damon and Pythias, while he was a school teacher at the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan.

Question: Who is the stepchild of Pythias?
Answer: Nicomachus