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The Grand Lodge of Kansas Ancient Free & Accepted Masons is one of two governing bodies that supervise Freemasonry in the U.S. state of Kansas. The Grand Lodge of Kansas is headquartered at Topeka, Kansas. ==History== In 1854, three Wyandot Indians and five white settlers – all of whom were Masons – coalesced in what is now Wyandotte County, Kansas, and petitioned the Grand Lodge of Missouri to establish a Lodge of Masons in a Wyandot Indian village. On August 4, 1854, the dispensation was granted and one week later Kansas Lodge U.D. (eventually to become Wyandotte Lodge No. 3) opened for work. Within two years, two other lodges in Kansas were formed and in 1856 the trio formed the Grand Lodge of Kansas as America’s Civil War loomed.〔(Grand Lodge of Kansas website )〕 Notably, the first master of Kansas Lodge U.D. was John Milton Chivington, a Methodist missionary to the Wyandot and a vocal opponent of slavery. Chivington left Kansas in 1860, became an officer in the Union army and was later celebrated as a hero for his part in the Battle of Glorieta Pass (1862). His orchestration of the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), however, earned him universal condemnation and ultimately made him infamous.〔Morton, Julius S., Illustrated History of Nebraska, Vol. 2 (1906), 192.〕 In the early years of the Grand Lodge, they pledged support to the advancement of Freemasonry in Tasmania and New Zealand.〔(TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ) West Coast Times Issue 9057, 23 June 1891, Page 2〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Lodge of Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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