Grand Knights Templar Excursion at Pittsburg
A fraternal excursion of Knights Templar from Pittsburgh and Allegheny travels up the Allegheny River, a glimpse of the social rituals of Gilded Age fraternal orders.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readPITTSBURG, July 19.
The Knights Templar excursion of grand officers of the grand encampment of the United States and templars of Pittsburg and Allegheny, arrived at Marysville, New York, to-night, and all seemed delighted with the trip thither from the west, and are enthusiastic over the magnificent scenery up the Allegheny river, it being an entirely new excursion to them.
Judge English of Arkansas, J. W. Simmons of New York, and Gen. P. Conley of St. Louis, are of the party. A large number of Pittsburg and Allegheny knights with their ladies accompanied the excursion.
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