Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — A Woman Free Mason. [ARTICLE]

A Woman Free Mason.

San Francisdo News-Letter. The only female Free Mason in the world .lives in Oakland, Cai.. at No. 572 Tenth street. Her name is Mrs. Salome Anderson, and her portrait adorns the temple of Live Oak Lodge No. 61, where it is placed in a position of honor among the pictures of the past masters, The story of how she became one of the craftsmen is interesting. She Was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1818, and becoming an orphan at an early age, she went to Paris to reside with her uncle, who was a zealous and prominent Mason. The lodge meetings were held in his and with the curiosity of her sex, she concealed herself in the room during a cOupie of the sessions, and thus learned some of themysteries of the order. Sbe was, however, caught while thus b'dLg, a» ’ the secrets that she had discovered were then made a sacred trust, for she was received into the fraternity. She was elected a member of the board of trustees of Masonic Temple, cireurnetance imparalleled in the hisItory of V-'-ema onry. She is also a | charter member of Golden Gate Chapter No. 1, Order of the Eastern Star, and is a member of Oak Leap Chapter No. 8. V