Who Came up with the idea to create one National Grand Lodge and why?
The idea was not an original idea. On May 8th, 1843, the mainstream (majority white) Masonic Grand Lodges of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Ohio held a convention in the city of Baltimore, Maryland having for its objects: (1) To produce uniformity of work, and (2) To recommend sure measures as to tend to the elevation of this Order to its due degree of respect throughout the world at large. The result of this convention was the adoption of a form of ritualistic work in the three degrees, the adoption of a funeral service, of a consecration and constitution ceremony, of a ceremony of installation and a ceremony to be observed at the dedication of Masonic Halls. (1) The Committee on Jurisprudence at this convention had the task of evaluating two plans to keep the spirit of uniformity and state fraternalship going; (2) Create a Grand Lodge of the United States, or (3) Establish a t
