Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces

This page will only address Bro. General Pershing’s Masonic life as there is plenty of other material on his life and military career.

Bro. Pershing was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason on December 22, 1888 in Lincoln Lodge No. 19 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bro. Pershing received the 4th through 32nd degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry on April 9, 1920, in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Read a short account of it below from The New Age Magazine, Volume XXVIII, Number 5, May 1920, pgs. 233-234.

In July, 1925, Bro. Gen. Pershing was presented the sword of Bro. Gen. Jose Antonio Paez.