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OT: Sylvester A. Newberry's Masonic pin
Sorry for what may be off-topic, but I've been curious about this pin since receiving it from my grandmother's estate many years ago. If you know anything about it, please post. Item is stamped 10KT, so gold. Pin is about 3 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. Red areas near center look like cloisonne to me. Writing on the front should stand for "Pendleton (Oregon) Commandery No. 7 K.T." I believe K.T. stands for Knights Templar, but am not certain. My grandmother's sister-in-law was Sarah A. Wheeler (also my grandfather's sister) and who married Sylvester Newberry. I do genealogical research, and have not been able to find much about Sylvester. He was an Oregon lawyer, who represented the Umatilla Indian Reservation during the 1894-1946 period. Sylvester married Sarah in 1891, admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1894. My father visited them shortly after my parents married. Dad thinks it was about 1946. Sylvester was born in 1868 at Burlington, Wisconsin to Frank Newberry and Mary B. Runkle. He attended Northwestern Law School at Chicago, graduating in 1878 with an LL. B. degree. Attended Hamilton University.
Also in my grandmother's estate was another item which, unfortunately, I don't have photos of. It probably wouldn't fit in a photo anyway. It is a single long piece of leather, approximately 12-14 feet long, sewn into a loop, and perhaps 1.5-2 inches wide. It has abundant beads carefully hand-sewn onto it. No design that I can tell, but at a bare minimum several hundred beads. There are 12-15 beads across per row, and many, many rows. Each bead looks perhaps 1/8 inch in diameter.
Was told it may be a ceremonial sash, which might have allowed the wearer to speak at tribal council. Not something to be given lightly. If I can verify it, would like to return it to the Umatilla Reservation or Eastern Oregon Historical Society, whichever is more relevant. Oregon Historical Society has requested it, but I feel it has more relevance to Pendleton than Portland.
Sorry for what may be off-topic, but I've been curious about this pin since receiving it from my grandmother's estate many years ago. If you know anything about it, please post. Item is stamped 10KT, so gold. Pin is about 3 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. Red areas near center look like cloisonne to me. Writing on the front should stand for "Pendleton (Oregon) Commandery No. 7 K.T." I believe K.T. stands for Knights Templar, but am not certain. My grandmother's sister-in-law was Sarah A. Wheeler (also my grandfather's sister) and who married Sylvester Newberry. I do genealogical research, and have not been able to find much about Sylvester. He was an Oregon lawyer, who represented the Umatilla Indian Reservation during the 1894-1946 period. Sylvester married Sarah in 1891, admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1894. My father visited them shortly after my parents married. Dad thinks it was about 1946. Sylvester was born in 1868 at Burlington, Wisconsin to Frank Newberry and Mary B. Runkle. He attended Northwestern Law School at Chicago, graduating in 1878 with an LL. B. degree. Attended Hamilton University.
Also in my grandmother's estate was another item which, unfortunately, I don't have photos of. It probably wouldn't fit in a photo anyway. It is a single long piece of leather, approximately 12-14 feet long, sewn into a loop, and perhaps 1.5-2 inches wide. It has abundant beads carefully hand-sewn onto it. No design that I can tell, but at a bare minimum several hundred beads. There are 12-15 beads across per row, and many, many rows. Each bead looks perhaps 1/8 inch in diameter.
Was told it may be a ceremonial sash, which might have allowed the wearer to speak at tribal council. Not something to be given lightly. If I can verify it, would like to return it to the Umatilla Reservation or Eastern Oregon Historical Society, whichever is more relevant. Oregon Historical Society has requested it, but I feel it has more relevance to Pendleton than Portland.
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congrats nice finds
