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Wm. Bromwell Melish (LOC) Flickr Commons The Libraray of congress. Ca 1910. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.
Cincinnati businessman, President of Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods, and Masonic leader; b. 1852, m. Sallie Gatch, father of two (May and Thomas).
Melish was a Templar bigwig: as Right Eminent Deputy Grandmaster and Acting Most Eminent Grandmaster of the United States, he led the 31st national conclave of Knights Templar in Chicago, in 1910. The total of attendees and guests was estimated at 500,000. Item in the New York Times, August 7, 1910.
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