Henry P. H. Bromwell

U.S. Congressperson

1823 – 1903

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Who was Henry P. H. Bromwell?

Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell was an American lawyer, politician from Illinois, and prominent Freemason. He was a lawyer and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1865–1869 and continued to practice law when he moved to Colorado in 1870 where he was appointed to compile the state's statutes. Bromwell was initiated into freemasonry in 1854, and he became the Grand Master of Illinois in 1864. When he moved to Colorado he became that state's first Honorary Grand Master. He developed the Free, and Accepted Architects, a new rite for Freemasonry which sought to teach its initiates the lost work of the craft embodied in Bromwell's Geometrical system. After his death, the Grand Lodge of Colorado published his work on the esoteric nature of Sacred geometry in the book Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry.

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Born
Aug 26, 1823
Baltimore
Also known as
  • Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell
Spouses
Education
  • McKendree University
Died
Jan 9, 1903
Denver
Resting place
Riverside Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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