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Events with high posterior probability

Emanuel Shultz	Shultz was initiated a charter member of the Marion Lodge the Masons in 1844, a royal arch Mason and a Knight Templar.
John Swett	In 1863 he was instrumental in founding the California Educational Society, which would become the California Teachers Association, the largest teachers' union in the state of California.
Carl Tanner	He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity on August 8, 2005.
Henry Frank	Henry Frank achieved the 33rd degree of Freemasonry and in 1905 became grand master of the Grand Lodge of Montana, and was also active in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of Pythias lodges.
Wilfred Talbot Smith	Nevertheless, the lodge closed after a year, with Smith's own British Columbia Lodge No. 1 also becoming defunct in February 1922.
T. S. Sinnathuray	T. S. Sinnathuray was the inaugural chairman of the newly formed Asean Law Association (ALA) (Singapore Chapter) in 1980.
Charles Harrison McNutt	In 1992, McNutt helped establish the -LSB- Tennessee Council of Professional Archaeologists -RSB- and served as its president during its initial years.
Henry Lee Higginson	In 1916, he accepted election to honorary membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity.
Oscar Collett	Collett became a member of the gentlemen's skiing club SK Fram in 1890, the club's second year of existence.
D'Arcy Boulton (Ontario politician)	In 1874, he became grandmaster of the Grand Black Chapter of British America, an exclusive Orange order.
Antonio Scotti	In 1917, he was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the American fraternity for male musicians, at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Clinton D. Boyd	He was the first person elected to the position of national organizer at the fraternity's Danville, Kentucky, convention of 1915 ; and worked aggressively to extend the fraternity to Northwestern, Wabash, Purdue, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Carnegie Tech.
Elkanah Greer	He became the grand commander of the secretive Knights of the Golden Circle organization in 1859.
Dawnine Dyer	During her career, Dyer has served as President of the Napa Valley Vintners Association (NVV), president of Napa Valley Wine Technical Group and was a member of the founding board of Women for WineSense, a national 12-chapter association founded in 1990.
Danny Thomas	Thomas was initiated, passed, and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason Freemasonry at Gothic Lodge # 270 F&AM located at Hamilton Square, NJ on March 15, 1984 by special dispensation of the NJ Grand Master.
Roscoe Wilmeth	This position was created at the Kansas Historical Society in 1960, with Wilmeth as the first State archaeologist.
Steve Miller (writer)	Born July 31, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, Miller was an active member of science fiction fandom for many years, serving as Director of Information of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for some years, and as vice-chair of the bid committee for the 38th World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore (they lost to Boston).
Beulah Burke	In addition to her work with the sorority (below), Burke was an active member of both professional - the National Education Association - and civic associations : the NAACP and the YMCA, in Washington, D. C. Burke also established the second graduate chapter (Beta Omega) in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1920, and led as president for two years.
Hosea Garrett	; Baylor University On May 15, 1845, Hosea Garrett was elected as the initial President Pro Tempore of Baylor University at the board's first organizational meeting in Independence, Texas.
Dewey Barto	When AGVA achieved independence from the Associated Actors and Artistes of America in November 1948, Barto was unanimously drafted by AGVA's national board to become its National Administrative Secretary.
Craig Morgan	On April 23, 2011 Craig Morgan became an honorary initiate of the Delta Theta chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.	In 1890 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Major Job Sumner.
Frances Willard (suffragist)	She was national president of Alpha Phi in 1887, and the first dean of women at Northwestern University.
Michael E. Burgess	As a boy Burgess was very involved with the Boy Scouts of America, eventually rising to the rank of Eagle Scout in 1976, along with Vigil Honor in Scouting's Order of the Arrow later that same year.
Elisha Dyer, Jr.	He was a charter member of the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars in 1897.
Margaret Battye	In 1939 she founded the Business and Professional Women's Club, and a member and president of the Soroptomists' and Karrakatta Club s.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	She was selected as a member of the local senior women's honor society on campus that, in 1920, became a chapter of the national senior women's society, Mortar Board.
Frederick Layton	Additionally, Layton helped formally organize the Milwaukee Art Association and was elected its first vice president in 1910.
Jasper Alston Atkins	At the 10th Grand Conclave in Atlanta, Atkins was elected Grand Basileus (national president) in December 1921.
Michael Baigent	A Freemason and a Grand Officer of the United Grand Lodge of England, he was editor of Freemasonry Today from April 2001 (deputy editor Matthew Scanlan), which he used as a platform for a more liberal approach to Freemasonry.
Peter Millett, Baron Millett	He is an active Freemason, and served for five years as Metropolitan Grand Master of London from the inception of the new Metropolitan Grand Lodge in 2003.
Klas August Linderfelt	Linderfelt was a founder and the first president of the Wisconsin Library Association in February 1891.
Robert Summers (artist)	In 1973 Summers helped organize the Texas Association of Professional Artists and served as their first president.
Lester Cole	In 1933, he joined with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Writers Guild of America.
Horatio Parker	On December 30, 1915, he was elected as a national honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music.
Cleo Miller	In 1988 Miller succeeded Mason Hargrave as President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey.
Justin Smith Morrill	He was initiated into the Delta Upsilon Fraternity as an honorary member in 1860.
Jack L. Chalker	In 1967, Chalker founded the Baltimore Science Fiction Society and he was a three-term treasurer of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
John W. Harrelson	Harrelson was a member of the local engineering fraternity Alpha Sigma Epsilon which became a chapter of Theta Tau in 1924.
Lizzie Crozier French	In November 1885, French initiated the founding of the Ossoli Circle, which was the first women's club in Tennessee and was to become the first club in the southern United States to join the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Michael Elston	Elston has been an officer of the George Washington Chapter, Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), since December 2008, and he currently serves as president of the chapter.
Benjamin Cruz	Cruz has also been involved with other organizations such as Beauty World Guam Ltd., The Guam Beautification Association, and the American Cancer Society, serving as President of the Guam Chapter in 1981.
Richard Hanson (Australian politician)	He was elected as a member and initiated into the Craft on the 27 November 1834 in London when The Lodge of Friendship, a Lodge especially founded to become South Australia's first Lodge, held its very first meeting.
Bob Pearce	In 1969 he became an honorary Life Associate of the UWA Guild of Students and also served as president of the National Union of Australian University Students (a predecessor to the National Union of Students) in 1969.
Kay McMahon	McMahon was elected into the Professional Golfers' Association of America membership in 1986 and became the first women in the Southern California Section and one of only a handful in the United States at that time.
George Washington Vanderbilt II	In 1891 he joined the New York Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Michael Baden-Powell	In June 2007, within the Centenary year of Scouting, Baden-Powell addressed Freemasons and Scouts, and non-Masonic Scouters, at meetings of Pioneer Lodge in the County of Derbyshire and Walesby Forest Lodge in the County of Nottinghamshire (both in United Grand Lodge of England, and also both lodge members of the Kindred Lodges Association).
J. Franklin Jameson	His base was the American Historical Association, which he helped found in 1884.
Garrison Keillor	In his book Homegrown Democrat (2004), Keillor mentions some of his noteworthy ancestors, including Joseph Crandall, who was an associate of Roger Williams (who founded the first American Baptist church as well as Rhode Island) ; and Prudence Crandall, who founded the first African-American women's school in America.
Gaylord Nelson	Nelson was an initiated member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, having been initiated in 1971 during a trip to La Grange, Georgia to promote the second annual Earth Day.
Samuel Eliot Morison	In 1938 Morison was elected as an honorary member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
Harry N. Walters	In 2006, Walters was influential in establishing, along with the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), AMVETS, and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), a'' Commission on the Future for America's Veterans.''
Waldemar Zboralski	In 2003 he was the first person to become an honorary member of a Polish LGBT organization, Campaign Against Homophobia.
Mark Lesly	He has been a Member of the Board of the East Coast Taekwondo Conference (formerly known as the Ivy/Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League) since its founding in 1991.
Henry G. Struve	Fraternally, he was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in 1874 served as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, which then embraced Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
John Blaisdell Corliss	Corliss was made a Mason in Union Lodge of Detroit in 1880 and during the ensuing five years became a Chapter and Commandery Mason and attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
Frank Fellows Gray	Frank was the founder of one of the first Boy Scout Troops in the United States based on the Baden-Powell system of Scouting, Montclair, New Jersey, March 9, 1909 later to become Troop 4.
Leo Frank	Frank was elected president of the Atlanta chapter of the B'nai B'rith, a Jewish fraternal organization, in 1912.
William M. Evarts	While at Yale he became a member of the Linonian Society and the secret society Skull and Bones, but later in life spoke out against such societies at the 1873 Yale commencement alumni meeting, claiming they bred snobbishness.
Francis Escudero	He also joined the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity and was a member of the Alpha Phi Beta Debating Team which was the 1991 U. P. Open Debate Champion.
Ron Hines	In 1972 Hines met Leonard W. Miller, whose vision was to organize the black racing community into a national association.
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland	On December 1, 1879 along with Attorneys E. F. Dickinson, Basil Meek, Homer Everett, William Ross and others, Buckland helped establish the Sandusky County Bar Association, serving as its first president for many years.
Elisabeth Marbury	In 1903, along with Morgan and Anne Vanderbilt, Marbury helped organize the Colony Club, the first women's social club in New York.
Abraham Cohen Labatt	Active in civic affairs, in 1849 Labatt was permitted to join the Masonic Lodge in San Francisco, the first regularly instituted lodge in the state of California.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin	When the General Federation of Women's Clubs met in Milwaukee in 1900, she planned to attend as a representative of three organizations -- the New Era Club, the New England Woman's Club and the New England Woman's Press Club.
Dan Daniel (sportswriter)	In 1930, Daniel was elected president of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Dan Brouthers	During the off-season, on November 11,, The Executive Council of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players ‚ formed in 1885 as the first organized players' union, met and re-elected John Montgomery Ward as president, and elected Brouthers as vice president.
Frank Springer	In 1995, after spending the majority of his life on Long Island (mostly in the towns of Lynbrook, Massapequa Park, and Greenlawn), Springer at one point was president of the National Cartoonists Society, and was a founding member of the Berndt Toast Gang, its Long Island chapter.
Robert H. Jackson	In 1933, Jackson was elected chairman of the American Bar Association's Conference of Bar Association Delegates (a predecessor to today's ABA House of Delegates).
Sally Louisa Tompkins	Three chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are named after Captain Sally, who was elected Honorary President of the Virginia Division in 1905.
Bobby Bragan	In 1969, Bragan, a Fort Worth resident, began a new career chapter when he became president of the Texas League.
Alan Gomme-Duncan	He was appointed a Senior Grand Deacon in the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons in April 1956.
Leroy Anderson	Anderson was initiated as an honorary member of the Gamma Omicron chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Indiana State University in 1969.
Edward Vermilye Huntington	In 1919, Huntington was the third President of the Mathematical Association of America, which he helped found as a charter member and its first vice-president.
Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill	Ampthill was initiated into the Apollo University Lodge, No. 357, Oxford, in 1890.
Helen Derr	She was the first female deacon at First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria and served on the task force that organized the establishment of her subsequent congregation, the Woodland Presbyterian Church in Pineville As the co-founder of Friendship House in Alexandria in 1982, she served as the first president of the organization.
Lawrence Ross	In 1997, Ross, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, began writing The Divine Nine : The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities (ISBN 0758202709).
W. Aubrey Thomas	Thomas became a Mason in 1887, and was the youngest Master in Ohio when he led his lodge for two terms.
Karl Bowman	Bowman was initiated into Phi Delta Theta with the chapter's founding fathers on October 1, 1910.
Horace Rublee	He was secretary of the state mass meeting held at Madison on July 13, 1854 which formed the state chapter of the Republican party.
Paul Mackney	NATFHE merged with the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in 2006 to form the University and College Union, at which time Mackney was elected Joint General Secretary (serving alongside Sally Hunt).
Frank Buckles	Other interests of his included genealogy ; he had been a member of the West Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution since 1935, and was active for many years in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Benjamin F. Church	On February 16, 1844, Benjamin Church was one of the five founders of Royal Arch Masons Chapter No. 1 in Milwaukee.
Betty Hill (civil rights leader)	Beyond her activities with the NAACP and the WPSC, she helped initiate the Urban League's Los Angeles chapter ; was a Republican State Central Committeewoman of Southern California, 63rd District ; was active with the Eastside Settlement House, and the National Council of Women ; was the first chairperson of Girls Reserve of the YWCA, 12th Street Branch ; the Vice-President of the Organization of National Defense, West Coast ; and was also a delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, (the first African American female west of the Rockies to serve as a delegate).
Giovanni Bottesini	Bottesini was a freemason, initiated June 20, 1849, in the Bank of England Lodge No. 263, London.
Joan Christensen	As well as those, Christensen belongs to a number of business and civic organizations including Women in Government ; the National Order of Women Legislators ; Delta Kappa Gamma ; the Metropolitan Business and Professional Women's Club of Syracuse ; the League of Women Voters ; the National Council of Negro Women ; the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy ; the Greater Jamesville Chamber of Commerce ; the South Side Business Association and the VFW Post 1955 Ladies Auxiliary in LaFayette.
Dixie Cornell Gebhardt	Originally a member of Abigail Adams Chapter, DAR, of Des Moines, she became the organizer and charter member of Mary Marion Chapter, DAR, at Knoxville in 1917.
Kelsie B. Harder	In 1955, the members of the Youngstown Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, a national Social fraternity, invited him to be their counselor.
Nelson Diaz (lawyer)	Having been the first Puerto Rican to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 1973, he later succeeded Cesar R. Miranda as executive director for the Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia, a self-help group for Hispanics who own or aspire to own businesses.
Chuck Zito	In 1984, Zito helped establish the Hells Angels New York Nomad Chapter, and became the chapter's president.
Julian Bicknell	He is a member of the Art Workers Guild and was its Master in 2013.
Malethola Maggie Nkwe	In 1974, she was elected the first black president of the Mother's Union.
Ann W. Nally	In 1984 she became the first woman to serve on the Boy Scouts of America National Court of Honor.
Frederick Petersen	Petersen was a Grand Chancellor of the Wisconsin Knights of Pythias, and helped preside in that capacity over the 1928 international convention of the Knights held in Milwaukee in August 1928.
John Philip Sousa	In 1922, he accepted the invitation of the national chapter to become an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honorary band fraternity.
Andrew Economos	He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and dressed up in a youth sized Wolverine from X-Men costume at the 2000 joint Halloween party with Kappa Alpha Order.
Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.	He served as a member of the general council for the Alumni Association University of Michigan, president of the Cincinnati Alumni Association University of Michigan, president of the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association, and was honored in 1912 by the University of Michigan as commemoration orator at the 75th anniversary of the university's founding.
John J. Pershing	In 1924 Pershing became a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Wilfred Talbot Smith	With the OTO now being revived in North America, Smith founded the Agape Lodge No. 1, based at his Hollywood home, and brought in 7 initiates to the Minerval level in September 1935.
Alexander Fraser Pirie	Pirie was accepted as a Mason on September 1, 1875 at the Grand Lodge at Hamilton, Ontario.