”During the Mexican war Quitman lodge was organized at Vera Cruz, and St. John’s lodge in the Second regiment. At this time, also, seven lodges in Louisiana were working under the Mississippi grand lodge. The controversy between the grand lodges of these two States agitated the Masonic world. A new grand lodge of Ancient York Masons was founded in Louisiana in 1848 of the lodges chartered by the Mississippi lodge. The schism was something like that which produced or contributed to the civil war in Mexico after the revolution, involving the York and Scottish rites. In 1850 a settlement of the Louisiana matter and a union of the grand lodges was effected. The Star, a Masonic newspaper at Jackson, was recognized by the grand lodge in 1851.

Following is the list of grand masters from the first; and year of election: …John M. Ware, 1891; …”

Reference Data:

Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. 1, by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 115