Royal Arcanum
Rock Island Council, No. 1952, Royal Arcanum, was organized September
3, 1902, in Math's Hall, with twenty-eight charter members. First officers
elected were: Re-gent, Will A. Robb; vice-regent, William Ranson; orator,
Frank H. First; past regent, H. H. Robb; secretary, S. E. Mattison,
junior; collector, Joseph F. Schneider; treasurer, A. S. Rasmussen;
chaplain, Reverend Thomas J. Shuey; guide, Albert Myers; warden, Benjamin
E. Robb; sentry, William M. Johnson; trustees, Phil S. Wilcher, William
Emig, Charles Oswald; representative grand council, H. H. Robb; alternate,
Will A. Robb.
Meetings are held in Math's Hall, the second and fourth Friday nights of
each month.
The present membership is eighty-two.
Rock Island County Organizations and Societies
Source: Historic Rock Island County, pub. Kramer & Company, Rock Island, Illinois, 1908