Did you know? Masonic Philately

Sir George Cathcart No. 617

Jack Dempsey (William Harrison) (1895–1983)

US Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

 

 

 

 

Nicknamed ‘the Manassa Mauler’. He beat  Jess Willard  at  Toledo  Ohio  on  July  4th.1919 to win the title and held it until 1926, when he lost it to Gene Tunney  on  September  23rd.  1926.

 He engaged in the ‘Battle of the Long Count’ with Tunney 1927.

 

 

Brother  Jack  was  a  member  of  Kenwood  Lodge  No.800  Chicago  Illinois.

at  the  age  of  sixty-seven  he  became  a  "Shriner"  when  he  joined  Medinah  Shrine  Temple,  Chacago  in  1962.

 

 

 

Stamps  Issued:-  U.S.A.  1998