Raymond C. Ellis and Service Lodge No. 1009: The Grand Master Flushing Claimed as a Brother

In 1952, Flushing’s Service Lodge No. 1009 welcomed Raymond C. Ellis as an honorary member. The Brooklyn lawyer went on to become Grand Master of New York Masons and helped bring a medical research laboratory into being in Utica. His story connects a neighborhood lodge’s charitable work with a lasting commitment to medical research.