Harold Van Buren Voorhis (January 3, 1894 – May 23, 1983) was a chemist, notedMasonic author, and executive at Macoy Publishers and Masonic Supply Company.

Harold was born January 3, 1894, to Thomas Voorhis, Jr. (1864-1941)^[1] and Mary Peck Bates (1868-1962)^[2] at Rector Place,Red Bank, New Jersey. He attended Red Bank High School, graduating in 1912. He attendedCooper Union College from 1912–13 andColumbia University Teachers Extension from 1913–16.

He worked as a chemist atBull & Roberts, in New York, NY from 1912–20, and returned there later for a succession of positions starting in 1943: secretary-treasurer (1943–59); assistant to the president (1962); and consultant (1963–67). He served in theU.S. Navy duringWorld War I from January 1, 1917, to February 13, 1919. He later became vice president of Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. from 1946–70.

He was an earlyamateur radio hobbyist, joining theRadio League of America^[3] in its first year, 1915, andAmerican Radio Relay League in 1922, eight years after its founding.

He married first Lucille Marie Hottendorf^[4] on July 2, 1932, inElkton, Maryland and second Ethel Rita Landau (1914-1988) on October 20, 1953, in New York, New York.

He was Worshipful Master of Mystic Brotherhood Lodge 21, F. & A. M. of Red Bank, NJ in 1937, and served in many other capacities in many other Masonic groups.

• Arthur Edward Waite, a check list of his writings (1932) ("regular edition" of 150 copies)^[5]
• Arthur Edward Waite: a check list of his Writings (1932) ("limited edition" of 100 numbered copies)^[6]
• The history of organized masonic Rosicrucianism ... (1935) ("limited edition" of 52 copies)^[7]
• The Eastern Star - The Evolution From a Rite to an Order (1938); reprinted 1976
• [Negro Masonry in the United States] - (1940) reprinted 2003
• History of Knight Templary in New Jersey (1944)
• Facts for Freemasons (1951)
• 100 Year Celebration of Mystic Brotherhood Lodge No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons (1952)
• Masonic organizations and allied orders and degrees: a cyclopaedic handbook (1952)^[8]
• Masonic Rosicrucian societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Greece, Canada & the United States of America (1958)^[9]
• Our Colored Brethren (1960)
• The Royal Order of Scotland (1960)
• The Red Cross of Constantine (1963)
• The Story of the Scottish Rite (1965)
• The History of the Scottish Rite in New Jersey (1970)
• A history of organized Masonic Rosicrucianism; Societas Rosicruciana (1983)^[10]

• Hinks, Peter P.,"John Marrant and the Meaning of Early Black Freemasonry." The William and Mary Quarterly 64.1 (2007): 25 May 2008.
• The Edward R. Cusick Collection of Historic African-American Masonic Materials at the Livingston Masonic Library contains correspondence between Cusick and Voorhis in addition to a collection of Voorhis books.
• Perlman, Daniel.,"Organizations of the Free Negro in New York City, 1800-1860" The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 181–197.

• People from Red Bank, New Jersey
• 1894 births
• 1983 deaths
• American Freemasons
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers

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