Sir Morton B. Howell / C. C. Giers, 43 & 45 Union St., Nashville, Tenn.

Photograph shows Howell in Masonic regalia including gauntlets, belt, and sash standing next to table with book and hat on top.
Negative no. 14212.

Originally in album belonging to Joel B. Clough, Civilian Engineer, United States Military Railroad, 1863 and 1864.
Gift; Florence C. Abel; 1961.
Born October 2, 1834 in Norfolk, Virginia; worked as an attorney-at-law; mayor of Nashville one term; Clerk and Master Chancery Court one term; affiliated with Knights Templar. (Source: Tennessee templars / James D. Richardson, 1883)