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Later in 1878, a group of senior U.S. Masons (Daniel Sutter, and Charles W. Parker) led by Charles E. Meyer (1839-1908) of Pennsylvania, traveled to England and on July 25th, 1878 were initiated into the grade of Zelator at Yorkshire College at Sheffield. Applying for a charter, but getting no response, they turned to Scotland and received a charter from the college in Edinburgh in 1879. A second charter was granted by the SRIS for a college in New York, and Fratres from Philadelphia and New York met in Philadelphia on April 21, 1880 and formed a High Council, then known as the SRRCA or the Societas Rosicrucianae Reipublica Confoedera America.Charles E. Meyer from PA was elected the first Supreme Magus.The name was later changed to the Society of Rosicrucians in the USA by Most Worthy Frater Shryock in his capacity as Supreme Magus. The name was properly Latinized in 1934 by Dr. William Moseley Brown. Brown composed the name (Societas Rosicruciana In Civitatibus Foederatis) and..