Brother McConnell was a noted ritualist in Masonry, and while in Lexington was elected Master of Lexington Lodge, No. 1, and at about the time of the Renaissance of Redmanship in this Reservation. When Mendenhall began his canvass for charter members of Miantonomo Tribe, No. 1, Brother McConnell was one of the first approached, and the lending of his name and influence to the movement assisted in no small degree in the establishment of the Order in Kentucky. At the institution of Tribe No. 1 he was elected its first Senior Sagamore, and succeeded to the stump of Sachem one month later, the Tribe having been instituted on the 5th of Cold Moon, G. S. D. 403, just prior to the close of the term. A charter member of the Great Council, he was elected its first Great Senior Sagamore, and was raised to the stump of Great Sachem at the second session of the Great Council, held at Augusta in 1896, and was the first Great Sachem to serve a full great sun. During his administration several new Tribes were added to the roster of the Great Council, and he visited nearly every Tribe in the Reservation. At the expiration of his term as Sachem, he was elected Great Prophet, and served in that capacity the full term, and afterwards served upon several important committees, attending every Great Council until his removal to Indiana. He is now a member of Walla Walla Tribe, No. 229, of Aurora, Indiana, and ranking as a Past Great Sachem in the Great Council of that Reservation. [Illustration: WILLIAM EDWIN FITE] =PAST GREAT SACHEM WILLIAM EDWIN FITE= 1897-8 Brother Fite was born October 20, 1867, near Rome, Adams County, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools and at the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio. His early life was spent on the farm. He has been a teacher of much ability, and has been principal of schools at Wheelersburg and Bethel, Ohio. He was granted a State Life Certificate by the Ohio Board of School Examiners in 1890; was employed as Superintendent of Schools of Augusta, Kentucky, in 1893, and was granted State Certificate in Kentucky in 1894. Was principal of Minerva Male and Female Academy 1896-1898, when he gave up teaching to enter the insurance business, in which he has been engaged to the present time.