Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.

Albert Pike is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Freemasonry, known for his writings, leadership, and contributions to Masonic philosophy. Born on December 29, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Albert Pike was the …

Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C. (in Judiciary Square).

Albert Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 29, 1809. He was educated in Newburyport, where his parents moved while he was young. He claimed to have attended Harvard, but no record of this exists. Six feet tall, weighing 300 pounds, with waist-length hair, Pike was an imposing figure.

Apr 2, 2025 · Albert Pike: The Man Behind the Myths and Symbols. Born in 1809, Albert Pike's life unfolded like an epic tale filled with intrigue, ambition, and paradox. Imagine a young man in the early 19th century an era bursting with revolution, both political and intellectual.

May 1, 1995 · Albert Pike, lawyer, soldier, and author, and one of the most remarkable figures in American history, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1809, the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Andrews) Pike.

Dec 30, 2024 · Albert Pike was born on December 29, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Benjamin and Sarah (Andrews) Pike. He spent his youth in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts. His colonial ancestors, who included John Pike (1613–1688/1689), the founder of Woodbridge, New Jersey, inhabited the region in 1635.

Albert Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 29, 1809. No trace of his early residence in that city remains, so far as I was able to determine. This is hardly surprising, for the city itself has changed radically since 1809.

On the tenth of December 1832, 22-year-old Albert Pike paid his last few coins to a bargeman to ferry him down the Poteau out of Indian Territory to this rock at the western edge of the United States. Young Pike was at the end of a two-year Wild West adventure that had deprived him of …

When he was four years old his parents removed to Newburyport in the same State, where young Pike grew to manhood, getting the usual education of the times in the common schools, supplemented by a few terms at a private school in the same …