"We X-rayed it, we bore holes into it, but that [cornerstone] was solid," explained Roger Evans, tyler of the William McKinley Lodge 431 of Freemasons, one of five Masonic groups that uses the ...

At that time he was a 17-year-old student at the College of William and Mary ... in the Scottish Rite." McKinley succeeded Garfield as both the next Masonic president and the next president ...