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Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s jefferson print The Publicans Contraption — PatentJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,