John A. Weisse

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Dr. John Adam Weisse was an American physician, philologist and archaeologist, who served as Vice President of the Theosophical Society in 1877-1880 along with Alexander Wilder under Abner Doubleday. He was interested in freemasonry and ancient Egypt. He was responsible for bringing some Egyptian antiquities to the New York Historical Society.[1]

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  1. John Adam Weisse, The Obelisk and Freemasonry According to the Discoveries of Belzoni and Commander Gorringe, (New York: J. W> Bouton, 1880), 174. Available at Internet Archive.