Albert G. MackeyAmerican novelist and physician Albert Gallatin Mackey was well-known for his works on Freemasonry. Mackey, who was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1807, was a physician's and a teacher's son. He worked as a doctor after receiving his medical chool, and he subsequently started demonstrating anatomy. Mackey made the decision to abandon medicine in 1844 and dedicate himself to literature. He founded and ran the weekly publication The Southern and Western Masonic Miscellany for three years. Additionally, he released a quarterly magazine with a Masonic theme. The topics Mackey wrote on ranged from languages to the Middle Ages to Freemasonry. Mackey was quite active in Freemasonry and held a number of posts there. President Andrew Johnson selected Mackey as the Collector of the Port of Charleston in 1865 because he supported the Union cause during the Civil War. Later, in 1868, he took part in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention. Mackey moved to Washington, D.C., in 1870, where he continued his academic work. at 1881, he died at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Throughout the course of Freemasonry's history, Albert G. Mackey has made significant contributions and written extensively on the topic. Read More Read Less