Royal Arcanum

Members of the Royal Arcanum posed on the auditorium steps at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, June 23, 1909.

The Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum, commonly known simply as the Royal Arcanum, is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts by John A. Cummings and Darius Wilson, who had previously been among the founders of the Knights of Honor, a similar organization, in Kentucky.[1] The Royal Arcanum home office is located in Boston, Massachusetts.