McMurdo's association with the Freemen?

McMurdo describes his personal association with the Freemen in the following way;

I am one of the Eminent Order of Freemen. There’s no town without a lodge, and where there is a lodge I’ll find my friends.”

Thank you. I’m Brother John McMurdo, Lodge 29, Chicago. Bodymaster J.H. Scott. But I am in luck to meet a brother so early.”

Mc.Murdo describes from where did he belongs to Chicago , where he had joined another lodge.( by the way i am Umaynah are u Alishba).