Mary Ettie V. Smith maintains that Mormonism has no relationship with Masonry.
Nelson Winch Green, Fifteen Years Among the Mormons (New York: Charles Scribner, 1858), 49-50
Mormons are anxious to have the "Gentiles" associate all they know of the beastly "Endowments," with Masonry, or as being a modified form of it, made eligible to women, as a blind to cover the real objects of this "Institution"; and I have noticed by the public prints, since my arrival in the States, that this was the opinion entertained among those "Gentiles" supposed to be best informed upon the subject. But this is but a mere blind; and the real object of these mystic forms is no way connected with, or borrowed from Masonry.