I have a book manuscript at copyreading stage at the UP of Kentucky on the Good
Templars (currently called TRANSATLANTIC TEMPERANCE: JOHN BULL, JOHNNY REB, AND
RACISM), so I would appreciate any references to Templars who are Good Templars
 
Inspired by the medieval order of Knights Templar,  many secret ritual orders
borrowed the name Templars.  I think one masonic group calls itself the Knights
Templar.  There were several fraternal temperance organizations with Templar in
their names (e.g., the Templars of Honor and Temperance).  To save verbiage I
often say Templar when the context makes it clear that I mean Good Templar.  I
don't know which listserv group has had the discussion of Templars.  I suspect
it is about the masonic organization.
 
The Independent (later International) Order of Good Templars was founded in
1852 after a secession from an 1851-founded Order of Good Templars.