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BELCHER LODGE

Location: Chicopee Falls

Chartered By: William Sewall Gardner

Charter Date: 09/13/1871 1871-150

Precedence Date: 07/09/1870

Current Status: merged with Elm Lodge to form Elm-Belcher Lodge, 09/14/1988.

PAST MASTERS

  • Benjamin Belcher, 1872-1874
  • Edgar T. Paige, 1875, 1876
  • James Flint, 1877, 1878
  • Charles O. Shaw, 1879, 1880
  • Nathaniel Clark, 1881, 1882
  • Alfred Langeway, 1883, 1884
  • John W. Woods, 1885, 1886
  • Charles O. Shaw, 1887
  • George W. Whitehouse 1888, 1889
  • George W. D. Lyon, 1890-1893
  • John W. Belcher, 1894
  • Albert E. Taylor, 1895, 1896; N
  • Woodman S. Page, 1897, 1898
  • Edward H. Elder, 1899
  • George H. Hathaway, 1900
  • Edward C. Page, 1901
  • Clarence A. Brodeur, 1902
  • Duffield Miles, 1903
  • Oscar B. Elder, 1904, 1905
  • Edward S. Taylor, 1906
  • Charles A. Smith, 1907
  • Clarence K. Smith, 1908
  • Edwin I. Davis, 1909
  • Robert H. Fay, 1910
  • Karl V. Schadee, 1911
  • Frank S. Woodhall, 1912
  • Albert F. Crowther, 1913; SN
  • Charles R. Loveland, 1914
  • Francis S. Nelson, 1915
  • John W. Valler, 1916
  • James Shaw, 1917
  • Henry I. Burnett, 1918
  • Roy Perry Miles, 1919
  • Edward C. Sheldon, 1920
  • William H. Phinney, 1921
  • Arthur C. Tovey, 1922
  • Charles J. Bolingbroke, 1923
  • Colonel E. Holgate, 1924
  • Frank P. Beardsell, 1925; N
  • Charles L. Wells, 1926
  • George E. C. Kelly, 1927
  • John Fairley, 1928
  • Karl Woodman Page, 1929
  • Henry Hulton, 1930
  • Albert Edwin Davis, 1931
  • Paul Wesley Osborne Sr., 1932
  • Elmore L. Pahl, 1933
  • Louis W. Bartlett, 1934
  • Alexander R. Dunbar, 1935, 1945; N
  • Wallace S. Phinney, 1936
  • David G. West, 1937
  • Arthur Johnson, 1938
  • L. J. Hockenberry, 1939
  • Otto R. Vail, 1940
  • William Donnelly, 1941
  • Ronald D. Rogers, 1942
  • Robert F. Fay Jr., 1943
  • Frederick E. Aggerup, 1944
  • Ronald D. Rogers, 1945
  • Edwin A. Hulton, 1946, 1947
  • John Hassapelis, 1948
  • Peter F. Scott, 1949
  • Clifford A. Bergquist, 1950
  • Joseph Jardine, 1951
  • David M. Lindsay, 1952
  • George C. Conable, 1953
  • Harold E. Messer, 1954
  • Roland I. Outhuse, 1955
  • Edward H. Pollack, 1956
  • Erwin T. Mellor, 1957
  • Harold Wainwright, 1958
  • James C. Fettes Jr., 1959; SN
  • George R. Fettes Sr., 1960
  • John R. T. Duncan, 1961
  • Edward T. Kalagian, 1962
  • Douglas D. Watt, 1963
  • Donald J. Lohnes, 1964, 1967; N
  • Robert B. Richardson, 1965
  • Arthur J. Levesque Jr., 1966
  • Reginald Levesque, 1968, 1975
  • Ralph F. Haywood, 1969
  • William E. Gibbs, 1970
  • Albert C. Kennedy, 1971
  • George Leocopoulos, 1972
  • John Hassapelis, 1973, 1974
  • Alexander E. Nicoll, 1976
  • William R. Duxbury, 1977
  • James D. Donnelly, 1978
  • Ralph F. Haywood, 1979
  • Thomas L. Nitsch, 1982, 1983
  • Leslie P. Lohnes, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985
  • Leonard G. Ward, 1986
  • Robert E. Shaw, 1987
  • Robert H. Merkel, 1988

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1945 (75th Anniversary)
  • 1970 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1878 1894 1908 1909 1912 1916 1924 1929 1934 1938 1953 1974 1975 1980

HISTORY

  • 1870 (Petition for Dispensation, 07/06)
  • 1871 (Petition for Charter, 09/13; granted; constituted by District Deputy William J. Sawin)
  • 1945 (75th Anniversary History, 1945-135)
  • 1970 (Centenary History, 1970-210)
  • 1988 (Petition to consolidate with Elm Lodge, as Elm-Belcher, 09/14; granted.)

EVENTS

PRESENTATION, JUNE 1873

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXXII, No. 7, July 1873, Page 218:

At the regular meeting of Belcher Lodge, at Belchertown, on the 2d of June, a very generous and well merited compliment was paid to R. W. Bro. W. J. Sawin, M.D., the efficient and able Dis. Dep. Grand Master for the 10th Masonic District, in the presentation, by the Lodges of his district, of a rich and costly Gold Watch. The presentation was made by R. W. Bro. John Wetherbee, Deputy for the 18th District, in the presence of the Lodges of the 10th District, and a large assemblage of the Brethren. The presentation speech was a felicitous and taking performance, as was also the response by the genial recipient. "We should be pleased to lay both before our readers had we room to spare for the purpose. A banquet, almost as a necessary consequence, followed the exercises in the lodge-room; thus, not inappropriately closing what was undoubtedly a very pleasant occasion to all the parties interested in it.

The recent parade of the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania at Meadville, seems to have been a grand affair. A contemporary says, "The inspection and review were enjoyed not only by all participants, but by a host of spectators, who filled the streets and every available space of the dwellings and public buildings on the route of the display, which every one asserted was the most brilliant ever witnessed in Western Pennsylvania. The evolutions of the various Commanderies were performed with great accuracy, and drew forth unbounded applause. The decorations of the city of Meadville, on every part of the line of the parade, were very brilliant. Numerous arches of evergreens were strung across the streets at various points, and pendant from them were Templar emblems, legends and words of welcome. Passion and Maltese crosses appeared everywhere. The ladies alone prepared over 3,000 feet of evergreens. It seemed as though the Knights and citizens of Meadville could not do enough for the pleasure and comfort of the Grand Officers and other visitors. The weather was delightful throughout the proceedings, and all the Knights departed home charmed with their reception and the entire proceedings."

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