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UNITY LODGE

Location: Dalton

Chartered By: Charles C. Hutchinson

Charter Date: 06/09/1897 1897-83

Precedence Date: 05/16/1896

Current Status: unknown; merged with Globe Lodge to form Globe Unity Lodge, 12/12/2009.

PAST MASTERS

Franklin Weston, 1896-1898
Earl Ingalls, 1899
Edwin H. Brownson, 1900
William S. Warren, 1901
Cushing M. Parker, 1902
Leroy P. Adams, 1903
John H. Bellows, 1904
Charles H. Cooper, 1905; SN
Martin E. Stockbridge, 1906
Harlem S. Lawrence, 1907
Martin D. Pelton, 1908
Walter C. Reed, 1909
James F. Howarth, 1910
Charles C. Bartlett, 1911
Louis G. Schneider, 1912
Herbert R. Messenger, 1913
Frank A. Pinney, 1914
Lawrence A. Howarth, 1915
LeRoy E. Shaw, 1916; N
George Schneider, Jr., 1917
George A. Smith, 1918
J. Earl Conklin, 1919
Jesse M. Dunbar, 1920
Elmer G. Pike, 1921
Roswell W. Smith, 1922
Charles H. Chamberlin, 1923
George C. Rider, Jr., 1924
Herbert H. Collins, 1925
Franklin J. Champlin, 1926
Harold E. Price, 1927
Howard G. Adams, 1928
Charles F. Messenger, 1929
Charles W. Ford, 1930
Charles A. Smith, 1931
William J. Burbank, 1932
Amos L. Allen, 1933
Willard G. Jordan, 1934
Charles J. Neumeister, 1935
Donald H. Cande, 1936
Donald A. Hall, 1937
Wilbur V. Pomeroy, 1938
Weslie J. Crosier, 1939
John W. Wring, 1940
Ethelbert R. Pierce, 1941; N
John T. Hulland, 1942
Frank L. Sears, 1943
Gilbert E. Adams, 1944
John G. Anderson, 1945
Stephen E. Therrien, 1946
Fred P. Darby, 1947
Samuel H. Bailey, 1948
Maynard D. Robbins, 1949
Nelson Cande, 1950
Harold W. Edwards, 1951
Ernest F. Bates, 1952
Harold E. Price, 1953
Douglas N. Knickerbocker, 1954
Roswell W. Smith, Jr., 1955
Norman L. Elser, 1956
Theodore R. Sherpey, 1957, 1958; N
D. Cranston Smith, 1959
Robert C. Bennett, 1960
Bernard W. Frost, 1961
Alvah P. Emerson, 1962
William H. Manning, 1963
Guy B. Streeter, 1964
Kinsley M. Goodrich, 1965
Richard A. Lattizzori, 1966
1967?
Vernon L. Campbell, 1968
Donald H. Scott-Smith, 1969
Peter W. Stephenson, 1970-1971, 1989, 1999; N
K. Eugene Trostle, 1972
Chesley G. Cripps, 1973
Richard S. Hurst, 1974
David G. Tyburski, 1975
Fred A. Sears, 1976
Christopher I. Drake, 1977
John L. Cande, 1978
Percy F. Kuhn, 1979, 1985, 2000; PDDGM
Thomas J. Lindaas, 1980
K(enneth). Eugene Trostle, 1981; PDDGM
Raymond W. Abare, 1982
Basil T. Jelly, 1983
Christopher I. Drake, 1984
M. Bruce Yeaton, 1986
Byron H. Porter, Jr., 1987
Ronald R. Dill, 1988
Elias Vranas, 1990, 1998
Howard O. Blake, Jr., 1991
Nelson Cande, 1992
Nelson Cande, 1993
Richard K. Cooper, 1994, 2001; N
Joseph C. Emerson, 1995
Joseph C. Emerson, 1996
Charles E. Emerson, 1997
Jerry J. Smith, Sr., 2002
John A. Sobon, 2003-2005
W. Rodney Mahloney, 2006
Robert M. Fuster, Jr., 2007, 2008
John H. Fisk, 2009

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Dispensation: 1896
Petition for Charter: 1897
Consolidation Petition (with Globe Lodge): 2009

ANNIVERSARIES

1947 (50th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

1897 (Hutchinson; Constitution of Lodge and installation; Special Communication)
1947 (Wragg; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
1989 (Ames)
2009 (Deputy Grand Master Tsingos; Consolidation; Special Communication)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1897 1912 1916 1917 1920 1925 1933 1943 1956 1962 1968 1973 1974 1978 1980 1981

HISTORY

1947 (50th Anniversary History, 1947-125)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

Charles H. Cooper, DDGM, District 15 (Pittsfield), 1907, 1908; SN
Richard K. Cooper, DDGM, District 30, 2004, 2005; N
Percy F. Kuhn, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1997, 1998
Ethelbert R. Pierce, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1943, 1944; N
LeRoy E. Shaw, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1925, 1926; Junior Grand Warden 1927; N
Theodore R. Sherpey, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1959, 1960; N
Peter W. Stephenson, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1975, 1976; N
K(enneth). Eugene Trostle, DDGM, District 16 (Pittsfield), 1985, 1986