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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 merge with Elm Lodge, as Elm-Belcher, 09/14; granted.)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

DISTRICTS

LINKS

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