Ashler

ASHLER LODGE

Location: Rockport

Chartered By: George M. Randall

Charter Date: 03/10/1852 V-372

Precedence Date: 03/16/1851

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged into The Tyrian-Ashler-Acacia Lodge, 10/27/2007

PAST MASTERS

need list of living PMs; also 1994-2001

Eben Blatchford, 1851-1854
William Caldwell, 1855, 1856, 1858, 1859
James G. Caldwell, 1857
Samuel York, 1860-1868, 1873, 1874
N. F. S. York, 1869
D. C. Babson, 1870
William Marchant, 1871, 1872
Eugene R. Prior, 1875
Jason L. Curtis, 1876-1885
C. H. Manning, II, 1886
James Wallace, 1887-1892
Edgar Knowlton, 1893, 1894
T. T. Harwood, 1895, 1896
Charles Tresnon, 1897, 1898
James Abbott, 1899, 1900
Charles E. Jones, 1901, 1902
George F. Hodgins, 1903, 1904
C. Harry Rogers, 1905, 1906
William H. Supple, 1907, 1908
Louis A. Rogers, 1909, 1910; N
Ezra E. Cleaves, 1911, 1912
J. Manuel Marshall, 1913, 1914
Charles H. Cleaves, 1915, 1916
Herbert F. Knowlton, 1917, 1918
Edward M. Law, 1919, 1920; Memorial
Sumner Y. Wheeler, 1921, 1922
Norman M Hooper, 1923, 1924
Clarendon Waddell, 1925, 1926
Joseph E. Critchett, 1927, 1928
Stephen D. Marston, 1929, 1930
J(ohn). Harry Mills, 1931, 1932; SN
Ernest G. Roffey, 1933, 1934
J. Raymond Sanders, 1935, 1936
Bernard F. Brewer, 1937, 1938
James R. Hodgins, 1939, 1940
Chester E. Wallace, 1941, 1942
Verner R. Larsson, 1943, 1944
George E. MacLean, 1945, 1946; N
William G. Reed, 1947, 1948
Melvin C. Linder, 1949, 1950
N.O. Bruno Pearson, 1951, 1952; N
Preston O. Wass, 1953, 1954
Raymond M. Reed, 1955, 1956
Roland J. Smith, 1957, 1958
Walter F. Church, 1959, 1960
Matt A. Hautala, 1961
N. Abbott Hooper, 1962
Ernest A. Niemi, 1963
R. Edgar Barker, 1964
Karl A. Johnson, 1965
Frank W. Johnson, 1966
David B. Grimes, 1967
Philip H. Ackerman, 1968
Raymond G. Smith, 1969
Preston H. Dann, 1970
William W. Walima, 1971
Bradford L. Bigelow, 1972
Harold W. Adams, 1973, 1974; N
John E. Main, Jr., 1975, 1976
John W. Reed, 1977
Willard C. Trafton, 1978, 1979
John A. Halmen, 1980
John Louis Peters, 1981
Roy V. H. Johnson, 1982
Glenn W. Anderson, 1983
David Hopkins, 1984
Jay R. Smith, 1985-1987, 2004
R(aymond) A(llen). Brown, Jr., 1988, 1989, 1993; SN
Wayne W. Anderton, 1990
Peter A. Todd, 1991
William C. Nicol, 1992
unknown 1994-2001?
George S. Patey, III, 2002, 2003
Gary G. Lucas, 2005, 2006
Dana P. Andrus, 2007

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Charter: 1852 Dispensation granted 03/16/1851; no reference in Proceedings
Consolidation Petition (with The Tyrian-Acacia Lodge): 2007

ANNIVERSARIES

1951 (Centenary)
2001 (150th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

1852 (Senior Grand Warden William Ferson; Consecration; see below)
1867 (Dame; Hall dedication)
1881 (Lawrence; Installation)
1951 (Roy; Centenary)
1993 (Lovering)
2001 (Bauer)
2007 (Hodgdon; consolidation with The Tyrian-Acacia)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1874 1899 1901 1903 1913 1916 1921 1927 1929 1934 1951 1967 1974 1975 1982 1988 2001 2004 2006

HISTORY

1951 (Centenary History, 1951-44)

EVENTS

CONSECRATION OF LODGE, JUNE 1852

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XI, No. 9, July 1852, Page 266:

Br. Moore:-Ashler Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, was consecrated at Rockport, on Wednesday, June 26th. The members of the Lodge, accompanied members of Tyrian Lodge, Gloucester, were escorted through some of the principal streets, by the Rockport band, to the Universalist Church, where the were performed before a large audience. R. W. S. G. W. William Ferson, presided, assisted by Rev. Mr. Huntoon, of Marblehead, Rev. Mr. Lovell, and G. Smith, Esq., of Boston.

After the ceremonies. of the consecration were concluded, the olficers of Lodge were installed. They are as follows :