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=== PAST MASTERS ===
 
=== PAST MASTERS ===
  
 
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* J. Mason Everett, 1863-1866; DDGM
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* Morton B. Merrill, 1869-1871; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAOtherBrothersM#MERRILL.2C_MORTON_B._1840-1918 Mem]'''
* Edward R. Eager, 1867, 1868
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* Eldridge C. Sawyer, 1872-1874
* Henry B. Miner, 1869, 1870
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* Frank Wiggin, 1875
* Daniel T. V. Huntoon, 1871, 1872
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* Alexander Smart, 1876, 1877
* George H. Mansfield, 1873-1875
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* Ora A. Little, 1878, 1879
* Frank J. Sawyer, 1876-1878
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* Ralph H. Smart, 1880, 1881
* Andrew A. Harrington, 1879-1881
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* Fred M. Chase, 1882, 1883
* Samuel H. Capen, 1882-1884
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* M. Perry Sargent, 1884, 1885
* John B. Robinson, 1885-1887
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* William F. Ward, 1886, 1887
* Francis B. Dunbar, 1888, 1889; DDGM
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* John P. Thornell, 1888, 1889
* Charles A. Hixson, 1890, 1891
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* Herman W. Kelly, 1890, 1891
* Franklin D. Bullard, 1892, 1893
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* Daniel J. Poore, 1892-1894; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesNR#POORE.2C_DANIEL_J..2C_JR._1846-1901 SN]'''
* Nathaniel W. Dunbar, 1894, 1895
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* Alexander Hanna, 1895, 1896
* Robert Bird, 1896, 1897
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* Bion Green, 1897, 1898
* Charles H. Eager, 1898, 1899
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* Zanes Lovell, 1899
* Harlan W. Curtis, 1900, 1901
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* Fred B. Judkins, 1900, 1901
* John E. Stanton, 1902, 1903
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* Clifton B. Heath, 1902
* William N. Tenney, 1904, 1905
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* William L. Smart, 1903, 1904
* J(oseph) Fayette Stone, 1906, 1907; DDGM
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* William Jonah, 1905, 1906
* Warren W. Capen, 1908, 1909
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* Oliver Jordan, 1907, 1908
* Arthur W. Chase, 1909, 1910; DDGM
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* John W. Grocut, 1909, 1910
* Louis W. Fischer, 1911, 1912
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* Frank E. Pease, 1911, 1912
* Ralph L. Pollard, 1913, 1914
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* Charles W. Cutts, 1913
* Walter R. Merriam, 1915, 1916
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* Frederick E. Grant, 1914, 1915
* Freddy Mosley, 1917, 1918
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* Albert P. Wadleigh, 1916, 1917
* Ernest T. Johnson, 1919, 1920; DDGM
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* L. Allen Williams, 1918, 1919
* Karl W. Pollard, 1921, 1922
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* Frank F. Philbrick, 1920
* William B. Tirrell, 1923, 1924
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* [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLWFranklin William H. Franklin, Jr.], 1921, 1922; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesAG#FRANKLIN.2C_WILLIAM_HENRY.2C_JR._1888-1953 N]'''
* Edmund A. Chapin, 1925, 1926
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* Carlton C. Witham, 1923
* Roger J. Baldwin, 1927, 1928
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* George E. Franklin, 1924, 1925
* W. Lincoln Burt, 1929, 1930
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* George L. Hosford, 1926, 1927
* Charles M. Hewett, 1931, 1932
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* G. Willis Cummings, 1928, 1929
* Eliot C. French, 1933, 1934; DDGM
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* A. R. Waterhouse, 1930, 1931
* Ralph L. Whitcomb, 1935, 1936
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* Howard C. Lovell, 1932, 1933
* John MacKenzie, 1937, 1938
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* Elmer T. Grant, 1934
* Hobart Hughes, 1939, 1940
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* Willard T. Kelly, 1935, 1936
* William G. Darrow, 1941, 1942
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* Cecil E. Welch, 1937, 1938; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesSZ#WELCH.2C_CECIL_EDWIN_1900-1962 N]'''
* Harold W. Merriam, 1943, 1944
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* Alexander Q. Blake, 1939, 1940
* Frank L. Ervin, 1945, 1946
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* Edward B. Germain, 1941
* Arthur E. Tordoff, 1947, 1948
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* Malcolm A. Eaton, 1942
* Clayton F. Harvey, 1949, 1950
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* Chauncey D. McKay, 1943, 1944
* Andrew U. Kokko, 1951
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* Alvin F. Heath, 1945
* Russell H. Sellew, 1952
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* Frank M. Hargreaves, 1946, 1947; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesHM#HARGRAVES.2C_FRANK_McLAIN_1904-1977 N]'''
* Marshall W. Porter, 1953
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* Isaiah Chase, 1948
* Myles Standish, 1954; DDGM ->check other lodges
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* Lloyd S. Ray, 1949; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesNR#RAY.2C_LLOYD_SANFORD_1905-1987 N]'''
* Cabot Devoll, Jr., 1955, 1956
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* Edgar P. Sargent, 1950
* John H. Daltn, 1957
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* Frank J. Russo, 1951, 1952
* Samuel S. Mitchell, 1958
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* Frederick C. Chase, 1953, 1954
* Storrus L. Kenney, 1959
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* John T. Franklin, 1955
* William G. Blakely, Jr., 1960, 1965
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* Gerald M. Hargraves, 1956
* Herman Brightman, 1961
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* Edward L. Smith, 1957
* George E. Banks, 1962
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* A. Noel Roy, 1958
* Arthur W. Fisk, 1963
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* Arthur E. Sharp, 1959
* Frederick E. Hodes, 1964
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* George P. Hardie, 1960
* Elliott S. Darrow, 1966
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* Harold M. Daniels, 1961
* Adrian W. Hardy, 1967, 1972
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* Leonard R. Burrill, 1962
* ''Warren H. Holmes'', 1968
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* Harold M. Waterhouse, Jr., 1963
* Thomas F. Farmer, 1969
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* Harry M. Fleet, 1964
* ''Edward T. Johnston'', 1970, 1971
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* Wayne W. Williams, Sr., 1965
* Ralph W. Staples, 1973
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* Francis Drenth, 1966
* Edward I. Waldman, 1974
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* ''Willard C. Gowan'', 1967
* Lawrence P. Clews, 1975, 1976
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* ''George A. Waterhouse'', 1968
* Harold L. Pushee, 1977
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* ''Merton E. Chute'', 1969, 1970; '''PDDGM'''
* ''Dan M. Petrescu'', 1978
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* Byron S. Reynolds, 1971
* ''Henry L. Munson'', 1979
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* Richard T. Smith, 1972, 1998
* Albert R. Horan, 1980
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* Kenneth E. Randall, 1973, 1986
* ''Raymond L. Morandi, 1981
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* ''Richard N. Kendrick'', 1974, 2000
* Kenneth A. Churchill, 1982; DDGM
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* ''Russell M. Poor'', 1975
* ''Walter T. Wedge'', 1983, 1989
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* Carrol E. Twist, 1976
* Charles S. Wentworth, 1984
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* ''Russell E. Smith'', 1977
* Roland Vanasse, 1985, 1986, 1991
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* ''Richard A. Waterhouse'', 1978
* Douglas MacNeill, 1987
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* ''Wayne G. Maglione'', 1979
* ''John E. Hutchins'', 1987
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* Ernest D. Sargent, 1980, 1990
* ''Leo V. Hand, Jr.'', 1988
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* ''Laurence J. Gardella'', 1981, 1982; '''PDDGM'''
* ''Dan M. Petrescu'', 1990
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* Walter E. Barker, Jr., 1983
* Robert D. Vanasse, 1992
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* ''R. Thomas Smith, Jr.'', 1984
* ''Bruce H. Manin'', 1993
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* Joseph R. Burks, 1985
* ''Stanley S. Marshall'', 1994
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* Guy R. Williams, 1987
* ''George H. Perkins'', 1995, 1996
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* ''Edwin H. Wright'', 1988, 1989
* ''John E. Hutchins'', 1997
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* Carl L. Booth, 1991
* ''William L. Chapman'', 1998
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* ''Richard W. Lacombe'', 1992
* William H. Young, 1999, 2000; DDGM ->check other lodges
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* ''Glenn W. Coffin'', 1993, 1995
* ''Donald G. Seaman, Jr.'', 2001
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* ''Matthew A. Keiser'', 1994, 2002
* ''James E. Goode'', 2002, 2003
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* John E. O'Neal, Jr., 1996, 1997, 1999
* Lester M. Oshry, 2004; DDGM ->check other lodges
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* Byron E. McNutt, 2001
* ''Paul G. Ciccotelli'', 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
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* ''Charles H. Graber'', 2004
* ''Joseph R. Graham'', 2007
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* ''J. Charles Rutledge'', 2005; RW  --> check on him?
* ''David W. Wetherell'', 2010
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* ''Willard C. Walker, Jr.'', 2006
* ''Antoine N. Jabbour'', 2011
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* ''Keith J. Zibolis'', 2007, 2008
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* ''Normand L. Lavoie'', 2009
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* ''Anthony M. Noguiera'', 2010-2012
 
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* ''Laurence J. Gardella'', DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1984, 1985
 
* ''Laurence J. Gardella'', DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1984, 1985
 
* Frank M. Hargreaves, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1956, 1957; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesHM#HARGRAVES.2C_FRANK_McLAIN_1904-1977 N]'''
 
* Frank M. Hargreaves, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1956, 1957; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesHM#HARGRAVES.2C_FRANK_McLAIN_1904-1977 N]'''
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* Morton B. Merrill, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport9_1883-1910 District 9 (Newburyport)], 1883; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAOtherBrothersM#MERRILL.2C_MORTON_B._1840-1918 Memorial]'''
 
* Daniel J. Poore, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport9_1883-1910 District 9 (Newburyport)], 1897, 1898; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesNR#POORE.2C_DANIEL_J..2C_JR._1846-1901 SN]'''
 
* Daniel J. Poore, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport9_1883-1910 District 9 (Newburyport)], 1897, 1898; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MASuppNecrologiesNR#POORE.2C_DANIEL_J..2C_JR._1846-1901 SN]'''
* Lloyd S. Ray, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1970, 1971; [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Bethany Bethany]; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesNR#RAY.2C_LLOYD_SANFORD_1905-1987 N]'''
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* Lloyd S. Ray, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1970, 1971; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesNR#RAY.2C_LLOYD_SANFORD_1905-1987 N]'''
 
* Cecil E. Welch, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1942, 1943; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesSZ#WELCH.2C_CECIL_EDWIN_1900-1962 N]'''
 
* Cecil E. Welch, DDGM, [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANewburyport10_1927-2003 District 10 (Newburyport)], 1942, 1943; '''[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MANecrologiesSZ#WELCH.2C_CECIL_EDWIN_1900-1962 N]'''
  

Revision as of 23:42, 20 August 2012

BETHANY LODGE

Location: Merrimac

Chartered By: William Sewall Gardner

Charter Date: 12/08/1869 VII-406

Precedence Date: 12/08/1868

Current Status: Active


PAST MASTERS

  • Morton B. Merrill, 1869-1871; Mem
  • Eldridge C. Sawyer, 1872-1874
  • Frank Wiggin, 1875
  • Alexander Smart, 1876, 1877
  • Ora A. Little, 1878, 1879
  • Ralph H. Smart, 1880, 1881
  • Fred M. Chase, 1882, 1883
  • M. Perry Sargent, 1884, 1885
  • William F. Ward, 1886, 1887
  • John P. Thornell, 1888, 1889
  • Herman W. Kelly, 1890, 1891
  • Daniel J. Poore, 1892-1894; SN
  • Alexander Hanna, 1895, 1896
  • Bion Green, 1897, 1898
  • Zanes Lovell, 1899
  • Fred B. Judkins, 1900, 1901
  • Clifton B. Heath, 1902
  • William L. Smart, 1903, 1904
  • William Jonah, 1905, 1906
  • Oliver Jordan, 1907, 1908
  • John W. Grocut, 1909, 1910
  • Frank E. Pease, 1911, 1912
  • Charles W. Cutts, 1913
  • Frederick E. Grant, 1914, 1915
  • Albert P. Wadleigh, 1916, 1917
  • L. Allen Williams, 1918, 1919
  • Frank F. Philbrick, 1920
  • William H. Franklin, Jr., 1921, 1922; N
  • Carlton C. Witham, 1923
  • George E. Franklin, 1924, 1925
  • George L. Hosford, 1926, 1927
  • G. Willis Cummings, 1928, 1929
  • A. R. Waterhouse, 1930, 1931
  • Howard C. Lovell, 1932, 1933
  • Elmer T. Grant, 1934
  • Willard T. Kelly, 1935, 1936
  • Cecil E. Welch, 1937, 1938; N
  • Alexander Q. Blake, 1939, 1940
  • Edward B. Germain, 1941
  • Malcolm A. Eaton, 1942
  • Chauncey D. McKay, 1943, 1944
  • Alvin F. Heath, 1945
  • Frank M. Hargreaves, 1946, 1947; N
  • Isaiah Chase, 1948
  • Lloyd S. Ray, 1949; N
  • Edgar P. Sargent, 1950
  • Frank J. Russo, 1951, 1952
  • Frederick C. Chase, 1953, 1954
  • John T. Franklin, 1955
  • Gerald M. Hargraves, 1956
  • Edward L. Smith, 1957
  • A. Noel Roy, 1958
  • Arthur E. Sharp, 1959
  • George P. Hardie, 1960
  • Harold M. Daniels, 1961
  • Leonard R. Burrill, 1962
  • Harold M. Waterhouse, Jr., 1963
  • Harry M. Fleet, 1964
  • Wayne W. Williams, Sr., 1965
  • Francis Drenth, 1966
  • Willard C. Gowan, 1967
  • George A. Waterhouse, 1968
  • Merton E. Chute, 1969, 1970; PDDGM
  • Byron S. Reynolds, 1971
  • Richard T. Smith, 1972, 1998
  • Kenneth E. Randall, 1973, 1986
  • Richard N. Kendrick, 1974, 2000
  • Russell M. Poor, 1975
  • Carrol E. Twist, 1976
  • Russell E. Smith, 1977
  • Richard A. Waterhouse, 1978
  • Wayne G. Maglione, 1979
  • Ernest D. Sargent, 1980, 1990
  • Laurence J. Gardella, 1981, 1982; PDDGM
  • Walter E. Barker, Jr., 1983
  • R. Thomas Smith, Jr., 1984
  • Joseph R. Burks, 1985
  • Guy R. Williams, 1987
  • Edwin H. Wright, 1988, 1989
  • Carl L. Booth, 1991
  • Richard W. Lacombe, 1992
  • Glenn W. Coffin, 1993, 1995
  • Matthew A. Keiser, 1994, 2002
  • John E. O'Neal, Jr., 1996, 1997, 1999
  • Byron E. McNutt, 2001
  • Charles H. Graber, 2004
  • J. Charles Rutledge, 2005; RW --> check on him?
  • Willard C. Walker, Jr., 2006
  • Keith J. Zibolis, 2007, 2008
  • Normand L. Lavoie, 2009
  • Anthony M. Noguiera, 2010-2012

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Dispensation: 1868
  • Petition for Charter: 1869

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1920 (50th Anniversary)
  • 1969 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1878 1881 1887 1892 1902 1904 1913 1921 1939 1957 1958 1970 1971 1972 1988 1992 2009

HISTORY

  • 1920 (50th Anniversary History, 1920-7)
  • 1969 (Centenary History, 1969-286)

OTHER

  • 1876 (Cornerstone laying, Merrimack Town Hall)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1868: District 6 (Newburyport)

1883: District 9 (Newburyport)

1911: District 10 (Newburyport)

1927: District 10 (Newburyport)

2003: District 11


LINKS

Lodge web site

Massachusetts Lodges