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CHARLES C. DAME LODGE

Location: Georgetown

Chartered By: Charles C. Dame

Charter Date: 12/11/1867 VII-193

Precedence Date: 04/05/1867

Current Status: Active


PAST MASTERS

  • Osgood, Stephen, 1867-1869
  • Nelson, Sherman, 1870, 1871
  • Harriman, Hiram N., 1872, 1873; SN
  • Tenney, George H., 1874, 1875
  • Wilson, Isaac, 1876
  • Handren, William A., 1877
  • Chaplin, Edward A., 1878, 1879
  • Noyes, Chauncey O., 1880, 1881
  • Carter, M. Frank, 1882, 1883
  • Wadleigh, William G., 1884, 1885
  • Osgood, Charles C., 1886, 1887
  • Dodge, Ignatius S., 1888, 1889
  • Simonds, Winfield S., 1890, 1891
  • Holland, J. Douglas, 1892, 1893
  • Butler, William A., 1894, 1895; Mem
  • Howe, Alfred A., 1896, 1897
  • Perley, Albert O., 1898, 1899
  • Batchelder, John, 1900, 19 01
  • Howe, Roger S., 1902, 19 03
  • Baker, Fred W., 1904, 1905
  • Urquhart, William, 1906, 1907
  • Perkins, Harry E., 1908, 1909; Mem
  • Holmes, C. Atherton, 1910, 1911
  • Hatfield, Albert J., 1912, 1913
  • Urguhart, Herbert W., 1914, 1915
  • Poole, William H., 1916, 1917
  • Johnson, Sidney E., 1918, 1919
  • Stackpole, Ralph R., 1920, 1921
  • Hazen, Jacob, 1922, 1923
  • Melvin, Robert A., 1924
  • Reed, A. Raymond, 1925
  • Reed, Herbert C., 1926, 1927
  • Dresser, Leonard M., 1928, 1929
  • Dean, Harold S.,, 1930, 1931; N
  • Pingree, Calvin N., 1932, 1933
  • Brown, Bernard C. , 1934
  • Adams, Robert B., 1935, 1936; SN
  • Thompson, Arthur F., 1937
  • Roberts, Merton E., 1938, 1939
  • Tarbox, Claude R., 1940, 1941
  • Buckmaster, Clarence W., 1942
  • Baker, Charles G., 1943, 1944
  • Pingree, H. Nelson, 1945, 1946; N
  • Rogers, Burton H., 1947
  • Newcomb, Charles I., 1948
  • Toppan, Warren N., 1949, 1950
  • Pingree, Lewis A., 1951, 1952
  • Ray, Weldon M., 1953
  • Roberts, Frank S., 1954
  • Dushame, Harold, 1955
  • Farrar, J. Harold, 1956
  • Knott, William M., 1957
  • Nichols, Richard L., 1958
  • Blair, James A., 1959
  • Gadd, A. Neil,, 1960, 1984; N
  • Wood, Myron O., 1961
  • Hatch, Fairfax, Jr., 1962
  • Roberts, Gardner A., 1963
  • Dexter, Robert C., 1964, 1965
  • Kelley, William, 1966
  • Rudolph, Robert P., 1967
  • Blake, Charles F., 1968
  • Esty, Hobart B., 1969
  • Salter, John P., 1970, 1979
  • Ellis, G. Harvey, 1971; N
  • Mansell, Bruce W., 1972
  • MacDonald, Lee E., 1973
  • Roberts, Harold A., 1974
  • Condon, David H., 1975
  • Garland, Richard E., 1976, 1980
  • Freeman, Charles M., 1977
  • Cronk, Raymond, 1978
  • Costanzo, Anthony J., 1981
  • Amodio, Michael P., 1982
  • Cotton, Vernon N., 1983
  • Wright, Edward C., 1985
  • Johnson, William C., 1986
  • Arakelian, Kevin D., 1987
  • Takesian, Michael K., 1988
  • Kenneally, Bryan N., 1989
  • Barker, Walter E., 1990
  • Perkins, Edwin H., 1991
  • Hamblet, James E., 1992, 1998
  • Langevin, David T., 1993
  • Kenneally, David B., 1994
  • Prescott, Kevin B., 1995
  • Prescott, William B., 1996
  • Prees, Kenneth A., 1997
  • Corthell, Frederick O., 1999, 2003
  • Chorzewski, Ronald C., 2000
  • Redfearn, Shawn E., 2001, 2002
  • Ringuette, Steve M., 2004, 2012
  • Todd, Peter A., 2005
  • Ouellette, Gerard L., 2006
  • O'Shaughnessy, Thomas M., 2007 DDGM
  • Shea, David A., 2008
  • Montes, Carlos, 2009
  • Collins, Nicholas A. J., 2010
  • Stewart, James E., Jr., 2011

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Dispensation: 1867
  • Petition for Charter: 1867

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1887 (20th Anniversary)
  • 1918 (50th Anniversary)
  • 1967 (Centenary)
  • 1992 (125th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1874 1875 1880 1891 1918 1921 1928 1945 1956 1957 1959 1962 1965 1970 1973 1976 1979 1981 1982 1994 1997 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008

HISTORY

  • 1967 (Centenary History, 1967-177)

OTHER

  • 1886 (Granting of a replacement charter for one destroyed by fire)

EVENTS

CONSTITUTION OF LODGE, DECEMBER 1867

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, January 1868, Page 91:

This is a new Lodge, and one of the most promising in the jurisdiction. It is located at Georgetown, in Essex county, and was duly constituted by the Grand Lodge, on the evening of the 26th of December, in the presence of a large number of brethren from the neighboring Lodges. The ceremonies of dedication and installation were performed by the Grand Master, in his peculiarly impressive and dignified manner.

The Lodge has been in existence, and working under a dispensation, not quite a year, during which time it has nearly doubled its members from among the most respectable and influential residents of the pleasant village in which it is located ; it has put up a large four-story building, and finished and furnished one of the most beautiful halls in the State, richly frescoed and ornamented by Brother Haberstroh, of this city. We refer to these facts with the greater pleasure, because, while they indicate the zeal and liberal spirit of the members, they afford assurance that the Lodge is in the hands of brethren who will so conduct its affairs that it will continue, as now, to honor the name it bears.

The Master of the new Lodge having been installed in his office, the Grand Master arose and addressed the Lodge, as follows : —

Worshipful Master and Brethren of Charles C. Dame Lodge:

I have observed your Lodge from the time when a dispensation was granted for it, and have noticed your progress in the craft with feelings of anxiety which have at last given place to great satisfaction at your advance, and contentment with your condition.

I know that you have taken great pains to select good men and true only for admission to your ranks, and I am satisfied that your solicitude in that respect has been crowned with eminent success. I know that you have shown great zeal in the acquisition of proficiency and skill in masonic work; and I am satisfied that your attainments excel your highest expectations.

Having just received your charter, you stand on the threshold of real Masonic life; well prepared and worthy to fulfill the high duties and wide obligations which shall hereafter be incumbent on you.

It is hardly necessary that I should offer you advice as to your future conduct, and yet it may not be without its use if I say something of the life ahead. Hereafter you will be in relations with your Grand Lodge, and through her, with the great masonic organization, whose mystic ties encompass the earth. These open new subjects of thought, wider spheres of study, and will require greater scope of judgment than the microcosm within the Lodge. The success with which the principles of Freemasonry have been propagated, is due not alone to their intrinsic truth and merit, but also to the wisdom of the principles of organization under which the Craft live, and the fidelity and judgment with which they have been administered. A little Republic we have; but it is one devoted to conservatism and equality, hating change and oppression; great in the law of liberty and toleration; but restraining all tendency to insubordination, licentiousness, or impiety.

As a wise Lodge, you will frown upon all efforts at innovation on the ancient landmarks of organization, as well as of ritual; you will use due care to select steady and conservative representatives of your Lodge, and avoid giving high office to those of erratic and scheming minds, or to ambitious men. You will also see to it that you are faithful in acts and heart to the Grand Lodge, and that you always be found sustaining its just authority, and promoting its conservatism. If you shape your conduct by these rules your future will be honorable and prosperous.

Worshipful Master, I would not hide my earnest desire for your success. I feel that in some sort I may derive a borrowed light from the good name you shall win among Masons. I stand before the altar as your sponsor in baptism, with a godfather's pride in your present promise, and hope for your future performance.

It is customary on such occasions, in the Christian world, that the newly sprinkled infant receive from its sponsor some engraved silver plate of a useful and serviceable character, as a mark of affection.

To you who, in the Masonic world, have this night been severed from the maternal Grand Lodge, through whom you have heretofore drawn your vital force, and who now stand a living, breathing, entity, baptized with a wane, and endowed with a voice, — to you, I repeat, something is due as my namesake, that may not only be useful, but serve to recall me to your memories when I shall have passed away.

Be pleased, then, Worshipful Master of Charles C. Dame Lodge, to accept from me, for your Lodge, this box, containing all the jewels needful for the working of your Lodge, from that of the Worshipful Master to that of the lowest officer. Wear them for my sake; and as you use them, remember that I feel profoundly grateful to every member of this Lodge for the compliment paid me by adopting my name; and shall look on its present and future members as bound to them by more than ordinary masonic ties.

And while my own reputation, in a great measure, is in your hands, so your credit will, to some extent, depend upon my future life. As I have full confidence that no tarnish will come to my name through any act of yours, in like manner, it will be my constant care so to regulate my life as to honor you; but should I, through the weakness of human nature, ever become unworthy of your confidence, or my name bring a blush to your check, then request the Grand Lodge to give you another name, and obliterate the present name from your jewels, that no more remembrance may be had of me in your Lodge forever.

The jewels, which are of the most elegant workmanship, are of silver, ornamented with gold. They were made by Guild & Delano, of this city, at a cost of about three hundred dollars, and are the most splendid complete set of jewels in the State. They are beautiful in their finish and workmanship, and reflect great credit on their makers. The Master of the new Lodge, in response to the address, expressed the gratification of the members of Charles C. Dame Lodge, for the privilege of bearing his name, and appealed to each member to jealously guard the good name as their own, and to remember that in their charge, in a measure, was placed the responsibility that by no act of theirs should any shadow ever be cast upon it. At this moment a large frame which had been hanging face to the wall was suddenly reversed, and to the audience was shown a life-size portrait, in a massive frame, of him after whose name the Lodge is called. No one was more surprised at this exhibition than Brother D. himself, the portrait having been finished from a family picture, without his knowledge. In acknowledging the surprise, he expressed the hope that never might there be any occasion 10 turn it face to the wall again. After the service of installing the officers had been completed, the Grand Lodge, members from other places, and the newly-constituted Lodge, repaired to the banqueting, hall, where a bountiful collation of substantial and luxuries had been made ready.

The officers of the Lodge are as follows : —

  • Stephen Osgood, W.M.
  • Sherman Nelson, S. W.
  • Henry E. Pearson, J. W.
  • Chauncy O. Noyes, Treasurer
  • Milton G. Terry, Secretary
  • Hiram N. Harriman, S. D.
  • Isaac Wilson, J. D.
  • L. F. Carter, S. S.
  • P. J. Lowell, J. S.
  • Rev. O. S. Butler, C.
  • J. G. Barnes, M.
  • E. P. Wildes, O.
  • G. H. Spofford, I. S.
  • W. A. Harnden, T.

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1867: District 6 (Newburyport)

1883: District 9 (Newburyport)

1911: District 10 (Newburyport)

1927: District 10 (Newburyport)

2003: District 11


LINKS

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