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LAFAYETTE LODGE (Boston Highlands / Roxbury / Norwood)

Location: Roxbury; Norwood (1958)

Charter Date: 06/13/1866 VII-83

Precedence Date: 06/12/1865

Current Status: merged with Dover Lodge to form Lafayette-Dover Lodge, 08/31/1985.

YEARS

1865 1866 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1881 1882 1884 1886 1888 1889 1890 1893 1894 1896 1898 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1907 1908 1910 1912 1913 1914 1917 1918 1919 1921 1923 1926 1927 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1951 1957 1965 1977 1980 1983 1985

EVENTS

CONSTITUTION OF LODGE, JULY 1866

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXV, No. 10, August 1866, p. 319:

LAFAYETTE LODGE, ROXBURY.

This new Lodge was constituted and its officers were installed on Monday evening, July 2, 1866. The ceremonies were performed by the Grand Lodge, M. W. Charles C. Dame, Grand Master, assisted by the Grand Officers. The exercises were interspersed with music, performed by a choir of male voices in a very admirable and effective manner. The elegant hall of the Lodge was conveniently filled by the members and their ladies, the latter being admitted after the ceremony of constitution.

Before proceeding with the installation of the officers, one of the ten brethren who had been initiated while the Lodge was working under dispensation came forward, and for himself and associates present*") the Lodge, in a modest speech, with an elegant and costly set of Jewels. They were received by the W. Master, Br. C. J. Danforth, in appropriate and fitting terms, and handed to the Grand Master, who immediately proceeded to install and invest the officers with them, as follows:

C. J. Danforth, W. M
John Kneeland, S. W.
William Hobbs, Jr., J. W.
W. B. May, Treas.
C. L. Lane, Sec
W. F. Mullen, S. D.
F. Briggs, J. D.
D.Wheeler, S. S.
H. W. Wills, J. S.
J. Bacon, Marshal.

At the conclusion of the exercises in the lodge-room, the gentlemen with their ladies repaired to the banqueting-hall, where tables were handsomely spread and bountifully furnished for their refreshment.