Mechanics

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MECHANICS' LODGE

Location: Turner's Falls; Montague (1973)

Chartered By: Percival L. Everett

Charter Date: 03/12/1879 1879-26

Precedence Date: 01/18/1878

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged with Bay State Lodge into Harmony Lodge, 11/17/2004.

Mount Sugar Loaf merged here, 11/14/1989.


PAST MASTERS

  • Richard N. Oakman, Jr., 1878, 1879; SN
  • 1880-1884?
  • Hiram O. Smith, 1885-1889
  • 1890-1896?
  • Charles W. Schuler, 1897, 1898
  • 1899-1902?
  • Norman P. Farwell, 1903; SN
  • 1904-1917?
  • Arthur H. Porter, 1918, 1919; Mem
  • 1920, 1921?
  • Clarence A. Flagg, 1922
  • 1923-1936?
  • Beauford R. Duke, 1937
  • 1938-1940?
  • John G. Burnham, 1941
  • George O. Fuller, 1942
  • 1943?
  • Winslow C. Wentworth, 1944; N
  • 1945?
  • Neal M. Allis, 1946; N
  • 1947-1949?
  • Walter R. Marsh, 1950
  • 1951, 1952?
  • Olva Terio, 1953
  • 1954?
  • Richard O. Guy, 1955
  • 1956?
  • Paul F. Guy, 1957
  • Robert A. Cade, 1958
  • 1959?
  • James Thurston, Jr., 1960
  • 1961?
  • Robert E. Wheeler, 1962
  • Nicholas Prokovich, 1963
  • Andrew S. Karpinski, 1964
  • Roy F. Webler, 1965
  • Donald E. Strange, 1966, 1989; N
  • James T. Lonergan, 1967; N
  • Harvey R. Fleming, 1968
  • Archie R. Nahman, 1969, 1977; PDDGM
  • Robert H. Lord, 1970
  • Edward G. Smith, 1971, 1972
  • John W. Pride, Jr., 1973, 1974
  • Donald B. Scott, 1975, 1976
  • 1978?
  • William G. Gardner, III, 1979, 1983
  • Kenneth A. Potter, 1980
  • 1981, 1982?
  • Roy P. White, 1984
  • James J. Whalen, Jr., 1985, 1986
  • Thomas J. Mierzwa, 1987
  • Paul K. Prokopas, 1988
  • Richard P. Rosenthal, 1990
  • David L. Bell, 1991; PDDGM
  • 1992-2004?

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1928 (50th Anniversary)
  • 1953 (75th Anniversary)
  • 1978 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1879 1881 1883 1912 1937 1950 1955 1960 1967 1974 1975 1976 1990

HISTORY

  • 1928 (50th Anniversary History, 1928-101)
  • 1953 (75th Anniversary History, 1953-97)
  • 1978 (Centenary History, 1978-143)

OTHER

  • 1879 (Memorial regarding charter, 1879-45)

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1878: District 8 (Greenfield)

1883: District 13 (Greenfield)

1911: District 14 (Greenfield)

1927: District 14 (Greenfield)

2003: District 26


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges