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MORNING SUN LODGE

Location: Conway

Chartered By: William Sewall Gardner

Charter Date: 06/08/1870 1870-123

Precedence Date: 03/30/1869

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault.
This charter was surrendered in 1993, some time before September 1, as the recapitulation shows its membership reduced to 0. According to the Grand Master's Address, Page 1993-129: "Two Lodges during the past year have found it impossible to continue either by merging or by operating as a daylight Lodge." (The other lodge was Robert Lash of Chelsea.)

PAST MASTERS

Charles Parsons, 1869-1871, 1881; SN
1872-1875?
Henry W. Billings, 1876, 1877
Arthur M. Cook, 1879, 1880
Alexander Sinclair, 1882
Henry W. Hopkins, 1883-1885
Charles C. Burdett, 1886, 1887
Richard H. Cook, 1888-1890
Charles P. Elmer, 1891, 1892
Frederick C. Batchelder, 1893, 1894
Arthur P. Delabarre, 1895-1897; SN
Charles L. Cook, 1898, 1899
Charles L. Parsons, 1900, 1901
Charles L. Hassell, 1902, 1903
Edwi T. Cook, 1904, 1905
Alvan Cross Boice, 1906
1907?"'
Edward Affhauser, 1909, 1910
1911?
Fred A. Delabarre, 1912
1913, 1914?
Edgar Jones, 1915
George D. Allis, 1916
1917?
William G. Strippe, 1918
William R. Bailey, 1919, 1920
1921-1946?
Earle F. Squires, 1947; N
1948, 1949?
Wallace E. Graves, 1950, 1973; N
1951, 1952?
Albert Polhemus, 1953
1954-1972, 1974-1993?
Alva C. Stacy, ?; PDDGM

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Dispensation: 1869
Petition for Charter: 1869
Surrender of Charter: 1993

ANNIVERSARIES

1969 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

1870 (Gardner; Constitution of Lodge and installation; Special Communication)
1969 (Jaynes; Centenary; Special Communication)
1976 (Maxwell; Wilderness degree)
1978 (Melanson; Wilderness degree)
1981 (Berquist; Wilderness degree)
1986 (Richardson; Wilderness degree)
1989 (Ames; Wilderness degree)
1992 (Darling)