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ANCIENT YORK LODGE

Location: Lowell

Chartered By: George M. Randall

Charter Date: 06/08/1853 V-461

Precedence Date: 06/09/1852

Current Status: Active

PAST MASTERS

  • Jefferson Bancroft, 1852
  • Samuel K. Hutchinson, 1853
  • Joel Spaulding, 1854 GW
  • William Sewall Gardner, 1855, 1856
  • Augustus A. Putnam, 1857
  • Charles C. Hutchinson, 1857
  • William F. Salmon, 1858-1860
  • George W. Bedlow, 1861, 1862
  • Josiah E. Short Jr., 1863, 1864
  • Sagar Ashworth, 1865
  • Henry P. Perkins, 1866-1869; SN
  • Albert A. Haggart, 1870, 1871
  • Nathaniel C. Sanborn, 1872, 1873; SN
  • Lucian P. Stacy, 1874, 1875
  • Arthur G. Pollard, 1876, 1877
  • Hamilton Burrage, 1878, 1879
  • Charles Runels, 1880, 1881
  • Nathan C. Lamson, 1882, 1883
  • Richard H. Chamberlain, 1884, 1885
  • William A. Favor, 1886, 1887
  • Arthur F. Salmon, 1888, 1889
  • Frederick W Farnham, 1890, 1891; Mem
  • Charles H. Gould, 1892, 1893
  • Frederick T. Walsh, 1894, 1895
  • Wallace A. Corey, 1896
  • Charles M. Stevens, 1897, 1898
  • Arthur J. French, 1899, 1900
  • Henry M. Currier, 1901, 1902
  • Newall F. Putman, 1903, 1904
  • Herbert E. Fletcher, 1905, 1906; N
  • Harry G. Pollard, 1907, 1908
  • Charles T. Cahill, 1909, 1910
  • Dexter G. Morrill, 1911, 1912
  • Harry H. Sumner, 1913, 1914
  • Charles H. Clogston, 1915, 1916
  • Harry A. Smith, 1917, 1918
  • George W. Randall, 1919, 1920
  • Milo G. Robbins, 1921, 1922
  • Albert L. Lugwig, 1923, 1924
  • Harold H. Fletcher, 1925
  • Arthur F. Dyer, 1926, 1927
  • John H. Preston, 1928, 1929
  • Raymond F. Nichols, 1930, 1931
  • Chester M. Runels, 1932, 1933
  • James A. Grant, 1934, 1935
  • Chester O. Linquist, 1936, 1937
  • Percy B. S. Silk, 1938, 1939; N
  • Leonard L. French, 1940, 1941
  • Charles B. Brigham, 1942, 1943
  • Thomas Davidson, 1944, 1945
  • Morris E. Nelson, 1946
  • Stanley Rushton, 1947, 1948
  • Phillip E. Colburn Sr., 1949, 1950
  • William G. Chapman, 1951
  • Howard Lawson, 1952, 1953, 1980; SN
  • William H. Ramsay, 1954, 1955
  • George A. Sanborn, 1956, 1957
  • Phillip E. Colburn, Jr., 1958, 1959
  • Horace W. Duxbury, 1960, 1961
  • Charles Roderson, 1962, 1963
  • Morris R. Crocker, 1964, 1965
  • Earl R. Duxbury, 1966, 1967
  • Olak A. Myhr, 1968
  • David B. Foreman 1969
  • Frank D. Parker, 1970, 1971
  • Herbert L. Schofield, 1972, 1973
  • James F. Whittet, 1974, 1975
  • Randolph P. Morse, Jr., 1976
  • Theodore Savoley, 1977, 1978
  • Charles A. O’Wril, Jr., 1979, 1980
  • Timothy H. George, 1981, 1982
  • Amasa W. Brown, Jr., 1983, 1984, 2004; PDDGM
  • Howard G. Hunting, 1985, 1986
  • Richard L. Roy, 1987, 1988
  • Robert L. Brown, II, 1989, 1990
  • William A. Sawers Jr., 1991, 1992
  • Roger E. Brown, 1993, 1994
  • Daniel A. Lamson, 1995, 1996
  • Stephen G. Eriksen, 1997-1999
  • Barry W. Patterson, 2000, 2001, 2008-2010
  • Richard J. Landry, 2002
  • Barry W. Patterson, 2003, 2004
  • Archibald H. Campbell, 2005, 2006
  • James P. Burke, Jr., 2007, 2008

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Dispensation: 1852
  • Petition for Charter: 1853

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1873 (20th Anniversary)
  • 1927 (75th Anniversary)
  • 1952 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1872 1876 1877 1878 1886 1900 1912 1920 1922 1925 1929 1931 1933 1938 1956 1957 1973 1982 1991 2000

HISTORY

  • 1927 (75th Anniversary History, 1927-149)
  • 1952 (Centenary History, 1952-155)

OTHER

  • 1938 (Reduction in fees authorized)

EVENTS

CONSECRATION OF LODGE, JULY 1853

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 10, August 1853, p. 301:

This new Lodge, which has been working under Dispensation for a year past, was solemnly consecrated, and its officers installed, by the M.W. Grand Master, assisted by a delegation of the Grand officers, at Lowell, on Thursday, the 7th July. The day was one of the loveliest of the season, ad the ride to Lowell one of the pleasantest. On the arrival of the cars, the Brethren of the Grand Lodge were met by a committee, and conducted to the elegant and convenient Hall which has recently been fitted up for the accommodation of the Lodges and Chapter located in that city. The Brethren had made all their arrangements with so much completeness, that little remained for the officers of the Grand Lodge to do, but to proceed at once with the duties for which they were assembled. A procession was accordingly formed in an adjoining room, and proceeded forthwith to the main hall, where the solemn and impressive ceremonies of consecrations, were performed by the Grand Master, M.W. Rev. George M. Randall, in the presence, and as we believe, to the entire acceptance and gratification of he large number of Brethren assembled to witness and participate in them. The Master of the new Lodge was then duly installed by the Grand Master, after which the R.W. George G. Smith, acting Deputy Grand Master, installed the remainder of the officers; when, the usual proclamation having been made, the Grand Lodge retired, and the Lodge was closed.

MerrimackHouseLowell.jpg
Merrimack House, Lowell; originally built 1832, the premier hotel in Lowell
See description

At 2 o'clock, the Brethren of the Grand Lodge, at the invitation of the officers and members of the new Lodge, sat down to an elegant dinner, at the Merrimack House. It is due to the excellent host of that establishment, as well as to the liberality of the Brethren at whose order the dinner was served up, to say, that the tables were spread as bountifully, and with as much good taste and propriety, as would be expected at the first class hotels of this city, where private dinner-parties are of almost daily occurrence, and where the facilities for them are much greater. A couple of hours were very agreeably spent here. The Brethren from Boston were then politely taken into carriages, for the purpose of visiting the factories, and witnessing the growth and improvements of the city. This was by no means the least gratifying feature in the ceremonies of the day. The visit to the Carpet Factory was full of striking interest. It is worth a special ride to this beautiful and thriving city, to witness the ingenious and complicated machinery here in operation; though, we believe, strangers are not ordinarily admitted, without a permit from some person in authority.

At 5 o'clock, the members of the Grand Lodge took the cars for Boston, - feeling that they had spent an agreeable day, and that they had left the future interest of "Ancient York Lodge" in the hands of able and devoted Brethren. The officers of the new Lodge are as follows:

  • Jefferson Bancroft, W. M.
  • Peter Lawson, S.W.; SN
  • Samuel K. Hutchinson, J.W.
  • William Lampson, Jr., Treas.
  • Thomas G. Gerrish, Sec.
  • Isaac S. Morse, S.D.
  • David Goodwin Lang, J.D.
  • George W. Fletcher, Marshal
  • Joel Spalding, S.S.
  • Leonard Brown, J.S.
  • Isaac Hosmer, Tyler

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

DISTRICTS

1852: District 3

1867: District 7 (Lowell)

1883: District 11 (Lowell)

1911: District 12 (Lowell)

1927: District 12 (Lowell)

LINKS

Lodge web site

Massachusetts Lodges

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