Belmont
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BELMONT LODGE
Location: Belmont
Chartered By: William Parkman
Charter Date: 03/09/1865 VII-2
Precedence Date: 03/08/1864
Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged with Beaver Lodge to form Belmont-Beaver Lodge, 09/15/1980.
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
ANNIVERSARIES
- 1914 (50th Anniversary)
- 1928 (1000th meeting)
- 1939 (75th Anniversary; GL Special Communication)
- 1964 (Centenary; GL Special Communication)
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
- 1878 (Welch; installation)
- 1879 (Welch; installation)
- 1880 (Welch; hall dedication)
- 1906 (Blake; hall dedication)
- 1908 (Blake; hall dedication)
- 1909 (Blake; hall dedication)
- 1912 (Flanders)
- 1914 (M. Johnson; 50th Anniversary)
- 1918 (Abbott)
- 1928 ( Simpson; 1000th meeting and installation)
- 1930 (Allen; reception for Deputy Grand Master Louis A. Jones)
- 1936 (H. Dean; reception for Deputy Grand Master Joseph E. Perry)
- 1938 (Perry; 2 visits, Past Masters' Night and Grand Master reception)
- 1939 (Perry; 3 visits, anniversary, Ladies' Night and installation)
- 1940 (Perry; 3 visits, church service, Past Masters' Night and installation)
- 1941 (Schaefer; reception for Senior Grand Warden Earl Taylor)
- 1952 (Roy; reception for Grand Secretary Earl Taylor)
- 1954 (W. Johnson; reception for Senior Grand Warden Herbert Jaynes)
- 1960 (Eaton)
- 1963 (Osgood)
- 1964 (Osgood; Centennial)
- 1967 (Perry, as Acting Grand Master; Past Masters' Night)
- 1969 (Jaynes; Grand Master's reception)
- 1973 (Vose; Fathers and sons night)
- 1975 (Maxwell; installation)
- 1973 (Melanson; 2 visits Hall dedication and merger)
BY-LAW CHANGES
1880 1889 1893 1896 1901 1902 1906 1911 1913 1914 1922 1927 1928 1931 1936 1941 1942 1943 1946 1949 1953 1954 1956 1965 1966 1967
HISTORY
OTHER
- 1894 (At Boston burial lot dedication, 1894-85)
- 1896 (Cornerstone laying, Waverley Unitarian Church, 1896-276)
- 1899 (Cornerstone laying, Masonic hall, 1899-20)
- 1930 (Donation of the Henry Price chair, 1930-309)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Thomas W. Davis, DDGM, District 4 (Cambridge), 1881, 1882; Junior Grand Warden 1883; Recording Grand Secretary
- George C. Flett, DDGM, District 5 (Waltham), 1910, District 5 (Waltham), 1911, 1912; SN
- Edward O. Hatch, DDGM, District 5 (Waltham), 1898, 1899; Memorial
- George A. Lincoln, DDGM, District 5 (Brighton), 1964, 1965; N
- Joseph Earl Perry, DDGM, District 5 (Brighton), 1933, 1934; Deputy Grand Master 1936; Grand Master 1938-1940
- Paul W. Rolston, DDGM, District 5 (Brighton), 1972, 1973; Senior Grand Warden 1992; Grand Secretary
- Paul C. Whitney, DDGM, District 5 (Brighton), 1948, 1949; N