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
- 1865 (Parkman; constitution of lodge and installation; see description below)
- 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)
EVENTS
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXIV, No. 7, May 1865:
BELMONT LODGE. This is the name of a new Lodge recently established in the neighboring village of Belmont. Having worked a year under Dispensation, it was regularly constituted by the M. W. Grand Lodge on the evening of the 5th of April last. Situated in the midst of several flourishing Lodges, and in a small but pleasant village, it will probably never be numerically large, but it is in the hands of intelligent Brethren whose zeal will insure its success. At the close of the ceremonies, the M. W. Grand Master Parkman addressed the members on the importance of their trust they had voluntarily assumed, and on their general duties and obligations as Masons. The following are the officers for the current year :—
- Wm. B. Bothamly, W. M.
- Wm. Mead, S. W.
- Albert Higgins, J. W.
- Jonas B. Chenery, Treas.
- John G. Smith, Sec.
- Geo. W. Long, S. D.
- Merlon Simonds, J. D.
- Horace H. Homer, S. S.
- John Alexander, J. S.—P. M.
- Wm. T. Underwood, Tyler.
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
