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BENJAMIN F. ARRINGTON LODGE
Location: Lynn
Chartered By: Frank L. Simpson
Charter Date: 12/12/1928 1928-414
Precedence Date: 03/13/1928
Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged into Wayfarers Lodge, 05/08/1984 (1984-21).
NOTES
This lodge was named for Benjamin F. Arrington, Deputy Grand Master 1927, who died at the end of his term as Deputy. The lodge was chartered shortly afterward.
PAST MASTERS
- Alonzo E. Quick, 1928-1929
- Henry O. Silsbee, II, 1930-1931
- Elbert N. Fuller, 1932-1933
- Henry J. Harch, 1934-1935
- George T. Hart, 1936-1937
- Clair T. H. Woodall, 1938-1939
- Frederick A. Wood, 1940-1941; N
- Leroy W. Chapman, 1942-1943
- Elbert N. Fuller, Jr., 1944
- Thomas Wheeler, 1945
- J. Norman Panall, 1946; N
- Charles M. Marshall, 1947
- Robert T. Eldridge, 1948
- George V. Keller, Jr., 1949
- Albert G. Johanson, 1950
- Elmer Z. Haggman, 1951
- Wesley S. Gahagan, 1952
- Arthur M. Gray, 1953
- Hayward MacWhinnie, 1954
- Albert J. Ralph, 1955
- Carl Caefer, Jr., 1956
- George Barnes, Sr., 1957
- George W. Estes, 1958
- Dudley Bacon, 1959
- Frank W. Dore, 1960
- Roland A. Ruggles, 1961
- Charles S. Nugent, 1962
- George D. Eastman, 1963
- James I. Starratt, 1964
- Stanley J. Wydra, 1965
- William H. Doughty, 1966-1967
- Walter Stepleton Jr., 1968
- Harold M. Myers, 1969
- Arnold P. Iveson, 1970
- Carl C. Crowell, 1971-1972
- Russell W. Hennan, 1973, 1982
- Douglass R. Grant, 1974
- Francis W. Melendy, 1975, 1981
- David S. Eynon, 1976
- Warren C. Hyam, 1977
- Gerald L. MacLean, 1978
- James F A Chapman 1979
- Earl N. Coombs, 1980
- James N. Liberato, Sr. 1983-1984
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
- Petition for Dispensation: 1928
- Petition for Charter: 1928
- Petition for Consolidation (with Wayfarers): 1984
ANNIVERSARIES
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
- 1928 (Simpson; Constitution of lodge)
- 1953 (Roy; 25th Anniversary)
- 1978 (Melanson; 50th Anniversary)
BY-LAW CHANGES
HISTORY
OTHER
- 1933 (Petition to reduce fees)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- J. Norman Panall, DDGM, District 8 (Salem), 1947, 1948; N
- Frederick A. Wood, DDGM, District 8 (Salem), 1967, 1968; N