Bethel
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BETHEL LODGE
Location: Enfield
Chartered By: John Abbot
Charter Date: 09/14/1825 III-554
Precedence Date: 09/14/1825
Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged into Eden Lodge, 10/27/1939. Charter may have been surrendered some time between 1826 and 1858; restored 1858.
PAST MASTERS
- Henry Fobes, 1825-1828; Mem
- Aaron Woods, Jr., 1829-1857
- Josiah B. Woods, 1858
- John Crosby, 1859-1863
- Cyrus F. woods, 1864-1866
- William S. Douglas, 1867, 1871, 1872; SN
- George S. Dixon, 1868, 1869
- Henry E. Brown, 1870
- William B. Kimball, 1873, 1874
- James G. Ford, 1875-1877, 1881-1884, 1890, 1891
- John W. Felton, 1878-1880
- Fred N. Pierce, 1885-1888, 1892-1894
- Eugene C. Lamson, 1889
- Lewis D. Sloane, 1895, 1896
- Henry Bittner, 1897, 1898, 1904, 1905
- William Milsop, 1899, 1900, 1902
- William F. Howe, 1901
- William Lisk, 1903, 1918-1920
- Frank Johnston, 1906, 1907
- Stewart Twible, 1908, 1909
- Thomas Hickland, 1910, 1911
- Edwin H. Howe, 1912
- James R. Lisk, 1913
- Charles W. Felton, 1914
- Herbert A. Coolbeth, 1915
- Edward B. Downing, 1916, 1917
- H. Morgan Ryther, 1921-1923; N
- J. Frederick Zappey, 1924, 1925; SN
- Hartwell J. Hill, 1926
- Elliott E. Harwood, 1927
- Charles D. Walker, 1928
- Albert E. Richardson, 1929
- Merton C. Pike, 1930
- William Metcalf, 1931
- Lester E. Hall, 1932, 1936
- Jerome L. Spurr, 1933
- Preston M. Putnam, 1934
- Charles A. Fitts, 1935
- Homer B. Briggs, 1937
- 1938, 1939?
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
BY-LAW CHANGES
OTHER
- 1829 (report on delinquency)
- 1857 (petition for restoration)
- 1858 (restoration granted)
- 1938 (in Grand Master's address: last meeting due to creation of Quabbin Reservoir)
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- William S. Douglas, DDGM, District 17 (Palmer), 1886, 1887, 1888; SN
- H. Morgan Ryther, DDGM, District 19 (Palmer), 1926; District 19 (Palmer), 1927; N
- J. Frederick Zappey, DDGM, District 19 (Palmer), 1936, 1937; SN
