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* Francis Moore, 1820-1821
 
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* William R. Champney, 1828-1829
 
* William R. Champney, 1828-1829
 
* B.W. Hobart, 1830
 
* B.W. Hobart, 1830

Revision as of 23:18, 15 July 2013

BETHESDA LODGE (Brighton)

Location: Brighton; Watertown (1983)

Chartered By: Francis J. Oliver

Charter Date: 03/12/1819 III-184

Precedence Date: 03/10/1819

Current Status: Active


PAST MASTERS

Need list of living PMs

  • John Norcross, 1819
  • Francis Moore, 1820-1821
  • Thomas Park, 1822-1823, 1826-1827
  • Joseph Warren, 1824-1825 Mem
  • William R. Champney, 1828-1829
  • B.W. Hobart, 1830
  • Ebenezer Fuller, 1831-1848
  • Amos Wright, 1849
  • E.C. Sparhawk, 1850-1851
  • Sumner Wellman, 1852-1856
  • F. Lyman Winship, 1857-1861
  • Weare D. Wickford, 1862-1863
  • Charles H.B. Breck 1864-1866
  • Eben D. Jones, 1867-1868, 1870
  • W.H. Merritt, 1869
  • Louis H. Adams, 1871-1872
  • George B. Livermore, 1873-1874
  • S.T.P. Martin, 1875-1876
  • Austin Bigelow, 1877-1878
  • S.N. Davenport, 1879-1880
  • Horace E. Marion, 1881-1882
  • J. Wesley Farmer, 1883-1884
  • Otis H. Marion, 1885-1886; SN
  • Joshua J. Duncklee, 1887-1888
  • George W. Warren, 1889-1890
  • Edward C. Scates, 1891-1892
  • H.B. Hazelwood, 1893-1894
  • Leonard W. Ross, 1895-1896
  • William M. Farrington, 1897-1898
  • Frank H. Howe, 1899-1900
  • Daniel W. Hyde, 1901-1902
  • Charles E. Holman, 1903-1904
  • Frank G. Howard, 1905-1906
  • Fred A. Norcross, 1907-1908
  • Charles A. Hunt, 1909-1910
  • James H. Dalton, 1911-1912
  • James Young, Jr., 1913
  • Irving G. Findlay, 1914-1915
  • George E. Brock, 1916
  • Walter V. Batson, 1917-1918
  • Frank J. Perry, 1919
  • Walter A. Lambert, 1920
  • Herbert A. Wilson, 1921
  • William D. Williams, 1922
  • Clarence N. Holman, 1923
  • Rudolph Burrough, 1924; SN
  • George A. Mosher, 1925
  • Ernest L. Porter, 1926
  • H. Wendell Prout, 1927
  • Leon E. Smith, 1928; N
  • Roger W. Conkey, 1929
  • Frank W. Larrabee, 1930
  • Bradford C. Patch, 1931
  • Albert W. Holbrow, 1932
  • George B. Sargent, 1933
  • Roy B. Stewart, 1934
  • Benjamin F. Wood, 1935
  • Everett A. Kelly, 1936
  • Harry N. Girard, 1937
  • Frederick W. Mosher, 1938
  • Frederick W. MacSween, 1939
  • Henry C. Teudesman, 1940
  • William Hall, 1941
  • Henry H. Sullivan, 1942
  • Charles H. Warren, 1943
  • Walter W. Weeden, 1944
  • Chester G. Parsons, 1945
  • Bradley H. Wentworth, 1946
  • William J. Russell, 1947
  • Evan A.G. Anderson, 1948
  • William H. Welch, 1949
  • James W. O'Donnell, Jr., 1950
  • Albert W. Keddy, 1951
  • Leslie McNally, 1952
  • Walter J. Day, 1953
  • John E. Henderson, 1954
  • Albert C. Gaskell, 1955
  • Theodore R. Woodworth, 1956
  • Harry W. Leigh, 1957
  • Brewster A. Thorburn, 1958
  • William J. Ireland, 1959
  • James M. Allan, 1960
  • Kenneth F. Haley, 1961
  • Hugh A. Howes, 1962
  • Richard F. Humber, 1963
  • John A. Collins, 1964
  • Ira L. Enman, 1965
  • Walter T. Watson, 1966
  • John A. Musserian, 1967, 1972; SN
  • Chester S. Miller, 1968, 1974
  • Clifford B. Porter, 1969
  • William M. Tennant, 1970, 1973, 1983
  • Theodore L. Miller, 1971
  • Benjamin L. Todd, 1975
  • James V. Pelusi, 1976, 1991
  • Frank R. Puccino, 1977
  • Alan E. Otash, 1978-1979
  • Harold J. Cunningham, 1980
  • James L. Woodyard, 1981, 1984
  • Leon P. Fontaine, 1982
  • Robert N. Morley, 1985-1986, 1990
  • Donald S. Pacuska, 1987
  • David P. Echevarria, 1988, 1992
  • Ralph S. Dodge, 1989
  • Deeb E. Homsi, Jr., 1993-1994
  • William R. Davis, Jr., 1995-1996, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2010-2012
  • Mark F. Sweeney, 1997, 1998, 2000
  • Jonathan A. Cohen, 2002-2004, 2007, 2008
  • Morris H. Rosenthal, 2009

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1818

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1894 (75th Anniversary)
  • 1919 (Centenary)
  • 1944 (125th Anniversary)
  • 1969 (150th Anniversary)
  • 1994 (175th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1873 1881 1888 1892 1893 1894 1896 1898 1899 1901 1902 1908 1912 1919 1920 1922 1927 1933 1934 1937 1945 1949 1953 1955 1958 1968 1977 1982 1990

HISTORY

  • 1969 (150th Anniversary History, 1969-8)

OTHER

  • 1844 (Resolution praising the work of the Lodge)
  • 1896 (Cornerstone laying of Newton Masonic hall)

EVENTS

OFFICER LIST, FEBRUARY 1831

From Boston Masonic Mirror, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 34, February 19, 1831, Page 268:

Officers of Bethesda Lodge, Brighton, Massachusetts.

  • Ebenezer Fuller, Jr. Master
  • Wm. Fletcher, S. Warden
  • James Morse, J. Warden
  • Stephen Stone, Treasurer
  • Joseph Warren, Secretary
  • Thomas J. Leverett, S. Deacon
  • James Fullenton, J. Deacon
  • Rev. Daniel Austin, Chaplain
  • Thomas Park, Marshall
  • Thomas Smallwood, S. Steward
  • Charles Herd, J. Steward
  • Amos Wright, Tyler

INSTALLATION, JANUARY 1847

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. VI, No. 4, February 1847, Page 107:

The officers of Bethesda Lodge, at Brighton, were publicly installed by the Grand Master and his officers, on Tuesday, the 5th January. The Lodge room was well filled by ladies and invited guests. The address was delivered by Rev. Br. Addison Searle, Dist. Dep. Grand Master of the 1st District.


MEMORIALS

JOSEPH WARREN, 1775-1855

  • MM before 1819; Charter Member, Bethesda; WM 1824, 1825

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XV, No. 4, February 1856, Page 116:

Br. Joseph Warren, whose death is noticed in another part of this Magazine, was one of the oldest, most faithful, and devoted Brethren among us. He was chosen Secretary of Bethesda Lodge, in Brighton, on the 15th March, 1819, and on the 24th June following, the day on which the Lodge was consecrated, he was duly installed as such. This office he held until Dec., 1823, when he was elected Master, having never been absent from his desk but once during the four years.

H e held the office of Master until Dec. 13, 1825, when he was again elected Secretary, and continued to act in this capacity until the 7th Dec., 1847, when he declined a re-election, having served in the office altogether nearly twenty-six years. It appears from the records of the Lodge, that from the day of its first meeting in March, 1819, to the 27th May, 1851, a period of thirty-two years, he was absent but at six meetings!

Another instance of such long continued faithfulness to duty and devotion to the Lodge, it would be difficult to name. He was truly a Mason of the old school.

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1819: District 1 (Boston and vicinity)

1821: District 9

1835: District 1

1849: District 1

1867: District 4 (Cambridge)

1883: District 5 (Newton)

1897: District 5 (Waltham)

1911: District 5 (Waltham)

1927: District 5 (Brighton)

2003: District 3

2009: District 5

2011: District 3


LINKS

Lodge web site

Massachusetts Lodges