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COLUMBIAN LODGE

Location: Boston

Chartered By: Paul Revere

Charter Date: 06/13/1796 II-84

Precedence Date: 06/13/1795

Current Status: Active

NOTES

Chartered in 1796. This was the first new lodge chartered in Boston after the merger of the two Grand Lodges; in fact, there had been two previous attempts in 1793 and 1794 to obtain a charter for a new Boston lodge that were rejected by the Grand Lodge.

Columbian Lodge is one of several lodges with an extant Revere charter.

PAST MASTERS

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Petition for Dispensation: 1795
• Petition for Charter: 1796

ANNIVERSARIES

• 1895 (Centenary)
• 1945 (150th Anniversary)
• 1970 (175th Anniversary)
• 1995 (200th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

• 1806 (Bigelow)
• 1847 (Robinson; installation; see description below)
• 1855 (Lewis; installation; not in Proceedings; see description below)
• 1867 (Dame; installation)
• 1872 (Nickerson)
• 1873 (Nickerson)
• 1881 (Lawrence; installation of Past GM Nickerson as Corresponding Grand Secretary)
• 1885 (Howland; installation)
• 1895 (Holmes; Centenary)
• 1896 (Holmes)
• 1898 (Hutchinson)
• 1899 (Hutchinson)
• 1901 (Gallagher)
• 1907 (Blake; 3 visits)
• 1909 (Flanders)
• 1912 (Benton; Ladies' Night)
• 1916 (M. Johnson; Presentation of portrait of Past GM Joseph Jenkins)
• 1917 (L. Abbott; 2 visits, including installation)
• 1918 (L. Abbott; 3 visits)
• 1919 (L. Abbott)
• 1927 (Simpson; Veterans' Night)
• 1945 (Wragg; 150th Anniversary)
• 1946 (Wragg)
• 1949 (Keith; reception for Deputy Grand Master Ethelbert V. Grabill)
• 1963 (Osgood; reception for Deputy Grand Master Donald W. Vose)
• 1970 (Jaynes; 175th Anniversary)
• 1971 (Jaynes)
• 1972 (Vose; 3 visits, including reception and installation)
• 1973 (Vose; installation)
• 1975 (Maxwell)
• 1978 (Melanson)
• 1979 (Melanson)
• 1980 (Melanson)
• 1983 (Berquist; 4 visits)
• 1984 (Richardson)
• 1988 (Ames; 3 visits)
• 1989 (Ames)
• 1990 (Darling; church service)
• 1991 (Darling; 2 visits)
• 1992 (Darling)
• 1993 (Lovering; presentation for Past Grand Master Vose)
• 1995 (Lovering; 200th Anniversary)
• 1997 (A. Johnson)
• 2001 (Bauer)
• 2003 (Hicks; 2 visits)
• 2004 (Hicks; 7 visits)
• 2011 (Stewart; 2 visits)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1854 1871 1874 1881 1883 1885 1887 1889 1891 1894 1897 1900 1901 1908 1913 1918 1920 1921 1923 1929 1938 1944 1945 1946 1954 1970 1976 1977 1982 1986 1994 2007 2010

HISTORY

• 1945 (150th Anniversary History, 1945-186)
• 1970 (175th Anniversary History, 1970-288)
• 1995 (200th Anniversary History, 1995-129)

OTHER

• 1796 (Committee to confer with lodge)
• 1824 (Investigation regarding clandestine Masons)
• 1881 (Permission to wear distinctive medals; Memorial for Past GM Heard)
• 1900 (Pratt Fund bequest)
• 1905 (Presentation of Edward VII portrait)
• 1941 (Reduction of fees)
• 1943 (Suspension of secretary for un-Masonic conduct)
• 1944 (Restoration of secretary)
• 1963 (Presentation of the Trowel Used at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument)
• 1972 (Exemplification of customary processional and recessional procedure)
• 1987 (Presentation)

EVENTS

INSTALLATION, JANUARY 1847

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. VI, No. 4, February 1847, p. 108:

On the 21st, the officers of Columbian Lodge were publicly installed, in the new Masonic hall in the Temple, in the presence of a crowded audience of ladies and gentlemen. The address was delivered by Br. John H. Sheppard. The first officer was installed by the Grand Master, and the remainder by Br. Geo. G. Smith, Past Master of the Lodge. The ceremonies were all well received by the audience.

INSTALLATION, DECEMBER 1849

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. IX, No. 3, January 1847, p. 96:

The officers of Columbian Lodge of this city were publicly Installed on the 21st ult. The ceremonies of Installation were performed by Rt. Wor. George G. Smith in his usual happy manner. The address was delivered by R. W. Br. Rev. George M. Randall, D. G. M. and was an eminently acceptable performance. Many ladies and gentlemen not of the Fraternity were present, and seemed to be well pleased with all they saw and heard.

INSTALLATION, DECEMBER 1855

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. IX, No. 4, February 1856, p. 112:

The officers of this flourishing Lodge fur the current year, were publicly installed at the Masonic Temple, on Monday evening Dec. 31st, in the presence of a large number of Brethren and their ladies. The hall was filled at an early hour, and at half-past 7 o'clock the M. W. Grand Master and other officers of the Grand Lodge were announced and received with the usual honors. The introductory prayer was made by the Rev. Samuel Barrett, a P. G. Chaplain of the Grand Lodge, and this was followed by a hymn from the Masonic Melodies by R. W. Thomas Power, Esq.

The Master elect, W. William B. Fowle, Jr. was then installed into his office by his immediate predecessor, R. W. John T . Heard, Esq., in a beautifully appropriate and impressive manner. The new Master next installed his associates in office; when, after the usual proclamation, an able and eloquent address was pronounced by the Rev. George M. Randall, P. G. M. A prayer was then offered by Rev. Br. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MAGLWAlger Alger, and the ceremonies were closed by the singing of another of Br. Power's beautiful hymns, beginning -

"We met in love; we part in peace."

Columbian is one of the four oldest Lodges in this city, having been chartered in the year 1796, and is the largest and one of the most flourishing and respectable in the State. Its members number nearly two hundred, - a number perhaps too large for the convenient working of a single Lodge; and yet we can hardly think any of the Brethren at fault, in not wishing to separate from the pleasant associations that cluster around the history of their venerable alma·mater.

We are gratified in being able to state that a very complete and valuable history of the Lodge, from the pen of its late W. Master, Col. Heard, is now in press, and will be published in the course of the present month.

VISIT OF KING KALAKAUA, DECEMBER 1874

From New England Freemason, Vol. II, No. 1, January 1875, Page 43:

King Kalakaua.—The King of the Sandwich Islands visited Columbian Lodge, of Boston, at its Stated Communication on the 7th inst. A son of a Past Master of that Lodge has been for some years a resident of the Sandwich Islands, and is a Past Master of one of the Lodges there. It was therefore thought peculiarly proper for Columbian Lodge to extend to his Majesty special Masonic courtesies and hospitalities, on the occasion of his recent visit to our city. The King was accompanied by Gov. Kapena and Lieut. Com. Totten.

The Corinthian Hall was of course crowded. Among the distinguished visitors present were Past Grand Masters Lewis, Heard and Coolidge, several of the District Deputy Grand Masters, and Brother Charles Bradlaugh, the English reform lecturer. The third degree was exemplified by W. Brother William J. Stevens, Master of the Lodge, assisted by his officers, and the visiting Brethren expressed great gratification with the exhibition of work. When it was concluded, the company, numbering some three hundred, repaired to the banqueting hall, where a most abundant and elaborate supper had been provided by Brother J. B. Smith. The substantials having been disposed of, brief but animated speeches followed in rapid succession from the King, Governor Kapena, Lieut. Commander Totten, the Past Grand Masters, Brothers Bradlaugh and Smith, and others. The wine was abundant, the company was in a lively mood, and the speakers were brilliant. The King enjoyed it all in the highest degree, declaring just before he left the table that he was "red hot"—or, as we say Masonically, "well ignited." We think it will be long before he forgets his visit to Columbian Lodge.

There are three Lodges in the Sandwich Islands: Le Progres de L'Oceanie, established in 1843, under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of France; the Hawaiian Lodge of Honolulu, and the Wailukee Lodge of Maui. The last two are under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of California. The two first named occupy a hall in common at Honolulu, the capital of the Islands. The Hawaian Lodge has a good library, the use of which is freely allowed to the other Lodge. These three Lodges number among their members natives, Americans, Englishmen and Germans, between whom the most friendly relations subsist. The Fraternity exercises a powerful influence in that community. It is said that four-fifths of the better class of the male population of Honolulu belong to one Lodge or the other. The King has long bcenjan active member of the Lodge Le Proyres de VOceanie, and is very regular and constant in his attendance upon its Communications. His brother, Prince William Pitt Leleihoku, was recently raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in the Hawaiian Lodge.

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

• Leon M. Abbott, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1908, 1909; Senior Grand Warden 1913; Grand Master 1917-1919
• Benjamin B. Appleton, Junior Grand Warden 1834-1836, Senior Grand Warden 1837
• William W. Baker, Senior Grand Warden 1863
• William T. Coolidge, DDGM, District 1, 1857-1859; Junior Grand Warden 1860; Grand Master 1861-1862.
• Paul Dean, DDGM, District 1, 1821, 1822, 1823; Deputy Grand Master 1835-1837; Grand Master 1838-1840
• Burton J. Dillion, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1970; N
• William Eaton, Junior Grand Warden 1851
• Arthur H. Edwards, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1958, 1959; N
• Howard M. Fletcher, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1924, 1925; SN
• Ethelbert V. Grabill; Deputy Grand Master 1949
• Joshua B. Flint, DDGM, District 1, 1833, 1834; Grand Master 1835-1837
• John T. Heard, Senior Grand Warden 1856, Grand Master 1857-1859
• Adam O. Hofling, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1946, 1947; N
• Joseph Jenkins, Junior Grand Warden 1819, Grand Master 1830-1832
• Peter C. Jones, Junior Grand Warden 1862
• William T.R. Marvin, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1874, 1875; Senior Grand Warden 1886
• Elijah Morse, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1815, 1816; Deputy Grand Master 1830
• D. James Phillips, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1991, 1992; SN
• Moses C. Plummer, Deputy Grand Master 1917
• George M. Randall, DDGM, District 1, 1848; DDGM, District 1, 1849; Deputy Grand Master 1849-1851; Grand Master 1852-1854.
• Leland C. Richardson, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1969; N
• Michael A. Sandberg, DDGM, District 9, 2011, 2012
• George G. Smith, Deputy Grand Master 1838-1840
• Donald W. Vose, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1962; Memorial Deputy Grand Master 1963; Grand Master, 1972-1974
• William White, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1900, 1901; SN
• E. Bentley Young, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1893, 1894, 1895; Memorial

DISTRICTS

1803: District 1 (Boston)

1821: District 1

1834: District 1

1849: District 1

1867: District 1 (Boston)

1883: District 1 (Boston)

1911: District 1 (Boston)

1927: District 1 (Boston)

2003: District 1

LINKS

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