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=== HISTORY ===
  
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* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1895 1895]''' (Centenary Address by Grand Master, 1895-86; see below)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1895 1895]''' (Centenary History, 1895-98; note that a Centennial Volume exists in print)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1895 1895]''' (Centenary History, 1895-98; note that a Centennial Volume exists in print)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1945 1945]''' (150th Anniversary History, 1945-210)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1945 1945]''' (150th Anniversary History, 1945-210)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1971 1971]''' (175th Anniversary History, 1971-254)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1971 1971]''' (175th Anniversary History, 1971-254)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1995 1995]''' (200th Anniversary History, 1995-200)
 
* '''[http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsYear1995 1995]''' (200th Anniversary History, 1995-200)
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==== NOTES IN CENTENARY ADDRESS, 1895 ====
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''From Proceedings, Page 1895-87:''
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March 9, 1795, a petition from Simon Learned and others was received and read in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, M. W. [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRevere Paul Revere] occupying the East as Grand Master. The petition was referred to a Committee, [http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMThomas Isaiah Thomas], Chairman, which reported June 8, 1795, as follows: ''The Committee appointed on the petition of Simon Learned and others, praying to be erected into a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, under the name, title, and designation of Evening Star Lodge, to meet at Lenox, County of Berkshire, reported that the prayer of the petitioners be granted." The report was accepted and Evening Star appeared above the horizon.
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In 1796 W. Wm. Dennison was proxy for the Lodge, and in 1803 R. W. William Little.
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In 1804 the Lodges of the State were first divided into Masonic Districts. Evening Star Lodge was placed in the [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MABerkshires8_1803-20 Eighth District], and one of its members, R. W. Caleb Hyde, was appointed the first District Deputy Grand Master of the District.
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In 1813 Elijah Northrop, Caleb Hyde, and others petitioned the Grand Lodge, explaining the peculiar situation of the Lodge from 1805 to 1813, and the difficulties under which it labored. Dec. 27, 1819, another member of Evening Star Lodge, R.W. Joseph Tucker, was appointed District Deputy Grand Master, and the following year R. W. Bro. Caleb Hyde was proxy for the Lodge. Soon after, came those years of social disturbance, when the lights on so many of our altars were extinguished. Evening Star Lodge, as did many others, closed its doors, but when the fury was past, relit the altar fires and resumed work.
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June 13, 1849, a Committee of the Grand Lodge reported upon a petition signed by Lemuel Bassett, Richard Hunt, Elisha Freeman, Seth Barlow, David Baker, Elijah Thomas, George I-I. Phelps, James Landers, Eli Bradley, and Jared Bradley, in behalf of Evening Star Lodge, asking for a return of its charter and for leave to remove the Lodge to Lee.
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The Committee reported that the Charter be returned and that permission be granted to remove the Lodge to Lee. The Grand Lodge accepted the report of the Committee and the recommendations were duly carried out. It is a matter of regret that the Lodge has not in its possession the original charter. It certainly bore the name of [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRevere Paul Revere], Grand Master. That Lodge is fortunate that possesses the autograph of this eminent Brother. Probably the name of no Revolutionary patriot of Massachusetts is so familiar to our ears, General Warren perhaps excepted; and no man holds a warmer place in the true American heart.
  
 
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Revision as of 03:29, 9 November 2014

EVENING STAR LODGE

Location: Lenox; Lee (1849)

Chartered By: Paul Revere

Charter Date: 06/08/1795 II-75

Precedence Date: 06/08/1795

Current Status: Active

ø Charter surrendered 06/11/1834; restored 06/13/1849


PAST MASTERS

  • William Walker, 1795-1801; DD?
  • Caleb Hyde, 1802; SN
  • Eldad Lewis, ?
  • Joseph Tucker, ?; SN
  • James Whiton, 1821
  • David Osborne, 1825
  • Jared Bradley, 1826-1855
  • Eli Bradley, 1856
  • John T. Fenn, 1857
  • George F. Bradley, 1858
  • Benjamin A. Morey, 1859, 1860
  • Eliphalet Wright, 1861-1865, 1870-1872
  • William Demming, 1866
  • Robert McAlpine, 1867, 1879
  • Timothy D. Thatcher, 1868
  • Charles S. Osborne, 1869
  • Alonzo Bradley, 1873, 1875, 1878, 1887; SN
  • Edward L. Melius, 1874
  • Dorvil M. Wilcox, 1876, 1877, 1880-1882
  • Charles F. Smith, 1883
  • Edwin H. Phinney, 1884, 1885
  • Henry F. Smith, 1886
  • Jared Bradley, Jr., 1888, 1889, 1895
  • John W. Cooney, 1890, 1891, 1894
  • Edward J. Norman, 1892
  • William G. Clifford, 1893
  • Frank M. Pease, 1896
  • James O. Clifford, 1897
  • Carl Wurtzbach, 1898, 1899; SN
  • Charles E. Tucker, 1900
  • Harvey W. Fenn, 1901
  • Frank J. Barrett, 1902, 1903
  • George W. Ferguson, 1904
  • Victor W. Bradley, 1905
  • Robert C. Lyon, 1906
  • Alfred J. Loveless, 1907
  • Charles H. Marsh, 1908
  • Harry E. Kendall, 1909
  • Alfred H. Wingett, 1910
  • Thomas Proctor, 1911
  • James A. Rice, 1912
  • Thomas Page, 1913
  • Henry W. Jones, 1914
  • William Cameron, 1915
  • Thomas M. Kerr, 1916
  • Charles A. Markham, 1917
  • Manton R. Sedgwick, 1918
  • Henry Heeremans, 1919
  • Harry E. Farrar, 1920
  • Edmund Spencer, 1921
  • Charles H. McCarthy, 1922
  • William H. Prowse, 1923
  • Elmer C. Newton, 1924
  • William B. Connor, 1925
  • Oliver B. Humes, 1926
  • Adelbert I. Newton, 1927
  • Edward A. Sitzer, 1928; N
  • Walter J. Bryans, 1929
  • William Bower, 1930
  • George G. Woodin, 1931
  • Earl W. Dowd, 1932
  • Roscoe L. Spofford, 1933
  • Herbert Hobday, 1934
  • George A. Graves, 1935
  • Albert T. Phelps, 1936
  • Floyd E. Graves, 1937
  • Owen F. Kelly, 1938
  • Henry Sohl, 1939
  • Albert N. Nettleton, 1940; N
  • Warren A. Turner, 1941
  • Bernard G. Graves, 1942
  • R. Harry Barnes, 1943
  • Maurice J. Letner, 1944
  • Franklin T. Kelly, 1945, 1946
  • Frederick C. Holmes, 1947
  • Charles E. Slater, 1948
  • Frederick A. Judd, 1949
  • George E. Burleigh, 1950
  • Raymond C. Pecon, 1951
  • Almon H. Griffin, 1952
  • John A. MacGregor, 1953
  • Marshall L. Barnard, 1954, 1955
  • Stewart D. Seedman, 1956
  • Richard P. Davis, 1957
  • P. Roy Wheeler, 1958
  • Henry N. LePrevost, 1959
  • Joseph Liss, 1960; PDDGM
  • William N. Demos, 1961
  • Edward N. Decker, 1962
  • Donald I. Fillio, 1963
  • Richard E. Sitzer, 1964
  • Robert C. Dunn, 1965
  • William A. Hosmer, 1966
  • Ernest A. Lowry, 1967
  • Robert S. Bierwith, 1968
  • Harry J. Szewczak, 1969
  • Hugh C. Pecon, 1970
  • Edwin R. Grady, 1971
  • Keith M. Raftery, 1972; PDDGM
  • John G. Kelly, 1973
  • Harold E. Soules, 1974
  • Kenneth L. Berry, 1975
  • Gordon G. VanOrman, Sr., 1976, 2002
  • Gordon E. Leeman, 1977
  • John G. Kastrinakis, 1978
  • Charles M. Tacy, 1979
  • Donald R. Hart, 1980
  • M. James Shaw, 1981
  • Rainsford B. Morehouse, Jr., 1982
  • Donald B. Hale, 1983
  • Merrill E. Morehouse, 1984
  • John B. Egee, Jr., 1985
  • Frederick E. Warden, III, 1986
  • Gordon D. Bailey, 1987
  • Rainsford B. Morehouse, 1988
  • Ralph A. Packard, 1989
  • Gordon G. VanOrman, Jr., 1990, 1991, 2004
  • Myron J. Shaw, 1992
  • Merrill E. Morehouse, 1993
  • Gerald E. Strock, 1994-1996
  • Ralph Alden Packard, 1997
  • Thomas Butcher Thorn, 1998
  • Donald R. Hart, 1999-2001
  • Blake O. Middleton, 2003
  • John E. Arnold, 2005-2007
  • Thomas P. Morawiec, 2008, 2009
  • Thomas L. Fennelly 2010-2012

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

  • Petition for Charter: 1795
  • Petition for Restoration: 1849 (Lodge removed to Lee)

ANNIVERSARIES

  • 1895 (Centenary)
  • 1945 (150th Anniversary)
  • 1971 (175th Anniversary)
  • 1995 (200th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

BY-LAW CHANGES

1858 1932 1950 1955 1956 1963 1968 1976 1977 1985 2000

HISTORY

  • 1895 (Centenary Address by Grand Master, 1895-86; see below)
  • 1895 (Centenary History, 1895-98; note that a Centennial Volume exists in print)
  • 1945 (150th Anniversary History, 1945-210)
  • 1971 (175th Anniversary History, 1971-254)
  • 1995 (200th Anniversary History, 1995-200)

NOTES IN CENTENARY ADDRESS, 1895

From Proceedings, Page 1895-87:

March 9, 1795, a petition from Simon Learned and others was received and read in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, M. W. Paul Revere occupying the East as Grand Master. The petition was referred to a Committee, Isaiah Thomas, Chairman, which reported June 8, 1795, as follows: The Committee appointed on the petition of Simon Learned and others, praying to be erected into a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, under the name, title, and designation of Evening Star Lodge, to meet at Lenox, County of Berkshire, reported that the prayer of the petitioners be granted." The report was accepted and Evening Star appeared above the horizon.

In 1796 W. Wm. Dennison was proxy for the Lodge, and in 1803 R. W. William Little.

In 1804 the Lodges of the State were first divided into Masonic Districts. Evening Star Lodge was placed in the Eighth District, and one of its members, R. W. Caleb Hyde, was appointed the first District Deputy Grand Master of the District.

In 1813 Elijah Northrop, Caleb Hyde, and others petitioned the Grand Lodge, explaining the peculiar situation of the Lodge from 1805 to 1813, and the difficulties under which it labored. Dec. 27, 1819, another member of Evening Star Lodge, R.W. Joseph Tucker, was appointed District Deputy Grand Master, and the following year R. W. Bro. Caleb Hyde was proxy for the Lodge. Soon after, came those years of social disturbance, when the lights on so many of our altars were extinguished. Evening Star Lodge, as did many others, closed its doors, but when the fury was past, relit the altar fires and resumed work.

June 13, 1849, a Committee of the Grand Lodge reported upon a petition signed by Lemuel Bassett, Richard Hunt, Elisha Freeman, Seth Barlow, David Baker, Elijah Thomas, George I-I. Phelps, James Landers, Eli Bradley, and Jared Bradley, in behalf of Evening Star Lodge, asking for a return of its charter and for leave to remove the Lodge to Lee.

The Committee reported that the Charter be returned and that permission be granted to remove the Lodge to Lee. The Grand Lodge accepted the report of the Committee and the recommendations were duly carried out. It is a matter of regret that the Lodge has not in its possession the original charter. It certainly bore the name of Paul Revere, Grand Master. That Lodge is fortunate that possesses the autograph of this eminent Brother. Probably the name of no Revolutionary patriot of Massachusetts is so familiar to our ears, General Warren perhaps excepted; and no man holds a warmer place in the true American heart.

OTHER

  • 1813 (Granting of petition to work under the "old charter")
  • 1820 (Note on delinquency; III-283)
  • 1821 (Note on delinquency; III-341)
  • 1822 (Note on delinquency; III-428)
  • 1824 (Note on delinquency; III-525)
  • 1825 (Exoneration from charges for the year; III-560)
  • 1828 (Note on delinquency; IV-146)
  • 1829 (Note on delinquency; IV-170)
  • 1857 (Petition for a replacement charter destroyed by fire; VI-95)
  • 1896 (Participation in the centennial celebration of Cincinnatus Lodge; 1896-196)


GRAND LODGE OFFICERS


DISTRICTS

1803: District 8 (Berkshires)

1821: District 8

1835: District 9

1849: District 9

1867: District 9 (Pittsfield)

1883: District 15 (Pittsfield)

1911: District 16 (Pittsfield)

1927: District 16 (Pittsfield)

2003: District 31


LINKS

Massachusetts Lodges