NorthStar

NORTH STAR LODGE

Location: Ashland

Chartered By: William Parkman

Charter Date: 06/14/1865 VII-13

Precedence Date: 07/25/1864

Current Status: Active

PAST MASTERS

George F. Seaver, 1864-1867
Lecero J. Gibbs, 1870
James Henry Dadmun, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1872
S. Augustus Cole, 1873
Henry D. Marsh, 1874-1876
Channing F. Grout, 1877-1879
G. Henry Hooker, 1880, 1881
William F. Merritt, 1882-1884, 1887
Granville C. Fiske, 1885, 1886; Mem
Herbert A. Chandler, 1888, 1889
John H. Balcom, 1890, 1891; SN
William J. Dix, 1892, 1893, 1894
Charles F. Whithed, 1895, 1896
Willie B. Pike, 1897, 1898
Arthur A. Metcalf, 1899, 1900
Arthur W. Brooks, 1901, 1902
Victor V. Thompson, 1903, 1904
Estes R. Carpenter, 1905
James C. Metcalf, 1906, 1907
John Hodsdon, 1908
Walter G. Whittemore, 1909, 1910
C. Edwin Dearborn, 1911, 1912
Clarence E. Greenwood, 1913, 1914
Errol W. Fiske, 1915, 1916
Arthur H. Hogan, 1917, 1918; N
Ralph D. Harriman, 1919, 1920
George Morrison, 1921, 1922; N
Henry C. Burnham, 1923, 1924
William L. Logan, 1925, 1926
Frederick Williamson, 1927, 1928
Charles Arthur Davis, 1929, 1930
George E. Gipps, 1931, 1932
Nathaniel P. Sears, 1933, 1934
Eugene R. Edson, 1935, 1936
Alfred H. Williamson, 1937, 1938
Charles A. Bussell, 1939, 1940
William Smith, 1941, 1942
Herman W. W. Gast, 1943, 1944
P. Winston E. Gouzoules, 1945, 1946, N
Kenneth M. Foote, 1947
Frank M. Herland, 1948
Leonard E. Bees, 1949
Edward W. Jamison, 1950
Elba D. Wilder, Jr., 1951
Claude K. Kniskern, 1952
Paul E. Matson, 1953
Ralph L. Dyer, 1954
George P. Lentros, 1955
William S. Middlehurst, 1956
Cecil L. Stiffler, 1957
Garabed Hovhanesian, 1958
Charles A. Rund, 1959
Elmer R. Trenholm, 1960
Colby B. Scott, 1961
Richard M. Moulton, 1962
Willis J. Rice, 1963
William A. Reynolds, 1964
Charles W. Smith, 1965
Ernest F. Croy, 1966, 1967
William A. Trenholm, 1968
Edmund J. Outhouse, 1969
James S. Wilson, 1970
John G. Peterson, Jr., 1971
Richard D. Foote, 1972
George E. Leavitt, 1973
Curtis E. Crosby, 1974, 1975
Dante S. DeFazio, 1976
Michael P. Flynn, 1977
Edward V. Hicks, Sr., 1978
Robert P. Winterhalter, 1979, 2001; N
Earle H. Fletcher, Jr., 1981
Jeffrey T. Powers, 1984
Elbert L. Gray, 1985
Eliot A. Tanner, 1986
Charles A. Holman, 1987
Allen P. Newcomb, 1988, 1991
Edmund J. Nolan, Sr., 1989
Maurice C. B. von Fettweis, II, 1990
Gene B. Reid, 1992, 1993
John C. Powers, 1994, 1999, 2000
Scott C. Ramgoolam, 1995-1998
M. Scott Sullivan, 2002, 2003, 2007
Fernando M. Castro, 2004
Horace E. Fader, 2005
Helvio N. Correa, 2006
Fernando M. Castro, 2008-2011
Adriano M. A. Pimenta', 2012

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Dispensation: 1864
Petition for Charter: 1865

ANNIVERSARIES

1939 (75th Anniversary)
1964 (Centenary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

1865 (Parkman; constitution and installation; see description below)
1882 (Lawrence)
1883 (Lawrence; 2 visits, including hall dedication)
1893 (Acting Grand Master Shepard)
1939 (Deputy Grand Master Edwin O. Childs; 75th Anniversary)
1964 (Osgood; Centenary)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1869 1870 1873 1874 1881 1883 1885 1905 1907 1911 1913 1914 1918 1921 1923 1927 1943 1945 1949 1950 1953 1957 1965 1969 1971 1974 1978 1980 1982 1990 1993

HISTORY

1939 (75th Anniversary History, 1939-258)
1964 (Centenary History, 1964-141)

OTHER

1872 (Petition regarding formal charity to families of deceased members)

EVENTS

CONSTITUTION OF LODGE, JUNE 1865

From Moore's Freemason's Magazine, Vol. XXIV, No. 10, August 1865, p. 296:

NORTH STAR LODGE. This new Lodge was Constituted by the M. W. Grand Lodge, at Ashland on the 30th June last, having worked the preceding year under a Dispensation. The Institution ceremonies took place in the Town Hall, in the presence of a large assembly of ladies and gentlemen. At the conclusion of the ceremonies addresses were delivered by the M. W. Grand Master and Rev. Bro. Dadmun, after which the company repaired to the vestry room of one of the churches in the village, and partook of a supper provided by the Lodge for the occasion. The Lodge has done its full share of Work the past year, and its future prospects are encouraging. The officers installed are as follows :—