Putnam

PUTNAM LODGE

Location: East Cambridge

Chartered By: Winslow Lewis

Charter Date: 12/13/1855 V-601

Precedence Date: 12/14/1854

Current Status: merged into Moses Michael Hays Lodge, 07/27/1978.

PAST MASTERS

Ezra Ripley, 1854-1855
John H. Leighton, 1856-1858, 1863, 1865
Jeremiah W. Smallidge, 1859
P. Stearns Davis, 1860-1862
Daniel P. Cummings, 1864
Henry B. Leighton, 1866-1867
Thomas Chaffee, 1868
John W. Whitaker, 1869
Charles Pierce, 1870
Charles R. Atwood, 1871-1872
Benjamin F. Atwood, 1873-1874
George H. Carter, 1875-1876
David Wilcox, 1877
John C. Bullard, 1878-1879
Henry K. Appleton, Jr., 1880
Walter W. Pike, 1881-1882
Edward F. Adams, 1883-1884
Charles Davis, 1885-1886
Silas E. Buck, 1887
George H. Munroe, 1888-1889; Mem
Charles A. Austin, 1890-1891
Charles P. Cummings, 1892
Frank E. Shaw, 1893
Edward B. Dale, 1894-1895
William R. Blackman, 1896-1897
Frank H. Willard, 1898-1899
William H. Gray, 1899-1900
Ambrose E. Saunders, 1901-1902
David Fudge, 1903-1904
Fred H. Smith, 1905-1906
Edward J. Fudge, 1907-1908
Alvah F. Dole, 1909-1910
J. Edwin Fairbain, 1911-1912
Joseph A. Lincoln, 1913-1914
Irving C. Langley, 1915-1916; N
Enoch B. Robertson, 1917-1918
George M. Patterson, 1919-1920
Clarence P. Yeaton, 1921
Hugh E. Allen, 1922-1923
James L. Meehan, 1924-1925
James A. Cartwright, 1926-1927; N
Albert J. Beach, 1928-1929
Frank E. McIntyre, 1930-1931; N
Ernest W. Johnson, 1932-1933
Herbert A. Rice, 1934
Arthur L. Hanscom, 1935
William T. Taylor, 1936
Raymond S. Yeaton, 1937
Henry L. Fowler, 1938
John C. Younglof, 1939
Burton H. Rice, 1940
Leonard A. Stevenson, 1941
Francis W. Lindstrom, 1942
Edward M. Page, 1943
Paul Amos Ringland, 1944
Thomas B. McAnaul, 1945
Lancelot Farmer, 1946
James E. Young, 1947
Walter F. Graves, 1948
Clarence G. Jones, 1949
Chris M. Porter, 1950
Charles M. Kimball, 1951
Lawrence D. Watson, 1952
Herman J. Modest, 1953
Aram H. Boyadjian, 1954
Howard R. Jones, 1955
Paul Albert Ringland, 1956
Frank E. Rudzinsky, 1957, 1978
Ira J. H. Habershian, 1958
Stanley H. Halperin, 1959, 1976
Albert C. Tashian, 1960
Henry D. Egdall, 1961
Gregory H. Adamian, 1962
Peter Amershadian, 1963, 1974
Nathaniel Roossin, 1964
Gilbert A. Kaplan, 1965
Morris H. Sidman, 1966
George C. Clap, 1967
Marshall C. Slater, 1968
Stanley G. Winer, 1969 PDDGM
Meyer Levetin, 1970
Holger J. Sorenson, Jr., 1971
Arnold D. Shafferman, 1972, 1975
Samuel Seeche, 1973
Alan Sidman, 1977

PEOPLE of INTEREST

Colonel Phineas or Prentice Stearns Davis

Born in 1818, Worshipful Davis was a bookseller and publisher in Boston. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1862 and was Colonel of the 38th Massachusetts Regiment. He was killed at Petersburg VA on July 12 1864. Just outside of Petersburg there is a gully called Fort Davis, it was named for him as the spot where a artillery shell killed him. He was one of the organizers of Putnam Army Lodge #8. He was made a Mason in Putnam Lodge around the mid 1850's and became Master of Putnam in 1861.

Memorial