Revere

REVERE LODGE

Location: Boston

Charter Date: 03/11/1857 VI-96

Precedence Date: 03/04/1856

Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged with Germania Lodge to form Germania-Revere Lodge, 06/19/1999; now a part of The Consolidated Lodge.

PAST MASTERS

William W. Baker, 1856-1858
Orren S. Sanders, 1859, 1860
Charles C. Dame, 1860, 1861
Richard Briggs, 1862, 1863
William Rogers, 1864
Horace P. Hemenway, 1865, 1866
George T. Ambrose, 1867, 1868
Marlborough Williams, 1869, 1870; Mem
Charles H. Bolles, 1871, 1872
Samuel Wells, 1873, 1874
Joseph B. Mason, 1875, 1876
William R. Cooke, 1877, 1878
Frank T. Dwinell, 1879, 1880
George F. Wright, 1881, 1882
Zacheus Holmes, 1883, 1884
William B. Fisher, 1885
Edwin B. Holmes, 1886, 1887
Henry K. Dunton, 1888, 1889
Melvin L. Ingalls, 1890, 1891
E. Loring Richards, 1892, 1893; SN
G. Ellis Reed, 1894, 1895
Charles H. Ramsay, 1896, 1897
Royal Wilton, 1898, 1899
Charles W. Bascom, 1900, 1901; SN
Henry N. Rice, 1902, 1903
Sumner L. Stackhouse, 1904, 1905
George G. Perry, 1906
Charles Bickford, 1907
John G. Godding, 1908
John W. Crooks, 1909, 1910
Francis J. Whitton, 1911, 1912
John H. Blodgett, 1913, 1914
William W. Brooks, 1915, 1916; N
Jay B. Crawford, 1917
Winfield C. Towne, 1918
William P. Bullard, 1919, 1920
Clarence M. Cobb, 1921
William H. Campbell, 1922, 1923
Leon H. Davis, 1924, 1925
T(homas) Rutherford Edwards, 1926, 1927
Archibald J. Jackson, 1928, 1929
George S. Murray, 1930
Clinton B. Hayes, 1931
Russell M. Sanders, 1932, 1933
Henry H. Hill, 1934, 1935
Parker O. Bullard, 1936
Walter L. Kraemer, 1937
Reginald C. Garner, 1938, 1939
Earle W. Spurting, 1940
George A. Butters, 1942
Waldo M. Hunt, 1943, 1944
John H. Willet, Jr., 1945
Charles M. Sparkes, 1946
Albert E. Blodgett, 1947
Walter H. Heaman, 1948, 1949
Marvin S. Bowman, 1950, 1951
Arthur H. Edwards, 1952, 1953; SN
Carl R. Allen, 1954, 1955
Warren B. Clark, 1956, 1957
Bert P. Brockbank, 1958, 1959
Donald G. Lothrop, 1960, 1961; N
Daniel A. Lorge, 1962
A. Bentley Kurtis, 1963, 1964
Frank M. Sophia, 1965, 1966
E. Rea Seeley, 1967, 1968
Edward Newpol, 1969; N
Harry Lavidor, 1970
Edward Finkelstein, 1971
Leonard B. Cutler, 1972
Ralph S. Cohen, 1973; PDDGM
Alan C. Hochberg, 1974, 1975
Leon Rabin, 1976, 1992-1997
Stefanos J. Loisou, 1977
David Ginsberg, 1978
Jack L. Zimmerman, 1979, 1980; PDDGM
Benson Brown, 1981, 1982; PDDGM
Daniel L. Needleman, 1983, 1984
Ernest A. Pearlstein, 1985, 1986
Joseph J. Trofimow, 1987, 1988
Joseph J. Newpol, 1989
(Edward) Donald Weiner, 1990, 1991; PDDGM
David F. Howard, 1998, 1999; PDDGM

YEARS

1856 1857 1867 1868 1869 1871 1878 1879 1880 1881 1885 1886 1887 1888 1890 1891 1892 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1902 1903 1908 1909 1911 1917 1918 1919 1920 1923 1925 1926 1927 1930 1931 1934 1936 1940 1945 1946 1956 1961 1966 1972 1976 1981 1992 1999

EVENTS

PRESENTATION, JANUARY 1858

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XVII, No. 4, February 1858, Page 119:

The last stated meeting of Revere Lodge was made the occasion of a very interesting and pleasing occurrence. The retiring Master, W. William W. Baker, having served the Lodge as Master from its commencement, was presented by the members thereof with a beautiful silver testimonial, expressive of their brotherly love and Masonic estimation.

The presentation was made by the Senior Warden, Br. Wm. Rogers, in a very felicitous and highly pleasing address. He adverted to the labors of Br. Baker as one of the founders of the Lodge, his devotion to its interests, and his jealous care and watchfulness while Master. The speaker also alluded in fitting terms to the services of his Worshipful Brother in other departments of the Institution ; his love for the Craft, and the confidence and esteem in which he was held, not only by the members of his own Lodge, but also in the Order at large. Brother Rogers' remarks were exceedingly appropriate, and were listened to with great attention.

Brother Baker, in reply, was much affected at this unexpected event, and ex pressed his heartfelt thanks for the beautiful testimonial and the flattering terms in which it had been conveyed. He alluded to the success that had attended their endeavors to form a first class Lodge, and their present prosperous condition, and ascribed it, in a great measure, to that harmony and oneness of sentiment that had ever characterized them as a Lodge.

Revere Lodge already numbers more than fifty members, a majority of whom have so far perfected themselves as Masons, as to be able to fill with honor, almost any office in the Lodge. This, Brother Baker held to be a sure and certain foundation, and the only sure and certain foundation for a Masonic Lodge, and urged upon the Brethren the necessity of attention to the study of the ritual, and a prompt attendance at the meetings, both of the Lodge and sodality. He concluded with trusting that the harmony and brotherly love that now existed might ever prevail, and that the present W. M. (Brother Sanders,) might leave to his successor, as happy, as prosperous, and as united a Lodge.

The testimonial is a Silver Pitcher, of chaste design, elegantly wrought, and beautifully finished. It is inscribed —

From the Members of
Revere Lodge
to
Worshipful William W. Baker,
for his
Eminent services as First Master of this Lodge.
January, 1858."

The ceremony was witnessed uy a large number of the Brethren, who expressed themselves much pleased at the appropriateness and the interest of the occasion.

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS

William W. Baker, Senior Grand Warden 1863
Charles W. Bascom, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1911, 1912; SN
Richard Briggs, Junior Grand Warden 1870, Grand Master 1893 (died in office)
William W. Brooks, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1922, 1923; N
Benson Brown, DDGM, District 2 (Boston), 1992, 1993
George A. Butters, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1945; Grand Chaplain
Ralph S. Cohen, DDGM, District 3 (Chelsea), 1971, 1972
Charles C. Dame, Junior Grand Deacon 1862, Deputy Grand Master 1863-1865, Grand Master 1866-1868
Henry K. Dunton, Grand Marshal 1896-1898, Senior Grand Warden, 1899
Frank T. Dwinell, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1889, 1890; Deputy Grand Master 1890
Arthur H. Edwards, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1958, 1959; SN
Edwin B. Holmes, Deputy Grand Master 1894, Grand Master 1895-1896
David F. Howard, DDGM, District 1, 2003, 2004
Donald G. Lothrop, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1967, 1968; N
Edward Newpol, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1979, 1980; N
Ernest A. Pearlstein, DDGM, District 2 (Boston), 1988, 1989; Junior Grand Warden 2005
E. Loring Richards, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1896; SN
(Edward) Donald Weiner, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 2001, 2002
Samuel Wells, Grand Treasurer 1879-1887, Deputy Grand Master 1888-1889, and Grand Master 1890-1892
Jack L. Zimmerman, DDGM, District 3 (Chelsea), 1989, 1990