StarrKing

STARR KING LODGE

Location: Salem

Chartered By: William Parkman

Charter Date: 03/09/1865 VII-2

Precedence Date: 04/13/1864

Current Status: Active

Named for Thomas Starr King.

PAST MASTERS

George H. Pearson, 1864, 1865; SN
Dana Z. Smith, 1866-1869
E. Augustus Annable, 1870-1872, 1876, 1877; SN
Henry A. Brown, 1873-1875
Albert B. Russell, 1878-1880
Henry P. Averson, 1881-1883
John Pollock, 1884-1886
George W. Mansfield, 1887, 1888
Alvah H. Warner, 1889, 1890
Edward C. Battis, 1891, 1892
Joseph Darling, 1893, 1894
Robert L. Almy, 1895, 1896
George B. Farrington, 1897, 1898; SN
Henry W. Edwards, 1899, 1900
Frank L. Decker, 1901
Harry Kingsley, 1902, 1903
Herbert S. Gilman, 1904, 1905
William E. Haywood, 1906, 1907
Henry P. Nourse, 1908, 1909
Cassius S. Cilley, 1910, 1911
Frank B. Ellery, 1912, 1913
Frederick N. Mowell, 1914, 1915
George W. Blinn, 1916, 1917
Harry W. Kimball, 1918, 1919
Frank A. Neff, 1920, 1921; Mem
Horace E. Hulett, 1922, 1923
Clarence F. Ray, 1924, 1925
Frederick J. Needham, 1926, 1927; Mem
Arthur W. Dorman, 1928, 1929
Joseph E. Austin, 1930, 1931
Walter S. Johnson, 1932, 1933
G. Layton Stearns, 1934, 1935
Harry L. Chisholm, 1936, 1937; SN
Arthur Hindle, 1938, 1939
Leonard B. Ives, 1940, 1941
Ralph E. Jones, 1942, 1943
George F. Pennington, 1944, 1945
Clifford A. Clark, 1946, 1947
Neal P. Mitchell, 1948, 1949
Walter K. Ray, 1950, 1951, 1998, 1999, 2003; N
Wallace L. Henshaw, 1952, 1953
Norman B. Macaulay, 1954, 1955
Arthur W. Glackin, Jr., 1956, 1957
Harley C. Burns, 1958, 1959
William E. Skeffington, Jr., 1960
Leonard B. Almy, 1961
Richard J. Wentworth, 1962
Reginald Clark, 1963
Peter S. Russell, 1964
William U. Marshall, 1965
William L. Ives, 1966
Robert W. Moore, 1967; PDDGM
Willard A. Earley, 1968
Louis Bokron, 1969
Richard E. Currier, 1970
Winfred C. Zealor, 1971; SN
Harold Shapiro, 1972
Robert G. Porter, 1973
Edwin B. Lynch, 1974
Edwin W. Hatt, 1975
William A. Craig, 1976, 1977
Frederick C. Zealor, 1978
Gerard T. Lennox, 1979
Bernard R. Jellerson, 1980, 1981
Lawrence D. Clark, 1982
Milton Leitner, 1983, 1984
James H. Boulger, Jr., 1985
John Collins, 1986, 1987
William I. Webber, 1988
Robert W. Walters, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2002
Richard C. Smith, 1990, 1991
Ralph J. Pisari, 1993
James E. Choy, 1994
Richard L. Munroe, 1996
Myron C. Osterstuck, Jr., 1997
Terrance B. Neylon, 2000, 2001
John R. Grimes, 2004, 2005
David W. Hardy, 2006
James R. Weiss, 2007, 2008
Peter Lake, 2009, 2010
James S. Stone, Sr., 2011, 2012

YEARS

1864 1865 1873 1879 1880 1881 1883 1886 1890 1894 1895 1901 1902 1903 1908 1913 1914 1919 1920 1926 1927 1928 1939 1941 1946 1947 1950 1956 1958 1960 1963 1964 1979 1981 1982 1984 1989 1990 1998 2000

EVENTS

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXIII, No. 10, August, 1864, p. 296:

A New Lodge has lately been organized in Salem, Mass., under Dispensation bearing the name of Starr King Lodge. We congratulate our Brethren of the new Lodge upon their happy selection of a name. As a general rule we are opposed to the practice of naming Lodges for individuals, but if Brethren have an inclination to do so, let the name selected be that of one whose life has been an exemplification of those shining virtues which characterize the true and consistent Mason. Such an one was our lamented Brother, Thomas Starr King. His ear was ever open to the tale of sorrow and distress, and no worthy suppliant for relief ever went from his door empty handed. His memory will be fondly cherished in the hearts of many a widow and orphan; hearts that, although bowed down with a crushing weight of affliction, were made to sing for joy, not more by his liberal bounty than by his warm, cordial, earnest sympathy. It is good to perpetuate the remembrance of such men by bestowing their names upon our Lodges. —Mercury, San Francisco.