Webster

WEBSTER LODGE

Location: Webster

Chartered By: John T. Heard

Charter Date: 09/14/1859 VI-258

Precedence Date: 09/10/1858

Current Status: Active

PAST MASTERS

Charles E. Blair, 1859, 1861
Charles E. Brown, 1860
Hiram Allen, 1862, 1863
Horace I. Joslin, 1864, 1865, 1872, 1873
Edward F. Smith, 1866, 1867, 1871, 1883
Frederick T. Chase, 1868-1870
Samuel Slater, 1874
Frederick A. Stockwell, 1875
James I. Meehan, 1876
Cortland Wood, 1877
Samuel B. Childs, 1878
Elias P. Morton, 1879-1881; SN
William Levens, 1882
John M. Crawford, 1884
Prentiss Howard, 1885, 1886
Wyman E. Phetteplace, 1887, 1888
Hezekiah W. Williams, 1889, 1890
William Eddy, 1891, 1892
George A. Blackman, 1893-1895
Henry J. Clarke, 1896, 1897
Edward Forbes, 1898, 1899; SN
Charles M. Clark, 1900, 1901
William A. Childs, 1902
John R. Haskell, 1903; SN
Charles E. Drake, 1904
Frederick W. Johnson, 1905
Walter S. Estey, 1906
William W. Holmes, 1907; Memorial
Joseph Crawford, 1908
William H. Klebart, 1909
John W. Dobbie, 1910
Frank R. Stillman, 1911
Edwin F. Davis, 1912
Henry Merritt, 1913
William Dick, Sr., 1914
George H. Bradley, 1915
John H. Matthews, 1916
James H. Lobban, 1917
Homer L. Lee, 1918
Charles W. Wiles, 1919
William Wallace, 1920
Ernest A. Joslin, 1921
Carlton H. White, 1922; SN
William F. Sims, 1923
Sidney C. Crawford, 1924
John B. Morgan, 1925
Ralph T. Larchar, 1926; N
Robert E. Straube, 1927
Horace Trull, 1928
William Dick, II, 1929
Spaulding Bartlett, 1930
Charles M. Leavens, 1931
James C. Buffum, 1932
George C. Marble, 1933
Harold E. Chafee, 1934; SN
George C. Littlefield, 1935
Ernest F. Wilson, 1936
Vernon L. Wilson, 1937
Richard E. Seifert, 1938
Leslie B. Howard, 1939
Oscar D. Rogers, 1940
Edmund A. Redlitz, 1941
George C. K. Duff, 1942; N
William A. R. Klebart, 1943
Jay E. Clough, 1944
William Weinberg, 1945
Russell W. Nadeau, 1946
Arthur H. Klebart, 1947
Howard S. Baker, 1948
Oscar Conrad, 1949; N
Arthur D. Healy, 1950
Holmes V. Tracy, Sr., 1951
A. Rodney Klebart, 1952
John Zalla, 1953
Stanley H. Chambers, 1954
Dexter E. Bannister, 1955
Daniel P. Clark, 1956
John P. Trull, 1957
A. Earl Hughes, 1958
E. Vernon Davis, 1959
Earl K. Moore, 1960
Norman Burgess, 1961
Gordon S. Dole, 1962
Vasil V. Condos, 1963
Robert L. Spahl, 1964
Kenneth W. Davis, 1965
Richard J. Trudell, 1966
Albert F. Donald, 1967
Clarence Jodoin, 1968
Roy W. Naumann, 1969
Stanley P. Tanca, 1970
Albert E. Kilian, 1971
Edward G. Starr, Sr., 1972
Carl A. Taylor, 1973
Ronald W. Siegmund, 1974, 1981
Stanley R. Bachand, 1975
William J. Ziaja, Jr., 1976, 1982; N
Gilbert J. Thibeault, 1977
John C. Shaw, Sr., 1978, 1983
Kenneth R. Patri, 1979, 1987, 1988
David W. Armstrong, 1980
John K. Logan, 1984
Harold R. Logan, 1985, 1986; PDDGM
Wayne S. Kilian, 1989
Michael J. Spahl, 1990
Stephen D. Chickering, 1991
Richard P. Clark, 1992
Wesley S. Stevens, Jr., 1993
Roy L. Abbott, 1994
Norbert L. Savard, Jr., 1995
Gary L. Kilian, 1996, 2003
Torrey W. Wallace, 1997, 2008
Jay R. Spahl, 1998, 2006
Thomas Houston, 1999
Donald J. Davidson, Jr., 2000, 2004
John L. Dyson, 2001
Jonathan C. Way, III, 2002
Eben A. Nash, 2005
Mark B. Sutor, 2007
Donald J. Davidson, Sr., 2009
Kenneth M. Wilson, Jr., 2010, 2011
Daniel E. Violette, 2012

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Dispensation: 1858
Petition for Charter: 1859

XXXXXXXXX* Consolidation Petition (with St. Bernard's Lodge): 1995 XXXXXXXXXXXX* Consolidation Petition (with Doric Lodge): 2002

ANNIVERSARIES

1908 (50th Anniversary)
1933 (75th Anniversary)
1958 (Centenary)

2009 (150th Anniversary)

VISITS BY GRAND MASTER

1859 (Heard; Constitution of Lodge and installation)
1874 (Nickerson; Hall dedication)
1893 (Deputy Grand Master Shepard)
1908 (Blake; 50th Anniversary; Special Communication)
1927 (Simpson)
1933 (Chipman; 75th Anniversary; Special Communication)
1947 (Wragg; Veterans' Night)
1956 (W. Johnson; corner-stone laying; Special Communication)
1958 (A. Jenkins; Centenary; Special Communication)
1997 (A. Johnson)

BY-LAW CHANGES

1871 1872 1874 1878 1883 1904 1907 1908 1909 1911 1913 1919 1924 1927 1930 1931 1936 1939 1944 1949 1950 1951 1957 1968 1975 1977 1979 1991 1998 2010 2011

HISTORY

1933 (75th Anniversary History, 1933-370)
1958 (Centenary History, 1958-194)

EVENTS

HALL DEDICATION, DECEMBER 1873

From New England Freemason, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1874, Page 54:

The New Masonic Hall of Webster Lodge was dedicated to Masonic purposes on the twelfth instant by Grand Master Nickerson, assisted by the officers of the Grand Lodge. This new hall will afford the Brethren of this Lodge better facilities for the practice of our rites than the old one destroyed by fire; and they have shown a commendable zeal and enterprise in fitting and furnishing their neat and well-arranged apartments.

The newly-elected officers of the Lodge were installed the same evening, in Ample Form, at the Methodist Church, which was filled, even to crowding, by the Brethren and their invited guests.