WinslowLewis
WINSLOW LEWIS LODGE
Location: Boston
Chartered By: Winslow Lewis
Charter Date: 12/10/1856 VI-65
Precedence Date: 12/27/1855
Current Status: Active
PAST MASTERS
- Clement A. Walker, 1855, 1856; SN
- Benjamin Dean, 1857-1859
- Duncan McB. Thaxter, 5860
- Sereno D. Nickerson, 1860-1862
- Andrew G. Smith, 1863, 1864; SN
- Thomas Sprague, 1865, 1866
- William H. Chessman, 1867, 1868
- Percival L. Everett, 1869
- R. Montgomery Field, 1870, 1871
- Joseph Winsor, 1872, 1873
- L. Cushing Kimball, 1874, 1875
- George R. Marble, 1876, 1877
- John A. Conkey, 1878, 1879
- Glenville B. Macomber, 1880, 1881
- George W. Terrill, 1882, 1883
- F. Herbert Winsor, 1884, 1885
- Walter L. Frost, 1886, 1887
- George T. Coppins, 1888, 1889
- George R. McFarlin, 1890, 1891
- Daniel J. Strain, 1892, 1893; Mem
- William G. Shillaber, 1894, 1895
- Abraham Byfield, 1896, 1897
- George H. Graves, 1898, 1899
- Charles W. Galloupe, 1900, 1901
- Thomas C. Cummings, 1902, 1903
- Warren F. Gay, 1904, 1905
- Percy E. Walbridge, 1906, 1907
- William T. Coppins, 1908, 1909
- Philip T. Nickerson, 1910, 1911
- Howard M. North, 1912, 1913; Mem
- Joseph Lovejoy, 1914, 1915
- Arthur Longley, 1916, 1917
- Thomas O. Paige, 1918, 1919
- Edwin B. Nielsen, 1920
- George P. Beckford, 1921, 1922
- Henry H. Kimball, 1923; N
- Bradford L. Ames, 1924, 1925; SN
- Nathaniel T. Worthern, 1926
- Allen T. Nye, Jr., 1927, 1928
- George E. Graves, 1929, 1930
- Samuel R. MacKillop, 1931
- Lyndon B. Hardwick, 1932, 1933
- Ernest S. Park, 1934, 1935
- Matt B. Jones, Jr., 1936, 1937
- Chester W. Barker, 1938, 1939
- William H. Reece, 1940, 1941
- Walter S. Rogers, 1942, 1943
- Henry M. Chase, 1944
- Joseph A. Locke, 1945
- Richard J. Hapgood, 1946
- John T. Summers, 1947
- Frank S. Spencer, 1948, 1949; N
- Davis T. Gallison, Sr., 1950
- Davis T. Gallison, Jr., 1951
- Benjamin C. Perkins, 1952
- Peter L. Martin, 1953
- Dudley Hovey, 1954
- C. Robinson Fish, III, 1955
- Howard N. Feist, Jr., 1956
- Louis J. Foley, 1957
- James G. Hawk, 1958
- Frank P. Blazis, 1959
- William H. Miller, 1960
- Arthur B. Wight, Jr., 1961; N
- H. Dunster Howe, 1962, 1963
- Charles L. Foster, 1964
- Louis McE. MacCartney, 1965
- Henry L. Nielsen, 1966
- Albert W. Lounsbury, 1967
- Douglas W. Pollock, 1968
- A. Roland Teiner, 1969
- Edward P. Jenkins, 1970
- John F. Morten, 1971
- Robert C. Guiry, 1972, 1973
- A. Lawrence Eastman, 1974, 1975
- Donald S. Bishop, 1976, 1977; N
- Robert F. Schumann, 1978, 1979
- Jackson B. Parker, 1980, 1981
- Robert B. Bramhall, 1982, 1983
- Homer M. Shellenberger, Jr., 1984, 1985; N
- Henry E. Cahill, 1986, 1987
- W. Warren Richardson, Jr., 1988, 1989
- Bradford H. Pottle, 1990, 1991
- A. Peter Armstrong, 1992
- Dean Benedict, 1993, 1994
- John F. Sugden, Jr., 1995, 1996
- Richard J. Stewart, 1997, 1998; Grand Master
- John C. Harris, III, 1999, 2000
- James W. Sugden, II, 2001, 2002
- Robert J. Jones, II, 2003, 2004
- Gerren R. Kopcinski, 2005, 2006
- Rene Fauchet, 2007, 2008
- John Appleby, 2009, 2010
- David R. Holland, 2011, 2012; PDDGM
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
ANNIVERSARIES
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
- 1856 (Lewis; constitution and installation, Special Communication; not in Proceedings; see below)
- 1872 (Nickerson)
- 1874 (Nickerson; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1879 (Welch)
- 1880 (Welch; installation)
- 1881 (Lawrence; 25th Anniversary)
- 1885 (Howland)
- 1890 (Wells)
- 1897 (Hutchinson; installation)
- 1902 (Gallagher)
- 1905 (Sanford; 50th Anniversary)
- 1914 (M. Johnson)
- 1916 (M. Johnson)
- 1955 (W. Johnson; Centenary; Special Communication)
- 1965 (Osgood; installation)
- 1974 (Vose; installation)
- 1976 (Maxwell; 2 visits)
- 1977 (Maxwell; installation)
- 1978 (Melanson; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1979 (Melanson; installation)
- 1980 (Melanson; 2 visits)
- 1981 (Berquist; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1982 (Berquist; 3 visits)
- 1983 (Berquist; installation)
- 1984 (Richardson; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1985 (Richardson; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1987 (Ames; installation)
- 1988 (Ames; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1989 (Ames; 2 visits)
- 1990 (Darling; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1991 (Darling; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1992 (Darling; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1993 (Lovering; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1994 (Lovering; 3 visits, including installation)
- 1995 (Lovering; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1996 (A. Johnson; 2 visits, including installation)
- 1997 (A. Johnson; 4 visits, including installation)
- 1998 (A. Johnson; 3 visits, including installation, Special Communication)
- 1999 (Bauer; 2 visits, including installation)
- 2000 (Bauer; 3 visits, including reception for Junior Grand Warden Gillis)
- 2001 (Bauer; 2 visits, including installation)
- 2002 (Hicks; 2 visits, including installation)
- 2003 (Hicks; 2 visits, including installation)
- 2004 (Hicks; 2 visits, including installation, Special Communication)
- 2005 (Hodgdon; 2 visits, including installation)
- 2006 (Hodgdon; 3 visits)
- 2007 (Hodgdon)
- 2008 (Pageau; 5 visits)
- 2009 (Pageau; 6 visits)
- 2010 (Pageau; 6 visits)
- 2011 (Stewart; 8 visits)
BY-LAW CHANGES
1869 1870 1877 1879 1882 1885 1886 1888 1893 1894 1901 1904 1908 1916 1924 1926 1927 1930 1937 1939 1947 1956 1959 1960 1973 1976 1978 2007
HISTORY
- 1955 (Centenary History, 1955-289)
OTHER
- 1877 (Presentation of a Jewel to Past Grand Master Everett; 1877-305)
- 1885 (Contribution to ME & CT, 1885-65)
- 1900 (Gift to Grand Lodge, 1900-19)
- 1911 (Gift to Grand Lodge, 1911-226)
- 1935 (Reduction in fees approved, 1935-316)
EVENTS
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS, DECEMBER 1856
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XVI, No. 4, January 1857, Page 107:
This new Lodge was consecrated and its officers installed at the Masonic Temple in this city, on the evening of the 26th Dec. last. The attendance of Brethren was large, and the ceremonies were unusually interesting and effective. After the consecration services, the W. Master of the Lodge, Dr. Clement A. Walker, was installed by the M. W. Grand Master, whose name the Lodge bears, and who availed himself of the occasion to present to the Lodge, through its Master, a beautiful Jewel, for its present and future presiding officers. The Jewel is of silver, richly chased, with a Diamond in the angle at which it is suspended from the Collar. It was manufactured in London. On investing the Master elect, the Grand Master addressed him as follows :—
I warmly greet you as Master elect of this Lodge, and I congratulate its members, that it commences, what I trust will prove a long and prosperous career, under the presiding influences of so able a Head.
My Brother: Though but young in Masonry, you have already concentrated the activities and labors ordinarily acquired only by many years of devotion. With great ability and success you have sustained the chair of the oldest Lodge in these U. States. You are now at the Head of an Encampment which has been raised from torpor to brilliancy ; and now, investing you with the insignia of your office here I doubt not the vivifying influence of your administration will continue. Receive therefore this Jewel, as a slight testimonial of the regards and interest of the donor towards you and your associates. I need not tell you its emblematic relation to duty. It has one addition, a diamond, which monitorially is not laid down; but may it teach you, that the heart should have the purity of the diamond, without its hardness, and all its brightness, without its coldness.
The remainder of the officers were installed by the S. W. John T. Heard, who acted on the occasion as Deputy Grand Master. The services were interspersed with appropriate music, and we have rarely seen them more acceptably performed, and this was the general sentiment of all present. At their conclusion, the M. W. Grand Master addressed the new Lodge in his usual happy and effective manner; after which the Grand Lodge retired. We had intended to lay the address before our readers in this connection, but a pressure of other matter obliges us to defer it until our next. We are happy to add, in conclusion, that the Lodge is in the hands of young, active, and devoted Brethren, whose intelligence and social position are a sure guaranty of its future prosperity and usefulness, and that, while in present hands at least, it will not tarnish, by act, of its own, the brightness of the honored name it bears.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS, NOVEMBER 1861
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XXI, No. 2, November 1861, Page 64:
Officers of Winslow Lewis Lodge for the ensuing year.
- Sereno D. Nickerson,, M.
- Andrew G. Smith, S. W
- Thomas Sprague, J. W.
- John F. Mills, Treas.
- Hubbard W. Swett, Sec'y.
GRAND LODGE OFFICERS
- Bradford L. Ames, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1932; SN
- Donald S. Bishop, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1985, 1986; N
- William H. Chessman, Grand Marshal 1872-1877, Senior Grand Warden, 1878
- Benjamin Dean, DDGM, District 1, 1860-1863; Junior Grand Warden 1864
- Percival L. Everett, Deputy Grand Master 1872-1874, Grand Master 1875-1877
- R. Montgomery Field, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1873
- Donald W. Gillis, Jr., DDGM, District 8 (Lynn), 1988, 1989; Junior Grand Warden 2000; N
- David R. Holland, DDGM, District 6, 2009, 2010
- Henry H. Kimball, DDGM, Malden 7, 1933-1934; N
- Sereno D. Nickerson, DDGM, District 1, 1864; Deputy Grand Master 1866; Grand Master 1872-1874; Recording Grand Secretary, 1881-1908; Grand Historian 1908-1909.
- Howard M. North, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1916, 1917; Memorial
- W. Warren Richardson, Jr., Deputy Grand Master 2003
- Homer M. Shellenberger, Jr., DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1995, 1996; N
- Andrew G. Smith, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1869, 1870, 1871; SN
- Frank S. Spencer, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1955, 1956; N
- Richard J. Stewart, Deputy Grand Master 1991, Grand Master 2011-2013
- Daniel J. Strain, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1902, 1903; Memorial
- Clement A. Walker, DDGM, District 12, 1858; Senior Grand Deacon 1867; SN
- Arthur B. Wight, Jr., DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1977, 1978; N