Craft Masonry in Albany County, New York - Onondaga and Oswego ...

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Mount Moriah No. 143, Phillips Grand Lodge, Albany, NY, was warranted 1853; renamed Ancient City Lodge No. 452 in 1858, and
then merged with Temple Lodge No. 14 in 1977 to become Ancient Temple Lodge No. 14, still in existence.
BY-LAWS of Ancient City Lodge No. 452, F. and A. M., of the City of Albany and State of New York. Chartered Oct. 15, A. L. 5858:
Incorporated June 15, A. L. 5868.
Albany Lodges: Mount Vernon Lodge No. 3. Originally Union Lodge. Organized, February 21, 1765. (See pages 347-348). Present
lodge received its name by warrant in 1806. Lodge incorporated, March 17, 1874. Masters' Lodge No. 5. Originally No. 2.
Organized, March 5, 1768. (See page 349). Temple Lodge No. 14. Originally No. 53. Organized, November 11, 1797.
Washington Lodge No. 85. Organized in 1841. Ancient City Lodge No. 452. Originally Mount Moriah Lodge No. 143. Adopted
name, December 17, 1873. Wadsworth Lodge No. 417. Organized in 1856. Guttenberg Lodge No. 737. Organized in 1873.
Officers of Temple Lodge, No. 53, elected at the annual communication in the city of Albany, December 18, 5827:
John O. Cole, Master; Daniel P. Marshall, Senior Warden; Philip Phelps, Junior Warden; Julius Church, Secretary; Cornelius A.
Waldron, Treasurer; Norris Tarbell, Senior Deacon; J. Radliff, Junior Deacon; Zalmon Hampton, and Daniel Duealer, Stewards;
Cornelius Higgins, Tyler.
Renumbered to Temple Lodge No. 14 in 1839.
BRETHREN (DECEASED) DISTINGUISHED IN OTHER WALKS IN LIFE.
Philip Hooker (admitted in 1797), City Surveyor of Albany for
many years.
Benjamin Knower (admitted 1803), Treasurer, State of NY.
John Mills (admitted in 1807), Colonel in War of 1812; killed
at Sackett's Harbor, May 29, 1813. Remains interred in
Capitol Park, May 30, 1883; re-interred in Albany Rural
Cemetery with Masonic and military ceremonies. The State
of New York erected a tall granite monument over the grave.
Lucas Schuyler, officer in the War of 1812.
John Van Ness Yates admitted 1811, Secretary of State.
John F. Bacon admitted 1815; Clerk of the NY State Senate.
Israel W. Clark, Editor.
Phillip Phelps, Deputy Comptroller of State of New York for
over forty years.
John O. Cole, served nine months as a Private in the War of
1812. For forty-seven years he was Justice of Criminal
Court. Wag Alderman, Clerk of the Assembly, served on
Staff of General Stephen van Rensselaer, and accompanied
General Lafayette in his tour of the State. Grand Secretary of
Grand Chapter, NY. Master of Temple Lodge for nine years.
Peter Boyd (1801), Eminent Physician.
Philip Van Vechten (1810), Mayor of City.* see note
Wm. H. Whiting (1811), Judge of State Court.
Sam'l Stover (1815), Celebrated Lawyer.
Henry C. Southwick (1816), Editor.
James Dickson (1841). Prominent Architect.
Ebenezer Wadsworth (1851), Clergyman.
Theodore M. Amsdell (1853), Prominent Brewer.
Jacob C. Cuyler (1854), Editor.
John G. Farnsworth (1855), Colonel War Rebellion and
Adjutant-General State.
Daniel Manning (1859), Secretary of United States Treasury.
J. R. Boulware (1862), Prominent Physician.
R. H. Robinson (1863), Clergyman.
Wm. P. Abbott (1869), Clergyman.
Alfred W. Street (1869), Poet Laureate of State.
Jeremiah Searle (1869), Clergyman.
Wm. H. Storrs (1874), City Commissioner of Charities and
Correction.
Edward Coan (1878), Clergyman.
Samuel V. Leech (1884), Clergyman.
James H. Manning (1886), Mayor of City.
Oren E. Wilson (1887), Mayor of City.
Howard N. Fuller (1890), City Treasurer.
C. Parke Evans (1890), Clergyman.
Edward B. Cantine, City Commissioner of Public Safety.
* Note: Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer was Mayor of Albany from 1798 to 1816 (and a Past Master of Master’s Lodge No. 2).
Ezra Ames
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Ezra Ames was born in 1768. He was the son of Jesse and Bette Bent Ames of Framingham, Massachusetts. His mother died when
he was seven and his father re-married. The boy moved with his family to Staatsburg, New York. His
father (sometimes "Eames") was a former Revolutionary war soldier whose Dutchess County land was
located along the Hudson River. In 1790, Ezra Ames was a furniture and carriage painter in Worcester,
Massachusetts. About that time, he began to paint portraits - initially specializing in miniatures.
In 1794, he married Zipporah Wood of Upton, Massachusetts. Their first
child was born in 1795. In that year he brought his new family to Albany
where he had entered the portrait and sign painting business in a
waterfront shop on Mark Lane. He advertized gilding and limning and
also custom painting on "signs, coaches, chaises, sleighs, standards,
etc." By 1800, his modest Washington Street home included several
young people. By 1815, he was listed in the city directory as a portrait
painter at 41 South Pearl Street.
He lived in Albany for the rest of his life. Over the next three decades,
Ames produced more than 500 portraits and other works in a variety of
styles - making him Albany's most prolific and significant artist. His
handsome portraits represent an album of early nineteenth-century
Albany leaders and their families. He was a member of a number of
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