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The Lodge was organized in the early part of 1848; the first meeting under dispensation was held May 20th with the following
officers present:
CHARLES DAYAN, Master.
JAMES H. SHELDON, Secretary.
ANDREW W. DOIG, Senior Warden.
DAVID A. STEWART. Senior Deacon.
ZIBA KNOX, Junior Warden.
THOMAS BUTTS, Junior Deacon.
WILLIAM CARPENTER, Treasurer.
HENRY HAZEN, Steward
J. GARNSEY, Steward
JOHN S. ROOT, Tiler.
The first meeting after the warrant had been granted was held August 8, 1848.
At the first annual communication held December 12, 1848, the officers elected were:
CHARLES DAYAN, Master.
D. S. BULLARD. Secretary.
ANDREW W. DOIG. Senior Warden.
DAVID A. STEWART. Senior Deacon.
ZIBA Knox. Junior Warden.
THOMAS BUTTS. Junior Deacon.
WILLIAM CARPENTER, Treasurer.
JOSEPH GARMON, Tiler.
Lowville Lodge is the successor of Jefferson Lodge, No. 164, which was warranted December 3, 1807, and met alternately at
Lowville and Martinsburgh; this Lodge flourished until the baneful influence of persecution caused by the Morgan episode forced it to
surrender its charter June 3, 1831.
Some of the most active organizers of Lowville Lodge were members of this old Lodge.
The Lodge held "Jubilee" services on April 24, 1889, and was present at the laying of the corner-stone and dedication of the
Home at Utica. It has ever been active and prosperous, owns its own meeting place and has had among its adherents many of the
most influential members of the community where it is located. Its first Master was a highly honored citizen. A sketch of his life
written in 1862 says of him:
"CHARLES DAYAN was born at Amsterdam, NY, July 16, 1792; an orphan in charge of his widowed mother, he came to Lowville in
1869. Here by force of strong natural ability joined with energy and industry he rapidly rose from a poor laboring boy to distinction in
the legal profession and filled many offices in the gift of the people.
"In 1826 he was elected State Senator and in 1828 was President pro tern of the Senate. In 1830 he was elected Congressman
and in 1835 and 1836 he was Assemblyman.
"In 1840 he was appointed District Attorney for Lewis County and served in that office five years. He filled these several offices
with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents.
"While distinguished and honored in public life he has been none the less so as a worthy brother of our order.
"He was made a Mason in 1816, and was the last Master of Jefferson Lodge, No. 164, when, owing to the prejudices of the time,
it discontinued its meetings.
"He now reverts with pride and pleasure to the fact that when elected to Congress in 1830 he, as a mason, was triumphantly
elected over all opposition.
"Although forced into retirement by the infirmities of age he is still a frequent and
welcome visitor at our Communications and is one of the few connecting links between
the past and present prosperity of our order that survived unscathed the terrible storm of
prejudice and passion that swept nearly every vestige of freemasonry from the State."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dayan
< Charles Dayan b. 18 Jul 1792, Amsterdam, NY; d. 25 Dec 1877, Lowville, NY, was an
lawyer and politician who was a US Representative from New York from 1831 to 1833.
After graduating from Lowville Academy, he became a teacher. He was commissioned a
lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812.. Afterwards he studied law, was admitted to the
bar in 1817, and practiced in Lowville. He was a member of the NY Senate from the 5th
District in 1827 and 1828, and was President pro tempore of the State Senate and
Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York State from October 17 to December 31, 1828.
He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March
3, 1833). He was a member of the NY State Assembly in 1835 and 1836. From 1840 to
1845 he was District Attorney of Lewis County. He retired from public life because of ill
health, but continued the practice of law. He was buried at Lowville Rural Cemetery.
“A History of Lewis County, in the State of New York,” by Hough, Franklin B. (Franklin
Benjamin), 1822-1885, pages 153-54.
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Charles Dayan was born July 16, 1792, at Amsterdam, N. Y., and is a son of Charles D., an Austrian emigrant, who died in
1793, leaving him an infant in charge of his widowed mother, in very indigent circumstances. He remained with Zaccariah Peterson
till fourteen years of age, and went to Elliott's mills in Amsterdam, from whence, in August, 1809, he came to Lowville. After working
at chopping, and upon Heman Stickney's oil mill (now Gen. Willard's factory), he began going to school at the academy. He was
then entirely ignorant of the rudiments of learning and was placed at first in a class of email children, but by great industry and the
aid of a Mr. Obits, an old friend of his father, in Germany, he made such rapid progress that in a few months he was able to engage
a school in Rutland. He taught four winters in the same district at a monthly price of twenty bushels of wheat, which he sold at $2
per bushel. He entered Bostwick's law office in 1816, and in 1819 was admitted to practice.
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