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SAMUEL DEAN, Master.
ANDREW B. SIMONS. Senior Warden.
WILLIAM R. PENFIELD, Junior Warden.
The first meeting under the warrant was held August 21, 1849, when the Lodge was duly constituted and the following officers
installed by R.'. W.'. EZRA S. BARNUM, Senior Grand Warden:
SAMUEL DEAN, Master.
ANDREW B. SIMONS. Senior Warden.
WILLIAM R. PENFIELD, Junior Warden.
R. C. KENYON, Treasurer.
J. B. PARSONS, Secretary.
C. A. DEAN. Senior Deacon.
LORENZ R. KENYON, Junior Deacon.
J. L. LOTT, Tiler.
The Lodge held "Jubilee" services April 24, 1889. Addresses were made by REV. J. C. BREAKER and REV. B. BRUNING.
It was represented at the laying of the corner-stone and the dedication of the Home at Utica.
MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
T. D. Lewis, Assemblyman. N. N. Stranahan, State Senator, U. S. Collector -Port of New York.
MASTERS.
1848. Samuel Dean.
1849. Samuel Dean.
1850. Samuel Dean.
1851. Andrew B. Simons.
1852. Stephen Pardee.
1853. Stephen Pardee.
1854. Stephen Pardee.
1855. Stephen Pardee.
1856. Stephen Pardee.
1857. Stephen Pardee.
1858. Stephen Pardee.
1859. G. G. Goodell.
1860. A. T. Loomis.
1861. Stephen Pardee.
1862. Stephen Pardee.
1863. Stephen Pardee.
1864. Daniel Pardee.
1865. Daniel Pardee.
1866. Daniel Pardee.
1867. Daniel Pardee.
1868. Daniel Pardee.
1869. G. G. Ottman.
1870. Morris C. Highriter.
1871. G. G. Ottman.
1872. G. G. Ottman.
1873. M. W. Danks.
1874. M. W. Danks.
1875. Daniel Pardee.
1876. M. W. Danks.
1877. M. W. Danks.
1878. Seymour Parmelee.
1879. William B. Howard.
1880. William B. Howard.
1881. Francis M. Baker.
1882. Francis M. Baker.
1883. Seymour Parmelee.
1884. Seymour Parmelee.
1885. Seymour Parmelee.
1886. I. C. Curtis.
1887. I. C. Curtis.
1888. Thomas Ferris.
1889. Thomas Ferris.
1890. T. D. Lewis.
1891. T. D. Lewis
1892. G. C. Webb
1893. G. Wellington Hastings.
1894. G. Wellington Hastings.
1895. Wayland W. Loomis.
1896. Wayland W. Loomis.
1897. Fred E. Sutherland.
1898. Fred E. Sutherland.
1899. Fred W. Gardner.
1900. Castle H. Gardner.
1901. Castle H. Gardner.
1902. Harry L. Platt.
1903. Harry L. Platt.
1904. J. D. Mclntyre.
1905. J. D. Mclntyre.
1906. William H. Hornibrook.
1907. E. A. Putnam.
MOUNT MORI AH LODGE, NO.145, JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
WARRANT: The original warrant is dated September 4, 1817. The warrant under which the Lodge is working is dated June 15,
1849. Both warrants are in possession of the Lodge.
The name has never been changed. The first number was 297; it received its present number when revived in 1849.
MINUTES: Intact.
In 1816 the Town of Ellicott comprised a territory of about twelve miles square; within its borders was the territory that afterward
became the village of Jamestown; it also included the present Towns of Poland. Carroll, Kiantone, a part of Busti, and what has
remained as Town of Ellicott. In this sparsely settled section were a number of masons who in the winter of 1815-16 took measures
to organize a Lodge.
At a meeting held January 3, 1816, a petition asking for a warrant was prepared and signed by the following:
Solomon Jones. John Barr.
Lemuel Smith. Asahel Andrews.
Theron Plumb. Heman Bush.
Horatio Dix. David Boyd.
David Hatch. Joseph Akins.
Stephen Frank. Pearley Fairbanks.
Randall Austin.
The original petition is on file in the Grand Secretary's office; it recommends as officers:
HEMAN BUSH, Master.
SOLOMON JONES, Senior Warden.
THERON PLUMB, Junior Warden.
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