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ALANSON BURR, Master.
ELIJAH REYNOLDS. Senior Warden.
CYRUS H. CLEMENT, Junior Warden.
ROCKWELL HOPPER, Treasurer.
WILLIAM DEAN, Secretary.
SIMON WILSON, Senior Deacon.
GEORGE PARKER. Junior Deacon.
DAVID W. REYNOLDS, Tiler.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~knorthup/Webpage/Atlanta/Brees/Brees%20HTM%20pages/CorneliusH
opperFamily.htm
Rockwell Hopper was born April 30, 1792 in Tioga (later Chemung) Co., NY. Rockwell married Elizabeth Comfort on
October 26, 1811 in Wellsburg, Tioga (later Chemung) Co., NY, and they had 8 children. The family is listed on the 1820
census of Rushford, Allegany Co., NY. They are listed on the 1830, 1840, 1850 & 1860 censuses of Belfast, Allegany Co.,
NY. Elizabeth Comfort Hopper died on August 16, 1865, and Rockwell is listed at age 78 in the household of his married son
Edward/Edwin. Rockwell Hopper died on May 20, 1875 in Belfast, Allegany Co., NY. Children of Rockwell Hopper &
Elizabeth Comfort are: Lovina (1812), Cornelius (1814), Edward (1817), Hannah (1818), Christina (1823), Alfred Rockwell
(1826), Emma (1830) & Charles (1835).
The Lodge worked under dispensation until June, 1849.
The warrant was issued June l0, 1840, and named as officers:
JOHN HAMMOND. Master.
ELIJAH REYNOLDS, Senior Warden.
CYRUS H. CLEMENT, Junior Warden.
The first meeting under the warrant was held August 2, 1849, and since then the Lodge has flourished. In 1880 it met with a
severe loss in the destruction of its property by fire. It has had several meeting places in the village but since 1887 it has met in the
second story of a brick building on the corner of Main and Sherman Streets.
It held "Jubilee" services on April 24, 1889, in its Lodge room to which the public were invited. An address was delivered by REV.
BRO. J. HERRICK.
MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
John Hammond. Assemblyman.
David P. Richardson, Congressman.
Charles M. Crandall, Assemblyman.
William M. Smith, Health Officer, N. Y. City.
Hiram H. Wakely, Assemblyman.
John . Hughes. Sheriff.
George W. Tibbits, School Commissioner. Joseph Benjamin. Sheriff.
David M. Hancock. Sheriff.
John S. Smith, School Commissioner.
Wilkes Angell, State Senator.
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/cuba-village-ny.htm
In 1841 and 1842 Cuba was quite a place. Work on both canal and railroad was in progress, and there was nearly 400 population
and it had a newspaper, the Cuba Advocate, started in 1839 by I. C. Sheldon. Hon. Wilkes Angel described it at that period thus:
The country around was comparatively new. The village was mostly located on swampy ground. It had no sidewalks, and
locomotion was extremely disagreeable and difficult, especially in wet weather. There were several dry goods stores and groceries,
and two hotels.
MASTERS OF No. 364.
1823. Hiram Gray.
1824. Hiram Gray.
1825. Hiram Gray.
1848. Alanson Burr.
1849. John Hammond.
1850. John Hammond.
1851. John Hammond.
1852. John Hammond.
1853. James McCray.
1854. Daniel A. Knapp.
1855. Daniel A. Knapp.
1856. Jonathan Warford.
1857. Charles M. Crandall.
1858. Charles M. Crandall.
1859. Edwin A. Wilson.
1860. Richard G. Young.
1862. Jonathan Warford.
1826. Freeman S. Wilson.
1827. Freeman S. Wilson.
1828. Joseph S. Raymond.
MASTERS OF No. 146.
1863. Jonathan Warford.
1864. Rodney M. Willis.
1865. Rodney M. Willis.
1866. Rodney M. Willis.
1867. Rodney M. Willis.
1868. Rodney M. Willis.
1869. Rodney M. Willis.
1870. Darwin D. Nye.
1871. Richard G. Young.
1872. Edwin A. Wilson.
1873. Darwin D. Nye.
1874. Darwin D. Nye.
1875. Darwin D. Nye.
1876. Granville D. Miller.
1829. John Reynolds.
1830. Alanson Burr.
1877. Granville D. Miller.
1878. Wallace W. Byrnes.
1879. Volney I. Cook.
1880. George W. Tibbets.
1881. George W. Tibbets.
1882. George W. Tibbets.
1883. George W. Tibbets.
1884. Granville D. Miller.
1885. Granville D. Miller.
1886. Frank H. Smith.
1887. Joseph H. Chamberlain.
1888. Joseph H. Chamberlain.
1889. Richard G. Young.
1890. Richard G. Young.
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