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Charles E. Barnard, Treasurer; John S. Avery, Senior Deacon ; Elijah Rathbon, Secretary; Levi Farr, Junior Deacon. Shortly after this meeting the building in which the Lodge had quarters was destroyed by fire, and it was compelled to cease work until January, 1849. The by-laws adopted in 1848 contain some interesting provisions. The following are a few extracts: Article I, Section 5. It is the duty of every officer and member to see that the Lodge closes in due season, and in no case later than nine o'clock in the evening, and then to return in regular and sober manner to their dwellings. Article III. Section 1. At every monthly communication each visitor after his second visit shall pay to the Stewards twelve and onehalf cents. Article IV, Section 11. In case where a simple majority only is required the Master shall be allowed a casting and no other vote. Section 5. No subject or question relative to the policy or government of our Country shall ever be introduced into the Lodge or discussed in it. Since the revival of the charter in 1847 the Lodge has been prosperous and has enjoyed a steady and healthy growth. Upon the payment of the "Great Debt" it held Jubilee services on 24 April 1889: the exercises consisted of singing, reading an address from the Grand Master, and an address by REV. BRO. ALEXANDER H. ROGERS, Chaplain of the Lodge. The Lodge was represented at the laying of the corner-stone of the Home at Utica, 21 May 1891, and at the dedication, 5 Oct 1892. It was also present at the laying of the corner-stone of the Travelers' Home at Binghamton, NY. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. Augustus Willard, District Deputy Grand Master. John N. Willard, Grand Master. Robert P. Barnard, District Deputy Grand Master. William D. Purple, Grand Steward. Leroy G. Martin, District Deputy Grand Master. MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE. Levi Farr, Civil Magistrate. Robert Monell, Assemblyman, Congressman, Supreme Court Judge. Elisha Smith, Judge of Common Pleas. Francis B. Fisher, Assemblyman. Warren Gray, Civil Magistrate. Charles Josslyn, Civil Magistrate, Postmaster. Charles B. Miller, Assemblyman. MASTERS of No. 208. 1812. Levi Farr. 1813. Levi Farr. 1814. Levi Farr. 1815. Samuel A. Skeel. 1816. Elisha Sadd. 1817. Samuel A. Skeel. 1818. Robert Monell. 1819. Robert Monell. 1820. Warren Gray. 1821. Samuel A. Skeel. 1822. Samuel A. Skeel. 1823. Robert Monell. 1824. Robert Monell. 1825. Warren Gray. 1826. Levi Farr. 1827. Levi Farr. 1828. Levi Farr. 1829. Levi Farr. 1830. Levi Farr. MASTERS of No. 126. 1848. Augustus Willard 1849. Augustus Willard 1850. Augustus Willard 1851. William D. Purple 1852. William D. Purple 1853. William D. Purple 1854. John A. King 1855. Stoddard S. Nichols 1856. A. Hunt Smith 1857. William D. Purple 1858. William D. Purple 1859. Robert P. Barnard 1860. Robert P. Barnard 1861. Robert P. Barnard 1862. Robert P. Barnard 1863. George W. Baker 1864. George W. Baker 1865. W. B. Race 1866. Marcus M. Wood 1867. Marcus M. Wood 1868. John W. Osgood 1869. John W. Osgood 1870. Curtis Winston 1871. John W. Osgood 1872. Marcus M. Wood 1873. Marcus I. Hotchkiss 1874. John W. Osgood 1875. John W. Osgood 1876. Edgar J. Arnold 1877. Edgar J. Arnold. 1878. Robert P. Barnard. 1879. Edgar J. Arnold. 1880. Marcus M. Wood. 1881. Marcus M. Wood. 1882. Marcus M. Wood. 1883. Edgar J. Arnold. 1884. Erastus S. Walker. 1885. Marcus M. Wood. 1886. A. B. Holcomb. 1887. John H. Stevens. 1888. John H. Stevens. 1889. Truman H. Jackson. 1890. Truman H. Jackson. 1891. Truman H. Jackson. 1892. James A. Harrison. 1893. Truman H. Jackson. 1894. Albert McGee. 1895. Albert McGee. 1896. James A. Harrison. 1897. Edward Hughes. 1898. Edward Hughes. 1899. Edward Hughes. 1900. William D. Morse. 1901. William D. Morse. 1902. John Lumbard. 1903. John Lumbard. 1904. Leroy G. Martin. 1905. Leroy G. Martin. 1906. Walter D. Lyon. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FARR/2001-06/0993858781 American Biographical Library - The Biographical Cyclopædia of American Women - Volume II American Biographical Notes - The Chicago Historical Society, page 136 FARR, LEVI, M. D., b. in Pittsfield, MA, 22 Jul 1787; studied with his brother Jonas, of Minden, NY, was licensed in 1806 and settled the next year at Greene, Chenango, NY, where he d. 18 Jul 1859, (Tr. N. Y. St. Med. Soc., 1850, p. 174.) He married Mercy Fanny Bradley, who was born in Kent, CT, 14 Feb 1787; died 28 Feb 1847. http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/greene.html Captain Samuel A. SKEEL settled near Birsbin, on the west side of the river. He was a surveyor and afterwards became a Universalist minister. He was a man of fine native endowments, conspicuous mental vigor and strong reasoning powers. He removed to the western part of the State about 1830 and pursued his calling in the ministry until his death in 1856. 44
He married Eleanor(or Ellen) (CATOR) BARTLE, who was a widow when she married Samuel. They had son, DeWitt C. SKEEL b. 1825 in the town of Greene, Chenango Co. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cassb/CASS/i0000421.htm Aaron Carter was born in Kent, Litchfield, CT 10 Aug 1791. Aaron died 4 May 1875 in Felton, Kent, DE, at 83 years of age. He married Achsa Sadd in Greene, Chenango, NY, 15 Feb 1813. Achsa was the daughter of Elisha Sadd and Hepsibah Osburn. Aaron was owner and captain of a canal boat. Elisha SADD, b. ca 1754, one of the first settlers in the town, was an early merchant at Genegantslet. He died in Greene in 1827, aged 73. The first postmaster was probably Dr. Levi FARR. He held the office several years, till his removal to the village of Greene in 1825. He was probably succeeded by Elisha SADD. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000853 MONELL, Robert, a Representative from New York; born in Columbia County, NY, in 1786; pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice at Binghamton, NY; moved to Greene, Chenango County, in 1811 and continued the practice of his profession; member of the state assembly in 1814 and 1815; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (4 Mar 1819-3 Mar 1821); again a member of the state assembly in 1825, 1826, and 1828; district attorney of Chenango County in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, and served from 4 Mar 1829, until 21 Feb 1831, when he resigned; circuit judge of the sixth circuit 1831-1845; clerk of the state supreme court in 1846; resumed the practice of law; died in Greene, Chenango, NY, 29 Nov 1860; interment in Hornby Cemetery. In 1837 he was promoted as a ‘brigade major and inspector.’ A daughter, Catherine D, married Nathan Randall of Greene, 12 May 1831; they removed to New York City. Another daughter, Jannett P., died 31 Oct 1831 at Great Bend, PA, age 15. http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/may71.htm 18 May 1871 - Died in this village (Yates County) on Thursday the 11th inst., George P. Monell, at the age of 51 years. Mr. Monell has long been a resident of this town, and well known to the people. He was born in Greene, Chenango Co., and was a son of Judge Robert Monell, an eminent jurist under the Constitution of 1821. He married Henrietta, the youngest of the children of the late Abraham Wagener, Esq., and has since been a citizen of this town….His residence for a few years past has been on a farm in South Milo, and recently in this village…. Monell, James s/o Robert Monell of Greene, NY, died at Mobile, Ala. age 23 years. Monell, Joseph D. s/o Robert Monell, died at Greene, NY 10 Mar 1843 age 20 years. http://www.lostvalleys.com/chenango/history/greene.html Levi FARR, M.D., was born in Pittsfield, MA, 8 Jul 1787, and removed to this town from Montgomery county in 1807. He settled first at Genegantslet, where he married Mercy Fanny, daughter of David BRADLEY, an early settler in that locality. He entered at once upon the active duties of his profession, and pursued them with untiring zeal and devotion to the interests of his patrons, who were widely scattered over a large section of sparsely settled country, mingling with his professional services kindly counsel and advice, which were as eagerly sought and for which he was not less highly respected. He "filled a large space in the public mind, and is gratefully remembered by his contemporaries." He removed to this village in 1825, and died here 22 Jul 1859. From his youth he was troubled with imperfect vision, and about 1840 became entirely blind. He accumulated a very handsome property, and gave by his will $4,000 as a permanent fund for the benefit of the common school in this village. He enjoyed in a large degree the confidence of his fellow-townsmen, who often elected him to positions of trust and responsibility. He was a Magistrate in the town for a number of years. October 11, 1831, at a meeting of Chenango County Medical Society, Dr. Farr read a dissertation on the character, symptoms, treatment, and probable origin of small-pox as it presented itself in the county the previous season. http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/greene.html Amos GRAY and Samuel WHEELER settled in 1794, the former one-half mile below Brisbin, and the latter on the site of the village, on the east side of the river, where he died. Gray, who was blind, was a brother of Elder Jeduthan Gray, who organized at Genegantslet, in 1807, the Second Baptist Church Society of Greene, of which he was for twenty-five years the pastor. The Grays were from Berkshire county, Mass. Amos died where he settled. His children were: Jeduthan, 2d., who, after attaining his majority, about 1807, removed to Greene village, where he kept the hotel on the site of the Chenango House, and removed West about 1810 or 1812; Enoch, who kept at Brisbin, in 1796, the second school house in town, teaching some ten winters in succession, and lived and died in Greene village; and Amos, who lived on the homestead till well advanced in years, when he removed to Greene village, where he died 9 May 1868, aged 77. Warren and Bethuel were sons of Elder Jeduthan Gray, who settled on a farm between Greene and Genegantslet in 1807, and removed about 1825 to northern Pennsylvania, where he died, in 1830, at an advanced age. Warren possessed a highly intellectual and judicial mind. He enjoyed a large share of personal popularity, and held various town offices, among them that of Magistrate for fifty consecutive years. He was b. ca 1785 and died in Dec 1868, aged 83. Bethuel died 4 Feb 1866, aged 79, and Cornelia, his wife, 7 Jul 1869, aged 75. Asa WHITNEY, William PORTER and Warren GRAY commenced business under the name of Whitney, Porter & Gray about 1822, and continued about a year. History of Greene http://www.artmakers.com/chenango/history/greene.html Augustus WILLARD, M.D., was born in 1800, and was the eldest son of Samuel Willard, M.D., of Stafford, CT, who was graduated at Harvard college in 1787. He received a good common school and academic education and entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. THOMAS of Cooperstown. In 1821 he entered the office of Dr. Charles JOSLYN, of Greene, and there, and at Harvard Medical college, where he was graduated in 1823, completed his preparatory medical studies. He was graduated with a class of about forty and received the prize for the best Medical thesis. In 1824, at the written solicitation of a number of its citizens, he located in the village of Greene, where his strong intellectual powers, studious habits, critical research, and undivided application to professional duties soon gave him prominence among his contemporary practitioners. His long and exemplary professional career fully merited the generous confidence reposed in him by the entire community as an honest, upright and skillful physician. In his professional associations the County, State and National associations felt the influence of his talents and his ardent devotion to their interests. He was elected President of the State Medical Society, at the semi-centennial anniversary of that organization in Feb., 1857, and in 1858, he delivered the annual address before that Society, in the Assembly Chamber. Dr. Willard was a conspicuous and devoted member of the Masonic fraternity and was rewarded with its highest honors. His obsequies were numerously attended 45
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