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SCIENCE LODGE No. 50, F. & A. M.
CHAPTER XXIV
SANDUSKY FRATERNALISM
In June, 1818, when Sandusky was but a small village containing
but a feAV hundred inhabitants, and the Indians in this part of Ohio
outnumbered the whites, there were among these early settlers quite a
number that were Masons. Among and of them were Hector Kilbourn,
a surveyor, Dr. George Anderson, Eleutheros Cooke, Moors Farwell, John
D. Wheeler, Ebenezer Ransom and others having been made Masons
before they came to Sandusky, and being more or less imbued with a
love and reverence for the order, and feeling that they wanted a Masonic
home wherein to gather in fraternal union, caused an application to be
prepared and signed by the requisite number of Master Masons, and
forwarded it to the G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, asking of him
the authority to organize a subordinate lodge in Sandusky, and in
July, 1818, Chester Griswold, the then M. W. grand master, granted
the dispensation prayed for, and appointed Hector Kilbourn W. M.,
and by order of the grand lodge held at Columbus, December, 1818,
Science Lodge Avith others was authorized to continue its labors under
the dispensation until the next communication of the grand lodge.
At the session of the grand lodge held in Columbus December, 1819,
Hector Kilbourn Avas its representative, and recorded as the master of
the lodge in the published proceedings of that year, which also show
that the returns of the lodge were not received in time to be acted upon
before adjournment, Avhereby the lodge continued to work under the dispensation
another year.
At the session of the grand lodge held at Columbus, commencing
December 11, 1820, the committees on charters and dispensations reported
in favor of granting a charter, which report was accepted and
charter granted, and was duly signed by John Snow, M. W. grand
master, and Benjamin Gardner, gjand secretary. Brother Lyman Far-
Avell Avas its representative to the grand lodge at the session of 1820.
In December, 1820, the organization of Science Lodge No. 50, F. &
A. M., was perfected under its charter and entered upon its course as
a full fledged lodge, and the following is a list of its first officers: W. M.,
Hector Kilbourn; S. W., Samuel B. Carpenter; J. W., Henry Tuller;
treasurer, Ebenezer Ransom; secretary, Eleutheros Cooke; S. D., Ab.
Toutelett; J. D., John D. Wheeler; tyler, Ely Thompson.
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