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Soon afterwards the discovery was made that there was in ex- istence a charter for a Masonic Lodge in the hands of one of the brethren, issued to Connecticut Lodge No. 75. Upon this the associa- tion was dissolved, and on January 8, 1850, it organized under the name of Connecticut Lodge No. 75, and Dr. R. H. McDonald presented his Bible to the lodge. Today it belongs to Tehama Lodge No. 3, the successor of Connecticut Lodge. The lodge secured the upper part of the Red House, on the southeast corner of Fifth and J streets, which was the building best suited to its purposes, at that time, but as the owner shortly afterwards rented the lower story for immoral pur- poses, the lodge removed with its furniture to the attic over the old market house on M street near Second. Previous to this, however, the Grand Lodge of California was organized in the building first occupied, on April 19, 1850. Tehama Lodge No. 3 was chartered by the Grand Lodge of California. The Bible used in organizing the Grand Lodge of California was the same one Dr. McDonald pre- sented to Connecticut Lodge.
The deputy grand master of New Jersey issued a dispensation March 1, 1849, to open a lodge in the territory of California, which seems to have been a sort of roving commission, with power for the master and brethren to appoint his successors in office until the next annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. It seemed to exist continuously and to assume the functions and privileges of an independent chartered lodge. The dispensation from the Grand Lodge of New Jersey authorized Thomas Youngs, Moses W. Personett, John B. Clark and others to open the lodge, and named Youngs as master. He conveyed authority to John E. Crockett and certified that fact on the back of the dispensation. Crockett, so authorized, opened New
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Jersey Lodge in this city December 4, 1849, and it was in active and successful operation by April 17, 1850, and chose its representatives to the convention of that date. The delegates, however, could take no part in the organization of the Grand Lodge, not being an independent chartered lodge, but only a temporary creation of the Deputy Grand Master of New Jersey. Immediately after the organization of the Grand Lodge of California, this lodge applied and received a charter as Berryman Lodge No. 3, which was changed shortly afterwards to Jennings Lodge No. 4.
There are very few who are aware that there were two Grand Lodges of California instituted for the government of the order, but such was the fact. The records of the first Grand Lodge were un- doubtedly destroyed. There was no opportunity to examine the records of Connecticut Lodge and Western Star Lodge, which were destroyed by fire, nor of New Jersey Lodge, U. D., which is extinct, nor of Benicia Lodge, U. D., of Benicia, which presented no records to the convention. California Lodge No. 13, of San Francisco, was a regularly chartered lodge, but it was not notified of the action con- templated for the organization of a Grand Lodge, and as the Masonic law and custom provides that there must be present representatives from three regularly chartered lodges, the organization of the first Grand Lodge was irregular and illegal.
California Lodge No. 13, being notified of the action organizing a Grand Lodge at Sacramento, appointed a committee to investigate, and finding the state of affairs, notified the Sacramento brethren of the irregularity of their action, suggesting that the matter be begun over again. The brethren at Sacramento, finding their error, aban- doned voluntarily their Grand Lodge, the officers of which are un- known, and joined with California Lodge for the formation of a legally constituted Grand Lodge. Notices were sent out to the regular lodges of A. Y. Masons of the state, for a convention to be held at Sacra- mento April 17, 1850, for the formation of a Grand Lodge.
The convention met on the 17th in this city, and Most Worshipful Charles Gilman of San Francisco, Past Grand Master of Maryland, was called to the chair, and Benjamin D. Hyam of Benicia, after- wards Grand Master of California, was chosen secretary. Representa- tives of the following lodges presented their credentials to W. N. Doughty and John A. Tutt of Sacramento and John H. Gihon of San Francisco, the Committee on Credentials: California Lodge No. 13, San Francisco; Connecticut Lodge No. 75, Sacramento; Western Star Lodge No. 98, Benton City; New Jersey Lodge, U. D., Sacramento ; Benicia Lodge, U. D., Benicia. The committee reported the first three as regularly chartered, and New Jersey Lodge as regularly under dis- pensation, but that Benicia Lodge had presented neither a charter nor a dispensation. The three chartered lodges were pronounced by the convention entitled to form a Grand Lodge. The constitution of the
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Grand Lodge was adopted on April 19th, and the following Grand Officers elected: Jonathan D. Stevenson, R. W. grand master; John A. Tutt, R. W. deputy grand master; Caleb Fenner, R. W. senior grand warden; Saschel Woods, R. W. junior grand warden; John H. Gihon, R. W. grand secretary.
New Jersey Lodge was granted a charter, and at the first annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in this city, May 7, 1850, Benicia Lodge received its charter. A dispensation had been granted to Sutter Lodge in Sacramento, and it was granted a charter. The lodges belonging to the Grand Lodge were given numbers as follows: California Lodge, No. 1; Western Star Lodge, No. 2; Tehama Lodge, No. 3; Berryman Lodge (Sacramento), No. 4; Benicia Lodge, No. 5; Sutter Lodge (Sacramento), No. 6. The name of Berryman Lodge was changed to Jennings Lodge No. 4. By this formation of the Grand Lodge, Sacra- mento secured in the election the deputy grand master, junior grand warden, and eight of the appointive officers, to which she was en titled, being the great distributing point for Masonic charity.
The semi-annual meeting of the Grand Lodge was held at Sacra- mento in November, 1850, during the last days of the cholera epidemic, and in its proceedings it developed that those attending taxed them- selves voluntarily for charity, $17,010.70, an average of $205 each; and assumed a debt of $14,425.44, an average of $174, making a contribu- tion of $379 for every Master Mason in Sacramento contributing to the Masonie Hospital inside of ten months, besides answering other demands for charity of all descriptions. Those were the days when Masons' hearts and purses were opened wide at the call of distress. Fortunately for Sacramento, she has never since been so strennously called on for relief, although even now her board of relief, composed of the masters of the lodges, is called upon to contribute large sums yearly. Never, perhaps, in the history of the world has there been an exhibition of such great sacrifice, such unselfish charity, and such de- voted service to the cause of humanity as the records of the early days of Sacramento show to have been carried out by the Masonic pioneers of the city and state, in conjunction with the offspring of Masonry-the Order of Odd Fellows-during the terrible seasons of disease and epidemic in 1849-50.
In 1864 the initial steps were taken for the erection of a Masonic Temple. The first meeting of the Masonic Hall Association was held July 1, 1864. The board of directors chosen from the five lodges were A. T. Nelson, Leonard Goss, W. F. Knox, H. T. Holmes, Richard Dale, S. D. Smith, Thomas Ross, P. S. Lawson and John W. Rock, all of whom have since passed away. The association incorpor- ated on September 17, 1864, with a capital of $30,000, divided into twelve thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each. November 1, 1864, they bought of R. D. Ferguson the old "Horse Market" at the south- west corner of Sixth and K streets, on the trees of which, in 1849,
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the notices for the first meeting of Masons in Sacramento had been posted. June 24, 1865, the cornerstone of the building was laid by Grand Master William Caldwell Belcher. An excursion to Clipper Gap, where an oration was delivered by A. A. Sargent, netted $18,000, and the hall, which was added to and remodeled in 1875, at a cost of many thousands, is one of the finest and most valuable Masonic prop- erties in the state. A few years ago the directors of the association purchased a site at Twelfth and J streets, on which it is proposed to erect a new Masonic Temple, the plans of which have been accepted, at a cost of $450,000. In the present temple the five lodges of Sacra- mento meet, as well as the Chapter, R. A. M., the Council, Com- mandery and the Scottish Rite bodies, as well as four Eastern Star chapters. The Scottish Rite bodies are planning at present to erect a building for that Masonic branch.
The early history of Tehama Lodge No. 3, which was first char- tered as Connecticut Lodge No. 75, and rechartered by the Grand Lodge under its present name Jannary 8, 1850, has been delineated in this article. The charter was granted to Caleb Fenner, W. M .; James W. Goodrich, S. W., and Elizur Hubbell, J. W. John A. Tutt, one of its charter members, was afterwards grand master. Two of Cali- fornia's early governors, John Bigler and J. Neely Johnson, were among its members on the first roll sent to the Grand Lodge in Novem- ber, 1850; also Gen. A. M. Winn. After the lodge removed from the Red House it located in the hall over the market house at Second and M streets, moving thence to the upper story of Stanford's building on K street, and going, in 1854, to the third story of Bennett's building on J street, between Front and Second. Since the erection of the Tem- ple, it holds its meetings there. It is a prosperous lodge, its present membership being two hundred and thirty. The officers for 1912: Henry A. W. Lindgreen, W. M .; Louis R. Plate, S. W .; Henry H. McCann, J. W .; William O. Girardy, treasurer; Theodore J. Milliken, secretary; Charles E. Farrar, chaplain; Donald McClain, S. D .; Tol- bert T. Bray, S. D .; Halleck H. Look, marshal; Albert Greilich, S. S .; Chester W. Foster, J. S .; R. O. Cravens, tyler.
Jennings Lodge No. 4, acting under dispensation as New Jersey Lodge, and chartered by the Grand Lodge of California May 7, 1850, as Berryman Lodge No. 4, of which the name was changed the same day to Jennings Lodge No. 4, resolved February 14, 1853, to surrender its charter to the Grand Lodge, and did so, passing out of existence. Hon. H. C. Hastings, afterwards a justice of the supreme court of California, E. J. C. Kewen, and other prominent men were members of it.
Sutter Lodge No. 6 was granted a dispensation hy Deputy Grand Master Tutt April 19, 1850, with Edward J. Willis, W. M .; C. E. Thorn, S. D., and Addison Martin, J. D., as officers, and was granted a charter by the Grand Lodge on May 7th following. The lodge, hav-
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ing lost its furniture and jewels by fire, surrendered its charter, and was declared extinct by the Grand Lodge, May 6, 1853. E. J. Willis was county judge of Sacramento, and E. W. Mckinstry, another mem- ber, was afterwards a justice of the supreme court of California.
Washington Lodge No. 20 was organized February 19, 1852, granted a dispensation two days afterwards, with Charles Dunscombe, W. M .; Jesse Morrill, S. W .; J. L. Thompson, J. W., and a charter was granted to it May 5, 1852. Its first master, N. Greene Curtis, served four terms as grand master, and it has in its membership our present governor, Hiram Warren Johnson, besides two governors who afterwards received foreign appointments-John Bigler, United States Minister to Chili, and Romualdo Pacheco, United States Minister to Guatemala, and who was the second native Spanish Californian, as far as is known, to receive the degree of Masonry. There were a num- ber of other members who became prominent in the state's history. The officers for 1912 were: John Gibson Labadie, W. M .; Clyde Horace Brown, S. W .; John Henry Lindenmeyer, J. W .; Benjamin Huntington Gallup, treasurer; John Scott, secretary; Frank Bock, S. D .; Mahlon E. Waldron, marshal; George B. Herr, tyler.
Sacramento Lodge No. 40 was granted a dispensation July 20, 1853, and May 3, 1854, obtained its charter, when its officers were: James Lawrence English, W. M .; John A. Tutt, S. W .; John H. Gass, J. W .; W. J. Kohlman, treasurer; W. G. Borneman, secretary; B. F. Crouch, chaplain; W. W. Stovall, S. D .; H. Greenbaum, J. D. Edwin Sherman, author of "Fifty Years of Masonry in California," was a member of this lodge. John A. Tutt, William Lawrence English and E. C. Atkinson were all grand masters. W. M. Petrie, for more than thirty years treasurer of the lodge, W. L. English, Isaac Davis and W. F. Knox have been grand high priests of the Grand Chapter, and grand commanders of the Grand Commandery of California. Davis and English were also grand masters of the Grand Council.
Union Lodge No. 58 was granted a dispensation June 5, 1854, with James Ralston, W. M .; Gabriel Haines, S. W .; and Sol Kohl- man, J. W., pro tem .; May 4, 1855, its charter was granted, with the same master and senior warden, W. A. Walters as junior war- den, taking Kohlman's place. The only charter member now living is Col. A. Andrews of San Francisco. Samuel C. Denson, a former judge of the superior court, was a grand master from this lodge, and George T. Bromley, known all over the coast for his amiable and genial qualities, was a member. He was conductor of the first train on the first railroad built in California. Benjamin Welch, another member, was a thirty-third degree member of the A. and A. S. R.
Concord Lodge No. 117 never received a dispensation. Its peti- tion for a charter was received by the Grand Lodge May 14, 1857, and its charter was granted the next morning, naming John L. Thompson,
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W. M .; Thomas Johnson, S. W .; and Charles S. White, J. W. William H. Hevener, the oldest member and a past master of this lodge, was given his degrees in 1859. He has been secretary of the lodge for nearly thirty years. The late S. H. Gerrish, who died in August, 1912, for many years secretary of the Sacramento Free Library, was a member of this lodge.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS
Sacramento Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., was instituted October 5, 1852, with the following officers and charter members: Isaac Davis, H. P .; J. H. Bullard, K .; Joel Noah, S .; T. A. Thomas, C. of H .; Charles Duncombe, P. S .; J. Ball, R. A. C .; J. P. Gonch, M. Third V .; G. Haines, M. Second V .; J. Wilcoxson, M. First V. The other charter members were: A. B. Hoy, T. W. Thayer, John L. Thompson, Jesse Morrill, William Reynolds, I. N. Briceland, A. Hullub, Cyrus Rowe. The chapter at present numbers over three hundred members.
Sacramento Council No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, was insti- tuted April 10, 1858, with the following officers and charter members : Isaac Davis, T. I. M .; John A. Tutt, D. I. M .; Geo. I. N. Monell, P. C. of W .; G. E. Montgomery, R .; N. Greene Curtis, treasurer. Other charter members were: Jesse Morrill, T. A. Thomas, G. Haines, H. H. Hartley, O. H. Dibble, A. G. Richardson and J. Wilcoxson. It has at present a very large membership.
Sacramento Commandery No. 2, K. T., was instituted July 5, 1853, with the following charter members and officers: Isaac Davis, E. C .; Jesse Morrill, G .; T. A. Thomas, C. G .; C. I. Hutchinson, A. B. Hoy, John L. Thompson, Charles Duncombe, J. P. Gouch and James M. Stockley. It numbers over two hundred and fifty members.
In 1869 the Scottish Rite branch of Masonry was introduced in Sacramento, Jacques de Molay Council No. 2, Knights Kadosh, being instituted on May 13th of that year. Palestine Lodge of Perfection No. 3 and Alpha Chapter No. 1, Rose Croix, were also instituted about the same time, but the interest in the Rite dying down, they were dis- continued in 1873. It was revived again April 3, 1895, by the insti- tution of Isaac Davis Lodge of Perfection No. 4 and Palestine Chapter Rose Croix No. 6, October 25, 1901, and Sacramento Council No. 5, Knights Kadosh, instituted on the same date, followed. Sacramento Consistory No. 7 was instituted March 17, 1905. The order is in a most prosperous condition. It belongs to the southern jurisdiction of the United States of America. In the late '80s, or early '90s, a spurious order of Scottish Rite endeavored to obtain a foothold in Sacramento, but was short lived.
There are at present two 33° Masons in Sacramento: William M. Petrie and Edward C. H. Hopkins, Benjamin Welch and M. J. Curtis having recently died.
Naomi Chapter No. 36, Order of the Eastern Star, was instituted
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May 3, 1879, within a few weeks the membership increasing to forty. It is the senior chapter in the city, and boasts of the largest member- ship. The officers and charter members were: Mrs. E. M. Frost, W. M .; J. N. Young, W. P .; Mrs. M. J. Cravens, A. M .; E. C. Atkinson, secretary; W. H. Hevener, treasurer; Mrs. A. J. Atkinson, chaplain ; Miss H. A. Palmer, C .; Miss M. A. Stanton, A. C .; Mrs. A. Coghlan, Adah; Mrs. G. Van Voorheis, Ruth; Mrs. M. E. Parsons, Esther; Mrs. E. M. Hartley, Martha; Mrs. C. P. Huntoon, Electa; Mrs. M. F. Mc- Laughlin, W .; J. T. Griffitts, sentinel.
Columbus Chapter No. 117, O. E. S., was instituted August 8, 1892, with eighty-three charter members. Sacramento Chapter No. 190, O. E. S., was instituted March 7, 1901, with seventy-one charter members. Ada Chapter No. 301, O. E. S., was instituted in 1911.
Jewel Court, U. D., of the Royal and Exalted Degree of Amar- anth, was instituted August 27, 1910, the grand officers of the order conducting the installation. The first officers were: Royal matron, Eliza Higgins; royal patron, Frank Kleinsorge; associate royal ma- tron, Lulu E. Adams; honored secretary, Estella Labadie; honored treasurer, Frances Just ; honored conductress, Addie De Coe; honored associate conductress, Ellen Bowden; honored herald, Frankie Carlaw; honored marshal in the east, Mary N. Martin ; honored marshal in the west, Alice E. Teal; honored prelate, James T. Martin; Lady Truth, Bertha Peart; Lady Faith, Elsie Lindgreen; Lady Wisdom, Elsie Kleinsorge; Lady Charity, Margaret Z. Kelly; honored warder, Agnes Hummell; honored sentinel, Henry Lindgreen. The court received its charter April 12, 1911.
The colored people have what they claim are lodges of Free- masonry, working under charters obtained from other jurisdictions, but not recognized by the white Masons as being regular.
Philomathean Lodge No. 2, F. and A. M. (Colored), worked under a charter obtained from England. It was organized November 6, 1853, and has quite a large membership. St. John Chapter, R. A. M. (Col- ored), was organized in 1873.
Adah Chapter No. 2, O. E. S. (Colored), was instituted in 1871 with twenty-nine members. Dr. R. J. Fletcher was the leading spirit in Colored Masonry among the colored people, and was instrumental in establishing the Grand Chapter O. E. S. (Colored), which was in- stituted in this city December 27, 1882. The Chinese have a sign stating that they have a lodge of Masons on Third street, and are said to use some of the symbols of the order, but whether they have any of the esoteric work is not known. It is known, however, that there are Masonic lodges in China.
I. O. O. F.
General A. M. Winn has the credit of introducing Odd Fellowship into Sacramento as early as August, 1849. There were a number of
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Odd Fellows in the city at that time, and General Winn effected an informal organization among them for the purpose of affording relief to the sick members of the order, as well as to others. Their noble deeds should never be forgotten, for they spared neither time, work, nor money in relieving the distress and sickness that were so prevalent at that time. The Masons joined with them in the work and erected a joint hospital. The complete organization of the first Odd Fellows' lodge, however, did not take place until January 28, 1851, when Sacramento Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. F., was instituted, with Horatio E. Roberts, N. G .; G. H. Peterson, V. G .; George G. Wright, Secretary, and Lucins A. Booth, Treasurer. The other charter members were: Samnel Deal, M. Kaliski, Robert Robinson, N. C. Cunningham, M. C. Collins and William Childs. The meetings were held at first in the rooms of the Freemasons. The lodge numbers between two hundred and fifty and three hundred members.
Enreka Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F., was organized January 7, 1852, with the following officers and charter members: George I. N. Monnell, N. G .; Thomas Sunderland, V. G .; A. P. Andrews, Secre- tary; William Watson, Treasurer; John Turner, R. S. N. G .; R. Por- ter, L. S. N. G .; W. H. Tilley, R. S. V. G .; W. H. Hall, L. S. V. G .; Thomas M. Davis, Warden; A. J. Lucas, Conductor; also David Hall and Jesse Morrill.
El Dorado Lodge No. 8, I. O. O. F., was organized September 24, 1852, with officers and charter members as follows: J. F. Cloutman, N. G .; J. L. Polhemns, V. G .; L. D. Kelly, R. S .; George W. Chedie, Treasurer ; A. B. Armstrong, L. Korn, James Levi, Thomas B. Moore, Joseph S. Korn, James S. Scott and W. Prosser.
Capitol Lodge No. 87, I. O. O. F., was instituted Jnne 10, 1859, by District Deputy Grand Master, Samuel Cross, with the following first officers and charter members; E. F. White, N. G .; C. M. Mason, V. G .; John McClintock, Secretary, and Amos Woods, Treasurer; the other charter members were: E. M. Heuston, G. A. Basler, C. B. Steane, Lewis Shuck, Thomas B. Byrne, James Bowstead, M. M. Estee and F. K. Kranth.
Schiller Lodge No. 105, I. O. O. F., was organized on June 26, 1862, with officers and charter members as follows: S. J. Nathan, N. G .; Joseph Schwab, V. G .; Charles Schwartz, secretary; Charles Dohn, P. S .; L. C. Mendelson, treasurer; Lewis Korn, H. Theilbahr, Anton Wagner, A. Meier, George Ochs, F. Gotthold, Jacob Klippell, Louis Greenbaum, Peter Kunz and George Guth.
Industrial Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F., was organized April 24, 1869. The officers and charter members were as follows: G. W. Carroll, N. G .; J. M. Ripley, V. G .; J. A. Seamon, R. S .; G. A. Stod- dard, P. S .; John Rippon, treasurer. Other charter members were: G. B. Dean, T. P. Ford, I. C. Shaw, Charles Noyes, C. C. Ault, H. C. Wolf, J. M. Andersou, M. Phelan, B. F. Huntley, S. H. Gerrish, Royal
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Preston, W. F. Emerson, R. McRae, J. L. Gerrish, P. Bolger, G. F. Pattison, W. D. Hammond, J. S. Philbrick, George Landon, M. Fa- vero, E. E. Masters, W. C. Gent, John Thomas, Add Crandall, J. C. Carroll and F. Woodward.
Pacific Encampment No. 2, I. O. O. F., was organized July 29, 1853, with eight charter members: Matthew Parden, P. C. P .; C. C. Hayden, P. C. P .; Thomas W. Davis, P. H. P .; W. H. Watson, P. H. P .; John F. Morse, P. Robinson, A. J. Lucas and Walter Prosser.
Occidental Encampment No. 42, I. O. O. F., was organized No- vember 14, 1871. S. S. Nixon, P. L. Hickman, J. F. Clark, F. H. McCormick, R. Davis, Nelson Wilcox and W. M. Ruse were the charter members; nearly all have passed away.
Grand Canton Sacramento No. 1, Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F .: June 14, 1875, fifty Odd Fellows organized Sacramento Battalion, Company A. The first officers were: A. H. Powers, commander; H. A. Burnett, first lieutenant; A. Menke, second lieutenant; J. A. Hutchings, secretary; G. M. Mott, treasurer; F. Hogeboom, first ser- geant; James S. Scott, second sergeant; J. H. Miller, standard bearer; P. E. Platt and J. H. Stebbins, color bearers.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, at a regular session in September, 1882, made a provision for the uniformed bodies of Odd Fellows and passed laws and regulations for them, to be known as Degree Camp of Uniformed Patriarchs. January 30, 1883, Sacramento Degree Camp No. 1, Uniformed Patriarchs, was organized with forty-three members and elected the following officers: Ed. M. Martin, com- mander; Frank Hogaboom, vice-commander; William A. Stephenson, secretary; Nelson Wilcox, treasurer; H. A. Burnett, officer of the guard; W. E. Platt, picket; F. P. Lowell, banner; Charles Cooley, guard of tent. The first two initiates in the state were W. F. Nor- cross and J. Carlaw.
In September, 1885, the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., reor- ganized the military branch and changed its name to "Cantons of Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F." It also adopted a complete set of laws, with a complete list of military officers, to be under the Sovereign Grand Lodge. In accordance with this change, March 8, 1886, Grand Canton Sacramento, No. 1, Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., was organ- ized by General C. W. Breyfogle, with eighty members. It elected officers as follows: W. N. Sherburn, commander; Elwood Bruner, lieutenant; S. A. Wolfe, ensign for Canton No. 18, both Cantons to compose Grand Canton No. 1, which elected W. A. Stephenson clerk, and Nelson Wilcox accountant.
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