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The Sisters of Nortre Dame, fully aware of all the difficulties of the enter- prise, came forward, and declared themselves ready to devote their life and energies to the instruction of the savage children of the "far west." The " far west " of forty years ago was synonymous with the "ends of the earth," and to the Sisters meant total isolation, not only from civilized life, but from all that they held most sacred on earth. But they were not deterred by any personal considerations, hard as it was to sunder those tender ties that knit the heart of man and woman to country, parents, and all they most tenderly revere.
A trip from Europe to the Pacific coast at that time was not the easy thing that it is in our days of steam-pinioned vessels, and swift-footed loco- motives. The graphic account of the Sisters seven months' weary, perilous voyage, published in France a few years later, is eloquent in praise of their Christian fortitude and endurance.
What hardships and privations they nobly sustained : what dreary calms and fearful tempests through which they passed with calm unshaken trust in an overruling Providence! what hair-breadth escapes, what hanging between life and death off the wild desolate coasts of Patagonia, and again at the mouth of the Columbia, where it seemed as if they had reached their destination only to be hurled into Eternity. But Heaven willed it other- wise. Another destiny was in store for them. They passed unscathed the trying ordeal of the countless dangers of the deep, reached Willamette August, 1844, and the seven years of their Oregon life furnish glorious records of self sacrifice, and devotedness, to which the pen of an Angel alone can do fitting justice.
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The first heroic band of Sisters numbered six ; among these, Sister Loyola and Sister Mary whose names will frequently recur in the following pages, Sister Mary Cornelia for the past twenty-nine years the efficient and revered Superior of the College, and the late Sister Mary Aloysia a lofty, beautiful character whose faultless example and pure moral teachings, at the head of the Boarding Department have left behind them ineffaceable impressions, and moulded to edifying virtues the future of many a wayward girl.
In August, 1847, after a protracted voyage of eight months, seven other Sisters arrived from Europe to re-inforce the Oregon toilers, who were thus enabled to extend the sphere of their usefulness.
In 1851, four Sisters from Cincinnati were sent to share their ever-inereas- ing labors. These latter were to come by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and Sister Loyola and Sister Mary, already mentioned as members of the first pioneer party to Oregon, took passage on the Goliah for San Francisco, to meet and convey the expected arrivals to their new field of duty. Sister Loyola and Sister Mary arrived in San Francisco March 29th, and found they would have to wait fully two months before they could return, as the expected Sisters would not reach California until about the close of June. But this seeming disappointment was only "a blessing in disguise." As both Sisters shrank from inaction, and, like all great minds, could not brook even a day's indolent repose, they gladly availed themselves of Mr. Martin Mur- phy's courteous invitation to visit his home and family at Bay View, and accompanied him thither April 2d, when they shared his whole-hearted hospitality and his estimable lady's cordial kindness, and never fail to extol both as sincere and constant friends and generous benefactors. Thanks to Mr. Murphy's obliging courtesy, they visited Santa Clara and San Jose, and, at the former place, saw the zealous Father Nobili laying the humble foundation of that grand superstructure of learning that has risen and expanded to giant-like proportions in the past three decades of years.
The Sisters were charmed with the appearance of the country in and around San Jose, and met, at every step, kind friends, cordial greetings, earnest solicitations and pressing invitations to make this lovely valley the scene of their future labors.
The great lack of educational advantages for their children was keenly felt by all earnest pioneers, and their need made them eloquent in their irre- sistible appeal. Several prominent citizens came forward, at once, and gen- erously offered land on which to locate the new Convent; among these, Mr. White, afterwards one of the hapless victims of the steamer Jenny Lind, distinguished himself; and Mr. Suñol, who handsomely offered an extensive tract adjoining the present race-track and extending as far as the bridge spanning the Los Gatos.
The liberality of both these gentlemen was fully appreciated, but there was
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one drawback; the San Jose of 1851 was not the San Jose of to-day, and to erect a school edifice on either lot placed at their disposal would be to select a site at an inconvenient distance from the pupils' homes.
A more favorable situation must then be selectedl. In our day it is hard to realize that in the then capital of our beautiful State, our Garden City, only twenty-six residences could be counted within the actual city limits. These limits were defined on the west by the acequia, an artificial channel quite creek-like in proportions, and used for irrigation purposes, but long since a thing of the past, shorn of its glory first by the artesian wells, and then eclipsed by the City Water-works. The acequia had its day, did its useful work, and passed away from the memories of man; but over its for- gotten grave rises part of the present college buildings; and a wealth of trel- lised vines and richly-foliaged trees keep a grateful memory of their benefac- tor in every twining tendril and quivering play of wind-tossed glistening leaves.
So much for the now dead acequia, which is yet a living historical fact. and in 1851, it, as already stated, marked the city limits. Beyond it there was only one house, the adobe of the Pintos, and an unpretentious shanty, perched on the banks of the Guadalupe, "all alone in its glory."
After careful consideration, Sister Mary chose the present site as one most appropriate and convenient, and, at the same time, secluded, lying, as it did, outside the city limits, and some distance from the most frequently traveled thoroughfares, as it was not until later that Santa Clara street assumed its present rank and position.
The Sisters' original purchase was a lot of thirty-seven by fifty Spanish varas, the only improvements being three new adobe walls supporting a mansard roof. The former owner was a complete exemplification of the scriptural man " who began to build and was not able to finish." He fell an untimely victim to that fatal thing-a mortgage. The property was in Mr. Crosby's hands; the transfer was readily effected, and the amount demanded paid in quarterly installments.
The grounds did not present the most enticing appearance. The mustard, introduced, as is gravely affirmed, by the missionaries to supply a necessary condiment, had completely escaped from all control, and reveled in the luxuriance of its freedom. It, Constantine-like, flung out its golden labarum to the breeze, and, like another Casar, "came, saw and conquered." No field in the vicinity of the old Missions could shelter itself from the audacious invader, and the Sisters' lot was no exception. So serried were the ranks of the towering, formidable mustard, so rapid the growth of broad-palmed, aspiring mallows, and unfailing alfileria (erodium) that it is not to be won- dered at that meek-eyed cows and contented horses, as the legend runs, could, in these labyrinths, elude for days the patient (?) search of their masters.
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This state of affairs soon underwent a complete transformation. Under Sister Loyola's and Sister Mary's care, the " wilderness soon blossomed like the rose." " Wonderful women, those Sisters!" we have often heard old pioneers exclaim; and when we contemplate the fruits of their spirit of enterprise and energy we cannot refrain from re-echoing the sentiment. Sister Loyola of Louvain and Sister Mary of Nismes, are women whose equals we rarely meet in any walk of life; grand characters, with all a woman's gentle, literary accomplishments, a scholar's thorough training, and, withal, a marvelous adaptation to all the intricacies of masculine occupations.
With two such stirring characters, it is not strange that the work was be- gun, and pressed forward to completion, in a comparatively brief space of time. Mr. Goodrich, the now distinguished architect, was chosen for the work ; and on August 4th, of the same year, a day and a boarding school department were opened. The expected Sisters from Cincinnati having arrived July 1st, were detained in California, and in a few months, despite the inconveniences of tedious stage travel, pupils had thronged from the remotest counties of the State, to enter with hearty zest, upon a course of study and discipline, that, blending the useful and the beautiful in one harmonious whole, purified and elevated the moral character of all who submitted with docility to their ennobling influence. Habits of economy, order, and industry, those indis- pensables of happiness, were imbibed almost imperceptibly, and many a wife and mother has cause to look back, with sentiments of grateful recollection, to her profitably spent hours in Notre Dame.
Though constant changes and improvements were the order of the day, it was not until 1854, that the foundations of the present college were laid Mr. Kerwin was the architect, but having buildings under his direction in course of construction, in Marysville, and elsewhere, as well as in San José, and the trip to these places requiring days, in those pioneer periods of travel, the consequence was that the chapel wing of the building, in brick, would have been a total failure, had not Sister Loyola come to the rescue, and as architect and overseer, calculated all necessary details; and directed the various departments of the work.
The chapel is a gem of chaste, artistic beauty, and must be seen in order to be appreciated.
In 1855, the college was incorporated by the State Legislature, and sub- sequently, the same body so extended the original charter as to confer all the rights and privileges of collegiate institutions in the United States.
In 1862-3, the main building, and the eastern wing were completed. The latter runs back to the depth of two hundred and fifty feet ; the west wing is one hundred and three feet deep; the whole affording accommodation for a large number of pupils.
In 1866, Mr. Goodrich erected the select school. In 1869, Mr. Lenzen
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continued the building ; and, in 1876, Mr. McKeadney made the last addi- tion, and erected the day school, where yearly an average of about five hun- dred pupils receive the unwearied care of the Sisters, who disinterestedly sacrifice their time and lives, gratis, that the "minds of the children may be fed."
Thus we have sketched rapidly the rise and progress of the oldest college of our county. Space will not allow us to descend into particulars, and the reader may, if he desire, verify the accuracy of our details, and visit the institution, with its encircling gardens, interesting museum of conchological, mineralogical, and numismatical, specimens, and philosophical apparatus, teeming with instructive suggestions, and inviting to study and research.
The grounds have been barely mentioned, but the ten acres they cover form a veritable Rus in Urbe, and the sylvan shades of poplars, elms, cypress, ash, and graceful pepper, making "a vernal twilight of the noon," the grape-laden trellises, the grassy lawns, and walks wooing to contempla- tion, all form desirable educational appendages, since we are " creatures of our surroundings," and are impressed for good or evil, by those external objects, that through the senses, photograph themselves forever upon heart and mind.
Hence it is no trifling advantage for pupils to have such lovely scenes as the shrining of their daily lives, and to be thus early trained to a love of the beautiful in art, and nature; for a well-known English poet exclaims : " As long as I preserve unimpaired my love of nature I can, in some measure, con- trol all my own passions, and bear patiently with those of others," a saying that furnishes the two key-notes to personal and social happiness, self-mas- tery, and mutual sufferance, the basis of all real courtesy, without which man or woman is a failure, and education incomplete.
California State Normal School .- Early in the history of the State, a few gentlemen of San Francisco who had the educational interests of California at heart, among them being State Superintendent Andrew J. Moulder, John Swett and City Superintendent Henry B. James, mooted the idea of a State Normal School. By the earnest efforts of these gentlemen, a City Normal School was established in San Francisco in 1857, with George W. Minns as Principal, and John Swett, Ellis H. Holmes and Thomas S. Myrick assistants. This school was continued until 1862. In the years 1859 and 1860 Mr. Moulder urged the establishment of a State Normal School, but no action was then taken in the matter. Subsequently, however, a committee was appointed to examine into the feasibility of the scheme, which they favored in an elaborate report dated January 2, 1862. It was embodied by the State Superintendent in a communication to the Legislature of 1862, and May 2d of that year an Act providing for the establishment of such an insti- tution was passed. Three thousand dollars was appropriated by the
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Legislature for carrying out the design, and Ahira Holmes appointed Princi- pal by a Board of Trustees, consisting of Superintendent Moulder, George Tait, Superintendent of San Francisco, and Dr. Taylor, Superintendent of Sacramento. The school was opened in one of the vacant rooms of the San Francisco High School, July 21, 1862, with thirty-one pupils, but was soon removed to rented rooms on Post street, the teachers being Henry P. Carlton, Vice-Principal, with Helen M. Clark, and Kate Sullivan in the Training Department. In 1864 it was transferred to the rear of the Lincoln Gram- inar School.
In the month of April, 1870, a bill was passed by the Legislature directing the levy of a tax to provide a State Normal School Building Fund. About the same time the city of San Jose donated to the State for the use of the Normal School the inclosure bounded on the north by San Fernando, on the east by Seventh, on the south by San Carlos, on the west by Fourth streets, and known as Washington square, containing twenty-eight acres in all. Here in 1870 was commenced the handsome edifice which was destroyed by fire on the morning of February 11, 1880, together with nearly all of the costly and excellent apparatus, all of the reference library, and most of the maps, charts, and other appliances. The cabinet and museum, and the exten- sive herbarium, the result of years of patient labor in collecting and arranging were wholly lost, as well as the valuable scientific works which had been gathered together, as adjuncts to these collections.
Notwithstanding the fearful disaster, the school was continued with only one day's interruption; thanks to the Board of Education of the city of San José who generously tendered to the Trustees of the Normal School, the use of the High School building.
The burned building was first occupied for its proper uses July 7, 1872.
No time was lost in replacing the former handsome structure. April 12, 1880, a bill making appropriation for such was passed by the Legislature, and in May, 1880, the new building was commenced, and was ready for occu- paney within a year. It is a splendid brick structure, in every way adapted to its purpose, and surmounted by a tall tower where hangs a sweet-toned bell weighing three thousand pounds. The Trustees for the year 1880-81, are: Governor George C. Perkins, State Superintendent Fred. M. Campbell, Hon. C. T. Ryland, Hon. James Denman, Ben Cory, M. D., T. Ellard Beans, and A. S. Evans. The Board of Instruction consists of: Charles H. Allen, Principal; J. H. Braly, Vice-Principal; Helen S. Wright, Preceptress; Henry B. Norton, Ira More, C. W. Childs, Lucy M. Washburn, Mary E. B. Norton, Assistants; Addie Murray, Temporary Assistant; Ruth Royce, Substitute Teacher; J. H. Elwood, Teacher of Music; Phebe P. Grigsby, Principal of Preparatory Department; Mary J. Titus, Principal of Training School; Mary E. Wilson, Maggie Scott, Assistants; Mrs. A. E. Bush, Curator of
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Museum. Cornelia Walker, Frances L. Webster, and Eliza B. Barnes, were Assistants for part of the year.
The number of pupils in 1862, admitted to the Normal School, we have shown above, was thirty-one; for the year 1880-SI, the total number is five hundred and ninety, who have come from forty-five different counties, leav- ing seven in the State unrepresented. The number of graduates in the first class, May, 1863, was four, all of them females; in the twenty-second class, 1881, the total is thirty-four, thirty-two being females, and only two males.
San José Lodge, No. 10, F. & A. M .- This lodge was opened under Dispens- ation, July 11, 1850, and received its Charter from the Grand Lodge of Cali- fornia, November 27th, of the same year, the following being the members to whom it was granted: W. B. Alvord, H. C. Melone, J. Townsend, E. D. Hammond, C. T. Ryland, W. Van Voorhies, H. F. Williams, L. Prevost, W. T. Burton, A. C. Campbell, Benjamin Cory, J. D. Curl, B. C. Donnellan, W. H. Eddy, J. D. Hoppe, J. S. Houstoun, P. O. Minor, F. S. MeKinney, H. M. S. Powell, J. Reddick, J. Van Carrigan, W. Willson. The original officers were: W. B. Alvord, W. M .; H. C. Melone, S. W .; J. Townsend, J. W .; E. D. Hammond, Treasurer; C. T. Ryland, Secretary ; W. Van Voorhies, S. D .; H. F. Williams, J. D .; L. Prevost, Tyler. The roll of members now numbers one hundred and fifty-four, who meet on the first Monday in each month at the Masonie Hall on First street. The officers for the current term are: W. J. Wilcox, W. M .; Wilson Hays, S. W .; E. Topham, J. W. ; E. H. Guppy, Treasurer; W. B. Shoemaker, Secretary; George Sim, Chaplain; A. B. Hamilton, S. D .; A. S. Knox, J. D .; W. T. Ellis, Marshal; O. F. Mann, Frederick Powell, Stewards; F. S. Coffin, Tyler.
Garden City Lodge, No. 142, I. O. O. F .- The Charter was granted March 20, 1868, to the following members: R. S. Carter, John P. Baekesto, Frank T. Risdon, Albert P. Hulse, John H. Gordon, George W. Kneedler, C. C. Cook, H. E. Hills, Robert Scott, C. W. Pomeroy, D. J. Porter, C. G. Button. The first officers elected were: C. C. Cook, N. G .; Robert Scott, V. G .; A. P. Hulse, Rec. Sec. ; H. E. Hills, Per. Sec. ; C. W. Pomeroy, Treas. ; R. S. Carter, W .; J. P. Backesto, C .; J. H. Gordon, O. G .; A. R. Manly, I. G .; F. T. Risdon, R. S. N. G .; George W. Kneedler, L. S. N. G. ; C. J. Button, L. S. V. G. ; W. O. Barker, R. S. S .; D. C. Vestal, L. S. S. The present membership num- bers two hundred and twelve, while the officers for the current term are; C. J. Owen, J. P. G .; Homer Prindle, N. G. ; B. G. Allen, V. G. ; M. J. Ash- more, Recording Secretary ; C. W. Cate, Per. Secretary ; C. H. Simonds, Treasurer; H. A. Crawford, W .; W. L. Coombs, C .; Joseph Jacklin, O. G .; T. E. Martin, I. G .; D. J. Porter, R. S. N. G .; C. W. Breyfogle, L. S. N. G .; E. S. Breyfogle, R. S. V. G. ; Marshall Pomeroy, L. S. V. G. ; Henry J. Har- lem, R. S. S .; W. A. Carpenter, L. S. S. The lodge which is in a flourishing
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condition, meets every Friday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall, 341 First street, at 7.30 P. M. during the Winter, and S P. M. during the Summer months.
Stella Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 22, I. O. O. F .- This Lodge was insti- tuted January 12, 1875, with the undermentioned Charter Members: G. H. Blakeslee, Mrs. G. H. Blakeslee, J. J. Connor, Mary J. Connor, Mrs. D. Ackerman, S. A. Barker, Mrs. S. A. Barker, Mrs. D. J. Porter, F. Buneman, Mrs. F. Buneman, D. Boernert, Mrs. D. Boernert, H. A. Crawford, Mrs. H. A. Crawford, T. J. Cook, Mrs. T. J. Cook, W. L. Coombs, Mrs. W. L. Coombs, J. W. Coombs, Mrs. J. W. Coombs, H. H. Curtis, Mrs. H. H. Curtis, Wm. J. Colahan, Mrs. C. Smith, C. Crudts, Mrs. C. Crudts, Milton Campbell, Mrs. M. Campbell, J. F. Chambers, Mrs. J. F. Chambers, G. W. Ethell, Mrs. G. W. Ethell, T. Gebler, Mrs. T. Gebler, A. Gabriel, Mrs. A. Gabriel, Sam. P. Howes, Mrs. Sam. P. Howes, C. A. Hunt, Mrs. C. A. Hunt, C. A. Hough, Mrs. C. A. Hough, S. H. Herring, Mrs. S. H. Herring, J. W. Haskell, Mrs. J. W. Has- kell, Jos. Hodgetts, W. A. Jackson, Mrs. W. A. Jackson, S. B. Jacobs, G. C. Manner, Mrs. R. Kenyon, Henry Lux, R. W. Kibbey, J Knipper, Mrs. J. Knipper, Jos. A. Lotz, Albert Lake, W. M. Lovell, W. A. Lewis, Mrs. W. A. Lewis, J. McCole, Mrs. J. McCole, Wm. McLeod, Mrs. Wm. McLeod, J. H. Miller, Ben. Miller, Mrs. Ben. Miller, H. Moser, Mrs. H. Moser, J. J. Menefee, Mrs. J. J. Menefee, H. Mitchell, Mrs. H. Mitchell, G. Nelson, W. L. Northern, Mrs. W. L. Northern, S. Newson, Mrs. L. C. Newson, Jos. O'Connor, Henry Phelps, C. W. Pomeroy, Mrs. C. W. Pomeroy, A. C. Perkins, Mrs. A. C. Per- kins, Jules Pelle, D. J. Porter, Charles Patocchi, W. A. Parkhurst, Mrs. W. A. Parkhurst, Mrs. A. K. Philbrook, H. Piessnecker, Mrs. H. Piessnecker, Louis Ranschenbach, Mrs. D. Ranschenbach, Charles E. Schroder, Charles S. W. Sikes, Mrs. Louisa Sikes, D. L. Shead, Mrs. D. L. Shead, Chas. Shephard, Mrs. C. Shephard, M. Schlessinger, Mrs. M. Schlessinger, J. N. Spencer, Mrs. J. N. Spencer, H. J. Stone, Mrs. H. J. Stone, T. C. Winchell, W. C. Wilson. Thomas Williams, Mrs. T. Williams, H. T. Welch, Mrs. H. T. Welch, W. M. Williamson, Leopold Weltch, Wm. L. Woodson, Hugh Young, Mrs. H. Young, G. W. Zimmer, Mrs. G. W. Zimmer, A. C. Tedford, L. J. Tedford, Mrs. S. E. Morton, Mrs. Ellen Lux, Mrs. M. L. Lovell, Mrs. Emma Manner Mrs. Addie Wilcox, Mrs. Esther Eslich, Mrs. E. Pearce, Mrs. E. M. Rhodes. Mrs. Mary Sterens, Mrs. Fanny O'Connor, J. B. Church, Mrs. J. B. Church, D. H. Kelsey, Mrs. D. H. Kelsey, H. J. Jamian, Mrs. H. J. Jamian. The first officers elected were : P. G., C. W. Pomeroy, N. G .; Mrs. J. J. Crawford, V. G .; Mrs. Mary Jackson, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Louisa Sikes, Financial Secre- tary ; Mrs. C. A. Hunt, Treasurer; Theo. Gebler, I. G. ; T. J. Cook, W .; W. L. Woodrow, C .; G. W. Ethell, O. G. ; Mary A. Williams, R. S. N. G .; Mrs. D. Ranschenbach, L. S. N. G .; Theo. C. Winchell, R. S. V. G. ; Gustave Nelson, L. S. V. G. The Lodge meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month, at Odd Fellows' Hall, San José. The present membership is one hun-
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dred and twenty-six; and the officers for the current term are: Mary A. Williams, N. G .; Flora Kelsey, V. G .; Louisa Boardman, Recording Secretary ; Louisa Sikes, Financial Secretary ; Laura B. Howes, Treasurer ; Dora Kelsey, W. : Millie Sikes, C .; JJos. Jacquelin, I. G .; C. T. Settle, R. S. N. G .; Nettie Grubbs, L. S. N. G .; J. B. Church, R. S. V. G. ; Helen Campbell, L. S. V. G.
Granger Lodge No. 295, I. O. G. T .- The Charter for this lodge was granted to the following members March 2, 1874: S. B. Caldwell, Mrs. Maria Culp, Mrs. R. A. McMahan, James Eddy, Kate Cozzens, W. S. Boyles, Jennie M. Young, Robert Campbell, W. W. Cozzens, R. D. Guard, Mrs. H. A. Malone, Mrs. M. Cozzens, Levi Millard, S. H. Herring, Sarah Damon, S. B. Jacobs, G. A. Ingram, W. Mitchell, Jennie Wallace, Henry Mitchell, Mrs. A. Ransom, Visa E. Millet, Wm. Shelbourne, Mrs. L. J. Bacon, N. Green, the original officers being: S. B. Caldwell, W. C. T .; Jennie M. Young, W. V. T .; Mrs. M. Cozzens, W. Chap .; W. W. Cozzens, W. Sec .; Mrs. H. A. Malone, W. A. S. ; Mrs. Maria Culp, W. F. S .; James Eddy, W. Treas .; W. S. Boyles, W. M .; Robert Campbell, W. I. G .: R. D. Guard, W. O. G .; Kate Cozzens, W. R. H. S .; Mrs. McMahan, W. L. H. S .; Henry Mitchell, P. W. C. T. The lodge meets every Saturday evening at Druid's Hall, First street, San José; has a present membership of eighty-three; and the under- mentioned officers for the current term: W. G. Wyman, W. C. T .; Mrs. Woodard, W. V. T .; Miss Hattie Chase, W. R. S .; H. G. Keesling, W. F. S .; Mrs. Whipple, W. T .; C. H. Bacon, W. M .; Mrs. Overshiner, W. I. G .; Mrs. Annie Keesling, W. O. G .; Mrs. L. J. Bacon, W. C .; R. C. Swan, P. W. C. T .; H. C. Keesling, Lodge Deputy.
Allemania Lodge, No. 178, I.O. O. F .- The establishment of this lodge dates from September 2, 1870, the following being the Charter Members: Charles E. Raabe, Theodore Gebler, C. Claassen, J. Knipper, H. Albert, F. Biebrach, Jacob Haub, Louis Ranschenbach. The original officers were : C. E. Raabe, N. G .; T. Gebler, V. G .; C. Claassen, Treasurer ; J. Knipper, Secretary. The lodge meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on Monday of each week, and has a pres- ent membership of seventy-six. The officers for the current term are: A. J. Koch, N. G .; Philip Doerr, V. G .; C. Curdts, Secretary ; L. W. Otto, Per- manent Secretary; William Althaus, Treasurer; J. J. Sontheimer, R. S. N. G .; William Kuersten, L. S. N. G .; Edward Peters, R. S. V. G .; Charles Metzler, L. S. V. G .; V. Koch, Conductor; C. M. Klotz, Warden; J. Stein- gruber, I. G .; J. Jacquelin, O. G .; Trustees, George C. Fricke, J. J. Sonthei- mer, C. E. Raabe.
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