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lations of his California experience were characterized by P. T. Barnum as the most vivid descriptions of the won- derful visions there he had ever read.
These events, and the long editorial experience of Mr. Ingalls, served to draw to his subscription list of the l'ost, on his assumption of his management, thousands of his old readers who had been interested and instructed by his former writings.
The Post is a thorough reform paper, its editor believing the people pay vastly too much for being governed. It possesses the confidence of the people, and enjoys the largest circulation of any weekly paper in northern New York.
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS.
Besides these papers before named, there have appeared the following, generally from the press of the regularly established papers of the county : The Herald of Salva- tion, a Universalist magazine, by Rev. Pitt Morse, 1822- 23, semi-monthly, printed by S. A. Abbey, afterwards by W. Woodward. It was united with a magazine in Phila- delphia. The Monitor, a small folio, cap size, quarterly, beginning Jan. 1, 1830, and devoted to the record of the benevolent societies of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches. The Student, one year, monthly, beginning Aug. 1, 1837, quarto, edited by the students of the B. R. L. & R. Institute, printed by B. Cory, and made up of original papers by the students. The Voice of Jefferson, summer and fall of 1828 (Clintonian), small weekly, quarto form, edited by a committee of young men, printed by Harvey & Hunt. The Veto, a small campaign paper, begun Sept., 1832. The Spirit of "76, edited by a com- mittee of young men, printed by B. Cory, three months in 1833. The Patriot and Demoerat, a small campaign paper, was commenced Oct. 20, 1838, and seven numbers were issued. Printed by Randall D. Rice, for a committee, at Watertown. The Pioneer Phalanx and Independent Magazine, 8vo, in covers; edited by A. C. S. Bailey, and begun Nov., 1843, monthly ; and it is believed but one number was issued. It was to be the organ of the Fourier association in Watertown. The Sinai and Calvary Re- porter, quarterly, octavo, Rev. Joseph Livingston, begun Oct., 1852, first number issued at Watertown, and second at Gouverneur.
The Telegraph was a little daily, about the size of a com- mercial note-head, which was published a few weeks in 1858, by J. D. Huntingdon, then the telegraph-operator at Watertown, now one of the prominent citizens and dentists of the city. It contained the market reports and cable- grams of the then newly-laid ocean eable, and expired with the last echoes of the famous dispatch over the latter, " All right ! De Sauty." The Christian Witness was published monthly during the years 1875-76, by the Young Men's Christian Association ; Chas. E. Holbrook, printer.
THE BOOK AND JOB PRESS.
Besides the newspaper offices in the city there are two book- and job-printing offices, viz. :
CHAS. E. HOLBROOK, steam printing, established in 1872, as Kenyon & Holbrook, Mr. Kenyon retiring in 1876, and Mr. Holbrook becoming sole proprietor, as at
present. His establishment is admirably equipped for its purposes of book and job work, having four steam-presses and one hand-press, and a full assortment of type and ma- terial. Mr. Holbrook employs ten operatives, and occupies the basement and upper floors of the fine marble-front building of the Agricultural Insurance Company, for which company and the Watertown Insurance Company he does a large amount of work annually, amounting to $10,000 and over. Mr. Holbrook's investment in his business is about $15,000.
J. S. ROBINSON, steam printing, now located in the Northern Insurance Company's building, corner of Stone and Washington streets, began his present business in 1873, in the Paddock Arcade, with a fifteen-dollar press and his own hands. His establishment operates two steam-presses, and employs three men, and a capital of $2500. He does very neat work, and is young and energetic.
The book-bindery of R. J. & R. B. Holines, in connec- tion with C. E. Holbrook's printing-office, is a well-equipped and well-conducted establishment, employing four operatives, and does a large amount of miscellaneous work in addition to extensive contracts for the insurance companies in bind- ing and ruling.
THE PROFESSIONS.
The resident bar of Watertown, of the present time, includes the following-named attorneys- and counselors-at- law, viz. : Laban H. Ainsworth, Bernard Bagley, Milton, Ballard, William B. Breen, Levi H. Brown, Lysander H. Brown, L. J. Dorwin, Fred. Emerson, E. C. Emerson, Francis N. Fitch, Henry S. Gipson, D. G. Griffin, S. H. Hammond, John W. Hogan, G. S. Hooker, William H. Hotchkin, Charles W. Hubbard, Judge F. W. Hubbard, Thomas F. Kearnes, C. A. Kelsey, W. S. Lamb, Hon. Robert Lansing, John Lansing, F. Lansing, J. C. McCar- tin, Allan MeGregor, George W. Moak, A. B. Moore, A. J. Moore, Hon. Joseph Mulleu, Joseph Mullen, Jr., Allen Nims, E. North, D. O'Brien, Ilenry Purcell, Wilbur A. Porter, Wilbur F. Porter, Stephen R. Pratt, F. H. Rem- ington, William M. Rogers, Charles A. Sherman, Fred. D. Sherman, Judge A. H. Sawyer, Hannibal Smith, J. F. Starbuck, S. S. Trowbridge, Charles H. Walts, Nathan Whiting, P. C. Williams, Bradley Winslow, Judge Charles D. Wright, Edmund B. Wynn .*
The medical staff of the city at the present time is com- posed of the following physicians and surgeons: Charles W. Burdick, + Alfred W. Cole (homoeopathic), J. Mortimer Crawe, Henry H. Dean, John Grafton, Kilbourne Hannahs, E. G. Howland, Charles M. Johnson, S. C. Knickerbocker (homeopathie), W. T. Laird (homoeopathic), Lois F. Mans- field, S. L. Parmelee, Alden R. Rudd, E. Sill, H. G. P. Spencer, James D. Spencer, Henry W. Streeter, E. W. Trowbridge, W. R. Trowbridge.
Surgeon-dentists .- W. E. & J. P. Dunn, E. A. Hol- brook, J. D. Huntington, H. D. Payne, S. M. Robinson, and E. L. Sargent.
# Mr. Wynn has placed the historians nnder heavy obligations by his courtesies in extending to them the free nse of his extensive Inw and miscellaneous libraries.
f Dr. Burdock was thrown from his carriage, October 31, 1877. and so severely injured that he died thirty-six hours afterwards.
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CEMETERIES.
The oldest burial-place in the city is the Trinity church- yard, wherein several of the old residents of the county were laid to rest, the remains of many of whom have since been exhumed, and reinterred in " Brookside." The mon- ument of Phineas Sherman, deceased in 1813, and his wife, who died in 1847, still remains in the old burial-place. The receiving-vault for the dead of the eity, for use in the winter season, is located in this burial-ground, and was built by the city in the year 1873. It is a solidly-built stone structure, standing in the rear of Trinity (Episcopal) church, and cost the sum of over $4000.
The first plan of a cemetery was adopted October 27, 1823, by the village council, the land having been pre- viously bought of Hart Massey, in the west part of the village, on Arsenal street, west of the railroad. In De- cember, 1825, the lots, one rod square, were balloted for, each taxable inhabitant being entitled to one share. To non-residents the lots might be sold, the proceeds to be ap- plied to the building of a tomb. Four lots were to be drawn, one for each of the elergy in the village. The old Catholic cemetery adjoins this old cemetery on the west, but neither of them are now used.
Among all the belongings of the eity of Watertown none are more interesting or beautiful than that other city, lying just outside of the limits of the first one, the intercourse between which, though sad and sorrowful at times, is none the less imperative, and which latter city is bound to the former by tokens of affection and imperishable memories ; links in a chain more potent than railways to bind together the two cities,-the city of the living and the city of the dead.
BROOKSIDE CEMETERY.
The ample grounds of wood and open, situated on the terraecd slopes of the hills to the southward of the city of Watertown, are a charming spot, whether in the heats of summer, when the shade of the pine and hemlock invites to repose, or when the spicy October breeze rustles the royal garniture of crimson and gold that adorn the beech and maple. The Association was organized September, 1853, at the court-room in the Perkins' hotel in Watertown, under the name of the Watertown Cemetery Association, at which date the following board of trustees was elected : Talcott II. Camp, Hiram Holcomb, F. W. Hubbard, James K. Bates, F. H. Gregory, Willard Ives, Daniel W. Ricker- son, Joseph Mullen, Thomas Baker. The trustees met Sept. 3, and organized by electing Joseph Mullen, presi- dent; Willard Ives, viee-president ; James K. Bates, treas- urer ; and F. H. Gregory, secretary. Committees on grounds and by-laws were appointed, and at a subsequent meeting an executive committee was appointed, consisting of Joseph Mullen, F. H. Camp, and F. W. Hubbard. On Sept. 20 the board agreed with Rogers and Gardner to purchase of them a certain quantity of lands for cemetery purposes, at $46 per acre, and did purchase the same. The cemetery was dedieatcd June 20, 1854, the Rev. E. H. Chapin, of New York, officiating as orator, and R. John- son as poet. The price of lots was first fixed at six cents per square foot for those in the open, and eight cents for
those wooded ; but subsequently and successively changed to ten cents, fifteen cents, and again to the present priee of twenty-five cents per square foot. All monuments are to be erected under the supervision of the superintendent, and grave-stones are regulated to a certain height. The grounds of the cemetery include about seventy acres, and are very eligibly and beautifully located, some two and a half miles from the city, and are divided into four tracts by ravines, whose sloping sides add to the natural beauty of the grounds largely. They are artistically laid out according to beauti- ful designs of the landscape-gardener, adapted to the natural conformation of the surface; the banks of the ereek being covered with a dense growth of hemlock and pine. That portion of the grounds not cleared off is covered with beech and maple, exeept that portion bordering on the creek. Interspersed among these trees are evergreens and mountain ash, planted out by private parties or the Association, the bright green of the one and the rich scarlet fruitage of the other adding mueh to the picturesque beauty of the place. All over the wooded space, and scattered somewhat sparsely throughout the open, are elegant and costly monuments and mausoleums and tasteful marbles, of various forms of beauty and styles of architecture. The most noted work "in the grounds is the granite mausoleum of Henry Keep, deceased, ereeted by his widow, at a cost of $70,000. The granite mausoleum of Howell Cooper is a solidly-constructed tomb, as is also that of Orville Hungerford, which is built of the bird's-eye limestone. Among the monuments, that of Loveland Paddock is the most striking and costly. It is a massive granite shaft supported by an equally massive base, the whole surmounted by a gigantie statue of a female, cut in the same material. The monument of Alexander Copley, a shaft cut from the Chaumont quarries ; the granite shafts of George C. Sherman, John Winslow, George B. Phelps ; the Mundy casket of variegated marble ; the ex- quisitely-seulptured white marble pile of Gilbert Bradford ; and scores of others, neat and costly, attest the taste and wealth, as well as the affection, of those who erected them as memorials of their dead.
The total receipts into the treasury of the Association, from 1863 to 1877, both years inclusive, aggregate $31,386.82, of which amount the sum of $21,901.39 was the proceeds of the sales of lots and interest thereon, and the balance is receipts for improvements made on lots, and for interment fees. The gross expenditures, including improvements and superintendence, aggregate the sum of $25,011.78. The lands have cost about $3000. The balanee on hand for use in carrying forward projected im- provements is $8500, with the further income to arise from future sales of lots, etc. There have been 976 inter- ments in Brookside since 1862. The officers of the As- sociation have been as follows: Presidents : 1853-55, Joseph Mullen ; 1855-59, Adriel Ely (Mr. Ely died April, 1859); 1859-60, F. W. Hubbard; 1860-68, Charles D. Wright ; 1868-78, Joseph Mullen. Vice-Presidents : 1853-55, Willard Ives ; 1862-64, R. E. Hungerford ; 1864-65, C. G. Harger; 1865-66, Alex. Campbell; 1866- 68, C. G. Harger; 1868-76, J. H. Fisk (Mr. Fisk died February, 1877) ; 1877-78, John A. Sherman. Treasu- rers : 1853-59, James K. Bates; 1859-60, Alex. Camp-
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bell; 1860-62, F. W. Hubbard; 1862-64, W. C. Browne; 1864-74, G. R. Hanford ; 1874-78, Addison L. Upham. Secretaries : 1853-55, F. H. Gregory ; 1856-58, A. P. Sigourney ; 1859-60, W. C. Browne; 1860-62, F. W. Hubbard; 1862-64, W. C. Browne; 1864-74, G. R. Hanford; 1874-78, Addison L. Upham. Superintendents : 1856-59, Milton Miner ; 1859-65, A. Tripp; 1866-77, John Donahue.
Another beautiful resting-place for the dead is
CALVARY CEMETERY.
This Cemetery association was organized, September 29, 1869, for the purpose of the burial of such as should die in the communion of the Roman Catholic churches of the city and adjacent country. A board of nine trustees was elected, who subsequently elected the officers of the asso- ciation, the said trustees being as follows: Rev. James Hogan, president ; Dennis O'Brien, vice-president ; John J. B. Primeau, treasurer ; Thomas Keenan, secretary ; Thomas Conroy, James M. Holloran, John Griffin, David McDermott, John Fay, and Daniel . McCormick. An Executive Committee was appointed, consisting of John Griffin, J. J. B. Primeau, and Thomas Conroy ; and John C. Wingel was appointed superintendent, subsequently. Grounds were purchased, pleasantly and eligibly located, about two miles east of the Public Square, on one of the most graceful and broad-sweeping curves of the Black river, at the foot of a terraced hill rising grandly above it. The plat is covered with a good growth of hemlock, beech, and maple, the murmurs of the foliage, and the rippling and plashing of the water on the beach below, being the requiem Nature chants above the children she gathers into her friendly and ample bosom. The grounds have been taste- fully laid out and improved under the superintendence of Mr. Wingel, and further improvements are projected, that within the near future make Calvary a beautiful and charming spot, filled with tokens of love and affection, and clustering with sweet memories. The road to the cemetery from the city passes along the bank of the river, and af- fords a delightful drive amid the charming scenery of this portion of the valley. The present officers are as follows : President, Rev. James Hogan ; Vice-President, Rev. Joseph F. Durin; Treasurer, Jolin E. Bergevin; Secretary, Thomas Keenan ; Trustees, Rev. James Hogan, John E. Bergevin, Rev. Joseph F. Durin, Thomas Keenan, Bart. Flynn, Andrew Weldon, Edward Benoit, Lawrence Riley ; Superintendent, M. IIolloran.
NORTH WATERTOWN RURAL CEMETERY
is a little plat of about two acres situated on Bradley street, on the north side of the river, and laid out in the year 1838 as the " Pamelia burying-ground," Bernard Bagley, Jacob Cramer, and Olney W. Reynolds being the trustees thereof at the time. On December 3, 1866, the North Watertown Rural Cemetery Association was organized, nine trustees being elected ; Jacob Cramer president, and Wm. Usher secretary and treasurer. The present officers are as follows : Trustees, Wm. Morrison, president ; Jno. L. Weeks, vice- president ; Nathaniel Haven, Geo. Van Vleck, Dorephus A. Wait, Geo. Adzitt, Allen II. Herrick, Chas. L. Weeks;
J. C. Lepper, secretary, treasurer, and superintendent ; Wmn. D. Oliver, sexton.
ASSOCIATIONS.
WATERTOWN LODGE, NO. 49, A. F. M.,
was first instituted as " Eastern Light Lodge, No. 136," by a warrant from the Grand Lodge of New York, bearing date June 17, 1806, with the following officers and mem- bers : Powell Hall, W. M .; Samuel C. Kennedy, S. W .; Zelotes Harvey, J. W. ; Benj. Allen, Treasurer ; Isaiah Massey, Secretary; Hart Massey, S. D .; Josiah Farar, J. D .; Benj. Pool, S. S .; Samuel Foster, J. S .; Andrew Bassen- ger, Tyler,-and Gershom Tuttle, Jr.,-all of whom are now deceased. The Worshipful Masters of the lodge were : 1806-08, Powell Hall ; 1809, S. C. Kennedy ; 1810-13, Calvin MeKnight; 1814-15, Isaiah Massey. On the 15th of November, 1815, the warrant of the lodge was surrendered, and Egbert Ten Eyck, Wm. Smith, and Hart Massey were appointed a committee to procure a new war- rant for a Master Mason's Lodge. April 2, 1807, Jacob Brown (after Maj .- Gen. of the U. S. Army) was admitted a member of this Lodge.
At the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge in 1817 a new warrant, datcd June 5, was issued for a Master Ma- son's lodge at Watertown, under the title of
WATERTOWN LODGE, NO. 289,
with Isaac Lee as W. M., Timothy Burr, S. W., and George Smith, J. W., who were so named in the warrant. The Worshipful Masters of this lodge were as follows: 1817-19, Isaac Lee ; 1820-21, Dyer Huntington ; 1822- 23, Abner Baker, Jr .; 1824, D. W. Bucklin ; 1825-26, Abner Baker, Jr .; 1827, Isaac H. Bronson ; 1828-29, Ithamar B. Crawe; 1830-32, Isaac H. Bronson ; 1833, Asher N. Corss. The charter was forfeited by reason of a lapse in the annual elections, but was restored again in 1835, when a new election was held Dec. 16, and W. H. Shumway chosen W. M. In December, 1836, A. N. Corss was chosen W. M., and served eight years success- ively, until December, 1844. In 1840 the number of the lodge was changed as at present-Number 49. The W. Masters have been since 1844 as follows: W. H. Shum- way, 1845 ; Calvin Auborn, 1846 ; Lysander H. Brown, 1847; Peter Horr, 1848; Lysander H. Brown, 1849-50; Alexander D. Button, 1851; Randolph Barnes, 1852-55 ; Wm. B. Farwell, 1856; Wm. A. Loomis, 1857-58; Ste- phen L. Potter, 1859-60; Allen C. Beach, 1861; E. L. Sargent, 1862; N. H. Pierce, 1863 ; S. N. Hodges, 1864; G. W. Nimmocks, 1865; Allen C. Beach, 1866; Fred. Emerson, 1867 ; A. H. Sawyer, 1868-70; J. A. Lawyer, 1871-72; T. C. Chittenden, 1873-74; L. C. Greenleaf, 1875-76.
Officers of 1877: James R. Miller, W. M .; Watson M. Rogers, S. W .; Leslie B. Cook, J. W .; John S. Coon, Treas. ; Lewis F. Phillips, See'y ; Edgar C. Emerson, S. D .; Alanson D. Seaver, J. D .; Chas. P. Folger, S. M. C .; Sherwood D. Andrus, J. M. C .; Joseph J. Bragger, Tyler; John C. Armstrong, Marshal ; James R. Miller, Trustee.
The lodge owns a fine hall in Paddock block, and num- bers 231 members.
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WATERTOWN CHAPTER, NO. 59, R. A. M.,
was instituted February 7, 1817, the first Grand Council consisting of Egbert Ten Eyck, H. P., Amasa Trowbridge, K., and Isaac Lee, S., who served nine years, until 1826. The succession of High Priests has been as follows : 1827- 28, G. W. Wells; 1829-33, Abner Baker; 1834-38, Ithamar B. Crawe ; 1839-40, Orville Hungerford; 1841- 44; H. K. Newcomb; 1845-46, Ithamar B. Crawe ; 1847, Peter Horr; 1848, Lysander H. Brown; 1849, H. K. Newcomb; 1850, O. Hungerford ; 1851, P. Mundy ; 1852-54, Peter Horr; 1855-62, Lysander H. Brown; 1863-66, Allen C. Beach ; 1867-69, Roswell P. Flower ; 1870, Nelson H. Pieree; 1871-72, John C. Armstrong ; 1873-74, Louis C. Greenleaf; 1875-77, Thomas C. Chit- tenden. Officers of 1877: Thomas C. Chittenden, H. P .; Leslie B. Cooke, K .; A. W. Wheelock, S .; J. Addison Lawyer, Treas .; Julius A. Quencer, Sec'y; Chas. B. Fow- ler, C. H. ; Chas. D. Bingham, P. S .; Wilbert F. Bing- ham, R. A. C .; Edgar C. Emerson, Geo. P. Bretch, Jno. K. Tufts, M. of Veils; Joseph J. Bragger, Tyler; Thomas C. Chittenden, Trustee. Number of members, 140.
WATERTOWN COMMANDERY, NO. 11, K. T.
In the beginning of the year 1826, on the petition of Orville Hungerford, Adriel Ely, Isaac H. Bronson, and others, a dispensation was granted by the Grand Com- mander of the State of New York to organize an encamp- ment of Knights Templar at Watertown, under the title of " Watertown Encampment, No. - ," the said dispensation bearing date February 22, 1826. The first officers, ap- pointed by the Grand Commander, were Orville Hunger- ford, G. C .; Adriel Ely, Geno .; Isaac H. Bronson, C. G. The first conclave of the encampment was held, March 24, 1826, with the above-named officers, and T. R. Brayton Prelate, and G. C. Sherman Recorder. From March 24, 1826, to April 17, 1829, the orders were conferred on twenty-one candidates. In 1829, '30, and '31 there was but a single conclave held each year, the same being the annual election, and soon after the election in 1831 the en- campment surrendered its warrant, in consequence of the bitter political crusade waged against the Masonic order during those years.
On or about the 1st of February, 1850, the surrendered charter was reissued on petition of Orville Hungerford, Jas. H. Meigs, Sol. Robbins, Jr., Joseph C. Partridge, John Mullen, Sr. and Jr., Pitt Morse, Hugh Wiley, J. Whitby, Sylvester Reed, and John McQuillen ; and March 29 the encampment, as No. 11, resumed its work and elected a corps of officers, and has not ceased its regular conclaves since. Its commanders have been as follows : 1826-29, Orville Hungerford ; 1829-31, Adriel Ely ; 1831, Isaac H. Bronson ; 1850, O. Hungerford; 1851, Sylvester Reed; 1852 to March, 1861, Geo. C. Sherman ; 1862-69, Pearson Mundy ; 1869-70, J. A. Lawyer; 1871- 72, Thos. C. Chittenden ; 1873, John C. Armstrong ; 1874, J. A. Lawyer; 1875-76, A. H. Sawyer.
Officers of 1877-78: Louis C. Greenleaf, E. C .; Rob- inson E. Smiley, Geno .; Addison W. Wheelock, C. G .; A. H. Sawyer, Prelate ; Jas. R. Miller, S. W. ; Chas. R.
Skinner, J. W. ; J. A. Lawyer, Treas. ; Chas. B. Fowler, Rec. The commandery musters 176 knights.
On the occurrence of the abduction of William Morgan the anti-Masonie excitement pervaded this, with other sec- tions, and nearly every lodge in the county surrendered its charter. The matter soon got into politics, and several papers were successively established at Adams and Water- town, as more fully stated in our account of the press. In 1830 thirteen Masonic and five anti-Masonic supervisors were elected, and in 1831 an equal number of each. This question unsettled former political organizations, and in in- numerable instances made politieal friends those who had previously been opponents.
ODD-FELLOWS.
" Black River Lodge, No. 124, I. O. O. F.," was insti- tuted September 24, 1844, with Fred. S. Hawley as N. G., Wm. H. Shumway as V. G., and Edwin Clark Secretary, the District Deputy Grand Master, Charles W. Rogers, or- ganizing the work. "Iroquois Lodge, No. 161," was in- stituted in May, 1845, by D. D. G. M. W. H. Shumway, with Benjamin Jervis as N. G., R. M. Chittenden, V. G., and Alexander Wilson Secretary. On May 13, 1849, the great fire that laid waste the business portion of Water- town destroyed the property and records of these two named lodges, and they were consolidated into one named the
JEFFERSON UNION LODGE, NO. 124,
which was instituted August 4, 1849, by D. D. G. M. Theodore Caldwell, with Ira F. Rowlson N. G. and Wm. A. Loomis V. G. This lodge has ever since maintained its work. The hall in which its meetings are held is owned by the Odd-Fellows' Hall Association, which is com- posed of Jefferson Union Lodge and Montezuma Eneamp- ment, the former owning two-thirds and the latter one-third of the stock. Fred. Eames and James M. Sigourney, mem- bers of this lodge, have both filled the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York. The officers of . 1877 are: N. G., O. F. Joy; V. G., C. F. Stewart ; Sec., O. A. Freeman ; Per. Sec., Gustave Schoenfeld ; Treas., Duane A. Green ; Trustees, Thomas E. Beecher, Thomas S. Graves, Wm. Howard. Number of members, 143.
WATERTOWN CITY LODGE, NO. 291, I. O. O. F.,
was instituted September 20, 1871, by D. D. G. M. A. G. Wheeler, with 20 charter members from Jefferson Union Lodge. The first officers were Lucius Gill, N. G .; W. S. Carlisle, V. G .; W. P. Brown, R. S .; M. V. Kitts, F. S .; Daniel Lee, Treas. The officers of 1877 are as follows : W. O. Smith, N. G. ; J. P. Dunn, V. G. ; J. R. Pawling, R. S .; F. C. Webb, F. S .; George H. Seiple, Treas ; Trustees, Chas. Drexel, D. C. Middleton, J. C. Harbottle. Its membership numbers one hundred. It is a vigorously- growing body, and meets in a distinct hall from Jefferson Union Lodge at the present time.
MONTEZUMA ENCAMPMENT, NO. 27,
was instituted Nov. 19, 1837 (as No. 56), by D. D. G. P. Nathan Randall, of Onondaga district, with J. J. Safford, Chief Patriarch ; Sylvester Smith, H. P .; Wm. H. Sigour-
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