The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

to Corinne lodge, located at Corinne The
petition of the lodge for a charter was
granted November II, 1873, and Grand
principal grand lodge officers, Instituted
Corinne lodge No. 8, on November %, 1873.
On ST. Johns day, December 81, 1878,
Grand Master Louis Cohn granted dis
pensation to Weber lodge, located at Og-
den. The lodge received It's charter from
the grand lodge November IL, 1874 and
was instituted by Grand Master Charles
w. Bennett November II, 1874.
AT the request OF Brothers j. j. Greene
wald, A. B. Emery, E. P. Ferry and others
Grand Master Tilford granted a dispense
ton for lodge at Park City, and on No
vember "a, 1880, the grand lodge granted
them charter under the name of Uintah
Lodge No. Z.
Such, in brief, is the history of Free
Masonry in Utah. There are in all at the
present time seven subordinate lodges, viz:
MEM. woR'PL Ms'R.
Wasatch No. /, Salt Lake 100 J.F. Jack
Mount Moriah No. ?, S. LILO A. S. Chapman.
Argenta No. 3 Salt Lake. 70 w. H. Dikson.
Story No. 4, Provo ......--- As ]. w. Cook.
Corinne No. 3, Corinne----- 20 E. P. johnson.
Weber No. 6, Ogden--------110 T. c. Schramm.
Uintah No 7, Park City rs A B. Emery.
Of the higher orders there are, The
Grand lodge, William Grant Van Horn,
grand master; Chris Diehl, grand secre-
tary.
Utah Chapter No. /, Royal Arch Masons;
membership 1875. j. j. Greenewald, most
excellent high priest.
Utah Commandery knight Templars
Ell Kalah Temple A a. o. N. NJ. S.; mem
bership 100. c. b. Jack, eminent com
m ander
Ontario chapter at Park City. The lat
ter has suspended work for the present
but still holds it's charter
Royal Arch Weber No. ? at Ogden has q
membership of CO. A. R. Haywood, NJ E.
H P.
Ell Monte commandery at Ogden, J. E.
Coolidge, eminent commander; membership
Co.
Mystic Shrine, z. NJ. Bishop, potentate,
Once or twice year the class is worked in
the Scottish Rite by Frank Foote, in
spector general of Wyoming, Utah and
Greenewald, 32nd degree Mason
To the efforts of Mr.. GreeneWald is in a
great measure due the present very salts
factory condition of the Masonic order in
this territory. He for many years has
labored hard, spending both time and
money for the good of the order, and is to-
day regarded as the best authority in the
territory on all Masonic questions.
During the year now drawing to close
the Masonic Temple Association was in
corporated. The corner lot, 132x100 feet,
situated at the south corner Of. State and
Fourth South, has been secured for a
building site. Early in the spring the
foundations of the new temple will be laid.
1t will be occupied by at least eight Ma
sonic bodies, viz. Four blue lodges, Utah
Chapter, Utah Commentary, lodge of
perfection, A. & a. Scottish Rite, and Ell
kalah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. The
capital stock Of the building association is
500, 900 and the shares are already well sub
scribed for.
The year just passed has been one of
unusual prosperity for the Masonic order
in Ogden. The various lodges are all doing
well, the membership roll being continually
increased.
I. o. O. F.
The largest fraternal organization in the
world at the present time is the Indepen-
dent Order OF Odd Fellows.
This organization was born in England.
The first records of it's existence belong 10
the first half of the eighteenth century.
Itw originally an organization of me-
chanics and laboring men formed to aid
each other in obtaining employment Grad
ually it developed into fraterual secret
society. In the early stages the ritual was
not extensive, and when the formal bust
ness of the lodge was disposed of the
meetings assumed an air of conviviaIity,
and the brethren, with glass and pipe in
hand, made the welkin ring with the mel
ody of their favorite songs.
In 1913 reformation took place, and it's
convivial character was abolished. A con-
vention neld at Manchester resulted in the
formation of what is known as the Man
chester Unity, and is the chief branch of
the order in England, with over 100000
members in its lodges to-day.
Odd Fellowship in the United States owes
its introduction to Thomas Wildey, an Eng
lishman, who, with four others, founded al
Baltimore, April 26 1919, Washington lodge
No. l, which soon afterwards procured a
charter from the Manchester unity as the
Grand Lodge Of Maryland and of the United
States The growth of the order was slow
at first but after time it became firmly
established and rapidly spread it's doctrines
of friendship, love and truth. There are
to-day in the United States 65O,O0O mem
bers of the order, and in the United States
and Great Britain, the two countries where
the society chiefly exists, there is a tota
membership OF !, $50, OG0, with a world grand
total of nearly 100000, which is quarter
Of million more than any other secret So
ciety in the world. In this country in the
year 1851 Reoekah degree for ladies was
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