The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-12

themselves together and paid dollar each
limitation lee as charter mem bers, taking
q ritual and constitution presented by j.
u. U pchurch. who is now reverently re-
menbered as the Father of the Order
This lodge was named Jefferson Lodge
NO. !, Ancient Order of United Workmen,
and Mr.. Upchurch was elected and in
stalled as first master workman.
The lodge was the outgrowth Of the dis
| solution of 1.-THE League of Friendship.
SUPREME Mechanics. Order of the Sum-
/ which occurred through a general dissatis-
/ faction with the workings of its charter.
Desiring to start new order the members
took counsel and Mr.. Upchurch presented
bis plans, which met with universal ap-
prevail aud resulted In the formation Of
Jefferson Lodge. Organized under this
constitution jefferson Lodge in 1869 CON
stituted itself into the provin cial Grand
Lodge OF the United States. vesting in a
com mittee of three-J. }. Upchurch, r.
! Grieves and T. Linen-full power to act
as provincial grand officers. On October
6. 1869. the Grand Ledge, A. o. u. W., of
pennsylvania was organized at Meadyille,
with Mr.. Upchurch as grand master work
man.
This membership of fourteen in one
small town In 1868 has increased till in this
year there is total of $50, 965 in twenty
seven States. three Territories, in British
Columbia. Ontario and Manitoba.
The first lodge In this State, California
NO. l, was organized August /, 1875. at
West Oakland. In San Francisco at pres.
ent ihere are twenty-six lodges, with a
membership of about 10000.
Among the most nota bic members of the
order who will be present next week is
Lewis l.. Troy OF Chicago the supreme
foreman and next in succession for SUI
preme master workman. He become a
| charter member Of Apollo Lodge No. I39.
a. 0. U. W., of Chicago, in 1878 and has
filed the principal chairs in his subordi-
nate and Grand Lodge. He has been a
member Of the Supreme Lodge for some
years. In 1892 he was elected supreme
overseer and in 1898 supreme foreman.
Mr.. Troy WAS born in Germany ifty-four
years ago and came to this country when
quite young. He enlisted in the war under
President Lineoln's first call for troops
and was promoted several times on the
field for merltorious service. He attained
the rank of regmental adjutant. In the
fall OF 1865 he entered the postal service of
the United States and has continued in il
ever since. now occupying the position of
superintendent of the railway mail service
for the Western States. with headquarters
in Chicago.
DR.. ID. Ii. ShieIds, supreme master work
man. A. o. U. W.. was born in Hannibal.
Mo-. February 8. 1916. and is now in the
primo of life. He was educated in the
schools Of that city, afterward Studying
medicine. He attended the Bellevue Hos
pital Medical Collage two terms and gradC-
ated in March, 1862 DR.. Shields became
a member of the A. o. u. w. in 1879,
joining Hannibal Lodge No. 161 as char
ter member in November of that year.
He was sent as its representative to the
Grand Lodge of Missouri In January, $780,
when be was elected grand guide. At the
next session of the Grand Lodge he was
advanced to the Office of grand foreman
AT the following Grand Lodge he
was made grand master work
man. He was chairman of the
committee on laws in the Missouri
jurisdiction for eight years, and is now
serving his third term as grand medical
examiner. Having passed through all the
chairs of the grand lodge, he was elected
as representative to the Supreme Lodge 10
1884, and served continuously as such until
The year 1891. when he was elected supreme
oyerseer. AT the following session Of 1892
lie was advanced to the position of supre me
foreman, and in 1888 was unanimously
elected supreme master workman. He is
also Select knight, having been made
grand recorder of lhs S. Is. of A. 0. u. w.
of the Grand Jurisdiction of Missouri 10
1882. a position held by him ever since.
Brother Shields has also been a representa-
tive of the A. q. U. w. in the FraterDal
Congress, and was president of that or
ganiZation IN 1890
Another one of The prominent represen-
tatives Is NJ. w. Saekett, the supreme
recorder, who is a prosperous business
man OF Pittsburg, Pa. His connection
with the order dates from 1872, he being a
charter mem Der OF Pittsburg Lodge No. 90
he was supreme master workman in 1875