The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-16
PATRIARCHIAL BRANCH. I. o. o. F
Meeting of the Grand Encampment
Here Yesterday.

Meeting of the Grand Encampment
Here Yesterday.
At the grand encampment of the pat
riarchial branch of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, held yesterday in
I. o. o. f. hall on Crown street the
following officers were elected in the
afternoon: Grand patriarch Daniel M.
Davis of Waterbury; grand high priest,
Marcus L. Reynolds of Bridgeport;
grand senior warden, Newell j. Bailey
of Derby; grand scribe, Frederick
Botsford of New Haven; grand treas
urer, Arthur C. Wheeler Of NorWalk;
grand junior warden, Walter Pond OF
New Haven; representative to the SOW
ereign grand lodge, William j, Burgess
of Stamford.
The appointive officers appointed are
as follows: Grand marshal. Eugene T.
Weston of Hartford grand inside SEN
tinel, H. r. Hasse of New London;
grand outside guard, Joel l., Hunger
ford of New Haven.
Frederick Botsford of this city. grand
scribe, yesterday submitted his annual
report which showed that there had
been instituted since his last report one
new encampment and that the total
membership at present Is 3,6l7, net
gain of twenty seven for the past year
The total funds of the subordinate
lodge July I, 1900, were $41,596.55, and
the total receipts for the year were
$l4,97SS7, which makes an aggregate of
$50, 5T5.44, from which deduct for ex-
penses SS,19S.78, and for relief $4,936,66,
making $13,12215, and this taken from
the $56,575.44 makes net gain in funds
Of $43,453.2o.
Daniel M Davis, who was yesterday
elected to the highest office in Encamp-
ment Odd Fellowship in the state of
Connecticut, became an Odd Fellow by
joining Nosahogan lodge, No, Il, Wa
terbury, in February, 1885 From the
time he became member he held office
in the lodge, being its secretary four
terms, noble grand 1889 and a represent
tatiye to the Grand lodge in 1890 He
Joined Ansantawae encampment, NO ",
in March, 1885, and after passing
through the several chairs, was elected
chief patriarch in July, 1889, and has
held some office in the encampment
continually since his membership. In
1897 he was appointed deputy grand
patriarch for district No. s. comprising
the encampments of Waterbury, Thonl-
aston and Winsted In 1898 he was APP
pointed grand marshal of the grand en-
campment of Connecticut, and after
wards was elected and served one year
each as grand junior warden, grand
senior warden and grand high priest.
He is also member of Canton L. X.
Martin, No. s, and Winona lodge, d. of
r.
Brother Davis has the record of
never having been absent at roll call
while holding any office, and never
misses a meeting Of his lodge or en-
campment when in the city. He has
been one of the hardest workers In the
order not only in Waterbury, but about
the state. To him is given credit for
that most successful dedication OF the
odd Fellows building and fiftieth an
niversary Of Nosahogan lodge on Lin
coin day, October, 1895, and also the
first degree worked by the two Water
bury lodges before the representative
of the grand lodge of Connecticut in
May, 1898 His faithfulness and devo-
ton to the order entities him to all the
honor which eshas secured. With the
energy and push that has always en-
tered into his work, the coming year
ought to be a successful one.