On July 5th 1916, Wayfarers Lodge #1001 AF & AM received its dispensation to conduct business from the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois. This year, Wayfarers turned 97 years old and we will begin work toward our century jubilee.
To start, I will write what I can about the beginnings of Wayfarers Lodge from the primary resources available to me at the Evanston Masonic Library.
This first piece is a tracnscipt from the Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State if Illinois, Seventy seventh annual meeting held in Chicago, October 10, 11 and 12, 1916.
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Wayfarers Lodge, U.D., Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
A dispensation was issued for this lodge on July 5th, 1916, by Brother Ralph H. Wheeler, Grand Master. This Lodge was instituted on July 5th, 1916, by Brother Robert N. Holt, D.D.G.M. for the First District. The work of this Lodge was as follows:
Number of petitions received .......... 18
Number Elected .............................. 10
Number Rejected ............................ 2
Number Initiated ............................. 9
Number Passed ............................... 4
Number Raised ............................... 4
Number not acted on ...................... 6
Number named in dispensation ....... 75
Number named in dispensation and not signing petition for
charter ................................ 2
Number signing petition for charter 77
Whose names are as follows:
George Francis Melick Tyson, George Francis Baker, Edwin Grey Gross,
George Washington Carman, Carl Merritt Cooley, Abram Milne Ramsay,
Theodore Schuermann, Charles Kawin, Fredrick Laird Kerr, Ernst Howard
Merchant, George Robert Lemmer, William Arthur Cavanaugh, Charles Ken-
neth Thomson, Frederick Otto Streich, Charles Summer Harris, William
Perey Gunthorp, Harry Walter Thorp, David Tilt, Victor Gillette Lumbard,
William Henry Becker, James MacDonald Fraser, John Paul Trickey, Frank
Orma Beck, Maynard Dawson Howell, William Dalzell Dickson, Charles
Robert Aiken, Arthur Windfield Copeland, William Dale Barnes, Arnold
William Hoffmann, Leland Alvadore Gilbert, John Peter Moos, Andrew
Gordon Fraser, Horace Edward Bent, Henry Adolph Apps, Thomas Speer
Roberts, Lester Soule, Walter Valentine Wilson, Simeon Carl Cecil Smith,
Earl Wilson DeMoe, Samuel Aultaman Poe, Earl John Brown, James Rich-
ards Parker, Glenn Rogers Frisbie, Roger Corr Frisbie, Peter Roland Shoe-
maker, Frank Edwin Leffingwell, Donald Walter Gunthorp, Harry Putnam
Pearsons, George Bulman Coover, Walter Elmer Pond, Arthur Davis, Del-
bert Oscar Sprague, James Edward Dolson, Robert E. Thayer, Thomas
Joseph Williams, Robert C. Knaggs, David R. Hopkins, Ernst Wilder
Hewitt, Frank Cole Thomas, Voorhis Haight Jr., Ira Benson Sellery, George
H. Coleman, George H. Scurlock, John Adank, Edgar G. Richards, Thomas
Shearer, Bert F. Crawford, William Carleton Wilson, William McDougall,
George H. Bigelow, Henry Gough Bell, John F. Stafford, Albert Edward
Bassett, J. DeWitt Murphy, Edward William Lloyd, Elwyn William Sey-
mour, Walter J. Gunthorp
We recommend that a charter be granted this Lodge as "Wayfarers Lodge #1001".
(Page 134-135)
Later in the Appendix Part II on page 27 of the appendix the following info is given:
1001 Wayfarers
Evanston Post Office
District 5
Carl M. Cooley, Secretary at 1015 Church Street
George F. Tyson, WM at 845 Chicago Ave
Lodge Meets Each Wedsnesday of each month
Page 32 of Appendix Part II indicates that Wayfarers Lodge was Chartered on October 11th 1916
Page 40 of Appendix Part II indicates that Wayfarers Lodge is in the Fifth District and the Lodge meets at 810 Davis Street in Evanston.
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That is a lot of information. Next week, I will look though the 1917 Proceedings to see what I can find. There was no mention of the Lodge in the 1915 Proceedings. The History will continue!
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