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Subject: [GM-L] Masonic Letter
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:03:18 EST

Hi Listers...
Hope everyone's holiday was merry & bright!
Came across the following as I was cleaning out some things left to me by an
elderly aunt. It is a printed letter/program directed to members of the
Boston Masons...hope a name or names will ring a bell. At the very least it
puts all these gentlemen at a specific place in time, i.e. 1893. Good luck!

The envelope is addressed to JAMES F. HARTSHORN, JR. 444 Washington
Street,Boston, Mass. and was sent from B.W. ROWELL (previous address crossed
out was 44 KILBY STREET)...new address 28 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

Inside is a 4 page program ...the front of which has a gold double headed
eagle with a crown...and reads Massachusetts Consistory S.P.R. S. 32 .
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, US...Valley of Boston
J. Harvey Young Commander in Chief,
Elisha H. Shaw, Lieut. Commander
Eugene B. Houlton Lieut. Commander
Edward Coggins, Grand Chancellor
B. W. Rowell, Grand Secretary
Charles A. Peabody, Grand Orator

Sublime Prince:
The regular Rendezvous of Massachusetts Consitory, A., A., Rite, will be held
on the 8th day of the Hebrew Month ADAR, A H 5653 corresponding to
Friday, February 24, 1893, in Gothic Hall, Masonic Temple, Boston, under thte
C C of the Z near the B B at 6:30 o'clock PM
Fraternally and courteously, J. Harvey Young
B W Rowell

The business of the evening was to confer The Twenty-Seventh Grade and
Thirty-Second grade, apparently on Edward A. Knight and John C. Patrick

Aspirants for the grades to be balloted for and who shall receive them at
this Rendezvous if elected and are present:

Snell Otis WADE of Norood, MA.
Henry K. WING of Boston, MA.
Edward J. HUMPHREYS of Millbury, MA.
Charles E. THWING of Worcester, MA.
Edwin S. CLARK of Worcester, MA. ....(my relation)
Charles H. HURLBURT of Worcester, MA.
F. Nason RICKER of Holyoke, MA.
Henry E. GAYLORD of South Hadley Falls, MA>
George A. BLAISDELL of Chicopee, MA.
Charles M. BLAISDELL of Chicopee, MA.
Walter G. MORSE of Springfield, MA.
Joseph HICKS of Boston, MA.
George Wesley BOYNTON of Boston, MA.
William Eustis BRIGHAM of Jamaica Plain, MA.
Frank H. BLANEY of East Boston, MA.
Benjamin A. BALL of Newtonville, MA
Wiiliam E. DECROW of Boston, MA.
George K. DAVENPORT of Beverly, MA.
Joseph C. KILLAM of Beverly, MA.
Charles A. HURD of Beverly, MA.
Edward A. MALOON of Beverly, MA.
William A. WEBBER of Beverly, MA.
Alphaemo MORRILL of Salem, MA.
Stephen B. FISKE of Upton, MA.
Charles Mortimor WOOD of Upton, MA.
Henry D. GAY of Boston, MA.
Richard W. HILLIARD of Arlington, MA.
John H. HOWE of Boston, MA.
William W. HAWKS of Amesbury, MA.
Francis S, MERRILL of Amesbury, MA.
George HAYES of Boston, MA.
Franciks W. KIMBALL of Chelsea, MA.
David Edwin KEMLO of Cambridgeport, MA.
William F. McQUILLEN Of Dedham, MA.
Charles F. RETTING of Somerville, MA.
George Pitman TROTT of Jamaica Plain, MA.
George F. WASHBURN of Boston, MA.
Charles O. WELCH of Cambridgeport, MA.
Donald C. McDONALD of Boston, MA.
Alpheus B. ALGER of Cambridge, MA.

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