History of Wright County Minnesota,
CHAPTER XXVII FRATERNITIES--Pages 882, 883
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Clearwater, Silver Creek and Corinna Excerpts from :  
Curtiss-Wedge, Franklin.  History of Wright County Minnesota.  
Volume II.  Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co. 1915.   
Call Number:977.6C94h

CHAPTER XXVII
FRATERNITIES

MASONRY

Page 882 - 883

Clearwater Lodge, No. 28, A. F. & A. M.  The first gathering of any 
society occurred after the death of H. D. Buxton, a Freemason, when 
W. T. Rigby called together an assembly of Masons in an emergent lodge 
for his burial.  Those present were: W. WW. Webster, William Vorse, 
S. Churmard, Robert Shaw, James Abell and E. C. Parmele.

In October 1858, a Masonic lodge was organized.  
The first officers were: 
W. T. Rigby, W. M.
T. C. Rogers, S. W.
J. M. Mitchell, J. W.
S. Churman, treasurer, 
W. W. Webster, secretary.  

   At a meeting of te lodge, held October 20, 1866, upon the suggestion 
of W. T. Rigby , a committee was appointed to select grounds for a cemetery.  
The committee reported on November 3, following, and were instructed 
to file articles of incorporation for the lodge, and in its name to 
purchase five and five-sixteenths acres of land in section 34, and to 
have the same surveyed and platted for a burial place, under the name 
of Acassia Cemetery.  This was the first ground dedicated to that purpose
between Monticello and St. Cloud.  This cemetery is a beautiful spot and 
now contains over twenty acres.  The lodge also erected a building, using 
the upper floor for a hall, and renting the lower floor for a store.