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                       Ancient Free & Accepted Masons
                                      
   Membership for 1897
       Muskogee Lodge No. 28 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons
       Muskogee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory
       and
       Membership for 1897
       Alpha Lodge No. 12 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons
       Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
       
                             SUBORDINATE LODGES
                                MUSKOGEE LODGE NO. 28
            MUSKOGEE CREEK NATION
            Charter dated November 6, 1888
            Time of regular meeting Friday on or before full moon.
            OFFICERS
            
Richard Davant Martin,  W.M.
James Scott Dodson  Jr., W.
Edmond E. Burke,  Secy.
William H. Keys  Jr., D.
Henry Vogel  Jr., S.
James Lee Blakemore  Sr., W.
Samuel B. Severs , Treas.
George Bassler,  S.D.
William Frizzel Seavers  Sr., S.
Henry H. Edmondson , Tiler

            PAST MASTERS
Patrick Joseph Bryne
Leo. Edmond Bennett
Herbert Johnston Evans
Robert William Hill
Henry Howell
William S. Harsha
Napoleon Bonaparte Maxey
James A. Scott
Zachary Taylor Walrond
            PAST ELECTIVE GRAND OFFICERS
Patrick Joseph Byrne,  P.G.M.
Leo E. Bennett,  P.G.M.
Robert William Hill,  P.D.G.M.
James A. Scott, D.G.M.
       
     MASTER MASONS
     
     Lewis  Jackson Baker
     William Henry Barker
     George Bassler
     Stephen Becker
     Leo. Edmond Bennett
     Beverly Berry
     Jesse Lee Blakemore
     Frank C. Boles
     William Sampson Boren
     Wm. Edwin Bozeman
     Mackey L. Butler
     Manny Garret Butler
     Edmond E. Burke
     Robert E. Butler
     Walter A. Cantrell
     Patrick Joseph Byrne
     Frank S. Darby
     William F. Crabtree
     James Scott Dodson
     John Lafayette Davis
     Albert Zabriskia English
     Henry Harris Edmondson
     Reuben Andrew Evans
     Herbert Johnston Evans
     Francis Bartow Fite
     William A. Fisk
     Napoleon Bonaparte Frick
     Phillip Mesmer Ford
     Robert Willis Hamilton
     James Marshal Givens
     Daniel E. Harvey
     William Samuel Harsha
     R. T. Herrod
     J. W. Hensley
     Henry Howetl
     Robert William Hill
     Joseph Weston Hubbard
     Earnest Henry Hubbard
     Robert Buntin Hutchinson
     William Tartley Hutchings
     William Harry Keys
     Francis Gabriel Jarrard
     William Edney Linton
     James M. Lawson
     William A. Maddin
     Henry Clay Lowrey
     William Newton Martin
     Richard Davant Martin
     Thomas Francis Meagher
     Napoleon Bonaparte Maxey
     Charles William Merkel
     William J. Measles
     Charles William Moore
     William Ferdinand Mills
     Napoleon Bonaparte Moore
     Matthew Reneau Moore
     William Owen
     J. C. McCullough
     George H. Ralsten
     Pleasant Porter
     George Washington Scott
     Andrew M. Robb
     William Frizzell Seaver
     James A. Scott
     Samuel Berryhill Seaver
     Frederick Ballard Severs
     James Starrow
     Samuel Sondheimer
     E. M. Switzer
     George R. Stites
     Clarence William Turner
     M. E. Tarvin
     Henry Vogel
     Sam Upton
     Charles H. Warth
     Zachary Taylor Walrond
     George Henry Williams
     Alvin N. Wilcox
     Otto Zufall
     David W. Yancey
     
     
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            SUBORDINATE LODGES
            ALPHA LODGE NO. 12
            FORT GIBSON, CHEROKEE NATION
            Charter dated October 17, 1872
            Time of regular meeting Friday evenings
            on or before each full moon.
            OFFICERS
            
Connell Rogers, W.M.
Martin Van Buren Beedle Jr.,W.
Florian Haraden Nash, Secy.
Manuel Jefferson Holland  Jr., D.
Jacob Green  Jr., S.
Frank T. H. Higgins Sr.,W.
Henry Clay Meigs, Treas.
Thomas Wilson Collins, Sr. D.
George Ogilvie Bledsoe, Sr., S.
Wiley Washington Bridges, Tiler

PAST MASTERS
Florian Haraden Nash
Charles M. Doty
Frank T. H. Higgins
Henry Clay Meigs
Thomas Ross
            IN MEMORIAM
            
Benjamin Jones Lack, who died September 7,  1896
            MASTER MASONS
Jesse Ray Bagwell
Sidney Etlsworth Bell
Levi N. Borton
Wiley Washington Bridges
Charles M. Doty
Jacob Green
Manuel Jefferson Holland
Joseph Lafayette Haskins
Hiram V. Linder
Florian Haraden Nash
Frank B. Reid
Thomas Ross
George Osceota Sanders
Josiah Lewis Sanders
Richard Martin Walker
Martin Van Buren Beedle
George Ogilvie Bledsoe
WiUiam Shorey Brewer
Thomas Wilson Collins
James Monroe Fisher
Frank T. H. Higgins
Joseph Henry Hornsby
John Kirkpatrick
Henry Clay Meigs
George Washington Parker
Frederick William Roe
Connell Rogers
Gustave Schamblin
John Thomas Scott
George S. Yarborough
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       Source: Muskogee County Genealogical
       Society Quarterly, Volume 13, No. 3
       (September 1996), pages 60- 62. [Transcribed by Mary McLain
       Downing from the Official Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual
       Communication of the W. M. Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and
       Accepted Masons of Indian Territory held at Ardmore, Chickasaw
       Nation, August 10-11 AD 1897] 
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