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LIBRARY AT
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
JUL
2 i^:9
L161 O-1096
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
OTTAWA,
ILLINOIS.
COMPLETE ROSTER OF MEMBERS AND HISTORICAL DATA OF PILGRIMAGES AND MEMORABLE EVENTS FROM DATE OF ORGANIZATION UNDER A. D. 1861, A. O. 742, DISPENSATION, FEBRUARY A. D. 1916, A. O. 798. TO JUNE
1, 1,
ALSO A COMPENDIUM OF THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES,
AND A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THEIR RELATION TO FREE MASONRY AND THE MODERN ORDER OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ROYAL ARCH AND KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN THE BLUE LODGES DOWN TO AND INCLUDING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE
GRAND COMMAMDERY OF
ILLINOIS, A. D.
1857.
BY
33, P. C.
33,
UNIVER
!TV
Ot ILLINOIS
THIS
IS
WORK
SIR
Past
K.
T.,
Illinois,
A. D.
1878.
1913.
AND TO
R. E.
SIR
33
Past
K. T.,
Illinois,
A. D. 1907.
Maker
of
was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried He descended into hell; the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
;
Who
believe in the
;
Holy Ghost;
of Saints
;
the
Holy Catholic
Church
lasting.
the
Communion
the Forgiveness of
Amen.
II
KNIGHTS
T!-:m
PLAR.
The rising God forsakes the tomb, Up to his Father's court he flies; Cherubic legions guard him home, And shout him welcome to the skies.
Break
your tears, ye saints, and tell, high our gieat deliv'rer reigns; Sing how he spoil'd the hosts ot hell, And led the tyrant Death in chains.
off
How
Say "Live forever, glorious King, Born to redeem, instruct, and save!" Then "O death, where is thy sting? And where thv victorv, O Grave?"
L1BRMW
UNNER
TV OM'J-INOIS
INTRODUCTORY.
It
is
ing for the imperfections of one of his books, he was interrupted by the inquiry,
"Who
"Why
is
this
book
Xo
person asked
me
Its
publica-
tion arose
from
a desire to
Days
that
were epoch-making
born.
It
in
volume were
members
ment
of,
in
the develop-
state of Illinois,
in particular.
It
is
with a
we record in this volume the roster of Ottawa Commandery, in which is found the names of men who ranked high in their professions and councils of our nation, and were men of national fame in military and
sense of just pride that
civil
life.
We
regret that
to give a
it
is
of
more extended biographical sketch Ottawa Commandery who have been prominent in military and civil life or in the different grades of Free Masonry, or even a synopsis of prominent
in this
all
volume
the
members
of
incidents connected
with
their
lives.
Suffice
in
to
say that
civil
erals,
three colonels,
officers.
in
two majors,
In civil
life,
six captains
subordinate
Ottawa Commandery
Two
of our
mem-
tO
111
I".
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.AK.
Illinois.
Probate Courts arc graced by members of Ottawa Commandery. Men have been chosen from the ranks o\ Ottawa Commandery to till every county office in the gift of the electorate, and several times lias the city ^i Ottawa chosen its mayor from the membership of Ottawa Com-
and
mandery, and
commissioners
to-day
lic
at
is
many
of
member members
of
trust,
mercantile
in agricultural pursuits,
all.
The
in
fraters
active
Some have
rilled
the chairs in
and Humboldt Lodges, Shabbona Chapter. Arch Masons, and Oriental Council, Royal and Two of its members have been honored Select Masters. the Grand Commandery of Illinois by being elected to by the honored position of Grand Commander. Two have presided over the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and one has presided over the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Illinois, and he was also one of the
Occidental
Royal
and was
years,
member
life
several
in
and holds
membership
certificate
No.
that
institution.
He
mem-
bership
of
its
Fortitude Lodge. No. 47, La Grange, Ky. Three members have, as a recognition of their Masonic
in
services,
last
degree of the
the Northern
Ma-
Although,
tinguished
in
as
above stated,
so
many have
that
it
been dis-
military
and
civil
life
would seem
II
make
special
so conspicuous in
Masonic
circles that
memories, some of
whom
are with us no
more forever, demands more than a passing notice: Oliver Cromwell Gray, the first commander of Ottawa Commandery, Generals
som, George
\Y.
11.
L.
W.
Past Commanders of Ottawa Commandery and Past Grand Commanders of the Grand Commandery of Illinois, whose
biographical pages will he found
in this
volume.
We
We
the
Past
Com-
manders of Ottawa Commandery, from Oliver Cromwell Gray, on whose lap sat when a boy, down to the present
1
time.
Commander
of
Ottawa Coma
mandery,
white
seem
to be standing alone
on the shore of
We
Wade,
who preceded me
in
in pre-
whom
It
obtained
my
inspiration
may have
but
served Ottawa
Commandery.
all
with us,
now
In compiling the
History of Ottawa
Commandery
compendium of the history of Chivalry and the Crusades and a more extended summary of the history of the order of Knights Templar
have introduced
in the forepart, a
and
their
relation
the Royal
to Free Masonry, the introduction of Arch and Knights Templar degrees and orders
III
Lodges or Symbolic Masonry, down to the organization of the (irand Kncampment of Knights Templar
iii
Blue
in
Grand
Commandery
of
Illinois
in
[857, to
history of Charleston
of Knights
the world.
In
and compiler, since we have condensed quite a considerable of its historical data from the works of some of the earliest and most
tory,
reliable
writers on
and
words
of
others,
we have
the
While
work, vet
of
it
will
is!
he of
interest
others as a historical
it
Ottawa Commandery
and
it
is
hoped that
one copy,
if
familiar with
will
its
contents, which,
a better knight
the
a
in
him,
It
make
of
him
and
better man.
is
ume
will
and alleviating charity, one toward the other among our fraters, which is one of the distinguishing characteristics
of our order; and that
it
will
he instrumental in inspiring
the
every
heart,
equipped
from
"armory"
social
of
templar
by
he-
precepts,
emotions, bound
moral and
destitute
power
in
of
innocent maidens,
religion.
Truth
will
13
pathway with
citizenship,
is
and an exalted
the wish of
Fraternally thine.
!_|.
Til E
KNIGHTS TE M
I'l.AK,
Father of
Life,
on thee
call!
Thou seest my soul is dark within; Thou who can mark the sparrow's fall,
Avert from
me
shrine I seek, to sects unknown; Oh, point to me the path of truth! Thy dread omnipotence I own; Spare, yet amend, the faults of youth.
No
Let bigots rear a gloomy fane, Let superstition hail the pile, Let priests, to spread their sable reign, With tales of mystic rites beguile.
Shall
man
sway
mouldering stone?
Shall
man condemn
Unless they bend in pompous form? Tell us that all, for one who fell, Musi perish in the mingling storm?
Shall each pretend to reach the skies, Yet doom his brother to expire, Whose soul a different hope supplies, Or doctrines less severe inspire?
Shall these, by creeds they can't expound, Prepare a fancied bliss or woe? Shall reptiles, groveling on the ground, Their great Creator's purpose know?
Shall those
who
years float on in daily crime Shall they by faith for guilt atone, And live beyond the bounds of Time?
Whose
Thou, who canst guide the wandering star Through trackless realms of ether's space; Who calms the elemental war, Whose hand from pole to pole I trace;
Thou, who
in wisdom placed me here, Who, when thou wilt, canst take me hence,
Ah! whilst I tread this earthly sphere, Extend to me Thy wide defence.
To Thee, my God, to Thee I call! Whatever weal or woe betide, By Thy command I rise or fall, In Thy protection I confide.
If,
when
wings,
adored
With clay the grave's eternal bed, While life yet throbs I raise my prayer, Though doom'd no more to quit the dead.
To Thee
I breathe my humble strain, Grateful for all Thy mercies past, And hope, my God, to Thee again This erring life may fly at last.
Byron.
]6
nil
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
OLD GLORY.
flag and my flag, and how it flies to-day, your land and my land, and half the world away. Rose-red and blood-red, its stripes forever gleam, Snow-white and soul-white, the good forefather's dream. Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars that gleam aright, The glorified guidon of the day, a shelter thro the night.
Your
In
Your flag and my flag, and O, how much it holds, Your land and my land secure within its folds. Your heart and my heart beat quicker at the sight, Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, the red, the blue, the white. The one flag, the great flag, the flag for me and you. Glorified the whole world wide, the red, the white, the blue.
my flag, to every star and stripe, as hearts beat, and fifers shrilly pipe. Your flag and my flag, its brightness fills the sky, Your hope and my hope, it never held a lie, Home land and far land, and all the world around, Old Glory hears the great salute, and ripples at the sound.
Your
flag
and
Drums beat
OLD
During the winter of 1891-2
(iLOKY.
a Eociety, called the "Anarchists," of the city of Chicago with their defy to consi it uted authority, and in large numbers paraded the streets of the city, carrying only a "red fla-" as their symbol of defy to organized government. Sir W. L. Milligan, then commander of Ottawa Com mandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, conceived the idea of setting an
example of patriotism for such organizations, by displaying the Stars and Stripes, the symbol of cur republic, by the side of the beauseant (the battle flag of the Ancient Templars) in our asylums and when appearing in public. Accordingly, the latter part of January, 1892, he purchased for Ottawa Commandery a beautiful silk regulation American flag with the intention of presenting same to the commandery on Washington's birthday. It was, however, suggested that the formal presentation be delayed until the day of departure of the commandery to the Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar, to be held in Denver, Colorado, during August following, when with the presentation of the flag Ottawa Commandery would Accordingly, on the sixth of pull off a "red-letter" day in Ottawa. August, 1892, the day of the commandery's departure for Denver,
find
Sir Milligan formally presented the flag, for a full record of which, copied from the records of Ottawa Commandery for year
1S92, in this volume, page 217. In 1896, four years later, at the
Commandery, held
P.
G.
Annual Conclave of the Grand General John C. Smith, C, presented the following resolution, which was adopted
in the city of Chicago,
without reference:
"To the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar, State of Illinois: "Whereas, From the earliest organization of our Illustrious Order of the Temple, the Christian's Cross, the symbol of our faith, has been a distinguishing mark upon our banners and worn by the Templar as an evidence of the faith that is in him, and as the beauseant has been the battle flag beside which was ever the flag of the country from which the Templar came; therefore, be it "Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to purchase for this Grand Commandery a silk regulation flag of the United States that, with the beauseant and banner of our faith, may be
carried the flag of our language, the flag of our common country, the flag of the United States of America." Following which Sir Hamer H. Green, P. G. C, then Grand Warder, moved the adoption of the following resolution, which he submitted, and which was carried: "Whereas, It would be becoming for the subordinate commanderies of this grand jurisdiction to follow the patriotic example of this Grand Commandery just taken; therefore, "Resolved, That we recommend that each Commandery of this grand jurisdiction be requested to procure a regulation United States flag, to represent their fidelity to the greatest government of history."
OURl FLAGS.
The
Cross of
in
1
first flag
to float over
American
soil
St.
by Sebastian Cabot, in 1497, as the Royal Ensign of Henry the Seventh of England. (Columbus, in 1492, planted the Spanish colors on the
192, planted at Labrador,
San Salvador, one of the Bahama group.) In 1 192, Richard Coeur de Lion sought the aid of St. George, B'ishop of Cappadocia. He gave the King the Red Cross of St. George as a banner. Edward III., in 1345, made St. George the patron saint of England. For 250 years, or until 1606, the Red' Cross of St. George was England's banner, and floated over Virginia. The second flag to float over permanent settlements in America, "The King's Colors," a union between the Red Cross of St. George of England and the White Cross of
island of
I.,
in
1606
May-
In
James
St.
in
Andrew on
from
white to blue.
Massachusetts' records speak of
it
in 1634.
it.
In
Novemrelic
Not with
of
intent
to
1651, the Court of iMassachusetts ordered that the Cross of St. George and St. Andrew be used in
Antichrist.
the colony.
In 1801, Ireland
To commemorate
the
Red Cross
of
St.
the
Union
Jack.
[8
III E
KNIGH
IS
TEW
PL \K,
Aboul
Charles
the
II..
was
not
in
much
discussion.
Under Cromwell and Charles 11. various minor changes were made. The color of the field was changed to crimson, and the two crosses were placed on the upper corner. This was called the Cromwell flag, and in such form was never accepted by the colonies. They continued to use the King's Colors until 1707. when the crimson, bine or white held was adopted, with a pine tree or globe in the
upper corner, and used
until
1770.
on the
of
the
silver coins
of that colon}".
Trumbull,
his celebrated
picture
battle
of
Bunker
Hill, in the
The
Appeal
the
troops of
to
"An
Heaven."
Flag used by the colonies was carried by
The Fifth
men
known
The
flag
was pure white, upon its area was coiled a rattlesnake, with "Beware! Don't tread, on me!" which meant no surrender. The rattlesnake will fight to the last when escape becomes impossible, will strike his fangs into his own
the motto,
;
The Sixth
in
was decided on
as the marine
flag for
our vessels, and used during the year 1775. known as the court flag of Massachusetts.
The Seventh Flag, or the flag of American independence, was the first striped flag ever made, and was first
IO,
Hung
It
to the breeze at
1776.
had thirteen
Andrew on
to
a blue
When
Lieut.
reported
in
England
it
was alluded
as
the
the Alfred,
first
John Paul Jones hoisted this flag on his vessel, and said, "The hag of America floats for the time over an American man-of-war."
Flag, or
The Eighth
American Congress,
in session at
when Congress:
"Resolved, That the Flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; the union to be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation; the stars to be arranged in a circle."
The committee,
consisting
of
General
Washington,
Philadel-
who
phia,
stars
Our
flag
flags
The
7
was
in
first
New York,
1777,
when attacked by
the
Union
in
1701; Kentucky, in
a bill, in
ber of stripes to fifteen. When the bill came up House of Representatives there was considerable The bill finally passed in July, 1795.
the
debate.
20
We
The new
admitting
a state.
As the tie that hinds the United States was held by the government at Washington to be one that could not be severed, no star was taken from the flag during the conflict
of
861-1865.
flag,
The tenth
pointed
in
Old
Glory:
committee
was
ap-
181 6 to
AJt first
and
stripes, the
number
He
advised re-
number
Pluribus
of
stars,
state,
the
motto to be
as
gress, but
"E
Unum."
The committee
reported
recommended by Captain Reid. It was laid over by Conwas passed April 4, 1818, to take effect July 4th
It
of that year.
was
at this
first
applied to
our Flag. Stephen Driver had been a sea captain, sailing from Salem, Massachusetts, before the civil war. Once
in
Giving up the sea, to him. he made his home in Nashville, Tennessee. When the war began, to secrete the flag, he sewed it in a quilt, and every night slept beneath it. He named it "Old Glory!"
American
Forty-eight stars.
in
The
in
westward
it
The Aleutian Islands, a part of Alaska, extend so far that when it is sunset on the most westerly part
sunrise in Eastport, Maine.
that since 1867, thirty-five years before the Philip-
is
So
The
SUN NEVER
!
;
21
ROCK ME
TO'
SLEEP, MOTHER.
in
your
flight,
just for to-night the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep!
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil, and of tears Toil without recompense tears all in vain Take them, and give me childhood again! I have grown weary of dust and decay Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away; Weary of sowing for others to reap Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep!
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you. Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between; Yet with strong yearning, and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again. Come from the silence so long and so deep Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep!
Over
No No
my heart, in the days that are flown, love like a mother's love ever has shown,
Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours; None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
my
Rock me
to sleep,
mother
rock
heavy
lids
creep
me
to sleep!
Fall
Come, let your brown hair just lighted with on your shoulders again as of old;
gold,
Let it drop over my forehead to-night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light For with its sunny-edged shadows once more Happy will throng the sweet visions of yore Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweet Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep!
23
to the Congressional
He
piece" written by
Tom
Dillon, of
Seattle.
"My Mother"
For the body you gave me, the bone and the sinew, the heart and the brain that are yours, my mother, I thank yon. 1 thank yon for the light in my eyes, the blood in
my
that
veins, for
I
my
speech, for
my
life,
for
my
being.
All
from you who bore me. For all the love that you gave me, unmeasured from 1 thank you for the beginning, my mother, I thank yon. the hand that led me, the voice that directed me, the lap
is
am
All that
in
am
I
is
by you,
who nursed
me.
the
kiss at night,
my
mother,
thank you.
shed over me, the songs that you sang for me, the prayers
you said for me, for your vigils and ministerings. For the faith you had in me, the hope you had for me,
for your trust
1
and your
pride,
my
mother,
thank you.
All
thank yon for your praise and your chiding, for the jus-
tice
you bred into me and the honor you made mine. that 1 am you taught me.
travail that
my
mother,
to,
1
forgive me.
Forgive
T
me
the
brought yon
fears
the subs
wrung from
alarms
For the
dreads,
gave! you,
and
I
my
me
the joys
de-
made
24
had no smile
for
vou,
my
mother,
forgive
me.
Forgive
me
for
my
my
deceits
and evasions,
did not
my
mother, forgive
Forgive
me my
pride in
my
youth and
my
glory in
my
And may
under-
standing he yours,
my
Amen.
25
CHIVALRY.
In expressing his deep regret in the existence of a con-
dition of society in
France,
"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering
morning star, full of life, and splendor and joy. what a revolution, and what a heart must I have, to Litcontemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that fall! tle did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she would ever be obliged
like the
"Oh!
sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation I thought ten thousand swords of men of honor and of cavaliers. must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of exalted freedom. "The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprise is gone. It
to
carry
the
bosom;
little
gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled everything it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
is
felt
"This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin the ancient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the
in
time
will
we
live in.
it
should ever be totally extinguished the loss, I fear, be great. It is this which has given its character to modern Europe. It is this which has distinguished it under all its forms of government, and distinguished it in its advantage from the states of Asia, and possibly, from those states which flourished in the most brilliant periods of the antique world.
"If
_'()
111
KNIGHTS TKM
IM.AK.
"It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and banded il down through all the gradations of this opinion which mitigated kings into comIt was social life. panions, and raised private men into fellows with kings. "Without force or opposition, it subdued the force of pride
it obliged sovereigns to submit to the soft collar of esteem; compelled stern authority to submit to elegance; and gave a domination vanquishers of laws, to be subdued by manners."
and power;
social
What
let
a beautiful
to chivalry; but
chivalry, the
"The age of chivalry indeed is gone. helmets and its spears; but its blazonry
We
is
its
Still we love the past. poetic charm. man's history, we hate to divest it even of its fictions. "The independence of chivalry, bent on the accomplishment
of lofty
ends, without calculation of chances, or fear of failure, so generous in action, so munificent in courtesy, so frank in friendship, and so gallant in danger, must ever have rare attractions to the enthusiastic and the aspiring. "There is something peculiarly delightful and exciting in those stories which represent the hero of the middle ages, loyal and brave, superbly mounted, cased in glittering steel, surrounded by his men-at-arms, and issuing forth from his lordly castle, in quest
adventure or an errand of love. "Who does not love to read of the fair and haughty dames, encouraging their champions at the tilt, and rewarding their valor with sacred banners, worked with their own hands? "Who does not dwell with delight on the gorgeous description of the tournament, where the place enclosed with sovereigns and bishops and barons, and all that rank and beauty had ennobled among the fair, when the combatants, covered with shining armor, and only known by a device or emblazoned shield, issued forth, not without danger, to win the prize of valor, bestowed by the queen of beauty, amid the animated music of the minstrels and the shouts of the assembled multitudes?"
of
2J
THE
The
CROSS.
of
in
Clonstantine,
com-
admonished
the
in a
dream
name
of Christ
that
he executed the
monogram commands
of
of
The
stantine
from that of Caecilius. He states that Consaw with his own eyes the luminous trophy of the divine monogram placed above the meridian sun and inscribed with the following words: "En touto Nika" ("By this Conquer").
ferent account
The appearance
as well as
its
in the
army
the choice of
into faith
commander, who was yet undetermined as to religion. But his astonishment was converted
celestial
make
march under
it,
his enemies.
The
its
tionably took
barutu.
It
was
was
beam.
the beam,
and curiously inwrought with the images of the reigning monarch and
his children.
The summit
crown of gold
which enclosed the mysterious monogram, combining the two initial letters ("X" and "P") of the Greek name of
Christ.
28
Til E
K\
It,
IS
TI'.M
PLAR,
intrusted to a color-
The
guard
station
ol
safety of the
fifty
Labarum was
men
whose
that
Labarum
opposing
The
in battle
forces.
name Labarum
in
is
derived from
lavar,
"a
comthe
mand,"
allusion to the
this
power
i^\
Sign
!"
The
cross adopted by
dom
cher,
of Jerusalem,
is
Baldwyn as the arms of the kingand since deemed a symbol of the Holy
Knights of the Holy Sepulhe conferred' in the
is
Land,
an order that
in
said
to
Holy
Land, or
Jerusalem, on
Roman
as a
Masonic degree
in
what
the
were
try,
ing-
after
Christian
Mark: hut it is no longer conferred in this counand may now he considered as obsolete as far as beconferred as a Masonic degree. The name of the cross
is
and worn
the upper
It
is
middle one.
States,
Grand Encampment of
and
also
of the
Grand Masters of the Knights Templar of the United Sovereign Grand Commander of
Cross, because
it
the
It
Supreme Council
is
borne
29
The Passion Cross is the most common form of the Cross. With rays issuing from the point of intersection of the limbs, it is the insignia, or jewel, of a Commander or Past Commander of a Commandery of Knights Templar in the United States.
The Cross
"X," and said
of St.
to
Andrew
is
in the
form of the
is
letter
Andrew
suffered
martyrdom.
As he
Grand Master
with a St.
of the
Grand Lodge
of Scotland, which
is
Andrew on
90 degrees
In
in
;
on the segment.
glory.
This cross
is
also the
or
St.
is
same form
as the Maltese
any
Pope Eugenius
III.
for them a red cross on the breast, as a symbol of the martyrdom to which the}' were constantly exposed. The Teutonic Cross has been adopted as the jewel of the Knight Kadosh of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Kite
in
is
a cross
potent or
This
form of cross
is
worn by
30
Til E
KNIGH
IS
i:.M
IM.AK.
THE CROSS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PUNISHMENT. From the earliest period of history until the time
cross as an instrument of capital punishment, and as such
of
be<>\
close
connection
of punishment
sians,
among
Per-
was not
unknown
the
city
Tyre (33-' B. C. >, abundantly testifies. In war of the Jews (86 B. C.) 800 men were one daw by order of Alexander Jannaeus. in
this
But
in
punishment
the
so resorted to as
earl_\-
the
monarchial government
extended indiscriminately
it came to he regarded as the mosl infamous of deaths, and, save in cases of sedition, was indicted only on slaves and malefactors of the lowest class.
Josephus gives
of
in his
final
de-
numbers
of
from
the
to die, or they
were im-
and
to
this
name
very
hands and
feet
When
immissa
;
the cross-piece
was fastened
at right
angles below the summit of the upright stake the cross was
when
the cross-piece
was fastened
at
31
stake it was was formed of two beams crossing one another obliquely it was crux decussata. This peculiar and barbarous mode of punishment was
313),
who. out of respect for the followers of Christ, whose cause he had espoused, after obtaining the victory
sign of
the
cross,
abolished
its
use
throughout
the
Roman
The
world.
cross as an
is
emblem
of our order
transforming
this
changed
into an
image of
justly
it
light
is
mortality.
How
called a
energy
the
yet
it
is
dew on
of Knights Templar the words "In Hoc Signo Vinces" are inscribed over a "blood-red Passion Cross," and they constitute in part the motto of the American branch of the order. Their meaning is a substantial, but not literal, translation of
)n
the
grand standard of
the original
stantine
the
Greek "Eh touto Nika." The vision of Conwas not a Passion Cn>ss. such as now used on modern Templar standard, but the monogram of Christ
It
appears that
if
the
to retain the
motto on
it
their ban-
accuracy, dis-
Cross and
replace
gram or Cross
of Constantine.
of the
Labarum,
32
Damascus, un-
furled a white banner charged with the Red Cross. This was afterwards replaced by the celebrated "Beauseant," their war banner, one-half black, the other white, signify-
t<>
conquer or
to die
quarter never
1
to
Domine non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam." "Not unto us, O Lord; not unto us, but unto Thy name give Glory," It was the ancient Templars' shout of victory. The beauseant is the banner of the Masonic order of Knights Templar, and until A. D. 1892 was the
nobis.
"Non
This
is,
Commandery
tlag,
in the
United
presented
Ottawa
Commandery
to be carried
American
and displayed by all Commanderies under the grand and subordinate Com-
33
Not
in
dumb
We
lift
When
tyrant feet are tramping weal, cringe and writhe Beneath the iron heel; In Thy name we assert our rights With sword and tongue and pen, And e'en the headman's ax may flash
Thy
It
Wherever man oppresses man Beneath Thy liberal sun, O God! be there, Thine arm made
That righteous
will
bare,
be done.
John
Hay.
34
THE CRUS
The
spirit of
\DF.S.
which the
D. 326-7,
at incalcuin
queen-mother
She
as she
ties,
first
made
visits
it
first
for
her
many
famous
places,
and
tify others.
As soon
From
from the
forests of
Germany, from
new
the
early
ages of
the
church
religious
curiosity
prompted people to visit those places which the Scriptures have sanctified; and as perceptible objects awaken associated thoughts and feelings, the travelers found their
sympathies stronger, and their devotions more fervent
behi ilding the scenes of the ministry of the Divine
in
Master than
is
life.
Tt
so to this
Many
Land and
kneel at
the
upon scenes once hallowed by the presence of the Son of Man, and to return home,
the Jordan, to feast their eyes
35
lives
gratified.
was ravaged by the Goths, the Huns, and the Vandals, pilgrimages to the Holy Land were not
the world
at all interrupted.
When
who began
salem.
scrip
and
staff often
passed through
Christians
This peace,
until the
Under
Persia,
his
reign
the
armies
of
Chosroes,
invaded Syria,
into
Palestine
and Egypt.
vast
City
fell
conquerors
bore
away
into
captivity
numbers
and
shed tears when they learned that the King of Persia had
carried
off,
among
Church of
the Resurrection.
Heaven,
at
3<
>
whose chains he had broken. Then was to be seen an emperor oi the Easl walking barefooted in the streets of the Holy City, carrying on his shoulders to
the Christians
"l
which he considered
When
Heraclius
of
the
Christians."
ambassadors
to congratulate him.
Among
in
the
faithful
in
Asia
his-
Mussulmans,
tory
has preserved
the
Ajntonius, of
distinction
Plaisance.
names of St. Arculphus and St. The latter had borne arms with
to follow the pilgrims
when he determined
for Jerusalem.
who
He
and Egypt.
On
his arrival
hands of the
City.
infidels; but
and
their
threatening" the
Holy
Several
years
after
the
pilgrimage of
St.
Antonius,
set out
from the coast of England bound for Syria. He remained nine months at Jerusalem, then under the dominion oi
the enemies of Christ.
On
his return to
all
Europe he
related
in
Palestine and in
of the West.
The accounts
drawn
up by
Holy Monk of
faithful.
111.,
A.
1).
The
glory
delivering
Jerusalem
belonged
to
simple
pilgrim,
possessed of no other power than the influence of his character and his genius.
It
signal to the
2)7
who without
West
moving
Asia.
mass upon One day, while Peter was prostrate before the Holy
the
to precipitate itself in a
him
"Peter,
it
my
people;
is
time
my
servants should
receive help
ingly in his
and that the holy places should be delivered." which sounded unceasears, and charged with letters from the patri-
whom
ills
he had met
in
and hastened
was then occupied, A. D. 1088, the disciple and confidant of Urban embraced with ardor a both Gregory and Victor.
chair of St. Peter
II.,
The
by Urban
project
which had been entertained by his predecessors; he received Peter as a Prophet, applauded his design, and bade him go forth and announce the approaching deliver-
The people followed the footsteps of Peter in crowds. The preacher of the Holy War was reThey who ceived everywhere as a messenger from God.
ance of Jerusalem.
could touch his vestments esteemed themselves happy, and
a portion of hair pulled
from the mule he rode upon was At the sound of his voice difpreserved as a holy relic. ferences in families were reconciled, the poor were comforted,
the debauched
blushed
at
their
errors.
A
ber,
Auvergne.
in
Novem-
A. D.
its
1095.
walls
all
The
city
was scarcely
able to contain
within
who had
dle of the
month
of
November
the cities
and villages
oi
.1
$8
compelled to
tremely
great
erect
tents
and pavilions
held
the
fields
and
the
tilled
meadows, although
cold.
the season
The
council
tenth
sitting
in
Pope ascended
for him.
Followed by his cardinals, the species of throne which had been prepared
in that
addressed
the
multitude,
Christians,
the
feel-
and horror;
his
voice
was choked
The
in
his peroration at
and particularly
to the
French,
who formed
"Nation beloved by God." said he. "it is in your courage that the Christian church has placed its hope. It is because I am well acquainted with your piety and your
the majority:
bravery that
God
in these countries.
to
not
forgotten that the land which you inhabit has been invaded
of the
:
God
of armies.
You
will
delivei
and you
Jesus Christ
39
that Jerusalem which was chosen by the Lord, and from whence the law is to come to us." When Urban had ceased to speak loud acclamations hurst forth from the multitude. To every class of the community the Crusades became the great business of life all things else were playthings for the only real business
children.
Immense armies were soon raised throughout Europe. was a motly, heterogeneous and most unmilitary crowd, from which the dross had to be skimmed off. The zealous
It
Peter the
Hermit, as
fit
for the
mad
hospital as any of
woolen gown and with cowl and sandals, riding jovially that same she-mule which had carried him over all Europe,
his
-
England included. The preachings of Peter the Hermit and the exhortations of Pope Urban forthwith aroused Christendom. Europe was armed and precipitated upon Asia. The Turkish power was broken. The Christian provinces of the Greek empire of Constantinople were recovered from the grasp of the infidels and the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem was reared upon the ruins of the Turkish empire of Sultan Soliman. The monastic and military Order of the Temple was then called into existence for the purpose of checking the power of the infidels, and fighting the battles of Christendom on the plains of Asia. Suggested by fanaticism, as Gibbon observes, but guided by an intelligent and far-reaching policy, this order became the firmest bulwark of Christianity in the East, and mainly contributed to preserve Europe from Turkish desolation, and probably from Turkish conquest. At this distant day. when the times and scenes in which the Templars acted are changed, and the deep religious fervor and warm fresh feelings of bygone ages have given
;
_p
III
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.Ak,
way
lity,
to cold
and deride
But when we
call
to
mind
the
in a
far dis-
kindred, and of
they
all
life,
which
just,
when men
feel
or
selfish
indifference
How
soul
whose
And
And
man man
And
that ever struck And thou wert the kindest And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall with ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to try mortal foe that
woman.
with sword.
e\ er put
spur
in the rest."
List of Popes from A. 1). [088 to A. D. 131'': Urban II., 1088; promoted first crusade, 1096
to 1099.
Pascal
II..
1099.
1118.
11 19.
Gelasius Calixtus
II., II.,
Honorius
Innocent
II.,
1124. 1130.
II.,
41
143.
Lucius
II.,
144.
Eugenius
III.,
Anastasius
IV
53.
Lucius
III.,
1
1
181.
Urban III., 185. Gregory VIII., 1187. iSS. Clement III., 11X7; promoted third crusade, promoted fourth crusade, [195-7. III., Celestine 191 198. Innocent III., 1198; promoted fifth crusade,
1
1 ;
Honorius III., 1216. Gregory IX., 1227; promoted sixth crusade, 1228.
Celestine IV., 1241.
Urban
IV.,
1261.
Clement IV., 1265; promoted eighth and last crusade. Gregory X., 1271. Innocent V., Adrian V., Vicedominus, John XX.. 1276.
Nicholas
III..
1277.
VI II., 1294.
John XXII.
1316.
42
I'll
KNIGHTS TKM
1M.AU,
Over life's broken wall. That blossoms above the scars of pain,
Striving to hold them all! Oh, for the helpful, ministering hands, Beneficent, willing feet. That spreads rich mantels of tender thought O'er life's hard places, till time has wrought divine, complete. It's healing Christian Advocate.
43
in-
Tempworld
middle ages.
attracted
Never
common
object by a
more romantic
demands our admiration, and whose cruel persecution enlists our warmest sympathy. Is it any wonder that Modern Knighthood or the Knights Templar of the twentieth century proudly boast of their descent from the old-time knighthood of history, whose valiant soldiers delivered the holy sepulcher from "Moslem caitiff's and infidel hounds," whose religion was
a religion of motives, a religion of the heart, the affections,
As written by an eminent divine, William Stevens Perry 32 Bishop of Iowa, they were influenced by no hope of fee or reward, with no selfish expectations or care
,
forth to defend and uplift the cross and wield, in the serv-
of the Christian faith, the swords that had been belted around each neophite when the vows of knighthood were
ice
first
uttered
by
lips
sanctified
sacrament of redemption.
devotion, the annals of Christian knighthood abound in instances of heroic constancy, even unto death.
It
is
with pride
we
recall the
heroism of that
illustri-
44
ous,
lon,
'I'll
KNIGHTS
TI..M
PL
\K.
valiant and magnanimous knight, Renaud de ChatilGrand Master of the Templars, who scorned, when in
to
captivity,
purchase
life
We
crowd
of knights of the
who
hands
joyously
in
two orders, Templars and St. John, accepted martyrdom at the executioners'
rather than renounce their faith in the
prison,
Lord Jesus
Christ.
Gladly do
we
in
a battle near
Tiberiod, rushed boldly into the midst of the Saracens, one against a thousand, because, as the old chronicler
to tell us,
is
proud
he
feared not
to die
for Christ.
Such was the religious enthusiasm of those valiant men who>c proudest boast was to he "a true knight and servant
of Jesus Christ."
Of
it
was
rites.
symbolism
in
the ritual
and life-work
the teachings
of the Son o\
Cmd when
here on earth.
The
Christ.
religion n\ chivalry
was founded on
In the
sting in sweet
words of the [ntroid for Tuesday in holy-week, and solemn cadences in every preceptory or
45
commemoration of the great day of atonement the Good Friday of the Church Uniknight drew nigh, prelate, priest ant versal of Christ
and
"We ought to glory in the our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is our salvation, resurrection; by whom we have been saved and
familial-
delivered."
with
the
knew and
animas,
believed
and
lived
the
legend.
"Non
est
sains
is
nee
spes
no health
in the soul,
life,
known
or cared
little
it
lite
and soul; they fought and died under the blazonry of the symbol of our redemption. Their legend was that of the churches' earlier days of triumph, "In Hoc Signo Vinces."
Sir
in
when chivalry made its first appearance the moral and political condition of Europe was in every respect deplorThe religion of Jesus existed only in name. A deable.
grading superstitition had usurped
rights of the lower orders
of the great.
its
place,
and threatened
The
political
were
with
War was
carried
on
savage
cruelty,
equalled
to the
vanquished; no humanity to
The female
sex, even,
doomed
to the
46
natural
To remedy these disorders a few intelligent and pious men formed an association, whose members swore to defend the Christian religion, to practice the Christian
tues, to protect
vir-
and
to decide judically,
was from
and
not,
this association,
arose,
as
some
think,
with arms.
But,
duced
a considerable
It
change
in
of the great.
we
the
and
to
has,
osity,
toward the
and
introduced
licentious,
principle
of
considerations
would
Such was the origin of chivalry, and such the blessings which it imparted.
minds.
47
No laurel crowns are wove; And every Knightly strain is hushed In castle, camp and grove.
No manly breast now fronts No strong arm waves the
the spear, brand, To vindicate the rightful cause, Or stay oppression's hand.
48
Hugo
de Payens, Godfrey.de
Bisol,
St.
Godfrey
called
Payens de
Montidier,
They
way through
Holy
their
the passes
In
City.
was the protection of pilgrims on their and defiles of the mountains to the the Church of the Resurrection they took
live
St.
Augustine.
or order
This organization
I),
i
was perfected
in
the year
lie-
i(S,
title
of Knights Templar,
in
Jerufor
This
site
tians
and pilgrims
to the
Holy Land.
The kind
property,
but
termed "media."
sanctioned
in
shared by a fraternity
any amount of wealth when common. The king and his barons
for
arms
street
between
became
the distinguishing
Hugo
Temple"
de
in
"Master of the
visit
1 1
8,
many
consequence of his
49
In
in
A. D. 1128.
this
Troves, which
vited to attend,
Hugo
in-
ernment of
military fraternity. this great religious and These statutes were subsequently confirmed by a papal bull, and became the rule of the order.
Hugo
who was
was
his duty to
its
manage
and transmit
revenues to Jerusalem.
He was
delegated
profession.
Order increased in England "sub-priors" were appointed, and the superior was then called "Grand Prior," and afterwards "Master of the Temple."
the
As
Brother
Odo
of
de St.
Amand was
appointed
seventh
Grand Master
the Templars
During the rule of Odo the bull of Pope Alexander, "Onine Datum Optimum," A. D. 1172, confirming the privileges of the Templars, and granting them additional ones, was published in England. Amongst other things, it
permitted the Templars to admit into their fraternity "honest
and good clergymen and priests," but exacted a probation of one year, and required that, on their admission, an
in
styled
Odo
de
Amand
50
lii
TKM
I'l.
\k,
A.
).
and
in
forced
their chief,
Man
on
of the
Mountain,"
A.
purchase peace.
In
the
battle
near
Ascalon,
November
i.
D.
177, in
which the
infidels
knights,
the
following year,
at
the
battle
of Jacob's
ford,
fighting,
the
Master of the
Templars were
Odo
into the
fortress,
the
and
all
Templars taken
distinguished, were
liberty,
in
ransom of his own nephew, who was a prisoner in the hands of the Templars, htit the haughty Templar replied that he would newer by his example encourage any of his knights to surrender; that a Templar ought either to vanquish or to die; and that he had nothing to give tor his ransom but his girdle and his knife. It was one of the rules of the order that a knight should give nothing' of more value than his girdle and his knife as a ransom. The proud spirit of the Grand Master could htit ill-brook confinement, and Odo de St. Amand languished and died in the dungeons of Damascus. The Templars first established the chief house of the order in England, without Holborn Bars, London, adjointhe
two.
Saladin offered
Odo
his
site
of
of the property
called
in
now known
At the
as
Temple.
It
was then
the
"New
Temple," as
distinguished
Holborn.
New
Temple they erected a monastic establishment, on a scale of grandeur commensurate with the dignity and importance
Temple
cording to
The order rapidly increased in wealth and power. Mathew Paris, the Templars possessed
in
Acnine
thousand manors
and
immense
riches
Each
Grand Prior, who represented the Grand Master. The Grand Prior of England sat in Parliament as a baron of the realm. In every country in Europe the liberality and piety of princes and nobles had augmented the treasuries and enlarged the possessions of the
lars.
Tempthis
In
A.
I).
in
England, as given
being
then
by Dugdale,
will
income
In every
1240,
is
said to
have been as
fifty.
The Knights
Dupuis, engaged
in
Raymond
many
support of Baldwin
111.,
St.
John attained
house
in
to great magnificence.
a noble
Europe of which some scion did not bear his breast, and the name of HosJohn had, during these eventful vears, be-
upon
come
years,
the
synonym
at
and martial
virtue.
In the year A.
died
of
St.
John
at
Jerusalem,
strife
upwards of half
chivalry of Europe.
distinction
The order
in in
and importance
[185.
Expeditions
and
A.
D.
1179
a truce
was again
closed
in the
field,
and a
series of disastrous
in in
comD.
A.
187.
The order
num-
We now
to
the siege
any further successes by the Christian arm}'. In A. 1). [237 three hundred knights left the priory
the
them.
lars,
Temp-
and
in
met
day.
[259 the whole force of the fraternities a general engagement. Victory favored the Hospiin
A.
1).
tallers
left to
In the
I).
[259
Hugh
Master of the Hospitallers, and received from Pope Clej0~, the by bull, dated November [8, A. I). Grand Master, by which distinction the head of the fraternity was always afterwards known. New wars arose with the infidels, which resulted in the loss of Margat in A. D. [287, when the garrison retired to Acre.
ment
IV.,
title
of
fell
waved only
Of
53
and indolence, combined with the heterogeneous nature of its thronged inhabitants, fostered the growth of wickedness and demoralization until, "like Sodom of old, the cry
(if
it
its
doom had
been
declared."
Acre upon neighboring Moslems, and the Sultan Mansour demanded reparation. The Grand Masters o\
was
commenced an
ex-
pedition against the city, which was. upon his death, con-
num-
the
fall
of Acre.
The
its
renown, and.
its
the darkness
turned
grief
Here,
in the
year A. D.
124
when
uries in rebuilding
The
city,
abandoned
in
A. D. 1244.
In England King John was resident at the Temple when be was compelled by bis barons to sign Magna Charter. The order in England exercised a magniheient hospitality,
Limisso, the Grand Master. Gaudini, died, and was sucA. D. 1295 by Brother Jaques de Molay, of the
ceeded
54
'I'll
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
in
Burgundy.
the English
at
the head
to
of
the
the
period
of his election
dignity
of
Grand
of
Jn A. D. [299 the Templars joined the Tartar forces, and, after defeating the army of the Sultans
Master.
Damascus and Egypt, and the reduction of Aleppo, Hems, Damascus, and other cities, once again entered The illness of Casar Cham, the Emperor of Jerusalem. the Mogul Tartars, subsequently deprived the Templars
n!
again
Limisso,
of
the
order
in
Palestine.
dark day
at
last
dawned upon
the
fortunes of the
Templars.
seized
Europe became jealous of them; disputes arose the order; their moneys were by Edward I., of England; they incurred the hatred
le
13th of October,
D.
1307,
the
Templars
in
ously arrested.
The
vigorous
Philip
the example set by was followed by other sovereigns, they were mostl)
in
some
years,
and on the
or
day of March. A.
D.
the
[313,
Grand
Master
of
original
Templars,
imprisonment of nearly
six years,
and burned
at
the
55
now
Henry IV.
detail of the cruelties prac-
grand and chivalric order, whose only crimes of pride and wealth have been long obliterated from the page of history by the stains of their persecution and blood.
of this
-
members
procured
suffering
death,
them the gratitude and applause of mankind, without fear the most cruel and ignominious
indeed,
in
was,
spectacle
well
calculated
to excite
emotions of pity
ion
we may
entertain
unhappy order every mind of sensibility will compassionate the fate of the Templars and curse the inhuman policy
of Philip the Fair.
LIST OF
I.
1
Hugh
Robert
1
1
installed
February
Robert
15,
11 13; died
136.
_'.
^\
Burgundy
(Lord
de
Crayon);
114O; ab-
installed
3.
30.
;
installed
installed
1151;
Sir
killed in
Ascalon,
1153.
An
illustrious
Bertrand de
iq.
1
Blanquefort
[56.
(Blanchefort)
installed
Philip de
1(7: abdicated in
Naplous (Philip of Nablous) installed Me was the first Grand Master 1170.
56
born
in
\K.
He
came
7.
ity,
Templar
Odo
de
St.
Amand;
installed
1170; died,
in captiv-
[179.
proud and
fiery
Arnold de Torroge (Torrage, or Troye) installed Had filled some [180; died, on a visit to Europe, 1184.
8.
;
in-
stalled
10.
it.
October
Sabboil,
4,
[189.
Walter
installed
installed 1189.
Robert de Sable
:
(Sabloil,
or
or
Sab-
laeus)
12.
13.
191.
;
installed
111)4.
;
Duplessies
died 12 17.
(De
Plesseis,
or
Du
Plessis)
installed
14.
1201
installed
1217:
died in Egypt
15.
Peter
1
in-
stalled
16.
2 18.
Hermann
1233; killed
(Herman
installed
Petragorius)
in-
stalled
17.
in the battle of
Gaza, 1244.
William de Sonnac;
Damietta, 1249.
1247; killed
installed
in
the
battle of
18.
Reginald de Yichier
Yieherius
1251;
died 1257.
19.
killed in bat-
Acre, 1291.
21.
Theobald Gaudin
129]
;
(De Gaudini,
or
Gaudinius)
installed
installed
22.
died T295.
;
[295; burned
T313.
Allison says
$7
March, 1313. Some authors nth of March, 1313. Mackey nth of March, 13 14.
As Molay
said
to
there
is
a diversity of opinions
among
four
the historians.
Knights
Templar
is
sources,
which
would therefore make as many divisions of the order: First The Templars who claim John Mark Larmenius as the successor of Molar, from which spring the Tem-
plars of France,
who
From this Larmenius by Molay. charter sprang the French Templars, and in which body the Duke of Sussex was knighted and received authority to establish a Grand Conclave in England, which he did hut
of a charter given to
The theory
Father
of the
Duke
or
Bonani,
an
Italian
was (and the theory is still maintained by the order at Paris), that when Molay was about to suffer at the stake, he sent for Larmenius, and in prison, with the consent and approbation of such knights as were present, appointed him his successor, with the right of making a
similar appointment
On
the death
oi
the office of
Grand
it
authority
whom
line of was in like Grand Masters, a list of which is in our possession carrying same down to 1840, with Sir William Sidney Smith as Grand Master. The succession to the Grand Mastership fell to Fahre Palaprat, who attested as Grand Master in
1804.
The Order
leagues, began
now
to
as the only
58
III
i:
K \
[GHTS
TI'.M I'l.AK,
The Grand Master was distinguished by the high sounding titles of "Most Eminent Highness, Very Great, Powerful, and Excellent Prince, and Most Serene Lord." It still claims to be the tme depository
Ancient
of the powers and privileges of Order of ECnights Templar, and denounces
the
all
only
its
many
Masonic historians.
LIST OF
GRAND MASTERS, ACCORDING TO THE FRENCH SYSTEM, FROM A. D. 1313 TO 1S40. Mark Larmenius, 1313. John
;
otherwise
Francis
[497.
[516.
James Ruxellius de Granceio, [651. James Henry, Due de Duras, 1681. Philip, Duke of Orleans, 1705. Louis Augustus Bourbon, 1724. Louis Henry Bourbon Conde, 1737.
59
Louis Francis Bourbon Conty, 1741. Louis Hercules Timoleon, Due de Cosse Brissac, 1776.
Second
The Templars
who
and who claim that d'Aumont Knights Templar into Scotland and tied with several sought refuge with the fraternity of Free Masons.
as the successor of IMolay
This legend
is
Andrew Michael
Ramsey's tradition, who claimed that all Free Masons were Knights Templar, in fact, that Free Masonry sprang
from Templarism.
Alexander Laurie holds
to this theory.
Templar
sys-
Lyons,
in
reform of Ramsey.
This chapter conferred the three degrees of Symbolic
Masonry, Knights of the Eagle, Illustrious Knights Templar, and Sublime Illustrious Knight and other high MaBaron Hund received sonic degrees, grades and orders.
the high degrees in this chapter the Rite of Strict Observance, a
duced
in
Germany
Scottish
in
1754.
mont
Strict
the
Templars
Masonry,
which
known
as the
Third Those Templars who derive their Templarism from Count Beaujen, the nephew of Molay, and member of the Order of the Knights of Christ, the name assumed by
60
the
ill
I.
KNIGHTS
Tl'.M l'LAR,
Templars of
authority
is
from that
duced the order into Sweden, where he incorporated it with Free Masonry. Therefore the Templar Masons of Sweden
claim
their
this
descent
from
is
Rite
through
source
Templar system.
independent
Fourth
Those
origin and refuse to recognize the authority of either of the three or of Larmenius,
Aumont
or Beaujen.
There are two subdivisions ^i this class of Templars, Scotland and England were the Scotch and the English. countries in which the independent Templars the only
found a foothold, and Scotland the only country Templars were not persecuted.
in
which
The
try.
the dissolution
European coun-
One
army
Order of Scotland by him after the battle of Bannockburn. Another portion of the Scotch Templars united with the Knights
of Robert Bruce and were
in
merged
the Royal
them embraced the Protestant faith. Some ^\ them united with the Free Masons and established "The \ncient Lodge'* at Sterling, where they conferred the degrees of Knight of the Sepulcher, Knight of Malta and Knights Templar. The Masonic Templars of Sooly^wr are said to have descended from that body called the "Baldwin Encampment," or from one of the four co-ordinate encampments of London. Bath, York and Salisbury, which, it is claimed, were formed by members of the preceptory which had long existed at Bristol, and on the dissolution
Many
of
Masons.
6
existed
it
claims
to
have
back
over
all
campments, and
Knights Templar, whose forefathers fled for security into the Lodges of Free Masonry, the Knights Templar of the United States and
is
from
this division of
While there
is
and cere-
monial forms of the priories of Great Britain and her dependencies with those of commanderies working under the
jurisdiction
of
is
the
a
Grand
Encampment
in
of
the
United
in
States there
respects.
is
difference
the
two systems
in the
other
In fact,
United States
different
all
The governing bodies of Great Britain and her dependencies are: "The Great Priory of the United Orders of the Temple and of St. John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes
and Malta
sonic
in
England and
the colonies
and dependencies
of the United
of the British
Ma-
in
Priory of the
ple in
British
da."
Crown; and the Sovereign Great Priory of CanaEach body presided over by a Great Prior. Sub-
by a prior.
a a
profess
the
Holy and Undivided Trinity, while in the for the Order of the Temple are hold membership in both lodge and chapter,
62
yet
when they may apply for Templar orders, and instead of being subscribers to a beliei in the "Holy and Undivided Trinity'' they subscribe
no time
limit
as to
the
Religion."
The
require-
Holy and Undivided was eliminated from the requirements at the formation of the Grand Encampment of the United States in
ments
as to professing a belief in the
Trinity
[81 6.
The Order
that
as
it
of
the
"Red
in
Cross''
is
not
embraced
in
of the
is
English,
in this
country
The legend
reign of Darius, and has no analogy with the chivalric orders of knighthood.
lonish
Pass, taken
It is
Baby-
from
The Red
cated
in
Cross, however,
permitted to he communiin
Canadian preceptories
to visit
order
to
qualify
our
Canadian fraters
the border.
sonic authors as to
when
in
this
degree or order
first
made
upon
its
appearance
It is
in
mentioned
relied
St.
to
establish the
Andrews
It
is
lodge,
Charleston,
1783.
not
enumerated among the degrees conferred upon Bro. William Davis, in St. Andrews Royal Arch Lodge, Boston, in
[769; hut in 1707. however, that body "voted that the Knights of the Red Cross, by Brother Benjamin Hurd,
Jr.,
and they are hereby, permitted to make their records in the hook of the chapter," a privilege that was
he.
of.
not availed
in the
year
1805, and
63
was manufactured by Thomas Smith Webb from the Knight of the East or Sword, Knight of the East and
West, of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite.
Encampment,
at
Denver,
honor
fraternal
relations exist
of the
of
England and Wales, of Scotland, of Ireland, and of the Dominion of Canada. Each of these bodies has accepted the Concordat of 1910 as binding upon it in its relations to other governing bodies of the Order of the Temple, and that peace and harmony exist between the Orders of Christian Knighthood throughout the world."
<>4
KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
The Knights
of Malta
was
a fraternity of
Hospitallers,
upon
prompted by a zeal for the deot the holy land, to take up arms against the infense fidels; an order, which, amidst the noise and clashing of swords, and with a continual war upon their hands, was
of
capable
the
virtues
of
religion
with
in the held.
its
history
received
St.
the
Knights of
lastly.
Hospitalin in
lers
of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem,
when
the city
was
Mohammedans,
Knights.
It
then
received
many
It
was then
of
the
Hospital,
was a
breast.
This was
in
the year
moo-
Gerard died and was succeeded by Raymond du Puy, when the peaceful habits and monastic seclusion of the Brethren of the Hospital, which had keen fostered by Gerard no longer suited the warlike genius of his successor, who changed the character of the order by which it
In
1
1
iS
became a military order, devoted to active labors in the fields and the protection of Palestine from the encroachments of the infidels.
65
harr'assed
1.,
by a continual warfare, gladly accepted this addition to The order being thus organized on a military his forces.
basis, the
members took
new
oath, at the
hands of the
infidels in
the
Holy Land
1 1
to the last
done
18,
is
Raymond du Puy
Grand Master.
chronicle
of
is,
by
all
historians,
The
history of the
first
this
but a
Christian faith.
1
When
in
town and
fortress of Pales-
tine,
acknowledged the Christian sway. In 1191 they made Acre, which in that year had been captured by
which
still
the
Christians,
their
principal
place
of
residence.
With
other infidel hordes, for one hundred years, Acre, their last
stronghold
victorious
in
the
Holy Land,
fell
Cyprus, where
On
account
became so disgusted that they determined some other residence. On the 5th of August, 3 10, the island of Rhodes became the prize of the conquering forces of the order, and the Knights of St. John here established themselves, and fortified their stronghold
the Hospitallers
to
1
seek
with those great defenses which attest at this day the architectural
pital.
and engineering
skill
Hos-
66
For two hundred and twelve years the Knights of St. John made their home in the Island of Rhodes, when, in 1522, it was besieged with overwhelming force by the
great Solyman, and. on the 26th of
fell
and excited the admiration of Europe. On the night of January 1, [523, they hade adieu to Rhodes and found
refuge
in
Candia.
Emperor Charles Y.
St.
commonly known
Malta sustained
a
brave
Grand Master La
liant
Yallette,
adding new
tinguished.
wondrous
forti-
The
Malta.
In
1798
it
struggle by
lanimous Grand Master, to the French army under Bonaparte: and this event
may
The
great
6j
1798,
a
of the
order.
On
the
27th of October,
was
held,
I.
was
elected
Grand
Master.
We
on a detailed history of
order ends with the
1798.
All
that has
its
remained of
it
is
shadow
of
former
existence.
The
pitallers,
John of Jerusalem, sometimes called and Knights of Malta, on the dispersion of the
in
despersion of the Templars that had belonged to the unfortunate Knights Templar.
It
al-
ways been a bitter rivalry between the two orders, marked by unhappy contentions, which on some occasions, while both were in Palestine, amounted to actual strife. The Templars never felt nor expressed a very kindly feeling towards the Knights of St. John or Knights of Malta,
and since they accepted of an unjust appropriation of
goods and treasure
in
their
De Molay,
left
as they passed
of the Hospital.
Mackey
is
The Order
of
John or Knights of Malta never were connected with Free Masonry; on the contrarv they seem to have been in-
68
imical to Free
KX
^Masonry from
when
in
Malta.
Ma-
in
third,
Knights of Malta as an appendant to the Order of the Temple is to be found in the fact that the order still exists, with however hut few in membership, and in somewhat decayed condition, and that its members claim an uninterrupted descent from the Knights who, with Homepesch,
left
in
1797,
and
threw
themselves
1856 the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States, being convinced that the incorporaIn
tion of the
making
the
Order of Malta with the Knight Templar, and same person the possessor of both orders, was
all
historic truth,
at
its
ses-
from the
Grand Encampment was again restored and is now provided with a full form and a short form ritual, the full form being seldom used. The short form constitutes the Scripture readings and the modes of recogniColumbus, Ohio,
in
1862.
it
tion
and
is
Commanderv and become a member thereof. The form ceremonial is a beautiful and impressive lesson. Your historian, when Commander of Ottawa Commandery in 1886-7. ,,n two or three occasions, conferred the Order of Knights of Malta in full form and ceremony.
the
full
6()
SEXTENNIAL.
BY FAY HEMPSTED,
Poet Laureate of Free Masonry.
the lees of life, and nothing more, the years have come to the triple score? Is it only the close of a winter's day, Where the sunshine fades in the west away? It is only the tip of the mountain crest, Where the lingering rays of the sunlight rest; And where, through the mists of the past are seen The ghosts of the joys that once have been; While down in the valley, far below. Lie the graves of the things of long ago?
Is it
When
Nay, nay. Not that. For he who holds By the simple faith that the world enfolds, Finds, unto life's last, feeblest spark, That the daylight far exceeds the dark; That the seasons bring, as they glide away, More days of brightness than days of gray; That the spring gives place, in its varied moods, To the mellowing tints of the autumn woods; And stars come out in the evening air,
Which we
fail to
And
here, as I backward turn mine eye, O'er the faded days that behind me lie. How like a flitting glimpse appears, The vista made by these sixty years!
Gone; and forever. Beyond recall, Each deed for itself to stand or fall, In the eyes of Him who judgeth all.
But yet we cling to the firmer hope That each will be seen in its wider scope: And out of His mercy we be hailed With a large allowance where we failed.
As the day
And
dies out in a golden gleam, the red west glows with its parting beam;
I,
Wish
comes my and not As the old year passes, sad and slow,
So would
friends,
when
it
lot,
Wrapped
and
clear.
Where
May
20, 1915.
7<>
difference
of
opinion
manifested by
Ma-
Laurie
his
in
Edinburg,
chiv-
Scotland, A.
alry and
1804. says:
is
Free Masonry
exemplified in the
is
well
known
that
was an order of chivalry, that the Templars performed its ceremonies, and were influenced by its precepts, and we have already shown that the same association was initiated into the mysteries, was regulated by the maxims, and practiced the rites of Free Masonry.
Before leaving
teresting- to
this subject, says Laurie,
it
may
be in-
some
readers,
satisfac-
tion of others, to show in what manner the Knights Templar became depositaries of the Masonic mysteries. Almost all the secret associations of the ancients either
flourished or originated
tries.
It
in
was here
From
-
this
members
of that trading
in
which appeared
association
Mount
Li-
As
formed
time,
it
was
a
originally
Syria,
and
existed
there
for
considerable
would be no improbable supposition that they received their Masonic knowledge from the lodges in that
quarter.
we are fortunately in this case not left to conjecture, for we are expressly informed by a foreign author (Adler de Donsis Montis Libani. Rom. 1786) who was
well
of
Syria,
that the
members
of the
Syrian fraternities.
how
fleeing
from
their
among
and secretly communicate their secrets and create them Knights Templar. It
the ceremonies of the
to their benefactors
is
well
known
that
were communicated as
bolic
one degree
in the Military
Sym-
Lodge, which quartered near Dublin, Ireland. natural for the fugitive knights, while conquered
still
How
and
of
old
and joined
their
fortunes with
armies
becoming members of the military lodges, communicated the ceremonies of the Knights Templar to a particular friendly brother Free Mason.
of the British Isles and,
It
is
known
that
members
cated at and
session
of these so-called
and several of them, after serving their time in the military service, returned to their homes in Scotland and affiliated
with the Symbolic Lodges
in their respective
home towns,
and that as early as 1796 the degrees of Royal Arch and Knights Templar were conferred as one degree in the May-
Arch Lodge. Scotland. The Royal Arch degree was introduced into Ayershire, Scotland, between the years 1771 and 1778 through, the medium of the Hibernian element which then permeated
bole Royal
the
Lodge
St.
James, Newton-upon-Ayr.
Tt
/ascertained
I'll
KNIGHTS
TF.M
I'f.AR,
definitely
whether during
this
period
they
dubbed
Masonic Knights, but their pretensions to the knowledge and practice of degrees other than those of Craft Masonry were supported by their assumption of the title of "Super-Excellent Royal Arch Lodge of Ayr," which title, however, they soon abandoned because of very few Masonic Lodges acknowledging them as a Masonic Lodge with such a title. When they resumed their proper title, "Lodge St. James," the}' not only continued to work
the
Templar, and
was through its members that a desire for was created in their own province. In 1796 a few members of the Lodge Maybole, together with one or two Irish brethren, who were in possession of
Knights Templar and surreptitiously began to confer
the degrees of
73
how
to live
Prepared a way to die? Hath not the prayer thou lisped at her dear knee Remained a solace and a guide to thee? Hath not her love, her life, her purity of soul Placed one small seed within thy heart? 'Though sown amongst a field of tares Hath not that one small seed found root ? And, nurtured on by mother's tears and prayers, Will not that one small seed bear fruit? Oh, weary, wandering, struggling manhood think Think of the day when thou wert young, wert true; Forget this weary race for gold and place Look back in memory meet thy mother face to face. Now ask thyself, art thou afraid to die? Art thou afraid to meet that mother dear on high? Art thou afraid to make thy peace with God Ere this poor hulk of flesh and bone shall rest beneath the sod? Ah, no, methinks thou'rt not afraid to die; And when thy race on earth shall be full run
Thou'lt close thine eyes in thy last sleep, And, with a smile upon thy lips, Thou'lt go to meet thy God and loved ones gone Prepared by mother's love and prayers to j&teJLi**^ Prepared by mother's love and prayer to die. G. F. Orgibet.
74
l'LAk,
St.
instituted in Bos-
ton,
first
Mass., by the
Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1756. Its recorded meeting' was held August 18. 1769, in MaBoston, and the record of that meeting
is
sonic hall.
first
the
Tem-
plar, so far as
known,
of St.
in this
The records
have and
Masons,
Arch
and was accordingly made by receiving the four steps, Royal Arch, and Knights
Templar."
to
the
it
in this in
is
now
prerequisite
any
other
country
than
the
Temple
that ^\
8.
being conferred
in a
is
Kilwinning Lodge.
warranted October
1779.
its
1782.
is
and Kilwinning Lodge. Ireland, received So their warrants from the Grand Lodge of Scotland. also did Maybole Royal Arch Lodge of Scotland, in which
Mass.,
S.
A.,
the
in
one ceremonial.
The neophyte
75
burning tapers.
Christ,
The one
in
Apostles.
told
ter;
it
One was extinguished by the neophyte and was who betrayed his Masone was burning dim, and was called Peter who had
represented Judas Jscariot,
his Master.
Something on a table under a white cloth being uncovered was perceived to be n s a h which the neophyte was desired to take 1, up and view it. and was told it was a real s of a brother called Simon Magnus. Porter was poured into the
1
1,
so,
and
which the neophyte was desired to drink; he did it was handed round to the Knights assembled.
The
it, and dub thee in the name of the Father, Son. and Holy Ghost." The above is from the testimony of one William Hamilton before the court which sat at Ayr, Scotland, Sept. 17, 1800, under
panel
Andrew
sword
"1
into
Eskgrove, Bart.).
It
Lord Justice-Clerk (Sir David Rae of was a case brought about through the
Haute Grades. They first preferred charges against them in the Grand Lodge of Scotland with using Paine's Age of Reason instead of the Holy Scriptures, and that the obligations assumed were derogatory to the government After the Lord Justice-Clerk summed up the evidence
the
in
the trial at
Ayr he observed
tion.
in
Though
it
this species of
still
crime
may
the law
may
be applied to remedy
when
does occur.
The
y6
it
Til E
KNIGHTS
TI'.M IM.AU,
does not
is
it
stood before.
The
oath
may he emHis lordship said he could not any such ceremonies were employed in Masons'
they
are so
because
it
the
and not
in
them
to retire
first
and return
morning.
its
The
the next
sitting
morning was to receive the verdict of "That we all in one voice find the facts
in
the jury:
liheled
not
proven."
D. Murray Lyon
his
in
Knights
mem-
The encampments on
their
part reciprocated
the
compliment by initiating the office bearers of the lodges in which they were received into the several degrees worked
by them.
This exchange of courtesies tended to wider dissemination in lodges of a taste for the
much so that possession of made a prerequisite to office-holding under the charters oi the Grand Lodge. It was to the military lodge Ayr and Renfrew Militia
so
JJ
by the Lodge
that order.
1799 the
The connection
the Royal
says Bro. Lyon, but that from the records that he has seen
there
is
such
union
existed.
St. Paul's
Master Masons, after having regularly passed the chair of the lodge, were admitted to that of Excellent and SuperExcellent Royal Arch Masons, and likewise duly dubt Night Templars, viz the R. W. M. of Sterling Royal
:
Arch.
."
later date
than that of
is
St.
that St.
AnAnthe
warrant
from
Grand Lodge of Scotland, and it is reasonable to suppose Arch and Knights Templar degrees were conferred at a
much
Scotch Lodge
lodges while
by brethren
serving
in
who had
received
them
in military
in
brethren
and the Andrew's Lodge at Boston, Mass., or introduced the degrees and orders in St. Andrew's Lodge must have received their knowlthe militia
and quartered
Ireland,
St.
who
of
in the military
lodge
The Order
of the
Temple continued
to
be conferred
78
to spring up.
None
to the
of the
of
Encampment
in
history of Knights
Tem1
Commanderies Nos.
and
organized
in
Harrisburg and Xo. 4 of Carlisle, the years 1793 and 1797, respectively, derived
their authority
Grand Lodsfe
79
FORMED
nor
deem my
spirit fled;
me
From
Whatever flows
1
never
dull.
I quaff'd like thee: earth my bones resign; Fill up thou canst not injure me; The worm hath fouler lips than thine. I
lived,
I
loved,
let
died:
Better to hold the sparkling grape, Than nurse the earth-worm's slimy brood; And circle in the goblet's shape The drink of gods, than reptile's food.
Where once my
hath shone,
And when, alas! our brains are gone, What nobler substitute than wine?
Quaff while thou canst: another race, When thou and thine, like me, are' sped, May rescue thee from earth's embrace, And rhyme and revel with the dead.
Why
life's little
Our heads such sad effects produce; Redeem'd from worms and wasting clay,
This chance
is
day
theirs, to
be of use. Byron.
8o
of
Grand Encampment
in
iSS^
made
tory
"On
to
in
full
to appear in public
dredth anniversary of
organization.
Columbia Commandery Xo. 2. Georgia Commandery Xo. 1, and Palestine Commandery Xo. 7.
bration
to
Eminent Commander of South Carolina Commandery Xo. 1, had led me to believe it possible that our orders of Knighthood had been conferred in CharlesS.
Jennison,
tjSo).
A
in
claim so in-
many
re-
this
1
country
received
unE.
the investigation
W.
of
J.
Pollard,
representative of the
S.
Jennison,
Eminent
1.
Commander
Carolina
Commandery No.
and learning,
in
Charleston. S.
C, March
23,
1855,
by
Theodore
S.
Gourdin, then
1,
Commander
of South Carolina
Commandery Xo.
is
of Knights
in
was
established
is
Nov.
7,
consumed by fire. " 'It is clear, however, that this encampment was in active operation in 1803, and continued so until long after the date of our oldest record, for, on December 29, 1824, it was "Resolved, That, in consideration of the long, and faithful services of our Most Eminent Past Grand Com1823, having been lost or
mander, Francis Sylvester Curtis, who regularly paid his arrears to this encampment for more than twenty years, he
be considered a
his
life
member
membership take date from November, 1823." "In Mackey's History of Free Masonry in South Carois
lina
ter LI.
" 'Knights
Templarism
in
South Carolina.
involved
in
The
seal
exact
hood
into
South Carolina
is
much
obscurity.
in
the
South Carolina Encampment, No. 1, of Knights Templar, and the appendant orders, was estabany reference
in the
con-
to the existence of
I
South
have,
obtaining indisputable
in
Charleston
regu-
organized body as far back as the year 1783, and have no doubt that the seal with the date "1780," to which
refers,
Gourdin
have stated
is
contained
in
82
III
KM CI ll'S
TKM
is
I'LAU,
irrefutable.
in
have
in
my
in
possession
diploma written
a
in
very neat
chirog-
wax
in
attached, one
black, of the
Knights Templar.
'The upper part of the diploma contains four devices
within tour circles,
all
skillfully
executed
with
is
the
a
pen.
The
first
device, beginning in
star of
seven points,
the motto,
pillars,
name
in
is
the center,
and
"Memento Mori";
the second
an arch on two
neath the arch, and "Holiness to the Lord" for the motto;
the third
is
created
on
Hominum"
and
a
the fourth
is
the skull
devices
is
evidently
to the
'Idle
first
Lodge
of Perfection,
show
order of Templarism
"
in
'The diploma
is
in these
words
"We.
\\?(\
the
High
Priest. Captain
Commandant
St.
of the
Cross,
Invincible
Order of
i.
Knights Templar of
in
Andrew's
Lodge, No.
Charleston, S.
C,
under charter from the Grand Lodge of the Southern District of North America, do herebv certify that our true and
well-beloved brother. Sir
Henry Beaumont,
hath
passed
Cross, and a
Knight of that
of
Most
Holy,
Invincible
and
Magnanimous Order
Knights Templar,
Knights Hos-
83
like
true
and
faithful
brother,
we
affectionately
recommend him
to all the
our Lodge,
day of August, 5783, and of Malta 3517. "George Carter, Capt. Gen'l.
""'Thos. Pashlev.
1st
King.
"Wm.
"R.
'
Nisbett, 2d King.
Mason, Recorder."
fol-
'A note
:
at the
lowing
in this
information contained
am
Commandery,
1855,
by Theodore
S.
Gourdin.
Mr.
who
many
"To
the
subject which was contained in the minutes of the Commandery, or in contemporary records. I have, I confess, found little to glean in the held over which he passed.
"I have, however, ventured, in a few instances, to dissent
from
his theories,
Having learned from Sir Knight Jennison that the Hon. E. \Y. M. Mackey, the son of Albert G. Mackey, the author of the history of Free Masonry in South Carolina, was in Washington, and probably
84
had the original diploma mentioned in the history, I became acquanted with him and he kindly placed the diploma
in
my
possession,
in
and subsequently,
to
at
my
the
request, author-
ized
me
his
name
present
I
it
to
Grand Encamp-
ment of
it
the
United States.
to you.
"On
the 6th of
May, 1881,
letter
Sir
Knight W.
in
J.
Pollard.
Boston, wrote
me
which he says:
from the South Carolina Gazette, some period not clearly defined there was a Lodge established in West Florida, called St. Andrew's Lodge. No. 40, and that it was moved to Charleston about 1783, and was chartered as a York Lodge in the city of Charleston, July, 1783, by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.'
find in Charleston,
that at
"He
also called
my
by
Sir
Knight Jennison of valuable papers relating to the Encampment. Sir Knight Jennison also sent me copies of the
papers.
The
letters
for a while,
careful examination of
words 'Lodge No. These words and figures were not as prominent as
and seem to have escaped
Mackey.
"A
two
were
sight,
showing
in
in
that
there
One
of these
ribbons
is
quite
rotten.
looked
vain
through Bro.
this
Lodge No 40 with
An-
HISTORY OF
drew's Lodge, No.
in
i,
OTTAWA COMMANDERV.
85
the diploma.
looked
sults, until in
in
South Carolina by M.
sent
W. Wilmot
I
G. DeSaussure. P.
me by
:
Sir
Knight Pollard,
Pennsylvania)
'That
(the warrant)
St.
No.
Lodge of 40 was
West
July, 1783.'
;]; >[;
>;; >jj
now quote:
"
8,
1783.
" 'Present. R.
'
W. Win.
'Lodges Nos.
2, 3, 4, 9,
and 19 represented.
St.
" 'A
Andrew's Lodge.
No.
1,
late of
West
Florida, and
now
of Charleston, S.
C,
W.
reading.
"Agreed, that a
master and
of
Edward Weyman,
is
Lodge No.
38, to
whom
letter
also requested to be
power and authority to act agreeably be given to him by this Grand Lodge."
together with Bros.
Hamilton and
to
8<
III
NIGH TS T E M
I'LAR,
lay their
at
their next
meeting.'
i_\
[783.
'R.
\Y.
'Lodges Nos.
13
Lodge
1,
Wey-
'(
)n
draw
No.
Bro.
1
a
)
Andrew's Lodge,
by him de-
which warrant
of
to be transmitted to
Weyman, Master
1,
livered to the
38, to be
St.
Andrew's Lodge,
Xo.
and accept
to be
under
this jurisdiction.'
"The same
December
1783; December
^^S: March
August March
8,
June 17, 1784; October 29, 1784; December 20, 1784; 4, 1784: 28, 1785; April 21, 1785; June 20, 1785; October
y
1785; October iy
1785; February
17,
1785; December
3,
6,
1785; December
27,
1787; June
18,
1787; December
December
"In the
15,
list
1788;
volume
is
found
No. 40. St. Andrew's Lodge, Charleston, South Carolina; granted July 12. 1783; surrendered and renewed May 2^, 1787; surrendered September 24, 1787; joined the Grand
87
9,
from brother George Carter, Master of 40, of Charleston, South Carolina, addressed to the R. W. Grand Master, was read, informing that he had received the warrant sent him by this Grand Lodge, by the hands of Bro. Weyman, as also one other letter to
'A
letter
Lodge No.
in
behalf of
17,
consequence of a
letter
received
by
Alexander
Lodge No. 40, and a representation of the irregularities of Lodges No. 38 and 40 communicated by Bro. Young), Bros. Proctor, Young, Howell and Jennings,
Petrie, late of
(
proxies to> said lodges, are directed to write to, and give them such brotherly admonition as may appear necessary."
"To
still
ma
you
can render
to
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania show to whom charNo. 40 was given.' I also myself wrote to Sir Knight Charles K. Meyer, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Sir Knight Jennison sent me an original Pennsylvania. official communication, of which the following" is a copy:
" 'C. " 'Register
" 'E.
KERRISON,
JR.
L.
Jennison, Esq.
"'Dear Sir and Brother: In reply to yours of the 13th, I beg leave to state that none of the parties named in same appear on the books of this office, but one, viz: Wm. Nesbett. Several transactions of his are recorded between the^years 1779 and 17S4. " 'I write this officially, as you may so desire.
"
'Very respectfully,
C.
KERRISON,
JR.,
" 'Register,
M.
88
"Sir
follows
"
:
III
KNIGHTS
I'.M
I'l.AK,
to
my
inquiry as
'Pardon my seeming delay or neglect in answering your letter. 1 have been trying to gain you some information about Lodge No. 40. A warrant was directed to be issued on July 12, 1783, by William Adcock, G. M., Alex Rutherford, D. G. M., Thomas Proctor, D. G. W., George Ord, J. G. W., for Lodge No. 40, of which George Carter was to be the first Master, Thomas Pashley, Senior Warden, William Nesbett, Junior Warden. " 'The Lodge has no name, but was number forty on our list. and was located at Charleston, S. C. " 'I have searched the records and find no further record, except in the book of warrants as above. There are no papers, applications, or list of names. do not think they ever returned any names.'
I
it
is
St.
its
and 'Lodge No. 40' is on the seal, and that the warrant from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was authorized on
the 12th of July previous.
'3'
'7'
in
the
different handwriting
from the body of the diploma, showing the diploma was one of a number prepared in advance, and
Recorder)
that
it
was merely
filled
wards.
"The evidence of the authenticity of the diploma would seem to be condensive. and therefore it proves what is contained in it that the Lodge was held 'under charter from the Grand Lodge of the Southern District of North America,' and that it conferred the degrees of Knighthood
in
mentioned
it.
to this
Commandin
memoranda
will
he found
Appen-
dix
'F.'
89
in the
who wrote
there
winter of 1880- 1 to
Grand
a
live
was
Knight Templar
letter to
in
Charleston.
Brother E,
S. Jennison,
Sir
a box among other Masonic papers; that they belonged to a widow of a son of John Snow, and that he wished to get $5.00 for them for her,
wrote to Sir
to he in the possession of
i.
"They
for
Encampment on
Grand Encampment
Snow,
G. G. G. of the General
States.
Grand Encampment
of the United
"One
archives,
it
full operation under the sanction of the warrant of Blue Lodge, No. 40, upwards of thirty years ago, and continued in operation many years, subsequent, and has, time out of mind, caused to he made and used a common seal. It also
Encampment has
lain
dor-
mant
of the
of the age
"The seals on the documents found in Ohio are the same as that on the circular, with the exception that 'Lodge
90
No. 40'
is
E KX
[GHTS T
MI'I.Ak,
in
Ohio, and
'S.
C.
Enc,
No.
seal
1.
17K0,'
on the
is
circular.
The impression
of the
on the diploma
identical with,
I
am
about to describe.
story
finding-
now
come
seal
to
the curious
of
1.
the original
of South Carolina
Encampment, Xo.
seal of loss of
'Lodge No.
which are
unknown.
"My
researches
in
Grand
Secretary's
office
in
Salmon
gave
Falls,
it
seal in his
He
in
to
me
to he disposed of according
it
my
discretion,
of a cook of
in the
schooner
Dover, X. H.
He
bought
it
Massa-
The cook
house
it
said that
he had a
little
it
Bath,
pirate
He money. On
Maine.
also said
it
was
it
own
money
probably
was connected with the Knights Templar, he did not think it was worth so much, and parted with it. It is of silver, of which seals were made at the time of its date.
of South Carolina
now have the pleasure, in the name of. and in behalf Commandery, Xo. 1, to present to this Grand Encampment, for its safe preservation, the valuable
"I
seal
of which
This con1,
Commandery, Xo.
"But
this
is
not
all.
further rewarded.
In con-
91
Sidney Hayden, the author of 'Washington and his Masonic Compeers/ the result of which was the following letter,
throwing a flood of
his
light
now pursuing
the
Pa.,
May
1,
1883.
Jennison, Esq. "'Dear Sir and Brother: I received, last week, your letter of April 25th, also your pamphlet relating to S. C. Commandery, No. 1. Please accept my sincere thanks for this interesting document. " 'My infirmities of age are such as to prevent me from answering very fully your letter, and my physician forbids me to tax mind or body with study or labor to any extent that fatigue me, so I can only give you a brief reply. " 'We know nothing of Masonry in Florida (if any existed there) till after Florida became a British province in 1763, at the close of the old French war. It then became known as the Southern District of the British possessions in America, and was divided by the English government into two provinces, called East and West Florida, over each of which an English colonial government was appointed, with their respective capitals at St. Augustine and Pensacola.
" 'James Grant was made Governor of East Florida, and in 1768 he received a charter from the G. L. of Scotland to establish a Lodge in St. Augustine. Its registry number in Scotland was 143; the same year (1768) he was also appointed by the G. L. of Scotland as provincial Grand Master of the Southern District of North America, which embraced East and West Florida. Soon after his appointment (in 1770, I think) he established a Lodge in West Florida at Pensacola. This was called St. Andrew's Lodge, No.
1,
" 'E. S.
of
"
'I
in his dis-
trict.
" 'St.
have worked
at
the close of the Revolution, when, as Florida became again a Spanish province, Pensacola was deserted by many of its inhabitants, who had been British subjects, they removing to Charleston, S. C. This removal was mostly in 1783, and the year before, and with them it seems St. Andrew's Lodge was also removed, as this diploma shows, and also the records of the G. L. of Pennsylvania, and it applied in July, 1783, for a charter from the G. L. of Pennsyl-
<)_'
III E
NIGHTS
I'I'.M
I'l.AK,
was granted .Inly 12, 1783, to its former officers, with No. 40, on the Pa. G. L. registry. The receipt of this fa. warrant was acknowledged by Geo. Carter, its Master, Sept. 29, 1783, and it was between the time of its granting and the time it was received that this diploma was given, as shown by its date.
vania. which
its
"
'I
to this
me
to
copy.
" 'The seal of this Lodge, after it became No. 40 of Pa., was not the seal of this Lodge while St. Andrew's, No. 1. " 'The first seal you give print of with Lodge No. 40, at the bottom, was like the inscription on the fourth design at the head of This the diploma, as shown by Bro. Mackey in his description. seal was probably adopted after the Lodge became No. 40. " 'The print of the seal in your pamphlet, page 7, with S. C. Enc. No. 1, 1780, at the bottom, with some design as former above, was probably adopted after the Lodge became connected with the Ancient York G. L. of S. C. instead of Pa., or perhaps, as it gives
no number of
its
S.
C.
registry,
its
Encampment
adopted.
"
distinct
from
traditionally
true,
or
the
year or even before in Pensacola. These higher degrees in those times were conferred by no statute in Masonry, but what was then the common or unwritten law in Masonry, by which a regular Master's Lodge conferred any higher degrees of which they had knowledge on worthy Master Masons. " 'I do not feel able to extend this letter to you further. I am too feeble to fix my mind on the subject or make it very plain to you, and to copy all my notes relating to it in full would be a task with and scattered I can not undertake, as they are connected through so many papers and subjects. " 'Thanking you for your great kindness I am, dear sir and Truly yours, brother, '"(Signed) S. HAYDEN.
to confer the higher degrees
in that
"The foregoing
a
calls for
Chapman
volume, entitled
ton, Mass.'
'St.
records
have
93
They were
so important as to
summons taken from a plate for the summonses of the chapter. The plate itself, now in the archives of the chapter, is so much
worn and some of the emblems are so indistinct that no more impressions could be taken from it. "'The record shows that at the meeting held October 21, 1790, it was "Voted, That Bros. McKean, Moore,
Grooves and Hurd be
a
therein as relate to the order of Knighthood. " 'First. I present you with a heliotype of a
summonses
"
to be
stamped on."
'Thus authorized,
is still
and
it
in
much
worn;
it,
a sufficient
number
is
ten by
six
and
one-half
inches.
The
plate
is
so
much worn
it.
that but
T was, however,
summons
14,
the
heliotype
now
upon
this
Order of Knights Templar. 'Some of my correspondents, speaking of the South Carolina diplomas, had never heard of the officers "1st and 2d Kings" in any Masonic body. Bro. Chapman, vol. V., on page 194 of the Liberal Free Mason, quoting from the
record of St. Andrew's R. A. Chapter, says:
"On
the 25th
day of August, 1791, a committee was appointed to procure jewels for the lodge; also to prepare a form of cer-
94
tificate
T HE
to be given
to
the following
the meeting in
Sep-
tember
came from
the East!
Priest, First
all
men
enlightened
Brother A.
as a
B.,
was by us received
to his diligence
as a
mark due
and
zeal, did,
day of
exalt
in the
him to the degrees of Excellent, Super-Excellent, and Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar, worthy to be received as such at all Royal Arch Chapters, and as such we recommend him to all Royal Arch Lodges on the face of
"'"(riven under our hand and the
seal
the globe.
of our Royal
Arch Lodge,
in
Boston, this
day of
in the
vear of
at some time, either when adopted or word "and Knight Templar," and "and" in the attesting clause, were erased by drawing a pen through them; the subsequent records, however, prompt the conclusion that the "and Knight Templar" were not erased unThe summons does til they ceased to confer that order. not contain the first reference to Templarism. St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter was at first called "St. Andrew's Royal Arch Lodge" or "Lodge of Royal Arch Masons." and was held under the sanction of the charter of St. Andrew's
'It
appears that
later,
the
"
Lodere.'
95
The
"At
first
as follows
at
Mason's
hall,
Boston,
England, August 28, 1769. "Present, the R. W. Brother James Brown, M. Charles Chambers, S. W. Winthrop Gray, J. W. William McKean,
;
;
New
John Waddington, Joshua Loring, D. S. "The petition of Brother William Davis coming before
the lodge begging to have and receive the part belonging to
a
Royal Arch Mason, which being read was received, and he was unanimously voted in, and was accordingly made
by receiving the four steps, that of an Excellent, SuperExcellent. Royal Arch and Knight Templar."
in the subse-
Arch Mason." There could not be four degrees of a Royal Arch Mason without including Knight Templar. The lodge was a "Royal Arch Lodge." and the words "Royal Arch Mason" included the possession of the Order
of the Temple.
May, 1770, has this: Most Worshipful Joseph Warren, Esq., "Voted, that the should lie made a Royal Arch Mason this evening, and he was accordingly made, gratis." Thus it appears that Gen. Joseph Warren, who was slain at the battle of Bunker Hill, was a Knight Templar.
records of the 14th of
The
The record of another meeting reads: "The petition of Bro. Paul Revere coming before the lodge begging to become an Arch Mason, it was received, and was unanimously accepted, and accordingly made." So he, too, was a Knight Templar. "Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride
of Paul Revere,
96
On
Hardly
man
in
Who remembers
I'lk'
that
following record
made February
8,
1797,
the
Benjamine
This
make
was not done, however, and there is no subsequent Templar or Knights of the
at
Red Cross.
How long the Knights of the Red Cross had been work there are no means of ascertaining with certainty.
The record speaks
already existing, and
of the Knights of the
Benjamine
[789, eigbt
Htircl,
Jr.,
as
a
years
before
the ''Red
Royal
Arch
in St.
Encampment,
Boston
first
Red
Cross,
Commandery,
by
its
Eminent
Commander,
John
as a
body of Knights, though under different organizations, from [769, and put forth the right to rank from that date.
Alfred Creigh, LL.
1).,
K. T.,
etc.,
in
his
"History of
Knights Templar of
Pennsylvania,"
says:
"The
fire
of
7<>-4.
which
is
why
the
Templars
to join in the
formation of
97
Grand Encampment of the United States, he says: "But another insuperable objection was the degree of the Knights of the Red Cross, formed, fashioned, manufactured for New England and its dependencies, and our illustrious brother has well said that the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts and Rhode Island has furnished the ritual which is now used in all the Templar Orders in the United States." Let us examine into the character of the Red Cross order, and see if it is not as foreign to the Order of Christian Knighthood as the parables of Christ are to the building of
the temple in the degree.
Again, he says:
degree of Knight of
"Do you ask me from whence the Red Cross derived? I reply,
and
his associates
is
the
manufactured by
Webb
Webb
after that
And, now,
in
we discover that the orders Red Cross and Knight Templar were
earliest
hisin
1783
toriographer
eleven years before the date of the conferred a lodge holding charter of recogGrand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
!"
May we not well exclaim with our illustrious Bro. Pike, "How little we know of the early history of Masonry in
this
country
The records
"On January
Ephraim
7,
Carter, on which
occasion
the
words 'Knight
in the records.
William Cordwell
98
was present, also Samuel Moore and John Cadewas Tyler; this shows that Cordwell, as well as the others, was a Knight
Templar.
"Sept. 25, 3294." that
is,
M. and R. A. M.
well, A.
Newell,
W. Harris, W. Williams,
;
sec;
E.
W. McKean, W.
Cord-
Rumney.
Templar,
Bro.
Xewburyport."
Past Grand Master Gardner says: "Newhnryport Encampment of Knights Templar was
established
at
Newhnryport,
lost,
Mass.,
in
1795.
its
Its
old
organiza-
now
he obtained.
99
THE TEAR.
When friendship or love our sympathies move, When Truth in a glance should appear, The lips may beguile with a dimple or smile,
But the test of affection's a
tear.
Too oft is a smile but the hypocrite's wile To mask detestation or fear;
Give
Is
me
dimm'd
the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye for a time with a tear.
Mid charity's glow, to us mortals below, Shows the soul from barbarity clear; Compassion will melt where this virtue is
fell,
And
its
dew
is
diffused in a tear.
gale,
The man doom'd to sail with the blast of the Through billows Atlantic to steer, As he bends o'er the wave which may soon be The green sparkles bright with a tear.
The
his grave,
soldier braves death for a fanciful wreath In Glory's romantic career; But he raises the foe when in battle laid low.
tear.
Renouncing the gore-crimson'd spear, All his toils are repaid, when, embracing the maid,
From her
my youth! seat of friendship and Truth, "Where love chased each fast-fleeting year, Loth to leave thee, I mourn'd, for a last look I turn'd, But thy spire was scarce seen through a tear.
Sweet scene of
Though my vows I can pour to my Mary no more, My Mary to love once so dear, In the shade of her bower I remember the hour She rewarded those vows with a Tear.
By another possest, may she live ever blest Her name still my heart must revere: With a sigh I resign what I once thought was mine, And forgive her deceit with a tear.
OO
Ye friends
If
111
K K
GUTS TEM PJ ,A K,
from you
I
of
my
heart, ere
depart,
This hope to my breast is most near: again we shall meet in this rural retreat, May we meet, as we part, with a tear.
When my soul wings her flight to the regions of night, And my corpse shall recline on its bier, As ye pass by the tomb where my ashes consume,
Oh! moisten their dust with a Tear.
Which the children of vanity rear; No fiction of fame shall blazon my name,
I
ask
all
wish
is
a Tear.
Byron.
IOI
9,
1756.
19.
Brandford,
1760.
George
Co., Virginia,
Union Lodge, South Carolina, No. 98, Feb. 19, 1760. St. John Lodge, Norfolk, Virginia, Aug. 8, 1763. St. John Lodge, Philadelphia, 1773. There were also chartered in Virginia by the Lodge of
Kilwinning:
1775,
and the Lodge Grants, No. 143. East Florida, was chartered March 15, 1768, and at the same time Gov. James Grant was made Prow Grand Master of the Scotch lodges in the Southern District of North America.
May 31, 1769, Dr. Joseph Warren, at the request of the Boston lodges, was appointed ''Prov. Grand Master over the
lodges in Boston."
It is
in
Florida than those above named, and did not report the
Grand Lodge of Scotland. We make mention of these Scotch lodges in connection with this work because of the fact that the Royal Arch and Templar Masonry owe its origin largely to the Symbolic
fact to the
lodges of Scotland.
rind the earliest mention Royal Arch in this country in Florida, South Carolina. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
As heretofore mentioned we
in the
Scotch lodges.
[Q2
In
ill
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
[805 a Grand
I.,
Encampment
is
had
been
in
formed
state
in
Providence, R.
claiming jurisdiction
not a
"any
and
established."
It
1S1
"United States Grand Encampment." committee from this body, of which Thomas
chairman, was appointed to correspond
Smith
Webb was
recorded.
But on
adopted
May
15.
"Resolved,
other Grand
Grand Encampment to meet and confer with any or all Encampments that are now established within
the United States, or with such delegates as
may
be ap-
Grand Encampments upon all the Encampments of the United States under one head and general form of government, and that the said delegates be and are hereby invested with full power and authority to enter into such engagements and stipulations, and make such arrangements upon the said subject as they may deem expedient and proper to promote the honor and interests of the orders of
pointed by any or
all
of the said
Knighthood.
"Resolved, That M.
Sir
Henry Fowle,
of Boston, and
mentioned purposes."
also at this time a
There was
HISTORY" OF
OTTAWA COMMANDERY.
this body,
10^
181
6,
At
a special
meeting of
June
9,
held
General Grand
Encampment
tor the
United
States
of
America, should one be formed by said convention; provided the said General Grand
Encampment
recognizes this
Grand Encampment
over the state of
in its present
New
a
York."
Grand Encampment in Pennsylvania. The holding of the convention was evidently based upon the expectation that the three grand bodies named would be represented and participate. The convention was held, but no record of its action, if any was ever made, lias been preserved. At the next meeting of the United States Grand Encampment Webb made a report stating that it was impossible for the three Grand Encampments to unite in effecting the object for which they had met whereupon
There was also
;
New
delegates returned to New York and a convention was held there by'parties claiming to be "Delegates or Knight companions from eight councils," etc. The record of the formation of the Grand Encampment of the United States of America reads as follows "At a convention holden at Masons' Hall in the city of New York, on the 20th and 21st of June, 1816, consisting of delegates or Knights Companions from eight councils and Encampments of Knights Templar and ap-
The
I<>4
'I'll
"St. John's
Encampment, Providence.
"Ancient Encampment,
New
York.
"Templar Encampment, Albany. "Montg< wmery Encampment, Stillwater. "St. Paul's Encampment. Newburyport. "Newport Encampment, Newport.
"Darius Council, Portland."
In [816, when the national organization of Templars was commenced, it was denominated "The General Grand Encampment of Knights Templar and Appendant Orders
fur the
The
and
their subordinates
grand bodies were called Grand Encampments, Encampments. There was no protitle
of officers in either
Encampments, but usage gave the Most Eminent to each. The General Grand Encampment was formed after the model of the General Grand Chapter, and the constitution of the General Grand Chapter was taken as the basis of the constitution framed in Xew York in 1816. For General Grand Chapter was substituted General Grand Encampment: for Most Excellent General Grand High Priest, Most Eminent General Grand Master for state Grand Chapters, state Grand Encampment; for Most Excellent Grand High Priest. Most Eminent Grand Master; for Chapters, Encampments: and for Most Excellent High Priest. Most Eminent Commander. It might be noted here that in the old constitution of Encampments of Knights Templar prior to 1816 there were no Grand Prelate nor Grand Warden. The Grand Master was called Most Worshipful, and other grand officers Worshipful; then titles were changed from Worshipful to Em;
inent in
[816.
In 1856,
when
the General
in
IO5
make
was
at
this
and
more
decided
expression
ernment.
body was called ''Grand Encampment," the state grand bodies, "Grand Commanderies," and their subordinates, "Commanderies." The titles were also changed so that in the Grand Encampment of the United States we have M. E, Grand Master, R. E. Deputv Grand Master, and V. E. for the other Grand Officers. In the state Grand Commanderies, R. E. Grand Commander, V. E. Deputy Grand Commander, and E, for the other Grand Officers. In the subordinate Commanderies, E. Commander. At this meeting the terminal "s" was omitted from the word "Templar" in "Knights Templar."
At the adoption of the present constitution of the Grand in 1856 there were eleven Grand Commanderies with a membership of not to exceed thirty-five hun-
Encampment
dred.
The Grand Commanderies under the jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment, in 1856, were: Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Maine. Vermont, Connecticut, Xew York,
Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas.
diction of
There were forty-two Commanderies outside the jurisGrand Commanderies under the jurisdiction of
Grand Encampment with a membership of one thousand three hundred and sixty-six, which, added to the membership under allegiance to Grand Commanderies,
the
!<><>
THE KNIGH
l.Ak
made a total membership under the jurisdiction of the* Grand Encampment of the United States of America of
not to exceed five thousand, while
arc forty-seven
at
Grand Cbmmanderies and nine subordinate Commanderies working by authority of the Grand Encampment of the United States of America with a membership in [913 of 221. /Sj, Illinois ranking third with a membership of 17.14-'.
PRECEDENCE OP GRAND COMMANDERIES BASED UPON THE DATES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS.
1.
May
June
0,
_\
New York
Virginia
3.
Nov.
4.
5.
June June
Sept.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Oct. Oct.
,
May
April
10.
1
1.
May
Jan. Jan.
Vpril
2.
Texas
Mississippi
[3. 14.
1
Michigan
Illinois
5.
Oct.
[6.
]
California
\ug.
Oct.
Oct.
7.
Tennessee
18.
19.
Wisconsin
New
Jersey
Feb.
April
20. Georgia
21.
22.
Missouri
May
Nov.
Alabama
107
12
Feb.
Iowa
Kansas Maryland Nebraska Arkansas
June
Oct.
2 5- Minnesota
26.
? - 7-
Dec.
Jan.
28. 29.
Dec.
March
Feb.
303'-
West Virginia
Colorado
March
3-
7
-
33-
May May
April
343536.
3738: 39-
Oregon Washington
June
Wyoming
Montana North Dakota
Arizona
Florida
March
May
June
Now
Aug.
Dec.
Jan.
40.
4i42.
43-
Indian Territory
District of
Columbia
44-
Feb.
Aug.
Vug.
45-
March
\pril
Utah
t08
I'll
Mexico City, No. i. Mexico City, Mexico. .July DeWitt Clinton. No. 1, Reno, Nev Sept.
Malta. No.
3,
n, 1907
15,1868 it. T907
1
Goldfield,
I)..
Nev
.
July
Canal Zone, C.
1,
1912
Commanderies, 1,203. f which Membership number St. John's Commander}', No. 1, Wilmington. Deleware, has 513. Canal Zone, Las Cascadas, Panama, 99,
of above
in
Alaska,
131
in
Hawaii,
106
in
the
Number
if
Not
1816De Witt New York, X. Y. Second Conclave 1819 De Witt Clinton, New York, X. Y. Third Conclave 1826 De Witt Clinton, New York. 1828. X. Y. died February Fourth Conclave 1829 Rev. Jonathan Nye, Claremont, N. H. Fifth Conclave 1832 Rev. Jonathan Nye. Claremont, X. H. died April Cayuga, Sixth Conclave 1835 James Madison X. Y. CayuSeventh Conclave 1838 James Madison N. Y. CayuEighth Conclave 1841 James Madison Y. died Ninth Conclave 1844 Archibald Troy, X Y. December died 1865. Tenth Conclave 1847 William Blackstone Hubbard,
First
Conclave
Clinton.
11.
1,
1843.
Allen,
Allen,
ga.
Allen.
ga,
X'.
Bull,
22,
Columbus, O.
lOO,
as,
1850 William Blackstone HubTwelfth Conclave 1853 William Blackstone Hubbard, Columbus, O. Thirteenth Conclave 1856 William Blackstone Hubbard, Columbus, O. died January 1866. Fourteenth Conclave 1859- Benjamin Brown French, Washington, D. Fifteenth Conclave 1862 Benjamin Brown French, Washington, D. died August 1870. Palmer, MilwauSixteenth Conclave 1865 Henry Wis.; died May 1909. Seventeenth Conclave 1868 William Sewall GardiNewton, Mass.; died April 1888. Eighteenth Conclave 1871 John O. A. Fellows, New Orleans, La. died November 1897. Nineteenth Conclave 1874 James Herron Hopkins, Washington, D. died June 1904. Twentieth Conclave 1877 Vincent Lombard HurlChicago, died July 1896. Twenty-First Conclave 1880 Benjamin Dean, BosMass.; died April 1897. Twenty-Second Conclave 1883- Robert Enoch WithWythesville, Va. died September 1907. Twenty-Third Conclave 1886 Charles Roome, New York, N. Y. died June 1890. Twenty-Fourth Conclave 1889 John Gobin, Lebanon, Pa.; died May 1910. Twenty-Fifth Conclave 1892 Hugh McCurdy, Corruna, Mich.; died July 1908. Twenty-Sixth Conclave 1895 Warren La Rue ThomDanville, Ky. Conclave 1898 Reuben Hedley Twenty-Seventh
Conclave
bard, Columbus, O.
;
5,
C.
C.
12,
L.
kee,
7,
ner,
4,
28,
C.
18,
but,
111.;
24,
ton,
9,
ers,
21,
2S,
P.
S.
1,
16,
died
March
10,
1909.
1IO
dard.
ton.
dence,
ish,
190 Henry Bates StodBryan, Texas. Twenty-Ninth Conclave 1904 George Mayhew MoulChicago, 1907 Henry Rugg, July William Bromwell MelThirty-First Conclave 1910 O. Conclave 1913 Arthur Thirty-Second Mc Arthur,
111.
Thirtieth
I\.
C"oncla\e
\Y.
Provi-
I.;
died
2J,
1910.
Cincinnati.
Troy,
N.V
1 1 I
IN ILLINOIS.
The roses nowhere bloom so bright As in Illinois; The sunshine shines nowhere so bright As in Illinois; The birds sing nowhere quite so sweet, And nowhere hearts so lightly beat, For Heaven and earth both seem to meet
In Illinois.
The days are never quite so long As in Illinois; Nor quite so filled witb happy song As in Illinois; And when my time lias come to die,
Just take me back and let me lie Close where the river comes rolling by
In Illinois.
There
is
nowhere a land
so fair
As
So
in Illinois;
full of
As in Illinois; And I believe that happy land The Lord's prepared for mortal man,
Is built
Of
Illinois.
112
The
Commandery
of Knights
Illinois
May
5,
1845.
The
May
15,
encampment
name
of
1,
Thursday of September, in the year 1847." same date the dispensation was received Apollo Encampment, No. 1, was duly formed and opened in solemn form. There were present Most Excellent and Reverend EmiSir William Frederick Walker, Grand Commander nent Sir John Roman Case, Generalissimo Eminent Sir William Stuart, Captain General, and Sir Knights Henry lirown, William Moreland, Davis Ryan, A. B. Lewis and John Ranney. The above named Sir Knights, together with S. H. Gilbert, Isaac Haight and G. C. Blodgett, were appendant to the petition for an encampment. The first conclave was held in the forenoon of May 20. [845, in the Masonic hall, Loomis building, corner Clark and Water streets, at which Conclave the order of the Red Cross was conferred on Companions Jacob Beison, W. A. Rowlatt, W. S. Brown, P. P. Robinson. Charles Robert Starkweather, Charles Follansbee and C. Britain. On May 23. 1845, the Order of the Temple was conferred upon Illustrious Knights of the Red Cross Philip P. Robinson, W. S. Brown and Rev. W. A. Rowlatt.
til
On
the
113
1847,
when, on September
the
Grand Encampment ordered a charter issued. The second Commandery of Knights Templar organized in the slate of Illinois was Belvidere Encampment, Xo. 2, at Alton, 111., under dispensation from the Grand Encampment, dated
May
13,
[853.
of Knights
Templar organized in the state of Illinois was Center Encampment, at Decatur, under dispensation from the Grand Encampment, dated
third
The
Commandery
On November
i,
[856, the
life
petition,
ing the name to Central Commander)', until the second Tuesday in Septemher, [859, when a further dispensation was granted by the Grand Encampment of the United States, in session Septemher [9, 1859, until the ensuing session of the Grand Commandery- of Illinois, when, on November 3, 1859, a further dispensation was granted by the Grand Commandery of Illinois, to expire October 27. i860', changing the name to Beaumanoir Commandery, by
which name
it
9,
under
Grand Commander)The fourth encampment established by the Grand Encampment of the United States in Illinois was Peoria Enthe jurisdiction of the
of Illinois.
campment, at Peoria, 111., by dispensation issued by the Grand Master July 2$, [856, and was chartered September
15.
1856.
The fifth encampment established by the Grand Encampment of the United States in Illinois was Freeport Encampment. Xo. 5, by dispensation dated June 10, 1857; chartered September 16, [859. This was the last encampment created by the Grand Encampment of the United
States in Illinois.
114
THE
KM CUTS
of Illinois
at a
the city of
Chicago en Tuesday, the 27th October, 1857, A. (). 739, at 10:30 o'clock a. M., agreeable to a call of the several commanderies of the state, for the purpose of forming a Grand
Commandery
of Knights
Templar
[See History G. C.
See
vol. 2,
page
1.]
Grand Commander of the (irand Commandery of Illinois received at the same time two petitions for dispensation to form and open commanderies, the one at Joliet and the other at Morris, 111., both signed by a constitutional number of Knights Templar, and both recommended, on the same date, by Apollo Commandery, No. I, neither petition having precedence in date of application, the two cities being only a few miles distant from each other. The Grand Commander granted a dispensation to the Sir Knights at Joliet to form and open a Commandery of Knights Templar and the appendant orders, at the city of Joliet, by the name of Joliet Commandery, and also granted a dispensation to the Sir Knights of Morris to form and open a Commandery of Knights Templar and appendant orders in that city by the name of Blaney Commandery.
Early
in
the
month
17.
1858. A. O.
On
Commandery granted
Commandery. as No. 4. and to Blaney Commandery, as No. 5. They are the twin commanderies of the (irand Commandery of Illinois, and Blaney Commandery, No. 5, is the mother commandery of Ottawa Comcharters to Joliet
mandery, Xo.
Sir
10.
Knights
W. H.
L.
Wallace,
John
B,
Peckham,
115
among
No.
5,
the petitioners
10,
mandery, No.
and Blaney Commandery recommended the prayer of the petitioners for a commandery at Ottawa. 111., to the favorable consideration <>f the Grand Commander}- of Illinois,
Pitts-
R. E.
Sir
SIR
whose memory we dedicate this work, was Eminent Commander of Ottawa Commandery during the years [869 and 1877, inclusive, and Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Illinois in 1878. He was one f the first created a Knights Templar in Ottawa Commandery. At the time of his death he was the ranking Past Commander of Ottawa Commander}', and Past Commander of the Grand Commandery by
John Fisk Nash,
1
seniority of service,
Sir
and by far the senior in age. Knight Nash was born at Williamsburg, Mass., De[6,
cember
1824, and
came west
in
ville, 111., where he married on the 26th of November, 1847, Lura M. Penned, who died January 18, [917, in her ninety-
second year.
He came
[856.
to
in
Ottawa,
111.,
in
1847,
where he
Clerk of
He was
office
La
Salle count}-,
which
he held
five years.
Senate
at Springfield.
He was He was
Bank
of
Ottawa
for thirty-five
in
[6
II
KNIGHTS
I'l'.M
PLAR,
R. E. SIR JOHN FISK NASH, Grand Commander Grand Commandcry, 1S7S. Born December 16, 1824; died July 6, 1913.
11/
was
is
entitled to a rest
age of seventy-seven years, and feeling that he from the labors of what to most men
raised Master
a life time.
He was
[85
1,
Mason
in
Occidental Lodge
in
Was
37,
and was Master of the lodge during the years [863-64. Mason in Shabbona Chapter, No..
A. M., June 2
1
lv.
[856, and
chapter in 1865.
Was
created a
tawa
Commandery,
S,
while
working
dispensation,
March
[861.
[869 to
1877, inclusive,
Grand Com-
mandery
In
all
won
the
commendation
efficient serv-
of his brothers
ices.
and fraters
1>v
his faithful
and
He
6,
1913.
were held from Christ Episcopal Church on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, after which the body was conveyed to
Ottawa Avenue Cemetery, escorted by Ottawa Commandery, Xo. to, K. T.. where the beautiful Templar burial
services
Commander}', K.
He
Knight of the Knights Templar. Knight of Malta of the Order of )ohn of Jerusalem. Mail and farewell!
who drew the drapery of his couch down to pleasant dreams. valiant and magnanimous Order of
Sts.
R. E.
SIR
33
[8
Til E
R. E.
I IO,
Templar circles is well known and most popular, not only the grand jurisdiction of Illinois, but throughput the
Templarism,
like everything- else in
United States.
came
and
intellect.
Masonic
circles,
but in
civil affairs
is
community and
his
state at large.
Without doubt he
sive
means and
his nativity,
and improvements in the beautiful city of where he was born on the 18th of December.
Sulsberger)
^57Both
The
father
mother
in
Obenheim, Alsace,
May
6,
1835.
They came
to
tinued to be their
dise of
home
is
until they
God.
a gentleman of scholarly tastes
R. E. Sir Schoch
attainments.
He
is
proficient in literature
and
science,
and and
German almost
as readily as
he does English.
his
He
is
proud of the
fact that
he obtained
elementary education
in the public
two terms
in a
French school.
When
the
West
among
20
III
KNIGHTS
TK.\!
PLAR,
John Rush Cameron. At the end of sixteen months he became connected with the National City Having proved his fidelity and perfect Bank of Ottawa. trustworthiness as a messenger boy, at the end of three years
the postoffice under
Three years he was promoted to the post of bookkeeper. nmre had scarcely passed, when his merits and stability oi
character being fully recognized by the officials of the bank,
he was elected a
[3,
1
member
[885, and
the mi
was appointed
following'.
five years,
1
mth
in
At the end of
he acted
during
a part of
which period
to the
vice-
the capacity
cashier, he
was advanced
honored
office
He
Ransom, La
Salle county,
much
in
Ottawa.
and
his
commenced his business is the more remarkable, record must prove an inspiration to many young
all,
men
is
tegrity,
position
amount
not
to naught.
Had
Sir
of interests
demanded
and energy.
local
office
many
years past.
Though
he was overtaxed
at
121
by
From 1891 to 1895 he was the brief summary following: Mayor of Ottawa; from [889 to 1891 he was City Treasurer; was member of the Board of Education two terms; was School Treasurer of the Congressional township. No.
teer fire
3, from 1887 to 1889; was member of the volundepartment for sixteen years, and was prominently mentioned at one of the Republican state conventions as
33,
Range
the
nominee
Mayor
lice ing"
he succeeded
paving of streets, introduction of poand tire alarm systems, the laying of sewers and buildof waterworks.
as the "boy mayor.*'
He was known
low
his
He
refused to
al-
name
to he
policy.
and admiration of the people for his wise, progressive In May, 1899, he was appointed by Governor Tan-
ner as a
to
Board of Special Commissioners inspect the Chicago drainage canal, and served as secreof the
member
Fraternallv, he
555, A. F.
is
a
in
member
37,
of
&
A. M.,
1883;
exalted in June,
R. A. M., in which he was Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, in which he was created November 9, 1893, and served as Eminent Commander from December, At the forty-third Annual Con1896, to December, 1899. clave of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of Illinois, he was elected Grand Warder, and climbed the ladder hand Commander of the of fame until he was elected Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the state of Illinois at the Annual Conclave, October 23, 1906, and in recognition of his meritorious services in the Masonic vine-
1893, and
[22
and
last
member
1
of the
Supreme Counis
for
the
He
at present a
member
Grand Comand the representative of the Grand Commandery of Colorado near the Grand Commandery of Illinois. He is also, as Prince of the Royal Secret, 32 a
of the jurisprudence committee of the
Illinois
mander)- of
member of Oriental Consistory, Valley of Chicago. He is also a member of Medina Temple, A. A. O. N. O. T. M. S.,
(
)asis of
Chicago.
office of
He
sion,
Supreme Banker
of the Mystic
World for twenty years, and at the last seswas re-elected. This is an insurance organization with a membership of over 90,000.
recently held,
Workers
One
Schoch was solemnized December 17, 1879, when he married Miss Minnie Wolfe, daughter of Henry Wolfe, one of To this union has been born Ottawa's leading citizens.
three daughters
Carrie
U. and
Lulu
C.
at
home,
a
and
Esther
S..
The home
in
unpretentious, but
is
home
and
to the
erick Schoch.
SUBORDINATE COMMANDERIES UNDER JURISDICTION GRAND COMMANDERY OF ILLINOIS. Location. When Chartered. Name. No. Chicago Sept. 17, 1847 1 Apollo 1853 Sept. Alton 2 Belvidere Sept. 15, 1856 3 Peoria Peoria Oct. 26. 1858 Joliet 4 Joliet
19-,
23
Morris
Springfield
Ottawa
Waukegan
Cairo
Sycamore
Olney
16 Urbana 17 Crusader IS Rock Island 19 Chicago 20 Temple 21 Dixon 22 Aurora 23 Cyrene 24 DeMolay 25 Calvary 26 St. John
Sycamore Urbana
Rockford
Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
Oct. Oct. Oct.
Rock Island
Chicago
Princeton
Dixon Aurora
Centralia
Bloomington
Woodstock
Peru
Paris
27 Palestine 28 Bethany 29 Hugh de Payens 30 St. Omer 31 Hospitaler 32 Almoner 33 Ivanhoe 34 St. Paul 35 St. Bernard 36 Bethel 37 Melita 38 Mt. Olivet 39 Mt. Pulaski 40 Galena 41 Gethsemane 42 Damascus 43 Coeur de Leon 44 Godfrey de Bouillon 45 Athelston 47 St. Aldemar 48 Delta 49 Ascalon 50 Tancred 51 Constantine 52 Chevalier Bayard 53 Montjoie 54 Siloam 56 Rushville
Mendota
Carrollton
Litchfield
Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
July
Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
Jacksonville
Augusta
Kankakee
Fairbury Chicago Elgin Tuscola
Paxton
Mt. Pulaski
Galena
Metropolis
Havana
El Paso Mattoon
Danville
Petersburg Clayton
Pittsfield
Belleville
Lincoln Chicago
Chicago
Oak Park
Rushville
Dec. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
1858 1859 26,1859 23, 1860 23, 1860 23, 1861 23, 1861 25, 1864 24, 1865 24, 1865 24, 1865 24, 1865 23, 1866 23, 1866 23, 1866 23, 1866 23, 1866 22, 1867 22, 1867 22, 1867 22, 1867 22, 1867 27, 1868 27, 1868 2, 1868 27, 1869 27, 1869 27, 1869 26, 1870 26, 1870 26, 1870 26, 1870 26, 1870 24, 1871 22, 1871 22, 1872 22, 1872 24, 1873 28, 1874 28, 1874 27, 1875 26, 1875 23, 1877 22, 1878 22, 1878 25, 1881 25, 1881 24, 1882 24, 1882
26, 25,
24
I'll
K NIC, IIS
I
TKM PLAR,
Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
57 Sterling 58 Evanston 59Englewood 60 Long 61 Macomb 62 Calumet 63 Columbia 64 Lincoln Park 65 St. Elmo 66 Clinton 67 Mary OS Champaign 69 Patton 70 Streator
71
Sterling
Evanston Englewood
Mt. Carroll
Macomb
Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago
Clinton
Dec.
Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.
Kewanee
Kewanee
Chicago Chicago
Sullivan
72 Illinois 73 Mizpah 74 Gil W. Barnard 75 Inglevere 76 Wocdlawn 77 Quincy 78 Chicago Heights 79 Humboldt Park 80 Trinity SI East St. Louis 82 Mt. Carmel S3 St. Cecelia 84 Austin
Carthage Chicago Quincy Chicago Heights Chicago La Grange East St. Louis Mt. Carmel Chicago Chicago
29,1884 27,1886 26, 1886 28, 1891 18, 1891 26, 1892 25, 1893 24, 1894 25, 1894 23, 1895 28, 1896 2, 1903 24, 1905 24, 1905 24, 1906 24,1906 23, 1907 26, 1909 26, 1909 24, 1911 IS, 1912 IS, 1912 18, 1912 18, 1912 28,1913 28, 1913 28,1913 28, 1915
GRAND COMMANDERS AND RECORDERS OF THE GRAND COMMANDERY SINCE ITS FORMATION, OCTOBER 27, 1S57.
Year. 1857 185S 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
Grand Commander. James V. Z. Blaney James V. Z. Blaney* Josiah Hunt* Hosmer A. Johnson Hosmer A. Johnson* George W. Deering* William H. Turner* Nathan H. Prentice* Henry C. Ranney George C. Lamphere*
Vincent L. Hurlbut* Jerome R. Gorin* Charles E. Munger*
Grand Recorder.
William H. Turner William H. Turner William H. Turner* George W. Deering*
C. C. C. C.
H. H. H. H. H.
125
Dustin*
Gurney*
Barclay*
James H. Miles James H. Miles James H. Miles James H. Miles James 11. Miles James H. Miles James H. Miles* Gil. W. Barnard Gil. W. Barnard
Gil.
Gil. Gil.
Loyal
L.
Munn*
Gil.
Gil. Gil. Gil. Gil. Gil. Gil. Gil.
Edward Norman
C. Mulliner
T. Gassette*
Augustus
L.
Webster
Edward C. Pace* James P. Sherwin* George W. Curtis James B. McFatrich* Charles P. Kane
Gil.
Gil.
Gil.
Gil.
Hamer
Holman
George
H. Green*
G. Purinton E.
Alon;;o S.
Smythe Crooks
William L. Gross* John D. Cleveland Harry H. Cleaveland Arthur M. Otman William Leslie Sharp Stuart E. Pierson Thomas A. Stevens
Louis A. Mills
W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W.
Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard Barnard*
Andrew
^Deceased.
J.
Redmond
D.
I).
D.
D. D. D. D.
[26
THE BITTER
semane, and sayeth unto the
CUP.
a place called Geth-
disciples, Sit
ye here, while
And
Then
My
soul
exceeding sor-
rowful, even unto death; tarry ye here, and watch with me.
And
p;is>
he
went a
little
further,
and
if
it
fell
on
his
face,
and
cup
prayed, saying, O,
my
Father,
be possible,
I
let this
will,
And
and said unto Peter, What! could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed
lie
is
willing',
is
weak,
saying",
O,
my
I
if
this
cup
may
not pass
drink
thy
will
he done.
And
he
left
them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
saith
Then cometh he
to his disciples,
and
the hour
Man
is
hands of sinners.
us he going; behold he
at
lo,
And
Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great mul-
Now
sign, saying,
fast.
hold him
I
shall kiss, that same is he. Whomsoever And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said.
fail,
Matt,
xxvi
^0-49.
HISTORY OF
OTTAWA COMMANDERY
NO. 10
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
12$
I'l.AK,
29
OTTAWA COMMANDERY,
1861-1916.
NO.
10,
K. T.
"More precious than rubies and pearls are the times in earlier years which first get the fibers in tune with never-to-be-forgotten joys; for they are the source of happiness distilled for the spirit, ethereal, tenuous like a ray of light; and the memory of those times is not recollection but sensation. "So the autumn and winter of life are brightened, though there is to be no other spring."
ILLINOIS.
10,
of
K. T.,
is
for
all
located
in
the
beautiful
silver-like
and
Illinois river,
waters of the
Fox
cut their
down
paved
streets,
stantial business
houses,
churches,
model schools,
colleges
and public
libraries,
and shipping
facilities,
make
cities in Illinois,
is
could picture the grandeur and beauty that meet the eye on
every
side.
Illinois
The meanderings of the placid waters of the among the innumerable wooded islands, through
with a
soil as rich
valley
and
abounding
make
131
with coal to
away unforms
a
mind delights in contemplating. any wonder that the once great and powerful naIllini,
the
in
this beautiful
and
fertile valley,
Xew World"?
Looking down the
valley of the Illinois, to the westward,
commanding
the valley for miles east and west, and from its wooded plateau the sojourner can look over the woodland hills of
where
less
the Indian
falo, elk
was
and participating
Illinois, the
nomadic
habits.
grasped
known.
Glens and grottos divinely carved
in
St.
Peter's
to
rock,
strains
upward
walls of
in
reach
grewsome
and
many
meeting
broader,
in purling, grace-
rocky sides of Lover's Leap and wash the base of Starved Rock, the
Illini,
by starvatheir
ignominious one
at the
hands of
enemies.
[33
dubious
strife.
neither yielded but his life; Dark, sullen, stern, no cry was heard That spoke of life to death preferred."
And
Having changed
sepulchre of the
warrior"
now
at the
"Wind the mighty secrets of the And turn the key of time!"
Looking
to the east,
cities
of tlu
Illinois,
he beholds the
and Morris,
sitting peacefully
a
hundred
factories drifting
away
into the
immeasurable space.
Turning
first
Our
in
planted
among
Illini
on,
sit-
ting like
Salle
Rome on
its
Seven
Hills,
La
works
and Peru and the smoke stacks of the largest zinc in the world towering heavenward as monuments to
skill.
Turning
to the south,
its
he beholds
refulgent ravs
upon thousands of acres of prairie, where the resin-weed had given away to the cornfields; the wild rose and native grasses were choked out by timothy, clover and blue grass;
the crab apple had yielded to the
cut
away
Turning
sees
bluff
on the north, he
homes of
sup-
man had
planted the
wigwam and
l$J
in
the language of
Byron
"The naughtiest breast, its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found. To nature and to me so dear." W. L. Milligan, in Templar Itinerary, Boston Triennial,
1895.
THE HOME OF OTTAWA COMMANDERY. The corner-stone of the present Masonic temple was laid November 3, 19 10, by Most Worshipful A. R. Ashley, Grand Master, and was dedicated for Masonic purposes June J/, 191 1, by Most Worshipful A. B. Ashley, Grand
Master.
sisting of
Great credit
is
Shabbona Chapter; Samuel B. Bradford, Occidental Lodge; Henry L. Arnold, Humboldt Lodge; and William I). Fullerton, Ottawa Commandery, for the execution and completion of this magnificent Masonic temple. A more appropriate location
chairman Al. F.
could not have been selected.
On
worship dedicated to Almighty God, while just across the way in Washington Park is the huge boulder erected by the
Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the spot where the first joint debate took place between Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.
Not
far
away
is
the
Supreme Court
of the Northern
Grand Division
of
which such men as Sidney Breese, John D. Caton and T. Lyle Dickey sat on the bench and heard pleadings
Illinois, in
from Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Just across the way from the Appellate Court-house
the public library, given to the citizens of
is
Ottawa by Wilof
the early
members
Occidental
Lodge. Nearby are several other churches, as well as the late high school building, all symbolic of the lofty principles of Free Masonry.
138
111 E
ILLINOIS.
3c)
The ceremonies
lodges in Ottawa.
of dedicating the
There were two addresses, one by Al. F. Schoch, Past Master of Humboldt Lodge, who made the introductory remarks, and the dedicatory address delivered by William L.
Milligan, Past Master of Occidental Lodge,
Grand Orator.
OTTAWA COMMANDERY,
On
son,
NO.
10,
K. T.
Hosmer
A. John-
Grand Commander of the Grand Comrnandery of Knights Templar of Illinois, upon the recommendation of Blaney Commander, No. 5, Morris, 111., granted a dispensation for a Comrnandery of Knights Templar at Ottawa,
Illinois.
Sir Oliver Cromwell (Tray was named as Eminent Commander; Sir David Walker, as Generalissimo; and Sir * William Hervy Lamme Wallace, as Captain General. The names on the dispensation cannot be given, for the reason that it was never made a matter of record. The committee on charters and dispensations reported to the Grand Comrnandery October 23, 1861 "Resolved, That charters be granted to Ottawa Com:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
*Quite all historians writing the life of General Wallace have, written his name William Henry Lamb Wallace. The same error crept into the author's "History of the White Apron." We have it direct from his daughter, Miss Isabel Wallace, author of "Life and Letters of General Wallace," that his name was William Hervy Lamme Wallace, "Lamme" being the maiden name of his mother. W. L. M.
error,
Thomas
J.
James A. Rhoads, L862* John B. Peekham, 1863* Wade, 1864 and 6* George J. Burgess, 1865*
William
'"Deceased.
L.
Gibson, 1868*
I4I
Prelate
Senior
Warden
R. N. Goodsell
Levi
Mason
McMillen
Crane
of the
D. H. Ashton
W.
B.
Daniel Stone
C. S. C.
Warder
Captain of the Guard
The Order
following:
son
L.
in
[861 on the
Theodore Cunningham Gibson, Thomas JefferWade, George W. Lininger, John F. Lamb, William Gibson, John F. Nash, Samuel C. Walker and Julius C.
Avery.
The
Masonic
building,
first
conclave of Ottawa
Commander)-,
of
No.
10,
in the
on the third
the
floor
the
Glover
& Cook
now
Gedney
first
building, corner of
Court and
Madison
streets,
on the
A. O. 743-
There were present at this conclave Sir Knights Oliver Cromwell Gray, William Hervy Lramme Wallace, John B. Peckham, Daniel C. Stone, James Rhoads, David Walker,
Quincy D. Whitman, J. Baldwin, William B. McMillan. Reir N. Goodsell, Samuel E. Miner, Charles S. C. Crane and Daniel H. Ashton, the most prominent business and professional
men in the city of Ottawa. The Commandery was opened without ceremony by Oliver Cromwell Gray, who read a dispensation from R. F. Grand Commander Ibismer A. Johnson authorizing the forming and opening
Commandery, under dispensation, for the transaction work as legalized under said dispensation until the next conclave of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the state of Illinois.
of a
1-1-
dt"
a committee was appointed, consisting James Rhoads, Daniel C. Stone and Charles S. C. Crane, to confer with Occidental Lodge in regard to the rental of the Masonic hall for Commandery purposes. A committee was also appointed, consisting of Sir Knights
Sir Knights
fees
David Walker, James Rhoads and Samuel E. Miner, on and uniforms. The Commandery was then closed
fifth
1861,
of
Commandery
that
all
members
conferred
Orders of Knighthood to he Ottawa Commandery, consisting of those of Companions Levi Mason, Henry F. Clark, Theodore C.
first
The
in
at this
con-
William Hervy
Lamme
Tuesday even-
At the conclave held February 12, 1861, the committee on by-laws presented their report, which was taken up in sections and adopted.
Petitions for the
at this
C. C. Perrin. of Peru,
at this
Lodge
43
FIRST BALLOTING.
The
first
balloting
for
candidates
for
the
Orders of
Knighthood in Ottawa Commandery was taken at a conclave held March 7, [861, when Companions William L. Gibson, Levi Mason, Theodore Cunningham Gibson, John Fisk Nash and Thomas Jefferson Wade were declared
duly elected to receive the Orders of Knighthood in Otta-
The petitions of of Knights Templar. Companions John Fisk Nash and Thomas Jefferson W^ade were presented at this same conclave. Your historian has the honor (if having been personally Companion Wilaccpiainted with the above petitioners.
wa Commandery
Main
street.
Levi
Mason was
superintend-
company, and resided on East Pearl street. Theodore Cunningham Gibson was in the furniture business on La. Salle street, and resided on East Congress street. John Fisk Nash was Clerk of the Circuit Court, and resided on
FIRST WORK. work in Ottawa Commandery was done at this conclave when a Council of Knights of the Red Cross was opened and the illustrions order conferred on Companions William L, Gibson, Thomas Jefferson Wade, John Fisk Nash, Levi Mason and Theodore Cunningham Gibson, all then young and enterprising business men, pioneers of
The
first
the West.
After conferring the illustrious order of the Red Cross on the above mentioned postulants, the Council of Knights of the Rjed Cross was closed and a Commandery of Knights
144
Order of the Temple was conferred on Knights of the Red Cross William L. Gibson and Thomas Jefferson Wade, who were the first ones knighted
Ottawa Commandery, No. in. Knights Templar. After conferring the Order of the Temple on Sir Knights William L. Gibson and Thomas Jefferson Wade. the Commandery was "called off" until the next morning. Friday, March 8, [861, when Companions Julius Caesar Avery, Henry F. Clark, C. C. Perrin and George W. Lininger were elected to receive the Orders of Knighthood, and the Order of the Temple was conferred on Knights of the \\i.^\ Cross Theodore Cunningham Gibson, Levi Mason
in
over,
ery of
vote of
Illinois.
Grand Generalissimo of the Grand CommandThere were also present, and to whom a thanks was extended by Ottawa Commandery for
.
and assistance, Sir Knights William W. John Amis, Arnold M. Cleveland, Jonathan W. Massy, Perry A. Armstrong, Levi P. Lott, Uriah B. Couch and E. W. Hurlburd, officers and members of Blaney Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, of Morris, 111.
their presence
Mitchell.
The
was
a glorious
company
had
a glorious time,
Commandery.
(J.
]).,
At a
special conclave of
Ottawa Commander}-.
May
the
14.
Crom-
well Gray,
Eminent Commander, a Council of Knights of Red Cross was opened .and the illustrious order conferred on Companions George W. Lininger, C. C. Perrin and
I45
La
At the regular conclave of the Commandery July 2, Companions Samuel C. Walker, a brilliant young attorney, and John F. Lamb, a prosperous farmer residing in Rutland township, were received and balloted on and both declared elected, when the Commandery was "called off" to Wednesday July 10, 1861, at 1 o'clock p. m., at which time the illustrious order of the Red Cross was conferred on Samuel C. Walker and John F. Lamb. At a special conclave July 23, 1861, the Order of the Temple was conferred on Knight of the Red Cross George
1861, the petitions of
W.
Lininger,
who
Ma1868,
He was Grand
Illinois
High
Priest of the
Grand
Chapter of
in
He was
of the
also elected
Grand Master
of
of the
Grand Lodge
Commander
his
Grand
state,
Commandery
Knights
Templar of
adopted
rest a
Knight of the Red Cross John F. Lamb was created a Knight Templar at a special conclave of Ottawa Command-
Red Cross Julius Ca?sar Avery was created a Knight Templar at a special conclave of Ottawa Commandery August 27, 1861. At the annual conclave of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Illinois, October 23, 1861, a charter was authorized to be issued to Ottawa Commandery, as No. 10, on the roll of the Grand Commandery of Illinois. But before the Commandery was constituted under charter,
ery August 13,
1
Command-
l-4
n
in
ery
Commandery was
i
_\
[861,
and
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
John B. Peckham
J(
>hn
Fisk Nash
Senior
Junior
Julius Cseser
Samuel
Levi
C.
Avery Walker
Warden Warden
Treasurer
Mason
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Commandery was
officers
were legally
said
stations,
the
Commandery,
by the
Red Cross Henry F. Clark, Flenry D. Brown and John Brooks Rice. Hosmer Allen Johnson, Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of
of the
the state of Illinois, having learned of this irregularity on
summoned
the
Command-
conclave
March
6,
Ottawa, 111., March 6, 1862. These Presents May Come Greeting: Whereas, It having come to my knowledge that certain Sir Knights, members of Ottawa Commandery, while under dispensation, having met and unwittingly conferred the Orders of Knighthood upon certain companions, without said Commandery having been constituted, and its officers legally installed, therefore be it known that I, Hosmer Allen Johnson, Grand Commander, sum-
To
all
Sir Knights to
Whom
47
the Sir Knights to appear before me in conclave, and, after examination, finding the same was done in ignorance, and not through any desire on their part to violate their Knightly, vows, did constitute said Commandery, No. 10, and did install into office
Sir O. C. Gray Sir D. Walker
as Commander as Generalissimo
for
Sir
J.
B.
Peckham (proxy
L.
W. H.
Wallace)
as Captain General
and by virtue of the high power in me vested as G. C. I did regularly constitute and create (by healing) Sir H. D. Brown, Sir J. B. Rice and Sir John Colwell as Sir Knights of the Red Cross and Knights Templar. Furthermore, I granted Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, a dispensation to proceed to the election of officers, whereupon a ballot being taken the following Knights were declared duly elected: Commander James Rhoads Generalissimo David Walker
R. N. Goodsell
J.
Captain General
Prelate Senior Warden Junior Warden Treasurer
Julius C.
Samuel
S. E.
C.
Avery Walker
Levi Mason
Miner
F.
John
Lamb
Crane and that the above named Sir Knights were duly installed into office for the ensuing Masonic year, or until their successors should be regularly elected and installed.
C. S. C.
approved by the Grand Commandery were then (again) presented and unanimously adopted. And I do hereby grant authority to the E. Commander to heal, or cause to be healed, aijy companion who has been illegally created as Knight of the Red Cross and Knight Templar, as already set
The code
off.
as G. Marshal.
forth.
(Signed)
C.
H. A.
JOHNSON,
G.
HENRY
RANNEY,
Recorder.
Commander.
Grand Commander: The petitions of Companions John Stout and E. C. Hatheway were received and balloted on and the Orders (if the Red Cross and Knights Templar were conferred on Companion E. C. Hatheway, after which the memorahle conclave was closed, and Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights
the
I_p^
Templar,
and how
proudly she has buffeted the waves and kept the faith with
flight or
shame
is
well attested
by two of her
manders of
members wearing the insigna of Past Comthe Grand Commandery of Illinois and her memvaliant knights
loyal
in
and
and
terrible fratricidal
Emman-
Knight
H.
L.
\Yallace
his
buckled
-
on
his
armor and
Theo-
and
Commander)
to do
whose
war with Mexico. Benjamin B. French, Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States, on behalf of the Grand Encampment, was exerting his prerogatives in the interest of the Prince of Peace, well knowing that it would be a terrible and bloody war of not only
at
Santa Anna
Beuna
Vista, in the
would be arrayed against each other in deadly conflict on In his endeavor to prevent this the bloody field of battle.
great and impending conflict he issued the following stirring
to all the
I49
North and South, East and West Washington, D. C, April [8, 1861, A. O. 743.
All
dated
at
True and Patriotic Templars: Brotherly Love, Peace, Honor: fratricidal conflict seems to be impending. He alone who rules the destinies of nations can prevent it. He works through human instruments. I implore every Templar Knight on the continent of America, after humbly seeking strength and aid from on High, to exert all the means at his command to avert the dread calamity, which, to human vision, seems inevitable. Let each Templar, to whom this may come, remember how often we have stood at each other's side and raised our voice in prayer for the prosperity of a common country and a common cause. Let all call to mind how the Knights of Virginia, mingling
To
An awful
brotherhood with those of Massachusetts, pledged themBunker Hill only a few brief years ago, and, when another year had passed away, the same noble band stood
in fraternal
together in the city of Richmond, in the state of Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, and with mutual vows bound their souls in an everlasting covenant! Let them remember these things, and, with hearts on fire with love for each other and for their countrymen, go forth among those countrymen and implore the arbitrament of peace instead of that of the sword. I ask no one to surrender a principle that has become dear to his heart, but I ask every one to labor and to pray that such counsels may take place between the contending parties, who have so many years acted with a common impulse, as to restore harmony and kind feeling, and avoid the curse of having fraternal blood crying to Heaven from the ground and bringing down its maledictions on our children's children through all future time! Labor and pray that hostilities may be suspended until the mild counsels of peace can be appealed to, and that the appeal may not be in vain. Casting aside every political aspiration, and asking every Templar to do the same, let us as one man unite in one grand effort to prevent the shedding of fraternal blood, and to inaugurate here that blessed result which our Lord and Master initiated: "Peace on earth and good will to men." Templars! You count in this land by tens of thousands. Each one has his influence in the circles about him. Never, no never, was an opportunity to exert that influence in a more holy cause or more sublime purpose. Forward, then, to the rescue of your country
infinite
which dread calamity may God, then call on every Knights Templar
I
in
His
to per-
form
wounds
of the afflcted
which so well becomes our order, of binding up the and comforting those who mourn.
Commander was
[5O
in
vain.
just
one month
beloved
from the day that Ottawa Comffiandery was constituted our Wallace fell on the bloody field of Shiloh slain
Xo more worthy Sir Knight ever girded a sword upon his thigh. Xo more honest, honorable, charitable, purehearted, hospitable man ever lived than Sir ECnight William
llervy
Lamme
his
Wallace.
fellow
Honored
in
his
profession,
rein
spected hy
citizens, idolized
by his comrades
his family, he
was borne
crowned by the rays of Eternal Light by his Supreme Commander in the Realms of Eternal Peace. Through all that dreadful struggle, between two of the
fraters,
and
finally
pathway of friend and foe on the bloody field of battle, in the hospitals, and around the firesides of desolate homes, succoring the needy and binding up the wounds of the afflicted, illustrating the universal benevolence and chivalry of modern knighthood, and, when the great struggle was over, no political power, or organization, or body of men, did more, during the reconstruction days of the defeated Confederate States, to regenerate and reaffiliate
the different sections into a "Union,
Templar
the
obedience to lawful authority as that witnessed when Grand Commanderies of Knights Templar south of the Mason and Dixon line renewed their allegiance to the Grand
Encampment
Commandery
dur-
who was
on April 6th.
He was
Commandery at the time of his Ottawa Commandery and the comcalled a special conclave on
munity
his loss.
in
Ottawa Commandery
Occidental
&
from
Sirs
Joliet,
ceremonies.
Ottawa Commandery, No. 10; Henry \V. Ranney, Apollo, No. 1, Chicago, and Perry A. Armstrong, Blaney, No. 5, Morris, 111., were appointed to draft
John
F. Nash,
suitable resolutions pertaining to the deceased,
tions
the record.
Ottawa Commandery, No. John Colwell, Elias Cushman Hatheway, Festus R. Cleveland, John Stout and Philo
10,
Lindley.
Expelled:
William B. McMillan.
Died:
in hattle.
Lamme
Wallace, killed
EXCERPTA: Rather let us remain a few, than, being many, lose our good name, bearing it ever in mind that a "good name in man or woman is the immediate jewel of their souls."
1863.
Commandery, No.
were
held
December
2,
1862,
the
following officers
Templar year:
Tohn B. Peckham
Commander
5_'
'I'll
I".
Reir X. Goodsell
Theodore
C.
Gibson
Captain General
Prelate
Henry D. Brown
Samuel C. Walker John Stout John F. Nash
John Colwell Samuel E. Miner
C. C. Perrin
Treasurer
Recorder
Senior
Standard Bearer
John
F.
Lamb
election of Captain of the
The
Guards was
for
some
rea-
son postponed.
George J. Burgess, Gustave Koch, George S. H. Williams, Thomas H. Clark. Ira B. X. Bross, Edward Martin Wade and Silas W. Cheever.
Created :
Stebhins, William
Affiliated:
Seymour
Stover.
D emitted:
Festus R. Cleveland.
EXCERPTA: As Sir Knights of the Cross we ought ever to bear in mind the great sacrifice offered on Mount Mcriah to cancel the sins of the world, and to endeavor to be led and guided by Him who is the great leader of the Hosts of Israel!
1864.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commanderv. held December 1, 1863. the following officers were elected for the ensuing Templar year
Thomas
Jefferson
Wade
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Treasurer
Recorder
Senior
Warden
153
Henry
F. Clark
Junior
Warden
Standard Bearer
James Peckham. Created: De Witt S. Rawson, William Palmer, William E. Bowman, Jonathan Duff, Thomas E. G. T. Ransom. Affiliated: Matthew Magill and Rev. Seymour Stover. Demitled: William H. Williams and Reir N. Goodsell. Pied: Philo Lindley and Thomas E. G. T. Ransom,
Rhoads, E. Sir John
both of
Past Commanders:
whom
Rev. Sir Seymour Stover was Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Illinois in 1864. Sir Matthew Magill affiliated by demit from Covington Commandeiw. No. 7, Covington, K.y.
In consideration of the eminent services of
G. T.
Ransom
country Ottawa
Thomas E. ComOr-
EXCERPTA: As a Knights Templar it is hoped that you fully realize the high vocation you are called upon to fulfill, not only through your years of warfare and trial, but also through those of
hope and
joy.
1865.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., held December 6, 1864, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Templar year
George
J(
J.
Burgess
Commander
Generalissimo
)hn F.
Lamb
S. Stebbins
George
Captain General
154
Jefferson
KNIGHTS
Tl-l.M
PLAR,
'relate
Thomas
I
Wade
Senior
lenry F. Clark
1.
Charles S. C. Crane
William E.
Bowman
William Palmer
Past Commanders:
James
J.
Peckham and
E.
Sir
Thomas
(>o.
Wade.
Created:
Pern it ted:
E. Sir
the
Thomas J. Wade was Grand Standard Bearer of Grand Commandery of Illinois in 1865, and E. Sir George J. Burgess was on the grievance committee of the Grand Commandery of Illinois in 1865.
Charles F. Gunther, of Peru (afterwards the Chicago
to receive the
Orders of
Knighthood
in
Ottawa Commandery.
EXCERPT A: To espouse the cause of her who is deprived of earthly support, to care for the bereaved ones, to watch over the standard of moral truth, and to be humble, yet courageous, requires faithfulness on the part of every Sir Knight.
1866.
At
10.
K. T., held
December
5,
Templar year:
Thomas
P.
J.
Wade
Commander
Generalissimo
Lamb
Captain General
55
George W. Lininger
Prelate
Henry
F. Clark
Senior
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Bowman
Peckham, Thomas
Created:
11.
J.
Burgess.
William
Frank
B.
Chapman, Philo
Zeigler, Jefferson H. Fawcett, Joseph Mercer, William Moore, George Crossley, Joseph Gondolf, Washington Bushnell and Charles Houghtaling.
I.
Demitted: Gustave Koch, Philo H. Zeigler, Jefferson H. Fawcett, Joseph Mercer, William I. Moore, George Crossley, Matthew Magill, David Walker, Samuel E. Miner
liam
I.
or near Princeton,
ple in
111., and received the Orders of the TemOttawa Commandery at a stated conclave April 10, 1866, and at the same conclave presented their petition to the Grand Commandery of Illinois for a Commandery of Knights Templar at Princeton, 111. This petition was unanimously recommended by Ottawa Commandery to the Grand Commandery. The prayer was subsequently granted for a new Commandery at Princeton, and the above named Sir Knights became charter members of Princeton Commandery.
EXCERPTA:
will
Grand Encampment
of Virginia
be found in the ranks of the Grand Encampment of the United States, battling side by side with those of her sister states, North and South, in the cause of Faith, Hope and Charity, until with Jus-
56
I'll
KNIGHTS TKM
PL \K.
tice, Fortitude and Mercy, knowing no North, no South, no East, no West, and all uniting in obeying the teachings of that Grand Master on High, which requires that we should do unto others as we would that they should do unto us.
Grand
Commander
Gill,
Virginia, 1S66.
1867.
4,
1866,
George W. Lininger
William
L.
S.
J.
Commander
Generalissimo
Gibson
Stebbins
George
(
Captain General
Prelate
reorge
Burgess
Senior
Junior
John F. Lamb
Ira B. X.
Bross
Warden Warden
Recorder
Samuel
C.
Walker
Treasurer
Thomas H. Clark
John Col well William E, Bowman Theodore C. Gibson
Joseph Gondolf
Standard Bearer
B.
Past Commanders: O. C. Gray, James Rhoads, John Peckham and George J. Burgess.
Created:
Conrad A. T. E. Holmes. Casper Ruedy, George Emerson, George F. Stannard, Jason M. Liscom, David A. Cook, Preston J. Davis. Reuben Everts, John Brevoort and George H. Norris.
Demitted:
Charles
Houghtaling, John
Brevoort,
Ira
B. X. Bross, David A. Cook. Preston J. Davis. George Emerson, Reuben Everts, Conrad A. T. E. Holmes, George
W.
S.
M. Liscom, Casper Ruedy, De Witt Rawson, George E. Stannard and Henry D. Brown. With the exception of Charles Houghtaling. the above
Lininger. Jason
57
Com-
mandery
Pied:
at
Peru,
111.
Suspended:
Daniel H. Ashton.
S. Stebhins.
George
circles
as a
Masonic
La
Salle county
St.
John's day,
No
at
make
Peru Commandery
and
For entertaining the guests on the occasion the Masonic bodies guaranteed the ladies of the Congregational church five hundred plates at $1.00 per plate. The ladies of
Church also provided meals. Washington hall was secured for a Masonic ball in the evening. Joliet Commander) was present with a brass band. The procession was formed at 2 130 p. m. on Clinton street, the right resting on Madison street, under the direction of General John Morrill as grand marshal of the day. assisted by EL L. Herrick, L. A. Rising, John L. Morrison, Douglas llapeman, H. A. McCaleb, George \Y. Fuchs, Frank J. King, John F. Marriner and H. Koch as aids.
the Episcopal
-
The order
of procession
was
as follows
Great Western
10,
Knights
Templar escort, Tyler with drawn sword, two Stewards with drawn swords. Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, Master Masons, Peru Masonic Band, Stewards, Junior Deacons, Senior Deacons, Secretary, Treasurer, Junior
ens,
Ward-
Joliet
Cornet Band, Joliet Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar, Masters of Lodges, the Holy Writings, Grand
58
(
Chaplain,
(
Grand Lodge,
officers of
Grand
proces-
Chapter.
in line.
The
Illinois river,
Rev.
Vocal music.
Music Great Western Light Guard Band. Address of welcome Sir Kt. Julius C. Avery. Music Joliet Cornet Band.
Oration Rev.
Vocal music.
Benediction
Sir Kt. O.
H. Tiffany.
Ma-
the
Ottawa Commandery acted as escort to Occidental Lodge at the funeral of George S. Stebbins, which was largely attended, as he was held in the highest esteem by his brothers
and
fraters.
George
S.
Stebbins
Died November
29, [867.
S.
J.
A Templar
and John
ber
B.
tribute to Sir
Knight George
Stebbins,
Burgess
Commandery, No.
3,
10,
[867, as
f(
(Hows
Whereas, By the decree of an All Wise and Omnipotent Commander, our companion. Sir Knight George S. Stebbins, has been summoned from his post of duty on earth
59
rest
from
memory
is
Commandery and
the different
Masonic bodies
haye
and devoted
memlost
ber,
this
Commandery, have
won our
panion.
who was
ever
the cause of a
worthy com-
mind of more than ordinary capacity, and untiring industry and an independent integrity, gentle and
Possessing
a
unobtrusive
in
his
his actions
death
and
influential
member, onr Commandery one of its brightest gems, and the fraternity at large one "who, though dead, is not forgotten."
mourn
S. Stebbins,
who,
in the
his
pilgrimage
the wall ever remind us of the "daily beauty of his life," and
more
to
Resolved, That
the
widow
will
we
af-
l6o
Resolved,
records
of
this
Commandery,
that
perfect
fragrance.
each
and
in
the
seal
that a
lie
Commandery,
pre-
the
widow
EXCERPTA:
and
Templar Masonry occupies a high and commandcivilized world, one worthy of its fair fame
Let it be your constant duty to preserve its ancient renown. unsullied its high standing, to inculcate the great moral and religious duties which our ritual teaches, and ever to stand forth as the champions of the Christian religion, which you have once solemnly vowed to maintain.
[868.
first Tuesday of each month. At the stated conclave of Ottawa Commandery held Decemher 3, iS()j, the following officers were elected for the
ensuing'
Templar year
William L. Gibson
Commander
Generalissimo Captain General
Prelate
Henry
F. Clark
Thomas
J.
Wade
Senior
Thomas
II.
Clark
P. C. Tohn B.
The above named officers were installed into office by Peckham Monday. Decemher 9, 1867.
l6l
Commanders:
Oliver C. Gray,
J.
James Rhoads,
J.
Bur-
Created:
Robert
M. McArthur,
David Batcheller.
Dcmittcd:
C. Stone.
EXCERPTA: We, Sir Knights, are bound together not only by the sacred vows of Knighthood, but by every noble aspiration of the human heart, by every precept of that Christianity for the defense of which our lives are solemnly pledged, and if we stand shoulder to shoulder, with unbroken ranks, the strong right hand of each grasping ever the mystic blade of truth, and wielding it with justice impartial in defense of destitute widows, helpless orphans and the Christian religion, we may rely upon the continued favor and protection of our blessed Immanuel.
1869.
Stated
conclaves
held
on
the
first
Tuesday of each
month.
At the
stated conclave of
1.
Tuesday, December
1869,
the
Templar year:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Warder
Captain of the Guards
John
P.
Nash, 1S69-76*
163
John
son.
B.
James Rhoads, Thomas J. Wade, Peckham, George J. Burgess and William L. GibEhenezer Barber, William A. Brundage, John De Wolf, William W. Eastabrook, David
Created:
Colwell, Erastus
R.
W'illiam
Demitted:
Walter Todd.
Deceased:
The by-laws
claves
of the
from the
first
Tuesday evening
month
to the
Ottawa CommandTemplar year, 1869, was the presentation by the Commandery, through its Commander, John F. Nash, of a beautiful sword to Sir Edward H. Smith, Captain General of the Commandery, on the 16th of November, at a special conclave of the Commandery.
One
Resolutions of respect adopted by Ottawa Commandery on the death of Samuel C. Walker, an honored member and one of the most brilliant young attorneys then practicing at
the
La
1869, presented by
Robert M. Mc-
Arthur, committee
this
passing existence,
we
are
we become
little
so familiar with
awakens
or no emotion in our
>
I'll
E K
immediate presence
to
the Sovereign
removing
our beloved
in the
Whereas, Death
in
our midst
is
we
are conscious
He was
true to his
Ma-
Knight should
and conHis very
desire,
stant as a brother
manner
nize in
ness that
when he spoke he needed no voucher. We recogour departed Sir Knight a mind richly endowed by
These accomplishments, and conversational
us
all.
made
his
company courted by
is
We
can
ill-
bereavement, there
void
in
vacancy
in
there-
fore, be
bow
Divine Providence
let
that
we may more
forever.
fleeting life
come
no
more
was
memory
165
reflects
its
shining- luster
from
beyond the portals of the tomb, so should it cheer our weary pilgrimage here below, and prepare us to renew our fraternal
greetings on the other side of time.
Resolved, That
we extend
to the
widow and
relatives of
bereavement.
That these resolutions be spread upon the records of our Commandery and a copy delivered to the
Resolved,
widow
of the deceased.
not hope from the noble army of who profess to have these high virtues as the cardinal rules of their lives? When we bled on fields of strife, and from wounds given and received in obedience to demands which we believed were imposed upon us by honor and sanctioned by law and duty, we knelt beside each other's bloody forms, and in the spirit of Knighthood and Christianity we ministered to each other's comfort. The life that seemed ready to pass away, through wounds we bad inflicted, became precious to us, and we prayed that it might remain to gladden us in future peaceful hours. The heart whose weary throbbings seemed about to stop with weariness of life moved with a new impulse when it was warmed in a brother's bosom, and whether the vestments which covered it were blue or gray the soul considered not. It was a Templar's bosom that warmed a brother's heart. [Oration by John T. Morgan at banquet on occasion of installation of officers of the Grand Commandery K. T. of Alabama, December, 1868, Mont-
EXCERPTA:
What may we
Knights Templar
in
our country
gomery, Ala.]
1870.
At the
vened
in the
stated conclave of
asylum December
Commander
Generalissimo Captain General
Prelate
[66
John
Morrison
Senior Junior
Rlobert
M. McArthur
Warden Warden
Recorder
Treasurer
Standard Bearer
)a\ id
Batcheller
)avid R.
Gregg
Past Commanders:
John
son.
James Rhoads, Thomas J. Wade, Peckham, George J. Burgess and William L. GibArthur Lockwood,
Charles
Created:
Marcus
Catlin,
Leman
E. Tyler, Francis P.
Du
son
11.
Tyler.
Julius Cfeesar
Died:
At a special conclave of Ottawa Commandery, convened on Thursday, November 22(\, the Eminent Commander an-
nounced the death of Sir Knight Julius C. Avery, one of the most highly esteemed and valiant Knights of Ottawa Commandery, and that the funeral would take place on the next
day
at 2 o'clock
his brother,
George
The following committee on resolutions was appointed by the Eminent Commander Thomas Robert McJ. Wade, John F. Nash, Arthur Lockwood,
Avery, East Ottawa.
:
resolutions,
Arthur and Robert Henning, who presented the following which were adopted by the Commandery.
life
guished
calls to
mind
the striking
is
and
oft
man
born
to
i&j
and points us
to a blessed im-
wisdom and
all.
instruction,
pass upon us
While thus
in
called to
mourn
the loss of a
will
cherished companion
never
more he heard within our council halls, and whose lips will never more thrill our hearts with the eloquence of truth, as in days gone by, yet we will ever cherish his memory as a
true and courteous Knight,
full
who
has fallen
in life's
struggle
knightly
with
his
it
armor on prepared
for
knightly
deeds; therefore, he
A ven-
lost
one of
its
active, honorable,
high-minded
Resolved, That
virtues,
we
memory,
imitate his
spread
in
upon
the
Commandery and
published
to the
and
a certified
copy be transmitted
family of
ceased.
members
of the
We
The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of
gore.
[68
III
KNIGHTS
I
I'l'.M
l'l.AK.
87
the
asylum on December
for the
8,
were elected
John
(
F.
Nash
J.
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain
Senior
(
reorge
Burgess
General
Prelate
McKim McArthur
David Batcheller
Junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Treasurer
Standard Bearer
Rising
Leman Aranah
George
J.
William L. Gibson, John B. Peckham and Thomas J. Wade. Created: Eliphalet Follett Bull. George Lee Walker,
George Beatty and William C. Tillson. David Walker and Henry M. Fusselman. Affiliated: Demitted: Charles Stout. John F. Lamb, Frank B. Chapman and William W. Estabrook.
Expxdled:
Erastus
De Wolf.
Ottawa Commandery, March
Estabrook,
At
9,
W. W.
Thomas
II.
Commandery on
:
the death of
we
are
apt
to
lose
sight
^\
its
stern
69
but
when
the
at the
and the
of
human
life
it
"is
but a few
days and
full
of trouble"; therefore, be
in
contemplation
when we
way
of
all
the earth.
arms,
dehis
life,
and humor
to enliven
and
instruct.
At the stated conclave of Ottawa Commandery December 14, 1871, E. C. John F. Nash, on behalf of the Commandery, presented to Rev. Sir W. \Y. Estabrook, who
was about
Commander}-,
emblem
attached,
and
Sir
his
gift
and
expressed
Commandery
live,
Give your flowers to those you love while they post-mortem fragrance dies on the empty air. One rose in life is better than seven harps with a broken string after the loved one Your floral gates-ajar wilting in has vanished from your view. a cheerless cemetery are emblems of your despair, while the beloved walks amid the fadeless lilies in the King's Garden.
EXCERPTA:
I/O
vened
officers
in
the
asylum on December
for the
14,
were elected
John
I
Commander
Generalissimo
)avid
Captain General
Prelate
Edward
Treasurer Recorder
Senior Junior
Warden Warden
Francis L. Fiske
Standard Bearer
Hubert A. McCaleb
A. Rising Justus Harris
Leman
Past Commanders:
Burgess.
William
and
L.
Rhoads
Thomas
Wade*
Created:
J.
Waite.
Suspended:
Demitted:
John F. Lamb, William W. Estabrook, Frank B. Chapman and Ouincy I). Whitman. John F. Nash was elected Grand Standard Bearer of the Grand Commandery in 1872.
a brother errs be not the first to shun him. bad habits and evil ways be not the first by Hold cold neglect or more active means to accelerate his fall. him up rather, encourage him, stimulate him to exertion, encourage him to fight manfully the good fight against temptations, the vanities, the follies of this world to which our weak natures are so
If If
EXCERPTA:
prone.
^\
Ottawa
Commandery.
con-
I7I
offi-
asylum December
for the ensuing
12,
were elected
Templar year
John Fisk Nash John Rush Cameron Edward Henry Smith George John Burgess
Robert
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
McKim McArthur
David Batcheller
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Morrison
Justus Harris
Past Commanders:
Burgess,
William
L.
J.
Thomas
Wade.
Created:
Edward
J.
Tillotson,
John
J.
De Motte and
William H. Dent.
Degraded:
William E.
Bell.
At the
Grand Commander, and L. Grand Commandery of Illinois, were received by the Commandery. This was a festive occasion for old OtThere were present the officers and tawa Commandery. members of Joliet Commandery, No. 4; Blaney Commandery, No. 5; Aurora Commandery, No. 22; St. John's Comeral of the
Commandery. March 13, Commandery, Daniel Dustin, E. Osborn, Grand Captain Gen-
mandery. No.
states.
26,
Pern.
111.,
and many
visitors
from other
to
John Fisk Nash, in his truly characteristic style, added the laurals of Ottawa Commandery on this occasion.
EXCERPTA: We. as an order, claim to be an association of Christian gentlemen; as Knights Templar we bow at the Christian's
1/2
altar and
worship the Christian's God. Within our asylums are taught those sublime lessons which should sink deep into the heart with soothing influences, like murmurs of the falling flood. It is here that The pulse of avarice forgets to move, A purer rapture fills the breast of love, Devotion lifts to heaven a holier eye, And tenderest pity heaves a softer sigh.
1S74.
At the stated conclave of Ottawa Commander}-, convened in the asylum December i, [873, the following offi1
cers
John Fisk Xash John Rush Cameron Edward H. Smith George J. Burgess
Robert M. McArthur
1
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
)a\ id
Batcheller
Junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Treasurer
Sword Bearer
Standard Bearer
Warder
Captain of the Guard
Justus Harris
son.
George J. Burgess, William L. GibJohn B. Peckham, James Rhoads and Thomas J. Wade. A. C. Mclntire, Patrick Ryan. D. H. Slagie. Created: Charles Wilkins and 1). C. Withrow.
Pasi Commanders:
EXCERPTA: Our object is to strengthen and maintain an If order upon a certain distinct and plain wrought foundation. novitiates have not confidence in the foundation laid, then they have no part in the superstructure, for, in this Temple, foundation stone, buttressed wall and climbing tower are all hewn from the same rock and polished by the same rule. The foundation is
the
life,
crucifixion,
II
73
our Lord. Every living stone added to the superstructure, before being incorporated into the wall, must be permeated by His life, made alive through His crucifixion and atonement.
1875-
At the stated conclave of Ottawa Cbmmandery, convened in the asylum of the Commandery, December 10, 1874, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Templar
year
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Treasurer
Edward
L. Herrick
Recorder
Sword Bearer
Standard Bearer
Captain of
Justus Harris
George J. John B. Peckham, James Rhoads and Thomas J. Wade. William C. Hall, Henry Mayo, James O'DonCreated: nell, James Rathbun, William Thomas, Walter B. Titus and
son,
Past Commanders:
J.
Tillotson and
William C. Tillson.
Suspended:
This was the last conclave (December 10th) held by Ottawa Commandery in their new asylum, which was deThe stroyed by fire on the night of December 2J, 1874. next conclave of the Commanderv was held in the old Ma-
I~4
sonic hall, in the
TH
Lynch
a
Main
street.
January
14,
[875,
at
which time
Grand Com-
mid be issued
fire
On
the
above
No.
of the relics
Command-
resolutions of
sympathy and
This offer a new outfit. was very courteously accepted by Ottawa Commandery with thanks and a beautiful reply was formulated by that valiant and magnanimous Knight, Sir Robert M. McArthur, which was adopted by the Commandery by an unanimous voice.
It
was
not,
however, necessary
for
Ottawa Commandery
for every
magnanim< us offer of Joliet, No. 4. Knight of Ottawa Commandery came forward with an open purse and soon had the necessary equipments
for carrying on the
work
of the
Commandery.
We are not a dilettante, pleasure-seeking soChristianity is our foundation; its maintenance the avowed As a Knight Templar we accept the object of our organization. whole teachings of the order. We can so follow out these teachings that wherever a Templar walks a halo of purity shall exhale from his life as perfume from a flower. The oppressed shall recognize him from afar. The oppressor, the contaminator of virtue, the plotter against manhood, shall shun him as they shun death.
EXOERPTA:
ciety.
vened
in the
9,
1875,
75
Templar
year
Commander
Generalissimo
Edward H. Smith
George
J.
Captain General
Prelate
Burgess
Treasurer Recorder
Senior
Junior
Standard Bearer
Captain of the Guard
Leman A. Rising
Justus Harris
Past
Commanders:
George
J.
Burgess,
William L.
Gibson, John B. Peckham, James Rhoads and Thomas J. Wade. Charles Henry Gilman, John Chrysostom Created:
Henry
Admitted:
Reinstated:
Cairo D. Trimble,
Henry W. Ensminger,
Peckham, Seymore Stover, James CXDonnell, John Bohlander, Dwight W. Fuller and E. M. Wade. Ottawa Commandery was inspected by James G. Elwood, Grand Warder of the Grand Commandery of Illinois,
B.
Died:
Gurney, Grand
Illinois,
Commander
Grand Commandery
of
EXCERPTA:
17''
what they are rather than what they profess to he. The paraphernalia of our order gathers lustre and reflects honor only in proportion as we illustrate the principles which are thus symbolized.
1877.
Commandery,
con14,
the
[876, the
Templar year
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Treasurer
Commanders: George J. Burgess, William L. GibJames Rhoads, Thomas J. Wade and John Fisk Nash. Created: Lester O. Phillips, Walter 1). Strawn and
C. Lewis.
Affiliated:
Edward
David A. Cook.
Pemitted:
liam Palmer,
Henry
Walker, Henry
Ensminger and Arthur C. Mclntire. Suspended John Colwell, William Fulton and Francis P. DuPlain.
C. Smith,
John C.
the
Grand Com-
77
mandery at the annual conclave by the election of John Fisk Nash as Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the state of Illinois. Ottawa Commandery was inspected by James G. Elwood, Grand Sword Bearer of the Grand Commandery, June 2ist, and he made the following report to the Grand
Commander
"Ottawa Commandery, No.
2 1st, and, in
10,
courteously invited
my
Eminent Commander of most enjoyable Templar reunion of the gallant Knights of that Commandery. "The work upon the Order of the Red Cross by Eminent Sir E. H. Smith was faultless and most remarkable, it being one of his first efforts as Commander, and the assistance from his officers, whose familiar faces make Ottawa asylum so welcome, was rendered in such smooth and even manner as to add greatly to the exemplification of the order."
company with
I
the
Joliet,
No.
4,
participated in a
The faith of the Templar is broad as the necesneedy world, and high as heaven. Lived out in thought, word and deed it produces characters like palm trees, glorious in their symmetry and beauty.
sity of a
EXCERPTA:
1878.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December [3, 1877, the following officers were elected for the ensuing" Templar year
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Cushman Hatheway
Warden Warden
I7
PLAR,
Henry Clay Nash > k Nash James Edward Rathbun John Henry W'idmer >avid Alpheus Cook David Robbins Gregg
John
'
I
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Thomas
James Rhoads, William L. Gibson, Wade, George J. Burgess and John F. Nash. J. Created: Ezekiel Howland and Asa Mann Hoffman. Demitted: John F. MacKinlay and Henry J. Waite.
John
C.
Past Conmmmders:
Suspended:
rin.
EXCERPTA: Ours is an order such as earth and heaven may foster in the sweeping march of man's restoration and the yearning instincts of the human heart. Unscathed from prejudices, and untrammelled by political despotism, it stretches from the Occident to the orient. The boisterous lashings of seas and oceans mingle with its morning orisons, while the gentle zephyrs of continents
harmonize with
its
evening hymns.
1879.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 12, 1878, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Templar year
:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Treasurer
Rec< irder
John Stout
Francis
Standard Bearer
Sword Bearer
79
Warder
Captain of the Guard
Thomas
J.
Wade, George
:
Leman A. Rising. There were but four conclaves of Ottawa Commandery held during the year 1879.
EXCERPTA: It was one of the beautiful fictions of ancient mythology that the bubbles leaped from the magic chaldron of Media, impregnated the spots on which they fell with luxuriant Thus it is vegetation, and clothed them with luxuriant beauty. with Knight Templarism. The presence of our order is attested in its march through the land where flowers of unearthly time and fragrance spring from the spot the Knight has trod, and the desert of crafty selfishness assumes the loveliness of Eden.
D emitted
1880.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 11, 1879, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Templar year
:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior Junior
Cushman Hatheway Henry Clay Nash Asa Mann Hoffman Douglas Hapeman Theodore Cunningham Gibson
Elias
Warden Warden
Treasurer
Ryan
Past Comiiuhiiders:
James Rhoads, William L. Gibson, Wade, George J. Burgess, John F. Nash and
[80
Demitted:
Fulton,
Suspended:
Died:
William A. Brundage.
Charles H. Gilman.
En-
campment
7 th.
of
August
Ottawa Commandery did not attend this conclave as a Commandery, notwithstanding the conclave being held in our own state and within a couple of hours' ride from our home. Many of the individual fraters of the Commandery, however, attended and were overwhelmed with the beauty
of the imposing pageant on the day of the grand parade.
Nothing worthy of note transpired ery during the Templar year of 1880.
In
in
Ottawa Command-
Sir Charles
March
1.
Charles H. Gilman. H. Gilman was born in East Windom, Conn., 1817, and came west to Pern, Illinois, in 1840.
later
Memoriam
Sir
few years
he engaged
in
Mendota, 111., whence he had moved, and in 1869 was elected judge of the County Court of La Salle county, and moved After serving as judge of the County Court he to Ottawa.
formed
death
a
subsequently,
His with David A. Cook, his son-in-law. Sir was untimely, and occurred April 14, 1880. Mrs. David A. Cook Charles II. Gilman was the father of
II.
Gilman was
a
man
was
of fine physique.
a
well proportioned, he
I
conspicuous
fe
was
man
of brilliant intellect
and
a tine linguist.
[8l
was not a more learned man in Ottawa than Sir Gilman. lie was one of the type of men known as "nature's noblemen," kind-hearted and charitable to an unusual degree. To a friend he was as true as the needle to the pole.
As
lar
a Free Mason he was greatly wrapped up in Capituwork, having occupied the position of High Priest of
-
Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M., from 1875 to 1879, inclusive, and to him, from whom your historian received the Royal Arch degree, is he greatly indebted for his active participation and preferment in the several degrees, grades and orders of Free Masonry. Being of a commanding and
pleasing personality, and having a perfect
command
of
language and
marked degree
which, together
man on
Sir Charles
at
was
Templar
Mendota,
111.,
funeral
was
Sir Charles
H. Gilman.
hail
and farewell!
W.
M.
BXCERPTA: Let us not linger around the days of ancient chivalry for character or commendation, but be up and doing, improving the time, not wholly forgetting those things that are behind, but pressing forward to the prize of our high calling prize no less than a crown of immortality and which will be given to those onlv who are faithful unto death.
188 1.
Commandery,
held
for
the ensuing
Templar year
Commander
Generalissimo
Robert
McKim McArthur
[82
Edward
tenry Smith
Captain General
Prelate
Cushman
[atheway
Treasurer Recorder
Commanders:
J.
George
James RJhoads, Thomas J. Wade, Burgess, John F. Xash, Edward H. Smith and
Robert M.
Me Arthur.
Lothrop Perkins, William Lee Roy Milligan, George Abram Mills, George R. Wilbur, Webster Wesley Arnold, William Henry Gilman, Paul Teissedre.
treated:
Demitted: George W. Landes. Suspended: Charles M. Catlin. Died: John J. De Motte and Patrick Ryan.
Ottawa Commandery was inspected by E. Sir James Elwood, Grand Captain General of the Grand Commander}', on the evening of September 22. 1881. He reported the attendance small, hut that it was a pleasing sight to see Past Right Eminent Sir Xash at his post as Senior Warden of his Commandery. Ottawa Commandery acted as escort to Most Worshipful Grand Master, William H. Scott, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., on July 4, 188 1, on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone for the La Salle There was a large attendance of countv court-house. Masons and Knights Templar on this occasion, among others was the celebrated drill corps of St. Bernard Commandery. under command of that eminent drill-master and prince of good fellows, Holmer G. Purinton. Their wonderful maneuvers in forming Templar emblems excited the wonder and admiration of the assembled multitude of people. James A. Garfield, President of the United States, and a Knight Templar, was mortally wounded by a cowardly
G.
1S3
September
in all
when
United States
at the
hour
his
Mother Earth.
ipated in by
all
The ceremonies
of the
as escort
mandery acted
therein.
Ottawa were particcivil societies, and Ottawa Comto the Masonic bodies participating
held in
EXCERPTA: The Mason who receives the numerous degrees merely for the sake of being known as a high Mason, and yet has not the depth or force of character to comprehend the full meaning of all their various parts, or the ability to digest them and make them realities in his life, can never become eminent in the order His ideas are too crude. We must or do honor to the craft. rise above mere signs and symbols that are the A, B, C's of our lesson, and study and grasp the teachings of our institution in its wholeness, if we would fitly perform our parts in the great relation that Masonry holds with humanitv.
1882.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 8, 1881, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Warden
Recorder
Sword Bearer
Standard Bearer
Warder
Captain of the Guard
[84
I'll
E K
asylum January
[882.
ter
Created: John \Y. Qegg, Thomas E. MacKinlay, WalMcDonald Woodward. James Milligan, Jr., Joseph New1
ton
hi n a way.
Demitted:
active, principle;
Knights Templarism is, or ought to be, a living, everlasting symbol, the Cross, its most inspiring memory, the Crusades, into the martial spirit of which knighthood was baptized by fire and sword for the redemption of the Holv Land.
its
EXCERPTA:
1883.
At the animal conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 14. [882, the following officers were elected and
appointed for the ensuing- Templar year:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Treasurer
Recorder
Warder
Captain of the Guard
The above
the
officers
were
11,
stations by R. E. Sir
John Fisk
Nash
[883.
at a stated
conclave of
Commandery, January
Created:
William
Stormont,
Richard
Charles
Egbert
Pettit.
Jesse
Emerson Morgan,
Farnsworth,
Celestine
185
Ryburn,
John
J.
Murphy,
Louis
Thomas
Garvy
Reedy.
Affiliated:
1
Corydon
Cornelius
Halladay
and
)onaldson.
Suspended:
John L. Morrison and Leverett O. Black. Ottawa Commandery was not inspected during the Tem-
EXCERPTA; Like the sun in the natural world it (the letter G) marks the place whence comes the light which ushers in Masonic day, and while it lingers, to Masonry, can come no night. The stars may be blotted out, the waters may fade from the sea, the blossom of the tree no more appear, the rock-ribbed. hills to the plain return, the silver cord be loosed and the^iiwr5bwl be broken, but what is taught to Templars by that letter G shall, as noontime splendor, shine until old Time, weary with the weight of many centuries, shall lay his head on the lap of earth to die. And we do believe, my fraters, that if the paths it leads us to are trod, then even the lowly place, the obscure life, the hidden worth of this existence shall speak of us as of him they spoke when at the bar the question came:
"Who
speaks for this man?" from the great white throne, Vailed in its roseate clouds, the voice came forth; Before it stood a parted soul alone, And rolling east and west, south and north, The mighty accents summoned quick and dead: "Who speaks for this man ere his doom be said?"
Shivering he listened, for his earthly life Had passed in dull, unnoted calm away, He brought no glory to its daily strife, No wreath of fame, nor genius' fiery ray; Weak, alone, ungifted, quiet and obscure. Born in the shadow dying 'mid the poor.
Hark!
from the solemn concourse, hushed and dim, The widow's prayer, the orphan's blessing rose; The struggle told of troubles shared by him, The lonely of cheered hours and softened woes; And like a chorus spoke the crushed and sad, He gave us all he could and what he had.
And little words of kindness said, And tender thoughts and help in need
Sprang up
In like leaves
some waste corner, sown by chance-flung seed; In grateful wonder heard the modest soul Such trifles gathered to so blest a whole.
[86
"()
Til E
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.
\U,
The store so little and the hand so frail. Do but the best you can to all around; Let sympathy be true nor courage fail. And raise from brethren poor and weak.
Some witness
at
your
trial
hour
to
speak."
[884.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 13. [883, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
Theodore
C.
Gibson
Commander
Generalissimo
Robert M. McArthur
Lothrop Perkins
Walter
William
B. Titus L. Milligan
.Mills
Captain General
Prelate
George A.
I
tenry C.
Nash
Treasurer
Recorder
Sword Bearer
Standard Bearer
William H. Gilman
Justus Harris
Warder
Captain of the Guard
at a special conclave
December
liam Evan
20, 19 13.
Created:
Prichard,
W.
Cheever.
E. Tyler
the
87
of
Ottawa Commandery was inspected on the 27th day May, 1884, by Eminent Sir Edward Starr Mulliner. There was a large attendance of the members and a large delegation from Juliet Commandery. Xo. 4, and also from Blaney, No. 5, as well as from other Commanderies. The inspecting officer was pleased to make the following report to the Grand Commandery: "Responding to the invitation of Ottawa Commandery.
No.
10, stationed at
Ottawa.
made an
official visit
to that
arrival
Commandery on
May, and, on
my
"The occasion was made a notable one by the presence of the Right Eminent Grand Commander, E. Sir Wilcox, and staff, and several members of Joliet Commandery, No. 4, and E. Sir McDonald and other Sir Knights of St. John's Commandery, No. 26. Ottawa Commandery displayed some thirty-five or forty swords in line. "The Commandery met in special conclave and conferred the Order of the Temple.
"The work
out in saying,
is
of this
fully
Commandery,
drill
as
yon
will bear
me
up
to the average.
Their equipments
are
pleasing specimens of
shown by
their
sound, the
Commandery having no
in its jurisdiction, the
indebtedness
whatever.
membership of which aggregates one hundred and fifty-four, and composed of the best citizens of the county
it
in
which
it
is
located.
to
would seem
that
[88
I'll
KNIGHTS
IT.M
PLAR,
"For
von
(
unbounded
according
hospitality
will
me
in
the-
palm
to
Mtawa. No.
"The work
ceremony of inspection
were supplemented by a handsome banquet spread at the Clifton, followed by numerous speeches by host and guests,
Ottawa Commandery demonstrating the ability of its members as talkers as well as workers, especially of its younger memhers, whose maturity of thought and elegance of diction, disclosed in impromptu remarks, were a continuous source of pleasure to the close."
Commandery, No. 4, on this occasion acted as James G. Elwood, Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Illinois, whose presence was a source of enjoyment to Ottawa Commandery.
Joliet
escort to R. E. Sir
memorial
memory
Henry
Mayo, presented
liam L. Milligan.
their report,
In Memoriam.
Whereas,
He
that doeth
all
from our midst the valiant and magnanimous Sir Knight. Lothrop Perkins, one whom in life was loved for his many knightly virtues, whose death we sincerely mourn, and
whose memory we will ever fondly cherish. Resolved, That we are called upon to record
his death
That
a
we mourn
in
his loss as a
citizen, faithful
the discharge
of
all
public
and private,
friend in
valiant
whose integrity we had the utmost confidence, a and magnanimous Templar, whose well earned fame
189
worthy our
institution;
we can
offer to his
memory
to pledge
Resolved, That
ily
we
That renewed assurances of our abiding sympathy. this tribute to his memory be placed upon the records of our
Commandery and
our own.
EXCERPTA: If our solemn ceremonies mean anything if they are not all a sham, a mockery if, as we assert, our order is founded upon the Christian religion, the religion which had its birth in a stable at Bethlehem, when the angelic anthem, "Glory to God and peace to man," first burst upon the ears of a waiting world if founded also upon the practice of the Christian virtues, it is evident that to be a worthy member of it, a man should be a Christian in belief, if not by profession, and should exemplify in his daily life, at least, some of the Christian virtues.
I88 5
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 11, 1884, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
Theodore Cunningham Gibson William Lee Roy Milligan George Abram Mills Walter Briggs Titus Thomas E. MacKinlay William Evan Prichard
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Recorder
Standard Bearer
UJO
I'LAR,
Warren
C. Riale
Paul Teissedre
The above
stations by
l\.
officers
into their
respective
E. Sir
at a special
conclave
December
18,
[884.
Created:
Thomas Coxey
Fullerton and
August Haeherlin.
Easter
service
at the
Washington Bushnell.
5,
Ottawa Commandery was inspected October 1, 1885, by Norman T. Cassette, Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Commandery of Illinois. There were thirty-one Sir Knights of Ottawa Commandery present.
E. Sir
Prom
his report
we quote:
"It caused
me no
little
surI
Commanderies of
is
the state,
when
the frequency
of ritual exemplification
Commanderies located in the city of Chicago. "The asylum of Ottawa Commandery, No.
g
1.
10,
is
very
due form.
"Eminent Sir T. C. Gibson, Commander, and the officers and Sir Knights did everything they could to render the inspection satisfactory and complete, and Right Eminent Sii John Fisk Nash, Past Grand Commander, helped me in the
discharge of
my
duties."
W.
L.
I9I
B. Titus, reported on
as follows.:
Once again
rior, valiant
of our dominions,
and, at his
command,
pilgrim war-
from whose bourne no traveler returns. At his home, on the evening of the thirtieth day of June, A. D. 1885, A. O. 767, our esteemed and beloved frater. Sir Washington Bushnell, yielded up his armor, and passed
into realms
beyond the
It
veil of
seems
difficult
to realize that he
who
so lately
was
with us and
commanded our
mother
now
to
sleeps in
love.
For the loss of such as he tears are not unmanly. Let them fall in honor of one whose life was that of a kind and.
affectionate husband, an indulgent father, a true Knight, a
man and
citizen.
we have
sustained in
we
do,
Resolve, That
it
is
Resolved, That we hereby tender to his afflicted family renewed assurances of our abiding" sympathy.
EXCERPTA: Reputation is oft obtained without merit and lost without deserving. Tis a garment that can be easily put on and off at pleasure; 'tis easily soiled, easily lost, easily regained. But character is a living body, with lifeblood pulsating in its arteries and flowing through its veins. Every bruise gives pain and in healing it oftimes leaves an ugly scar and deformity, and ever lost it cannot be restored. Reputation is the football of the rabble; 'tis public property to be disposed of at the pleasure of the populace. Character is the jewel of the heart; 'tis personal wealth that has
192
been earned, hoarded and polished by personal exertion; 'tis a treasure that cannot be appropriated by any other person; it can only be wasted and squandered by the prodigality of its possessor.
[886.
December
10.
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Thomas
James Milligan, Jr David Batcheller Henry Clay Nash Asa Mann Hoffman William Henry Gilman
Richard Farnsworth
I
Treasurer
'aul
Teissedre
(
David
iregg"
their respective
Em.
Sir
Theodore
C.
Gibson
clave
December
24. 1885.
Created:
Alexander
Hanna,
Daniel
Charles
Mills,
Barnett L. Bonar, John Charles Farnsworth, Simeon Guilford Gay, John Charles Corcoran.
Charles E. Dunbar. John Michael Purrucker, John C. Ames. Willard Stanley Wheeler. John Calvin Pirkey, William
J.
Matthew
William Jack.
William
Reeves,
Frederick
W. Gay, Benjamin
foshua
P.
F. Sweet.
Walter
193
Frank Thomas Neff, John Francis Cleave, Wilson, Eugene Moffit, Israel C. Cope, James Anderson, Charles Branson Anderson, Charles Howard Smith and Samuel McFeely. Demitted: Garvy Donaldson. Died: Robert M. McArthur, Corydon C. Halladay. There were no affiliations, suspensions or expulsions
Joseph
Adams
February 25, 1886, the Eminent Commander appointed Sirs John F. Nash, David A. Cook and Asa M. Hoffman
a
committee to make
all
Commandery
Encampment,
21, 1886.
Grand
beginning September
March
C<
11,
1886, a coat of
mimandery.
March 25th
report
April 25,
swords
in line.
July 1, 1886, Ottawa Commandery was inspected by Em. Sir George M. Moulton, Grand Captain General of the Grand Commandery of Illinois.
on
this
occasion
fifty-three
Sir
fifty visit-
The order of the Red Cross was conferred in the afternoon on a class of 13, and the order of the Temple on two postulants in the evening.
neighboring Commanderies.
Two
George A.
Mills, 188S
Deceased.
95
Of
this inspection
report to the
we quote from the inspection officer's Grand Commandery: "July ist I enjoyed the
extreme pleasure of visiting Ottawa Commander}', No. 10, It was my good fortune to be accompanied by at Ottawa.
eighteen Sir Knights of St. Bernard, No. 35, under the
leadership of Sir Knight H. G. Purinton, and also had the
pleasure of the
company of Eminent Commander Kirk and About a dozen staff of Englewood Commandery, U. D. Sir Knights from Blaney, No. 5, joined the party at Morris, so that a goodly number debarked from the train at Ottawa, where R. Em. Sir Knight Nash was in waiting with a detachment of Sir Knights from Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, and a brass band. The line of inarch was taken to the asylum, where we were received with honors in During the council of Red Cross Knights then in session.
the afternoon
thirteen
order of the
Red
Cross.
the usual
Mow
of eloquence.
Commandery
Templar was opened and the order conferred Another banquet in the on two of the afternoon class. hours of the morning concluded the exercises of the early day. Em. Sir Knight William L. Milligan was ably assisted in the discharge of his duties by R. Em. Sir Knight Nash and by the official staff and members of the Commandery. The work was well done and strictly in conformity to the
of Knights
ritual.
The
financial
condition
of
the
Commandery, No.
Templar
honor and
credit to this
revival of interest in
taken place there, and under the able and zealous man-
agement of Em. Sir Milligan Ottawa, No. 10, will take a front rank among the Commanderies of this jurisdiction.
Its
present membership
is
1 1 1,
h)o
I'll
to be
during the present year, an unprecedented amount of work performed in an interior Commandery, and which outstrips all
previous records
in
some of
the
Chicago Com-
manderies."
August
loss
-'th
the
Commandery was
called to
Sir Robert McKim McArthur. His funeral services were under the auspices of Ottawa Commandery, and he was placed in his resting place in Ottawa Avenue ceme-
Em.
Encampment
Mo.. Sepin
tember
)ttawa
21,
[886.
'^Qfeivi y-hve
line in the
(
parade.
Commandery ever attended in a body. Some of the members who accompanied Ottawa Commandery on this pilgrimage are shown in picture herein of the Commandery
taken
in
house
they
W.
L. Milligan,
Em. O.
i.
A. Mills. Gen., E.
Smith.
C. G.,
Treas.,
J.
Asa
W. Pur-
rucker.
P.
Rodgers,
J.
J.
II.
C.
Pirkey,
II.
J.
Teissedre, Warder,
Widmer,
T.
Xeff.
Bowman,
White, Dr.
II.
P..
Mayo.
P.
F.
S.
Bonar,
P>.,
W.
C. Hall,
David Batcheller,
\V.,
Christian
Suppes, C. Rohrer,
rer,
J.
I
C. Farnsworth, D. C. Mills. P.
Roh-
E. Moffitt,
E.
lint. C. E.
Dunbar,
J.
Blanchard,
A. Cook,
D.
M.
E.
I).
Slagle,
W.
IP Watts.
J.
the
Commandery
at
Dwight.
!<)7
The following resolutions of respect to the memory of Em. Sir Robert McKim McArthur were read and ordered
spread upon the records at a stated
conclave
F.
of
Ottawa
Commander)
In the
December
23,
[886,
J.
Nash, Walter B.
Sir Robert
Em.
Mcborn
Kim McArthur, we
to die;
man
is
that rank
and
most beloved,
the learned,
alike share the
the
and
all
same
mother
earth.
Xo
frater,
memory
of our beloved
whose friendship
to
it
was our
privilege so long
and so
awarded
him by
all
who knew
to
mam
who
are cognizant ol
the services
which he rendered
is
His monument
longest and best.
in
is
He
no longer of
this earth.
among men is ended. His earthly record is complete. Words ef eulogy can add nothing to the honor due his name
and character, which should stimulate those upon responsibilities in the present and may in the future
higher ideals and stricter integrity.
whom
rest
to
He
sword
will
roll-call
of the Sir
his
He
good
has returned
tight
He
fought a
and finished
his course.
The
knew him
shall
know him
no more forever.
In view, therefore, of the loss
in
I98
E K
NIGH TS TEMPLAR,
set
apart and
memory
sympathy with the orphan daughters whom he has left behind, we mourn with them for the loving father, counselor and friend. We find consolation in the reflection that he lived to do great good to those around
Resolved. That
in
him. and
left
"Christianity remains pure and spotless, though garb are hypocrites, and Templarism is not degraded, because impure hands hold the cress."
EXCERPTA:
its
1887.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 9, 1886, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
:
William L. Milligan
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
David Batcheller Willard S. Wheeler Henrv Clay Nash Asa Mann Hoffman William H. Gilman John C. Farnsworth
Rani Teissedre
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
John
C.
Corcoran
Fullerton
Guard
Charles E. Dunbar
Thomas
C.
into their respective The above officers were stations on December 23, [886. R. Em. Sir John Disk Nash
IQQ
C. Eullerton
was
Thomas
as marshal.
Created:
Mitchell,
Nile
Wynkoop Heermans,
Austin Valentine
Oscar Benton Ryan, John Nixon Shinn, George Morrison Rig-den, John Marshall Davidson, Edward Clark Modes, Daniel Edward Daly, Edwin T. Reed, Luman Se-
Timothy
Elias C.
Ellis
Gapen.
Hatheway and James E. Rathbun. Pied: John Francis Cleave, Asa Mann Hoffman. Asa Mann Hoffman was Recorder of Ottawa Commandery at the time of his death and also Treasurer of La
Demitted:
Salle count}'.
service
at
the
Rev. N.
W. Heermans,
which was members of the Commandery. Ottawa Commandery was inspected June 3, 1887, by R. Em. Sir George M. Moulton, Grand Captain General of the Grand Commandery, on which occasion the Order of the Temple was conferred on two candidates.
delivered a very appropriate sermon,
There were present on this occasion fifty-two Sir Knights of Ottawa Commandery and twelve visiting fraters.
that forty-nine
At the annual conclave the Eminent Commander stated had been added to the membership of the Commandery during the years 1886 and 1887, and there was more money in the treasury than at any time during
Commandery.
Which
I
2( H
>
Til E
KNIGHTS
TI'.M I'l.AR,
Manx
[O,
l\.
Iofkm an, Recorder of Ottawa Commandery, No. lie was born in Peru, 111.. October 7, [838, and T.
I
died
at
Ackley, Iowa,
[887.
I
at
130 o'clock a.
m.,
May
ter
4,
lc
was
Wednesday, Mas-
Mason in Occidental Lodge, No. 40. A. F. & A. M., December 24, 1S77. Exalted to the august degree of Royal
Arch
1S78.
in
37.
R.
A.
M.,
May
15,
Was
member
&
Created and dubbed a Knight of the valiant and S. M. magnanimous order of Knights Templar in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T.. December 4, 1878. Constituted a
S.
10.
P. R. S. 32
1884.
As
neighbor,
friend,
man. Mason.
and loving.
Theodore C. Gibson, Foster H. McKenny and Thomas MacKinlay presented resolutions of respect to the memory of Em. Sir Corydon Cornelius Halladay, which were adopted by Ottawa Commandery May 12. 1887:
E,
Whereas,
Tt
mon
grand asylum above, which knows no closing, and where each shall stand alone to answer the necessary questions
for himself
our
life
work
shall be
opened
to the
it
truth,
who remain
to see to
it
work
shall
in the
be such that
when we
shall be called
hence our
life
work-
have been well done, and be permitted to hear the welcome, "Let him enter." It was with sincere sorrow that we learned that on the morning of October 10. [886,
our highly esteemed
frater,
Em.
Sir
Corydon
C. Halladav,
201
illness of
many
beyond.
We
hand
genial friendship.
tegrity
his in-
was unquestioned, and those with whom he came way knew him only to respect him in the highest degree, and his ever ready assistance and cheerful manner in filling any of the positions of our order won for him our warmest friendship and esteem. Therefore,
in contact in a business
we have
lost
one highly
husband and an indulgent father, and we hereby extend to them our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this hour of
their
deep
affliction.
Resolved,
resolutions be spread
also
memory, these upon the records of the Commanderv, that a copy of the above be presented to the family of
a token of our respect to his Sir
As
Em.
C. Halladay.
The committee,
Eugene
records.
The white winged messenger from our Supreme Grand Commander has called for another human life, and our late
frater.
Sir
mand.
and.
John Francis Cleave, has answered the comYoung, but a brief time married, and only a short
no longer, has been clothed with
at his loss.
celestial
10,
sorrow deeply
2<
>_'
I'll
KNIGHTS TEM
I'l.AK.
Wherefore mourn?
phan to the love of
We commend
his
widow and
or-
Him who
widow and the fatherless, and we share with them the sorrow which time alone can soften. Ever faithful to his vows, he was prepared to obey the last command. We honor his memory and invoke blessings upon all whom he loved.
Therefore, he
it,
widow and
or-
phaned family.
EXCERPTA: In this age of our order we seek the cultivation of the arts of peace, the education of all in the useful things that God has given for our, study, and especially to maintain with unswerving integrity the holy tenets of Him who was and is the
Savior of the world.
Ic
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 8, 1887, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
George Abram Mills
Commander
Generalissimo
James Milligan, Jr
Paul Teissedre
Captain General
Prelate
William E. Prichard
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Warder
Sentinel
The above
stations on
officers
were
installed
into their
respective
December
22,
1887.
Em.
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Batcheller as marshal.
Created':
Austin
J. Bell,
Howard Jennings, Albert Atwood Colley, Henry Sansom, Ruffin Drew Fletcher, James Stewart, John Rosene, James E. Cooke, Thomas Corwin Tridell, Clarence
Smith, Augustin
Griggs, John William Teetzel, William Kellogg Stewart
and William
J.
Byrth.
Affiliated:
Leman A.
Rising.
Died
let
Follett Bull.
On March 22, 1888, Past Commanders John F. Nash and James Rhoads were each elected life members of Ottawa Commandery and William L. Gibson an honorary member.
Ottawa Commandery attended Easter seryice at Christ There was a large attendance of the fraters, which was duly appreciated by the yestry and the
Episcopal church.
church, as manifested by their recognition in a pleasant
worded
set
of
resolutions
to
the
Commandery
receiyed
On
authority of
William L.
Commandery a history of the Commandery from organization to 1888, and was awarded the thanks of the Commandery for the efficient manner in
prepared and presented the
On June 1st R. Em. Sir John F. Nash, on behalf of the Commandery, presented R. Em. Sir William L. Milligan a beautiful Past Commander's jewel, the first presentation o\ a jewel to a Past Commander of this Commandery. The Commander)- was not inspected during the year 1888.
EXCERPTA:
let
In
this
infidelity
we
Cross,
vowed
to
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stand forth in defense of the Christian religion, and to uphold its glorious banner. When Napoleon, with his warriors, stood before the pyramids of Egypt, he said: "Soldiers of France, forty centuries look down upon you from yonder pyramids." Soldiers of the Cross, more than nineteen hundred years look down upon you from Calvary's bloody brow. You cannot grasp the crossof your swords without being reminded of the awful scene there enacted. Be loyal, brave and true, and forget not the admonition of the great Captain of our Salvation, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."
hilts
1889.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 13, 1888, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar vear
Walter Briggs Titus
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Treasurer
Standard Bearer
P. Scheying
The above officers were installed into their respective stations on December 1888, R. Em. Sir John F. Nash being the installing officer, assisted by Em. Sir George A.
_>
1
,
Mills as Marshal.
William James Williams, Ezra Hunt Bailey, Created: James Sexton, William Batie Jones. Thomas H. Spencer, Charles Christian Modes, Benjamin Franklin Colehour.
205
Clair,
Godfrey, David
F.
r
.
Deinitted:
Daniel
Jesse
Emerson
and AlexArnold,
Morgan, Abram
ander Wylie.
M. White, N.
P.
W. Heermans
Webster
Suspended
Nash.
(N.
D.
Wesley
J.
Died:
Thomas Reedy.
10,
January
ices as
Thomas
C. F'ullerton,
C.
on behalf of the Commandery, presented Past Em. George A. Mills a beautiful Commander's sword.
May
17,
1889, the
Commandery was
inspected by
Em.
Sir Joseph E. Dyas, Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery. Of this inspection Em. Sir Dyas reported to the Grand Commander as follows: "May 17th I visited Ottawa Commandery, No. 10. The Order of the Temple was conferred. Fifty-five Sir
Knights were present, after which the asylum tactics were performed and the Commandery was closed in form. The officers of this Commandery are thoroughly proficient in
the ritual and
drill,
and
the
all
the
minor
details
were
strictly
adhered
to.
for the
occasion.
carriages
con-
sat
down
repast.
Ibis
206
April
_'
i
the
Commandery
at
swords being
in line.
Milligan. David
E.
Daly,
following',
which
[3,
[888:
Memoriam John
call
Lewis Summers.
He heard an inward
Leave home, leave country, all That loved you and are loved Leave wealth and fame, And with this ruddy cross, To go and battle in your Majesty's name! There where I walked in early days with men, Go, I will meet you striving there again!
It
is
we
record the
life
who
departed this
at
home,
1888.
in
Allen township.
La
As
man, and
father, he
a citizen,
and
brightened the
home
circle,
He
home.
adored
The
is
affable to
all.
But be
gone!
His stately
form
will will
in
no and
his
our gatherings.
The determined
is
fin-
in-
sits
blesl
Emmanuel enjoying
ineffable
"Fraters, be strong for life's demand, Boldly endure and bravely stand;
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Remembering our duty to weep with those who weep, we tender otir cordial sympathy to his afflicted family in the great sorrow which has befallen them, and, while we mingle our tears with those of the broken circle in which he was best known, and most loved, we pray that He who hath
smitten
may
also sustain
their
was
In Memoriam.
to the
Our beloved
f rater.
Sir
Knight Asa
Mann Hoffman,
senger and fearlessly yielded to the silent angel, where contention no longer awaited, and sleeps with his fraters gone
before.
We who
mourn
we
do not sorrow as they who are separated from friends, but as they who believe that we shall all soon mingle with the
Heavenly Host. Resolved, That these, our heartfelt words, he inscribed upon our records and copies sent to the relatives of the departed.
W.
E.
Prichard,
1).
committee on memorial
Whereas, His
hood,
man-
made conspicuous by
208
continued physical
early
life,
I'll
affliction in the
guished advancement
frittered
away
the
old age
i
and retirement,
;
and
f<
ir
the supp<
rt
of the
Whereas, By
father,
his
faithful
Resolved, That
so well
we deeply deplore the loss exemplified in his own life the virtues
of one
who
of patience
and
fidelity to
memory
we
memory
of the deceased
we cause
these resolutions to be
late frater.
John
let F.
F.
Nash, Walter
B.
Titus and
Thomas
E.
Mac-
Sir Eliphalet Follett Bull. By the lessons taught through the symbols of our order our minds become so familiar with the emblems of mortality that
we
its
messenger of death sounds an alarm at the door of our asylum and summons hence one of our number we are startled with the realities of life and the fleetness of
when
the
time.
in the
death of our
Knight
and burning
taper of
life
gloom.
While thus
panion
in
called to
mourn
our council
200,
we
will ever
memory
Knight who
has fallen
in life's full
struggle
full
in the
it
Therefore, he
and
his family a
we
memory,
imitate his
Commandery and
EXCERPTA:
Yours, Sir Knights is not an order of selfish human cry for help is heard there is your
1890.
At the annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held December 12, 1889, the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Treasurer
)avid Batcheller
Sword Bearer
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NIGHTS
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73
21
Warder
Captain of the Guard
George A. Forbes, William Henry Boys, John John James Withrow, John Frank Toland and
William Herbert Higby.
:
Hans Gulbranson.
Affiliated:
Reinstated
Demitted:
Wheeler.
Carpenter
and
E.
Willard
Stanley
Bowman
were made
25, 1890,
members on January
April
6,
27, 1890,
and September
respectively.
1890,
service
at
the
Congregational Church,
Rev. Warren
swords
in line.
Day, pastor.
inspected by
Commandery was
Km. Sir Sylvester O. Spring, Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commanderv. There were thirty-nine fraters presThe Order of the Temple was conferred. Of this inent. spection we quote from the inspection officer's report: "Em. Sir W. B. Titus, Commander of Ottawa Commandery, Xo.
to do.
10,
kindly invited
me
to
visit
which
found Xo. 10
to be a very
prosperous
Command-
The regular business having been disposed of, the Order of the Temple was conferred upon one candidate in The officers are well posted in exceptionally good style.
erv.
and it is above the average of Commanderies in both work and attendance. "They have a large and commodious asylum, comfortably furnished, and about two th< usand dollars in the treasMembership at last report was 140." ury.
their various duties,
EXCERPTA:
lack
ofl
The
field
in
which we labor
is
opportunities
for
in
III
exemplify and impress our tenets in our respective communities, if faithful, the aggregate of good through our instrumentality cannot but rebound to the good of Templarism and the glory of the Great Captain of our salvation.
and,
1891.
December
1,
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
James E. Cooke John F. Toland James Gentleman Thomas E. MacKinlay David Batcheller Henry Waklecker
Albert A. Colley
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Huggins,
Charles Hubbard Rathbun, Samuel C. Smith, Robert Courtney Meyer, Lewis Lyall Graves, Charles Schaulin, Lyston
Drewett Howe, Ludwig Otto Lorenz, John Maxwell Stewart, Joseph Kopf and Jacob Benner Shuler.
Affiliated:
Albert
II.
nary and
Andrew
There were no deaths and no demissions from Ottawa Commandery during the year. As soon as the officers were
installed preparations
September, [892,
Denver, Colorado,
com-
213
car.
In
Chapter the
Commandery
and third
building, second
March
29, 1891,
swords being
in line.
89 1, Ottawa Commander}- was inspected by John Fisk Nash, proxy for R. Em. Sir Edward C. Pace, inspection officer, forty-five swords being in line.
14,
1
May
R.
Em.
Sir
EXCERPTA: This is the age of the noblest type of the true gentleman, as well as the most beautiful type of gentle women, our wards. The American gentleman is the noblest type of true chivalry the world has ever known; here a type of gentlemen in which are richly blended a sense of personal honor, generosity, courtesy, Christian tenderness and helpfulness. Let us not forget, however, that we owe these ennobling virtues to the same influence that shaped the chivalry of the days of Bayard and Sir Sidney. In no other age of the world has there been so wide, so varied, a field for the exercise of these virtues as in this present age. The ideal of chivalry has always been lofty, pure and generous. Valor, loyalty, courtesy and generosity have always been the characteristics of the true knight. What scope to-day for the exercise of these
virtues.
1892.
December
10,
Commander
Generalissimo
Henry Mayo
David P>atcheller Walter Briggs Titus Thomas E. MacKinlay
Albert
Captain General
Prelate
Atwood
Colley
Paul Teissedre
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NIGHTS TKM
I'l.AK,
reorge
Abram
Mills
junior
Warden
tenry Waldecker
Standard Bearer
anna
kiard
Created:
sted,
Colley,
.Miller,
ton
Hess.
Alvin E. Tyler.
Suspended:
Demitted:
Pied:
John
Stuart
Ryburn.
Record of departure of Ottawa Commandery to Denver, Colorado, to attend the Twenty-Fifth Triennial Encampment of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America. Saturday morning, August 6,
1892
:
1.
NO.
10,
K. T.
Read
Ottawa, August 1, 1S92. Knights and others who are assigned sleeper berths on special train of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., are hereby ordered to assemble at the asylum of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., at Ottawa. Illinois, on Saturday morning, August 6, 1892, at 8 o'clock sharp, at which hour the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company will require each individual person, male
or female, to affix their signature to the excursion ticket, entitling the holder only to one round-trip passage, as per itinerary souvenir The description of each individual perof Ottawa Commandery. son entitled to travel on said ticket will also be stamped on the
215
Therefore, it is imperative that each person should be presperson at the above named, as the C, R. I. & P. ticket agent will be present at the asylum at that hour with tickets and stamps. BAGGAGE You should mark your baggage plain with your name, "Special Train, Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Ottawa, Illinois," and have it sent to the depot of the C, R. I. & P. at Ottawa, Illinois, where it will be placed in the special baggage car of Ottawa Commandery. Send your baggage to depot early Saturday morning. Knights Templar valises, containing uniforms, will be taken care of at the asylum of the Commandery by special committee, which will see to having them placed in special baggage car of
ent in
special train.
The
lines will be
formed
at 9 o'clock,
be presented to the
the line of
Commandery with
taken up via La Salle, Main and Columbus preceded by Hentrich's military band. Ladies Courteously, will be escorted to the depot in carriages.
march
will be
W.
Attest:
A. A.
L.
MILLIGAN,
E. C.
COLLEY,
to
Recorder.
Persuant
officers
the
above
order
the
following'
named
in-
their ladies
and friends
its
Commandery on
pilgrimage,
rendezvoused
10,
.T., at
William L. Milligan
Commander
Generalissimo
Henry Mayo
David Batcheller
William E. Prichard
Captain General
Prelate
Gustav Kneussl
Senior
James Gentleman Thomas E. MacKinlay Oakley Griggs Richard Farnswortb William H. Gilman James M. Trenarv Joshua P. Rodgers Alexander Hanna
tern.
tern.
Treasurer
tern.
tern.
Color Bearer
2l6
Also Sir Knights A. J. Daugherty, John C. Corcoran, William Wilson, J. \. Sliinn, Thomas II. Spencer, Louis
Rohrer, Louis Scheidecker, .Milton Pope, Ebenezer Barber.
A. C. Godfrey, John
II.
W.
Clegg,
J.
B. Shuler, C. B. Hess,
Mitchell,
G.
II.
Pruett,
L. L. Graves,
M.
C.
M. E. Hodgson,
C. S. Beckwith,
son, C.
l.
James A. Curry,
B. F. Colehour, T. C. GibI).
McDonald, John L. H. Slagie, John F. Wish, Frank T. Neff, Edwin T. Read, George A. Wilmarth, John L. Barber (Sir Knight George A. Forbes joined the
Provins, S. G. (lay, R.
Clark.
W.
C. Hall. L. S.
Sampson,
I).
Commandery
Knights from
at
Commanderies C. C. Eldred, Blanev Commandery, No. 5, of Morris, 111.; A. Blanchard, Sycamore Commandery, No. 15, Sycamore, 111.; Em. Sir Geo. A. McPherson and Sir Knights A. L. Perry, J. A. Swem.
sister
( 1.
Charles Neureuther,
(
J.
E. Hartenbower, P.
J.
Roberts,
J.
N. Cox. John Wylie, George W. Howe. St. John's Commandery, No. 2(>, Pern, 111. James Shaw, Bethany Commandery, No. 28, of Mendota, Bl.
r.
Eeldes.
J.
Ladies: Mesdames J. A. Swem, Mary Reedy, Al. F. Schoch, R. Farnsworth, C. B. Hess, C. J. Metzger, J. PI. Widmer, W. H. Gilman, L. L. Graves, Oakley Griggs, C.
S.
Beckwith,
G. Feldes,
\A'.
E. Prichard,
J.
A. Curry, B. F. Colehour,
F.
T. C. Gibson,
J.
J.
J.
J.
Nash, E.
W.
Weis, L. Johnson, P.
Roberts,
R.'
D.
Mc-
Mary McGinley, Julia Rabenstein, Josie ForsEdith Hess, Georgia Gilman, Hattie Hill, Jessie Clark, Josie Porter, Grace Mayo, Anna Renz, Nettie Ellsworth and Anna Gay.
Misses:
ter,
Al. F. Schoch, James Briggs, Gents (not Templars) M. W. Bach, William Rising, Don MacKinlay, Ward Sawyer, Harry Hess and E. W. Weis.
:
C. J. Metzger,
21 7
W.
silk
L. Milligan,
Em. C,
presented the
Commandery
:
with
American
flag,
knightly greeting, as
pilgrimage that
tory of
will
we are now about to embark upon a mark an interesting epoch in the hisI
Ottawa Commander}-.
Cross
dal,
in
who with
san-
and scrip traversed rugged mountains and arid plains, contending against famine, the influence of climate and enemies the most formidable, to visit Calvary, the tomb of Christ, and renew their baptism in the waters of the
staff
Jordan.
They
city hut
believed that there no longer existed any other Jerusalem or other habitable spot of earth but that
which contained the tomb of Christ. All the roads which led to the Holy City were deluged with blood and presented nothing hut the scattered spoils and wrecks of nations. The beauseant was their battle flag, the black typifying terror to their foes, and the white fairness to their friends. Under its folds the plains of Hattan were drenched with blood and the Holy City delivered to
the Christians.
'Jdie
break of
many
many calamities, will not see without Providence sometimes employs great revolutions to enlighten mankind, and to insure the future prosperity of governments.
passed through so
interest that
The discovery of the continent of America by Christopher Columbus 400 years ago was the beginning of a new era in the civilization of the world.
Through
the
dim
starlight of superstition
and idolatry
2l8
way to knowledge. doubt the form of the earth, the origin of man and questions of theology were in doubt. The light of the Gospel emitted but the twilight of Christian truth, its glimmering rays shone through prisons, inthe earlier ages of our race groped their
left
in
quisitions
and
star
chambers
had been
closed
tut
by creeds.
The close of the Revolutionary war secured by law the freedom of conscience, with the liberty of the press; free inquiry came as an effulgent light, science awoke from the slumber of ages, and, like an agile army of travelers, penetrated every recess of the earth and the elements to discover further
light.
Freedom
her
and instead of
against famine, the influence of climate and enemies the most formidable, science has given us roads of steel and coaches with all the comforts of the most elegant homes, lighted by electricity, and drawn by chariots of hTe to whirl us, with the speed of the wind, through the peaceful valley
of the Mississippi, with a
Xile.
soil
Through wheat
fields
and corn
the lowing
mingle with the rumbling of our mighty train, until mounfilled with the richest minerals, coal to propel the machinery of the world, gold to conduct its commerce, iron. lead and copper, remind us that we have arrived at the mecca of our pilgrimage, the city of Denver. How changed the scene. The age of ignorance and superstition has passed. Our swords are no longer drawn in mortal combat. The beauseant no longer incites to deeds of bloodshed and carnage. We will now take np the ensign of a free and entains
lightened people.
2IO,
Knight William H. Oilman, Standard Bearer. T the very great pleasure of placing in your hands this property of Ottawa Commandery, the first American flag ever presented to or carried by a Commandery of Knights Templar. Well may you feel honored in being its bearer, and we trust that yon, and the Knights Templar of Ottawa Commandery, will see to it, with your swords, if necessary, that no anarchist insults it and foreign nations respect it. Let its blue held remind you, Sir Knights, of the lessons taught you in Masonry: that virtue should be as
now have
expansive
in the breast of
every
Mason
Heaven. And as you were taught that red denotes fervency and zeal, mav its red stripes remind yon that you should ever defend the free institutions of your country with that fervency and zeal which should characterize all loyal American citizens, and, finally. Sir Knights, as we were taught that white is an emblem of purity, may its white stripes inspire us to perpetnate this government as pure and undefiled as bequeathed us by our ancestors, and that the equal laws of our country and virtuous conduct of the people will lie imitated by all the nations of the earth, and the inhabitants of the world shall be free men and fellow citizens and patriotism itself be lost in brotherly love, relief and truth.
tip in
the
10,
K. T.
Ladies
in carriages.
With
sunshine,
the
swords of the Sir Knights glistening in the the two Old Glories (the
_'_'>
I
ll
SIR
WILLIAM
H.
OILMAN.
Standard Bearer of Ottawa Commandery, Who Received and Carried the First American Flag Ever Presented to a Commandery of Knights Templar. August 6, 1892, on Pilgrimage to Denver, Colorado.
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procession
to Main, east on
the
to
the
Rock Island
baggage car, day coach tourist sleeper "Saracen," three first class Pullman palace sleepers and dining car "Hotel de Pilgrim," all handsomely and appropriately decorated, was in
waiting to receive
us.
At
ringing
ii 125 o'clock,
bell,
strains
amid the sounding of the whistle, the of music from the band, the waving of
vast
multitude
of
friends, who God speed, the train rolled away for the West. The presentation of the American flag, the first ever presented to a Commandery of Knights Templar, was heralded in the Associated Press as an innovation in Templar Masonry, and when we arrived at Denver we observed
that
Commanderies, whose
flags of
all
officers
were carrying
sizes
Ottawa Commandery passed the reviewing stand General John C. Smith, and the reviewing officers, on observing the approach of Ottawa Commandery with "Old Glory" floating on the breeze, rose from their seats and shouted: "Three cheers for Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, and Old Glory."
Ottawa Commandery had seventy-three swords
parade at Denver.
in line in
the
We
1892:
News
of
August
7,
Aug.
6.
An
J 24
I
this
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.AU,
in
by Ottawa
Com
beautiful asylum of the organization was thrown open to the public to witness the assembling of the Sir Knights preparatory At to the embarking for the Denver encampment and conclave. the appointed hour Captain General David Batcheller formed the Knights in line and marched them into the spacious lodge rooms, and halted them for orders. The routine details having been given, Em. Sir William L. Milligan called for the color guard, and addressed them pleasantly upon their trip. He touched upon the early struggles of Masonry and the Order of Knights Templar, closing by pick-
mandery The
morning.
ing up a beautiful silk banner, the stars and stripes, saying: This emblem of the "Sir Knights and Brother Warriors: greatest free and enlightened country on earth I now present you, with the assurance that it is the first American flag ever carried on a pilgrimage or elsewhere by a Commandery of Knights Templar."
The announcement elicited wild applause. The Ottawa band outside the asylum struck up the "Star Spangled Banner" and the multitude cheered themselves hoarse. The Ottawa Commandery turns out seventy-three plumes. SevOver one huneral Sir Knights were accompanied by their ladies. dred tickets were sold to the organization and members of the craft who have not yet reached the Knights Templar degree. They left by special train at 11 a. m.
This
was
most enjoyable
trip,
and
Ottawa on return
a large
at 5 p.
m.
concourse of peo-
showing Ottawa Commandery had made while abroad. They were escorted to their asylum hv a detachment of Sir Knights who had not gone to Denver, where a fine luncheon and refreshments had been
of the
service April
17,
mandery occurred on
in Ottawa Comwhen Em. Sir John F. Nash, on behalf of the Commandery, presented P. Em. Sir Walter Briggrs Titus a beautiful Past Commander's
One
of the
225
the Knights of
Sir Titus.
W.
B. Titus, C. B.
'renins
Knight Dr.
13,
adopted October
We
to that
who have
Our most
away
he was so well
known and
its
coming
was
the
(if
like a
And
down
be
his life
life
men
it
will
difficult
and
the
We loved to think of him as one To whom long years were given. It came not once within our tears,
He
could so early go.
called
left
unassuming manifestation of kindly solicitude for those whom he came in contact, and more especially those who came within his professional care.
with
earnest
solicitude
he
226
those
watched by the couch of suffering none know so well as who knew him best and have been the recipients of
care.
his watchful
him:
"No
to receive his
And
relief
life
spent in the
of the
example of the highest type of manhood, and it may well be said of him: "He was one of nature's noblemen whose example
No.
is
worthy of imitation."
Therefore, he
it.
rela-
tives of
Him who
doeth
all
things
He
alone can
Resolved,
EXCERPTA: Our principles are heaven-descended, divine. The King of Heaven, Himself, the author and exemplar. We have vowed fidelity to these principles. Let none prove recreant to their
vows.
[893.
The
774.
thirty-first
in
Commandery
[892, A.
(
was held
their
asylum
)ecemher
8,
A.
1).
).
when
Templar year:
Icnrv
Mayo
Commander
227
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Thomas
E.
MacKinlay
Treasurer
David Batcheller
Charles William Fredenburg James M. Trenary Joshua P. Rodgers Foster Heald McKenney
Standard Bearer
The above
Past
officers
were
respective
Commander W.
Julius
L. Milligan, assisted by
James
Milli-
gan as marshal.
Created:
Antonio Freeman,
Edgar
Goodrich
Morahn. P emitted: Adelbert T. Olmstead and John F. Toland. Easter Sunday was observed on the second day of April
S.
Edward
by the Commanclery attending divine services at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, sixty-eight swords being in
line.
The Rev. N.
().
very
to the fraters
1893-
Born amid the blaze of religious enthusiasm, Knight felt deep down in his inmost soul that he must bear an important part in the prosecution of the ultimate design for which his order was created, so must we, by every honest endeavor, show our interest in this great and glorious work, and each bear his part in bearing aloft his banner to the breeze, proclaiming liberty to the captive, comfort to the aching heart, and faith in the risen Redeemer of the human race.
EXCERPT A:
Sir
when each
228
The thirty-second annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery was held in their asylum December 14, A. L). 1893, A. (). yj^, when the following officers were elected and appointed tor the ensuing' Templar year
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Prelate
Senior
George H. Pruett
Junior
Warden Warden
Recorder
Thomas
E.
MacKinlay
Treasurer
David Batcheller William H. Gilman William H. Knowles Joshua P. Rodgers Foster H. McKenney
Warder
Captain of the Guard
The above
by Sir
officers
were
installed
1893, A. O. yy^, hv P. R.
Em.
Sir
Created:
P.
K.
Hammond.
Affiliated:
Demitted:
Suspended
Died:
Coxy
whom
It
is
we
and
William
Stormont,
valiant
and
magnanimous
229
better
men
was made
Sir William
Stor-
mont was one of Ottawa's most progressive citizens, and wielded a moral influence in the circles he frequented. He
came
to
Ottawa
in
in the
foun-
He was
a sincere Christian
and devoted
to the
He was
also a
member
Valley
of Chicago.
O^toWr 12. 1894. Easter Sunday was observed by Ottawa Commandery at Christ Episcopal Church, of Streator, 111., on March 2;, A. D. 1894. A. O. //(->. One hundred and five swords were The rector. Rev. P. K. Hammond, delivered a very in line.
He
was served
at the
Columbia hotel. Streator. Sir William Jenkins, Grand Junior Warden, inspected Ottawa Commandery May 24th, fifty-five swords being in
line,
tion.
C.
Fullerton.
On
Sirs
W.
September 2j, 1894, the committee, consisting of B. Titus, John H. Widmer and John F. Nash, pre-
Thomas Coxy
Fuller-
the lessons taught through the symbols of our order our minds become so familiar with the emblems of mortality that we are apt to lose sight of its stern reality, but
By
the messenger of death sounds an alarm at the door of our asylum and summons hence one of our members we are startled with the realities of life's fleetness of time.
when
in the
death of our
Thomas
and burning
taper of
life
gloom.
23O
mourn
comin
panion
in
our council
will
never more
will
thrill
our
we
memory
life's
as a true
full
struggle
the dark
Therefore, he
it.
Resolved, That
in the
Thomas
his
C.
and
fam-
Resolved, That
virtues
we
memory,
imitate his
and
upright man.
Resolved, That these resolutions he spread on the records
of the
Commandery and
a certified
EXCERPTA: Render unto every man his due, not stintingly, not grudgingly, not meanly, but nobly, generously, freely as the air we breathe, and without price, as the sunshine and the light.
1805.
Ottawa CommandDecember 13, A. 1). [894, A. O. yy<i, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
The
Henry Mayo
Albert Frederick Schoch
Commander
Generalissimo
James Milligan
Clarence Griggs
Paul Teissedre
Captain General
Prelate
Senior Junior
Warden Warden
23 I
Thomas
1
E.
MacKinlay
Treasurer
)avid Batcheller
William Henry Oilman William Henry Knowles Joshua P. Rodgers James Marshall Trenary
Warder
Captain of the Guard
installed into their respective sta-
The above
tions
officers
were
January 17th by Past Em. Sir Theodore C. Gibson, installing officer, with Sir Gustav Kneussl acting as marshal. Created: Matthew William Bach, John P. Hale Francis,
Carlisle
M.
Pool. Charles G.
uel
Harry Lewis Manley, Charles Lawrence Gabkee, William Earl Flick, Clarence Beeman Chapman. Nathan Fleming and
David
Refior.
Affiliated:
Charles
A. P. Wright.
Pied: David Robbins Gregg. Suspended Eugene Moffit. Sixty-two Sir Knights attended Easter service
:
at Christ
The
rector,
Rev.
The
The Commandery was inspected May 25, 1895, by Em. George W. Curtis, Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Commandery. Sixty-eight Sir Knights were present, and The the Commandery passed a most favorable inspection. Order of the Temple was conferred, after which a sumptuous banquet was partaken, followed by the usual flow of
Sir
eloquence.
Ottawa Commandery, under the command of Em. Sir Henrv Mayo, took part in the twenty-sixth triennial conclave held in Boston, M^ss.,
August
2j.
1895, displaying
a special train of
Pullman
'I'll
E K
NIGHTS TKM
PI.AR.
: ;
233
Niagara
Falls,
the
Thousand
Woodlawn Park
suburb of Boston.
Past
Em.
was
was adjutant
will
of the
Fourth
This
a delightful pilgrimage,
and
long be hailed
Some
mandery
of the
are
Ottawa Commandery. members who accompanied Ottawa Comshown in picture herein taken in front of the
Beginning with the numbers from left to right, they
;
are:
1.
11.
Mayo, Em.
111.;
C.
5,
2,
W.
L. Milligan:
3.
Al.
F.
Schoch;
\Y.
4.
T. C. Gibson;
0,
Com11.
;
mandery, Peru,
8,
Arthur Lockwood;
10,
W.
12,
C. Hall;
;
M. Brown;
St.
9.
D. A. Cook;
S.
McFeely
C.
13,
Bruner,
111.;
James Gentleman;
16,
Kneussl
15,
Thomas Spencer;
;
Walter Reeves
;
17, J.
son; 19,
23, L. F.
2(>,
20, J. J.
:
Grube
24, C.
X. Dunaway; 18, William WilWithrow 21, X. Gary; 22, B. Anderson; 2$, D. McDougall
;
W. H. Gilman;
George H.
;
27,
;
W.
F.
Heath;
Suppes
; ;
28*,
29,
Prr.ett
30, C.
31, R.
32, R. C. Hitt
33,
M. W. Bach
I\.
34, J. P.
Lawry;
Peru,
ill. 111.
36,
:
Dr.
W.
in escort
De
Kalb, October
1,
1895.
in
Twenty
line.
Sir
2^4
not qualified to appre France, in the middle ages, the knights at a tournament wore embroidery on their sleeves; a rose, as an emblem that gentleness should accompany courage, and that beauty is the reward of valor. To be gentle and courteous to all is one of the impressive lessons taught in the asylum, and if thought, language and demeanor cannot be conformed to this standard, like the dull color of a valueless stone, the rich golden setting of Templarism only intensifies the contrast.
is
The man
of coarse fiber
ciate the
of Christian knighthood.
In
1896.
The
Ottawa Command12.
their
asylum December
A. D. 1895,
A. O. 777, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
Albert Frederick Schoch
.Commander
Generalissimo
Henry Mayo
George Abram Mills
"Walter Briggs Titus
1
Captain General
Prelate
)a\ id
Refior
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
The above officers were installed into their respective offices December 26, 1895, by P. Em. Sir Henry Mayo, installing officer, assisted by P. Em. Sir Theodore C. Gibson,
as marshal.
5th.
inspected
May
235
mandery.
Em.
Sir Sher-
Ottawa Commandery by sparing the "rod" His was a most rigid inspection of the mili-
many
Commandery
two or three
the year
drill
teams.
by the
Commandery during
Dcmittcd:
Birth.
Thomas
E.
MacKinlay
and
William
J.
Suspended:
Pied
Also
of
P.
:
Frank W. Case.
John Brooks Rice and Austin Valentine Mitchell. Em. Sir William L. Gibson, who was Commander
Ottawa Commandery in 1868. demitted and affiliated with Eldorado Commandery. No. 19, Kansas, of which he was elected Eminent Commander. Ottawa Commandery
performed the burial services for
all
of the above
f raters.
Howland and John Stout, the committee on resolutions of respect to the memory of Sir John Brooks Rice, deceased, presented the
E,
Rice.
following resolutions
Once more
at the
vacant.
was
man.
Knighted December
four years,
10.
more than
thirty-
moved among
236
III
KNIGHTS
Tl-.M
PEAK.
sword
in
widows and the Christian religion. le was made a knight before main- of our members were horn, and was the confidential friends and adviser of many whose honored names now appear on the records of our Commandery, hut who have gone to their reward. Mis last
destitute
I
hours
brightened
hv
the
Resolved,
That
while
we
cherish
the
memory
^\
our
departed brother,
let
On January
J.
28,
1897,
Henrv Mayo.
E.
How land
and
mem-
orial
Austin Yal extixe Mitchell. The Grand Warder above has again invaded our
lum and taken from our midst our
Austin Valentine Mitchell,
all
asy-
late
f rater.
Sir
Knight
who
received that
summons we
to the
day. Octoher
Sir
1896, at Streator,
in
Ottawa Comall
mandery May
the walks of
1887.
He
truth, purity
and benevolence.
Therefore.
be
it.
Gommandery
our departed brother, and cherish his of our most esteemed members.
Resolved. That
memory
as one
our departed hour of bereavement, and that these resolutions he spread upon the records of Ottawa Commandery and a copy forwarded to the famto the family of
we extend
in this, their
ily
of the deceased.
237
EXCERPTA: By your daily walk and deportment, and an unswerving fidelity to every principle promulgated and every lesson taught in Templar Masonry, illustrate that you are worthy successors to those men who, fired by love and strengthened by hope, in support of these very principles, baptized in blood the vows of Knighthood.
1897.
The
778,
thirty-fifth
in their
Commandery
was held
for the
asylum December
A. D. 1896, A. O.
when
Albert
Schoch
Commander
Generalissimo
Clarence Griggs
David Refior
Walter Briggs Titus
Charles Philander Taylor
Captain General
Prelate
Samuel Hogan Heidler Theodore Cunningham Gibson David Batcheller William Henry Gilman
Paul Teissedre
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Clarence
January
14,
[897, by P.
Em.
Sir
Henry Mayo,
marshal.
as-
sisted
L. Milligan, as
Created:
Charles
J.
Frank Young Herbert, Herbert Allen Brown, Yockey, Richard F. Knott and Edgar El dredge.
Berkley Gillett Barrett.
Affiliated:
Suspended:
J.
James
E.
Cooke,
W.
Bell
and John D.
to the
Hammond.
Died:
David Batcheller.
death of Sir David Batcheller, Recorder,
Owing
238
a
I'll
KNIGHTS
1>v
I'l'.M
PLAR,
for
dispensation
was issued
the
Grand Commander
for the
was held
at a stated
when
Sir
Templar
1897,
year.
18,
Ottawa Commandery
fifty-
swords being
in line,
J.
Steelman
Ottawa Commandery. The Commandery was inspected by Em. Sir Hamer Hershel Green, Grand Sword Bearer of the Grand Com10,
mandery, June
line.
Of
this inspection
Commander:
"Em.
Sir
Commander
to
who
of inspection as 10
should he done.
to
My
examination of No.
every way.
was very
quality.
its
satisfactory
myself
in
The
Commandery abounds
ly
Its
in fraters
who
and
equipments complete."
July 22, 1897, Ottawa
in the
On
Commandery, with
in
fifty-two
Chicago on the occasion of laving the corner stone of the John A. Logan memorial
swords, participated
parade
statue.
February
J.
11,
[897,
1).
P.
David Batch
Again has the
is
1:1.1.
kr.
silent
borne with
Him
239
life,
Knight David Batcheller, esteemed for the purity of loved for the generosity of his nature, and honored
In business he
was
In
all
the relafidelity
good
faith,
was a ruling passion. His appreciation and observance of the high teachings of Templar Masonry is evidenced by his constant attendance and faithful discharge of every duty. The gentleness of his nature is marked by his constant knightly courtesy
throughout years of greatly impaired health.
With
all
was mingled
shown by
three years of
in the
home, which
consecrate
names
father,
was
stantly in
manly man. Indeed, lie lived as though having conmind the following touching and beautiful words
a gifted poet:
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, 'til the goal you win.
great loss
a deeper sorrow,
and
to these
we extend assurances
sympathy.
EXCERPTA: The Christian Knight to-day, as he grasps liis sword, unstained by blood, instantly reads the symbolism of the lessons it teaches: "Faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind." They are the words in our lessons, incorporated in our rituals, and especially adopted by our order. They are our jewels. Let us look at them a moment: Faith! Hope! Charity!
2_p>
898.
The
ery
77<>.
Ottawa CommandA.
1).
was held
asylum December
9,
[897, A.
().
when
for the
Albert
Schoch
Commander
Generalissimo
Joseph
1
Newton Dunaway
)ayid Refior
Captain General
Prelate
Treasurer
Beeman Chapman
Recorder
Richard Farnsworth
Paul Teissedre
Standard Bearer
were
installed
January
[898, by P.
Em.
Sir
Henry Mayo,
as marshal.
David Refior,
Created: Hinton Trowbridge, Eugene Daniel Allen. John Joseph Becker, Sylvanus Sumner Thompson.
Irving
Elmer E.
Pearson,
Gladfelter,
S.
Albert
Thomas
Charles
W.
Campbell,
Ha the way.
Affiliated:
Charles C. Strong.
Demitted:
Died:
December
1897,
Ottawa
Commandery
observed
24
asylum
in
ritual, thirty-five
swords being
Riev.
A.
J.
Steelman
With the recording of the Christmas observance Sir John Stout recorded his valedictory as Recorder of Ottawa Commandery, which we herewith append "Sir Knights With the above record Christmas ob: :
servance
my
may
term of
all,
office
as
Recorder ends.
I
May
the
Lord make
upon
to thee;
the
Lord
lift
(
up his Signed
Lord bless thee; may and be gracious uncounteance upon thee and
thee,
JOHN STOUT."
lum by Ottaw a Commandery. There was a large attendance of Masons and Templars and their families and friends The address was besides the sixty-eight swords in line. The Knights Templar delivered by the Rev. J. T. Ladd.
r
Ottawa Commandery was inspected May i-\ [898, by Deputy Grand Captain General of the Grand Commandery, and sixty-seven swords were in line. The Order of the Temple was conferred. Ascension day was observed by Ottawa Commandery in Address was their asylum, forty-four swords being in line. Templar service was delivered by the Rev. J. T. Ladd.
Sir Bates Iott,
observed.
Memorial
Once more has
at
the
loved frater.
Robert Courtney Myer has entered into rest. He was born in Morgantown, W. Va., April 21, L830. Was created a knight of the illustrious Order of the Red Cross Mav
2 [2
111
14,
Order of
St.
[891
Life
is all a mist in whose shadows we meet our emerged from the mists.
lie lias
His
has passed the confines of that mysterious land, the darkness of night to the brightness of day; To dwell in that Temple not made with hands, Leaving the frail casket of the soul to decay. C. B. Chapman, Recorder.
spirit
From
Read
I
at burial services.
Templar
funeral,
May
5,
1898.
EXCERPTA: Let us not linger around the days of ancient chivalry for character or commendation, but be up and doing, improving the time, not wholly forgetting those things that are behind, but pressing forward to the prize of our high calling, a prize no less than a crown of immortality, and which will be given to those only who are faithful unto death.
1899.
The thirty-seventh annual conclave of Ottawa Commanderv was held in their asylum December 8, A. D. 1898, A. O. 780, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
Albert
Frederick
Schoch
Commander
Generalissimo
Joseph Newton
Dunaway
David Refior Samuel Hogan Heidler Edgar Eldredge Walter Briggs Titus Theodore Cunningham Gibson
Clarence
Warden
Prelate
Beeman Chapman
Herbert Blaker McKahin Albert Thomas Lardin William Dyer Fullerton Alexander Hanna
Warder
Sentinel
243
The above
stations
stalling
shal.
officers were installed into their respective January 26, 1899, by P. Em. Sir Henry Mayo, inofficer, assisted by Sir Frederick L. Fischer, as mar-
Created:
Clarence
Edward Tryon,
Ferrell.
J. Bell.
Christian
Gasser
Austin
D emitted:
L.
Barber,
Austin
Bell,
Christian Suppes.
Died:
Command-
Commandery
Forty-
M.
E. Church.
The Commandery was inspected May 25, 1899, by Em. Kane, Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery. The record of Ottawa Commandery reSir Charles P.
mained untarnished.
spection officer
the
We
was not published with the proceedings of Grand Commandery. Ottawa Commanderv was honored this year by the Grand Commandery of Illinois in electing Em. Sir Albert F. Schoch Grand Warder of the Grand Commandery. He was installed Grand Warder by special dispensation to R. Em. Sir John Fisk Nash, Past Grand Commander, November
9,
W. Clegg
Edward
C.
Modes.
one of
We
upon
_'44
T11E
in
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
Knight Edward Clarke
his earthly
our number
home by
the
the
Commandery
only on account of
hut also on
herein-
recommended
that
these
resolutions
lie
spread upon the records, and that the Recorder notify the
family of Sir Knight
Modes
deep sorrow
ment.
at the
To err is human, but to deliberately and mathe injury and pain of a brother, is an offense against chivalric manhood and the order of Templar Knighthood. The man who does these things, with malice aforethought, should rend his clothes, and, putting on sackcloth and ashes, from the depths of a broken and contrite spirit, cry unto the Most High for forgiveness.
liciously
err,
EXCERPTA:
to
1900.
The thirty-eighth annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery was held Decemher 14. 1899, when the following
officers
year
Joseph Newton
Dunaway
Commander
Generalissimo
David Rehor Edgar Eldredge Edward Webster Bach William Dyer Fullerton Walter Briggs Titus
Captain General
245
Treasurer
,
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Gustav Kneussl
Joshua P. Rodgers
Alexander Hanna
The above
Created:
per,
officers
were duly
installed
January
11, 1900.
Irving
De
Edward A.
Affiliated:
George
W.
Farrar
and
Christopher
J.
Byrne.
Died:
Jacob
W. Moon, James
Rhoads, William H.
David E. Gardner, Robert A. Brown, Wilbur F. Heath, William K. Stewart, Joseph A. Wilson, Henry Smith and Frank Y. Herbert.
Suspended:
R'obert G.
D emitted:
Ewing, Guy
C. Carpenter
and
John
W.
Teetzel.
The Commandery was inspected by Alonzo St. Clair Wilderman, Grand Junior Warden of the Grand CommandThe occasion was made notable by the presence of ery. R. Em. Sir James B. McFatrich, Grand Commander, and
a large delegation of Sir
No. 4 Everts, Fairbury; Blaney, Xo. 18, Rock Island; St. Paul, No. 34, Xo. 5, Morris; St. John's, No. 26, Peru; Bethany, Xo. 28.
Joliet,
:
Knights from
59,
Chicago.
Of
in
1900
"On the 25th day of January, with Em. Sir A. S. Wilderman, Eminent Grand Junior Warden, it was my pleasure
_>4<>
I'll
KNIGHTS
TI'.M
PLAR,
id,
to
111.,
visit
located at Ottawa.
for the
official
inspection and a
of
the
regular school
instruction
for
the benefit
Sir
At Knights and Commanderies of the Fourth District. [oliet I was tendered an escort for forty-three swords from
joliet
Gommandery, No.
il.
4.
Sir
W.
a
Xevens. and
desire to
acknowledge
my
appre-
very profitable
Sir
The day and evening were spent The work was exemplified by way.
in the
Em.
Dunaway
officers,
an early hour
morning.
Every
in at-
Commandery
in the district
was
represented.'*
Commandery
Forty-
Commandery
May
being
in line.
Memorial
The committee,
present to the
Sir
James Rhoads,
P.
C.
to prepare
and
Commandery
Sir
memory
of
Em.
which were, on motion, adopted April 26, 1900. and a copy directed sent to Pittsburg Commandery. No. 1. Pittsburg,
Pa.,
to the
widow
of the de-
ceased
James Rhoads, born March 4. 1823; knighted burg Commandery. No. 1. March 17, 185 1; died
wa,
Til..
in Pitts-
at Otta-
The passing
closes the first
Em. Commander
247
No.
io,
Knights Templar.
the dispensation
at
the last
knights to
whom
i,
Our beloved frater was and magnanimous to form and open a ComIllinois,
Ottawa,
was issued
While we tearfully note the fact that upon his venerable head glistened the frosts of more than three-quarters of a century, and that lie was exempt from the trials of our com-
mon
humanity,
let
warmth
of
let
is
God's
Mononrespect,
He removed
and
in
to Pittsburg, Pa.,
He
1856 came West and located at Ottawa. Illinois. was created a Knights Templar in Pittsburg ComI,
mandery, No.
to
Pittsburg, Pa.,
to
March
17,
185
whom
a dispensation
form
Commandery
first
of Knights
Templar
at
Ottawa,
111.,
Sir
to
Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10. Ottawa Commander}- has never had within her ranks a more venerable, or a more worthy or beloved member, whose patient fidelity to his every obligation was as a bright and an example to shining light upon the path of our duties follow which would bring honor upon us all.
Christian Knighthood in
With
a clear head
and
warm
a
heart, he
of his convictions.
Reared
Quaker, he believed
God,
J.8
'I'll
to
whom
to
pray
is
came with
his sickle,
around our beloved frater the mantle of dreamless slumbers that the gulden dream of an endless morning glowed with
the beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night
upon the
soft
were reflected
in the tears of
of earthly husk.
We
last
farewell to the
frater.
hus-
In
all
grow out
we have delighted to honor him, and now write upon our records the departure of our beloved frater, so that in a becoming manner
we may make
Therecon-
fore, be
Resolved, That
stant expression of
we
life as
faithful
perform-
ance of
all
human
obligations
that
we
we mourn our
loss
we
part with
our frater
in
full
Deity and
in perfect
in the
immor-
and that we look forward to the time when we shall all be raised from the prostrate state in which we are by nature, and admitted to the glory of the perfect
Asylum above.
Memorial
The committee,
the
William
H. Lukixs.
Manley and Samuel McFeeley. on memorial resolutions to memory of Sir William H. Lnkins, presented same and was approved by Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10. July 26,
1900, as follows:
249
affiliation
William H. Lnkins joined Streator Lodge, No. 607, by from Meriden Lodge, No. 183, June 7. 1874; was
made
a Royal Arch Mason in Streator Chapter. No. 168, and took the Knights Templar Orders in Ottawa Com-
mandery, No.
a
10,
memher
Almost without warning the life of our brother is the shadow of the enemy of humanity fallen athwart our pathway, and the certainty of death and the uncertainty of life forced upon us. How sad the contemplation of existence. We are born, we breathe, we mourn,
eclipsed,
and we die. Whence we come, what we are and whither we go seems surrounded for ages in the cheerless words,
earth to earth and dust to dust.
acter
The men
tomb.
of strong char-
find the
The former
put
their trust in
God, hoping the strong hand of Judah's lion them to the companionship of that indis-
soluble lodge,
when
may such be the lot of our brother, whose traits of character made him a kind father and husband, a firm advocate of the right as he saw the right; a man of
seen complete, and
sterling
worth and
strict integrity,
an agreeable companion
a virtue outliving
Thus survives
we near our
and speak
is
eternal
to each
"As
So only
a little while
we shall all stand on the shore of the hereafter. So may we live wrapped in virtue's draperies that at the last we may lie down as if in pleasant
row
or for laughter, and soon
dreams.
Memorial
At
Sir
July 26,
25O
[900,
S.
II
KNIGHTS
TI'.M
PLAR,
Milligan,
the
(
G.
ray
and C.
S.
memory
of Sir Clar-
Whereas. It has pleased our Heavenly Father, the Supreme Architect of the Universe, to remove from our ranks here below our highly esteemed and beloved companion. Sir Knight Clarence E. Tryon, with whom many of us have been closely associated and united by the strongest ties of love and friendship. Resolved, That in his death this Commandery is called to mourn the loss of one whom it was pleasant to meet and have with us, a brother of the strictest integrity and most
unselfish devotion.
we tender our sympathy and condolences and loved ones with the firm belief that He who tempers the winds to the shorn lamb will hind up the wounds of the stricken hearts and that His love will dispel the dark clouds and bring light out of darkness.
Resolved, That
to his family
his family.
EXCERPTA: There are too many Free Masons to-day who are only in name; who give to their fellowmen no better evidence of Masonic character than badge, symbol, word, and these are really no evidence whatever. Too many there are who wear the uniform, the badge, the sword, the plume, and yet have never tasted of the fountain of its living waters. We need schools of Masonry. We need symbols, badges and Masonic temples, but most of men who are not all we need Masons, students of Free Masonry only able to find their way into these temples built by hands, but who are able to find their way into the human heart the true temple; men who by good deeds and kindly lives are continually giving the Masonic sign that they are dwellers in that temple whose builder and maker is the Great Architect of the Universe.
25
90 1.
conclave
of
13,
The
thirty-ninth
10,
animal
Ottawa
1901,
mandery. No.
Comwhen the
Joseph
Newton Dunaway
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Senior
Junior
Warden Warden
Prelate
Treasurer
Recorder
De
Forest Vincent
Standard Bearer
The above
Created :
officers
were duly
installed
January
10, 1901.
Harry Gilman Cook, Frederick A. Hatheway, Enos E. Palmer, William D. Duncan, Enoch Yentzer, Frederick E. Mills, Philo C. Weaver, John A. Jamison.
John Bergeson, William G.
Demitted:
Killelea, Albert E. Butters, Clar-
Suspended : Charles Schaulin. Died: George A. Wilmarth and Edgar Goodrich Dyer. The Commander}- attended Easter service at the Congregational Church, at Marseilles. 111., fifty-six swords being in
line.
Memorial
At
Sir George A.
memory
Wilmarth.
to present reso-
a stated conclave of
252
Tl! E
Is
F\ Schoch, J. F. Nash and II. Mayo, presented same to the Commandery, and, after reading, they were ordered spread upon the records and a copy
mandery.
Death has once more entered the ranks of our ComAnother of our illustrious fraters has laid down his armor, sheathed his sword, responded to the call of our Great Commander and gone to a resting place from whence
there
is
no return.
the loss of one
Commandery laments
the
who was
loyal to the
to
the
dis-
As a citizen he was worthy of our respect and regard. His upright life was a shining example, and his utmost endeavors were extended for the welfare of his fellowmen.
To
in
this
sad hour,
we extend
all,
commend them
to
Him,
the giver of
who
is
EXCERPTA:
Templarism
manuel, God with us. Blow out that taper and it becomes a painted sepulcher a fantastical mummery and we are all here acting a ghostly farce. As the allies of the Church, as the soldiers of the Cross, we are called on, as never before, by our courage and devotion, by precept and example, to show that Christianity is a divine, a regenerating force that has come into the world, and while it has filled the ages with its aroma, has not yet accomplished its greatest work.
90 1 -2.
The
fortieth
Commandery
253
13,
1901,
when
Templar year
.
Dunaway
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Senior Junior
McKahin
Warden Warden
Prelate
Walter Briggs Titus Theodore Cunningham Gibson Robert Lucien Smith Irving De Forest Vincent
Treasurer
W alter
r
F.
Weese
Joshua P. Rodgers
Christian Gasser
Warder
Sentinel
The above
Created:
Hall,
officers
were duly
installed
Orion
W. Howe,
Charles H. Williams,
C.
Hugh
Wiley,
Thomas W. Bur-
Died:
C. Cope.
Israel
At the annual conclave of the Grand Commandery of Illinois in 190O' paragraph 3, section 17, of the Statutes and Regulations of the Grand Commander)- was amended to change the date of annual conclaves of subordinate Commanderies from the first stated conclave in December to
the
first
stated conclave in
we
Ottawa
_'5
IN
a
I'-
KNIGHTS TEM
a
I'l.AR,
Commandery,
nf
Templar year by
combination of parts
Prior to
such a
as
the
September 10. [901, Ottawa Commandery attended the memorial services, held in the opera house, in memory of
the President of the United States,
William
McKinley.
Episco-
in
line.
church September J J,
10,01.
The Commandery was inspected February 29, 1902, by Em. Sir William L. Gross, Grand Sword Bearer. Fortyeight swords were inspected.
service
111.,
at
the
30.
Streator,
in line.
March
special train
to Streator
over the C, B.
&
O. conveyed the
Commandery
and return.
Memorial
Dyer!
At the stated conclave of Ottawa Commandery. held November 14. 1901, the committee on resolutions of respect to the
memory
consist-
open Com-
mandery
Sir
Ottawa,
in
Illinois,
March
[866.
the Ot-
tawa public schools he took up the study of law, and was admitted to practice and became a member oi the .a Salle
1
county
l>ar,
255
go
to California
He
and on the 19th day of August, A. D. 1901, departed surviving him his mother and sister.
took place
Sir
His remains were brought to Ottawa, and interment in the Ottawa Avenue cemetery August 26, 1901.
&
A. M., of Ottawa,
May
12,
9,
1892;
1892.
He
37,
R. A. M., and
let
this
memento be
read in Ottawa
and
is
1902-3.
annual conclave of Ottawa Command ery was held June 12, 1902, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
The
forty-first
Edgar Eldredge
Commander
Henry
L. Arnold, 1903-4
257
Generalissimo
Captain General
Senior Junior
De
Forest Vincent
Warden Warden
Prelate
Treasurer
Joshua P. Rodgers
Warder
Sentinel
Leman
A. Rising
officers
The above
Created:
were duly
Bliss,
George F.
P. Hills,
Joseph
P. Gatiss,
Charles
Hahn, George
George J. Kruse, Charles T. Rowland, Rezin N. Thompson, Philip J. Wendel, Charles A. Wiley and James R. Williams. D en liit erf: George W. Farrar, Timothy E. Gapen and
George M. Rigden. Ebenezer Barber, Suspended: Andrew H. Angell, Christian C. Modes, Charles E. Dunbar, Edward C. Lewis, Samuel Smith., Thomas C. Tridel and Alonzo P. Wright.
Pied:
Charles
11,
J.
Yockev.
of
September
en-,
Ottawa
Commandery Em. Sir Schoch, on behalf of the Commandpresented Em. Sir Joseph Newton Dunaway, the reCommander,
in a
ful
in
tiring
The Commandery was inspected March 5, 1903, by Em. Harry H. Cleaveland, Grand Warder of the Grand Commandery. Sixty-eight swords were inspected. Easter was observed by Ottawa Commandery attending
Sir
divine
service
at
the
Congregational church.
Forty-five
swords were
in line.
258
I'll
K N
Testimonial to Sir Alexander Hanna. The following tribute to Sir Alexander Manna was offered by Em. Sir Edgar Eldredge and approved by the immandery July 10, 1902 Whereas. Alexander Hanna has for the past fifteen years been Sentinel of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10. and during
(
'(
:
ffice
\\
and.
hereas,
Advancing years and ill-health prevent him all the burdensome duties pertain;
such office
therefore,
in
lie it
Resolved, That
sum
worthy tribute
to a
worthy
frater
who
had long been an enthusiastic member of the Masonic lxxlies in Ottawa. One bouquet in life is worth a whole flower garden after death.
EXCERPTA: The romance of the Crusades does not belong to our experiences, nor are we called upon to take upon ourselves the burdens and risks of the knights of the middle ages. We need, however, that same quality of life which adds lustre to the character of the historic Templars. We need that same enthusiasm of faith and high resolve which they illustrated in so conspicuous a manner. We need to look where they looked, to the glorified Cross, for inspiration and strength. By this sign of Calvary we may be best directed and blessed. By it we may go forth as true followers of our crucified, yet victorious, Lord, making our lives of service to humanity here and thus having our souls drawn toward God and Heaven. By this sign we may conquer and win life's grandest victories!
KJO3-4.
Command-
ery was held June 1, [903, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
259
Commander
Generalissimo
De
Forest Vincent
Captain General
Treasurer
The above
Created:
ers,
officers
were duly
installed
La Rue Perene Shaver, William Beighel MySamuel Wallace Reynolds, Everett Henry Butterfield,
Peter McGilvary Campbell, Martin Luther Sample, William Harper Rollo, Charles Geiger, Paul
Raymond Chub-
Joseph Metzger.
Affiliated:
Robert
Joseph
Reid
and
John
George
Waters.
Reinstated :
Ebenezer Barber and John D. Hammond. Demitted: William Emory Bowman, John D. Hammond, Albert Henry Hatton, Charles Bronson Anderson
Duna-
Edgar Eldredge,
bv his
fraters.
in
held
_'I:m
TJ E
I
The
clave
'curia,
September
i,
1903.
The Commandery was inspected February iS, 1904, by Em. Sir Arthur Melvin Otman, Fiji. Grand Warder. The
Commandery
This inspection
presented
sixty-five
swords
for
inspection.
was made auspicious by the presence of three officers of the Grand Commandery and fifteen swords from Rock Island Commandery, No. 18, Rock Island, Illinois.
Easter was observed by the
vine service at
line.
Commandery
attending- diin
EXCERPTA:
which the Man
of
When we
Sorrows bore the relentless persecution of his enemies, and, at the last, endured the most exquisite suffering, not
for himself, but in our behalf, the profoundest depths of our nature are stirred, and we respond to the call made upon us by saying,
from the innermost recesses of our hearts, "I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, three persons in one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory."
1904-5.
Commandery
1904,
when
Commander
Generalissimo
De
Forest Vincent
Captain General
Senior
reasurer
Recorder
Wendel
Standard Bearer
26l
Albert
J.
Roberts,
Howard H. Bayne,
Albert
Herzog, Charles C. Brooker, James T. Applegate, Richard J. Howells, Byron A. Roath, Louis L. Bennion, Benjamin Frankdin Trumbo, Samuel B. Bradford, Albert A.
Dean, .Frank F.
Affiliated:
Follett, Jesse
W.
Demitted:
Died:
Edward A.
service at the
M.
The Commandery was inspected May [8, 1005, by R. Em. Sir John Durham Cleveland, Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Commandery. Xinety-six swords were inspected.
Twelve
visiting fraters
were present.
Commandery
in line.
of
Sir
Henry
at
San Fran-
cisco, California, in
jf ,j
Til E
KNIGHTS
KM
l'LAK.
trip
made up
the
1.
Commandery on
Vincent, E. T.
I*.
Rodgers,
L. Arnold.
1).
Read. J. \Y. Clegg, Al. F. Schoch, W. D. Fullerton, M. L. Sample. C. M. Pool, Win. Wilson. C. McClnre. F. A. llatheway, Jas. Gentleman, W. II. Rollo, C. J. Metzger, L.
Rohrer, Jas. Sexton, G.
Slagle, R. L. Smith, C.
F.
I>liss.
I'.
A. Wiley, C. A. Xeu-
De
Groff,
I).
H.
Rohrer and L. Scheidecker. Twentyfive of the above were memhers of Ottawa Commandery. There were also sixteen ladies fair in the party. After the grand parade the Commandery hroke ranks and disbanded as
a
individual returned
home when
and
Memorial
Mills.
At the conclave of the Commandery, held June 8. 1905. the committee appointed to draft resolutions of respect to
the
memory
W.
L. Milligan, T. C. Gibson
following, which
was approved
3.
1832; called to
This record of the unreturning past Is dedicated with loving hearts to thee.
We
frater.
desire to
lifted
high
above such honors, hut that in a becoming manner we may make a testament of our appreciation of the worth of the deceased, whose integrity was absolutely unimpeachable and
pure as sterling gold.
Mis
fidelity
was as
child.
filial
and simple
and
lofty as that
2()^
chord of sympathy with the living, and now that "he is no more" awakens feelings of regard for his memory, which is
the sponsor of
to freshen the
all
a legacy of tears
remembrance of
his virtues.
Habit
is
Character
is
the
The
is
the completion of a
wreathed
in the
and to us that it is well with flowers ever bloom and never fade nor wither. him where His mam' noble virtues were the mantle that overshadas a confirmation to his family
owed
his faults,
is
feel
for his
memory
Ottawa Commander}-, Xo. 10. Knights Templar, in which he was created and dubbed a Knights Templar and Knight of Malta June 3, 1886. And the hand that touched the damascus blade upon his head deposited the Emblem of Innocence in his grave in Ottawa Avenue cemeterv that beautiful city of silence and repose
the tribute of
on the banks of the peaceful Illinois. The golden bond His heart is forever stilled.
is
broken.
The
c<
inscientiously discharged.
In
all
As
was kind and indulgent, and as a friend always faithful. As a Knight Templar his deeds along the pathway of life were jewels that reflected the sterling consistency which governed
every act of his
life.
Resolved, That
frater our heartfelt
we extend
sympathy
to the family ^\
in
their bereavement.
_>(>4
page
the
records of Ottawa
apart to his
K.
T.. be set
Memorial
The committee,
Sir John
of
R.
Cameron.
F.
consisting
John
Nash,
W.
B.
whom was
memory
of our
deceased frater and Sir Knight, John Rush Cameron, presented the following report:
On
this
at his
telegram:
home
in Clifton.
Interment at Ottawa.
111..
May
25th, to be in charge of
of
away
John
of our sin-
R.
Cameron.
which
which occurred
the lines of our
May
22.
Cameron
in the
Templar Orders May 28, [868, management of the affairs of the order since which we have learned to know- him
more
his
memory
of his virtues,
manhood
in
business and
in
with
whom
he
came
and
contact in daily
always
a true
and
loyal friend,
his delight
was
in
to
earlier
it
years.
though he lived
eron Ottawa
fraters, the
another
in the
Therefore, he
Resolved, That
Cam-
Commandery
one of
its
highly valued
community an estimable
citizen,
and he
will he
many
friends in this
community, but
265
more by those to whom he was a kind and affectionate husband and a hiving and indulgent father, ever solicitous for their comfort and well being. And, as another
has said
:
How fast they fall those we have known, As leaves from autumn branches blown.
So quickly sear. Yes, one by one they drop away As withered leaves that fall and stray And disappear.
Commandery, No.
10,
hereby
our
departed
to
Him
that doeth
all
He
and that
and presented
Knight.
Memorial
Sir
Sir
of
consisting of Sirs C. B.
Chapman.
following,
:
Vincent, presented
which was approved by the Commandery, June 8, 1905 Sir Douglas Hapeman was born in Fulton county.
New
York, January 15, 1839. and with his father's family came to La Salle county and settled in Earl township in 1845. He enlisted in the army in April. 1861, and was commissioned
second lieutenant and served
fantry, until in the
in
Company H,
month
of August, 1862,
when he was
tendered the position of lieutenant colonel of the 104th Illinois infantry. He accepted the position tendered and was
commissioned
the war,
to
June, 1865.
266
hi
I'll
NIGHTS TEM
I'l.Ak,
in
men
until
about
to
re-
years ago,
when
failing
life.
health
obliged him
T(>th
day and
ol
June, A.
f).
[868, in
Ottawa Commandery,
No'.
10.
re-
mained
and consistent member of the order until the alarm was heard at the door of our asylum and his spirit took its flight to the Asylum above on the third day of June.
a
faithful
A. D. 1905.
It
is
When
who
life in
Hapeman
all
it
of the relations of
which he had heen placed, whether as a soldier upon the tented field or as a quiet, modest and unassuming citizen.
As
qualities of
mind
and character which made him respected and which he carried with him through life.
Against his integrity and character not one breath
suspicion had ever been cast.
field
c\\
As
a soldier
in
and
officer in the
he
knew
not the
meaning of
horn
And
was
of
his
sterling
manhood which
nerved him to perform whatever duty was placed upon him. He knew and felt that he was performing a high and sacred
duty
cause
to his country.
it
He was
patriotic
and brave.
Not he-
brought him plaudits, although these were well earned and modestly received, but because' as an ideal American citizen he felt that that country which had heen horn and
dedicated to liberty and gave him birth was
that his highest duty that liberty
in
peril,
and
was
to assist in preserving
unimpaired
which had heen purchased at such great cost of blood and sacrifice by those who founded and reared this
matchless republic.
267
As an
officer,
officer
it
loved by
all
whom
As
he served."
a citizen he
in
was
quiet,
always interested
benefit the
Honest and straightcity, state or nation in which he forward in all his dealings, he was an example which all
might follow.
As
As
a friend he
genial,
warm-hearted and
generous.
a
He
helieved in Knight
Templarism
and its teachings. He believed that he had no higher duty to perform than to his God, and that loyalty to Him was
his highest privilege.
He had
been for
many
years a true
We
His
re-
we
all
we know
that his
hrm
upon the truths contained in the Holy Word has insured him eternal and immortal happiness in the world to
liance
come.
As Knights Templar we
fragrant and
strive to
will
ever keep
his
memory
him
to the
whole community.
bereaved family and friends we extend the kindly
frater of our
To
their
his
Commandery
in
268
a
copy be sent
EXCERPTA:
There
is
pressed on modern Templary that gives to it a delightful charm; there are lessons and symbols gathered out of the past; associations and reminders connected with the stirring periods of the crusades that most properly find place in the Templar ritual as we have learned it. He who bears the name of Knights Templar to-day is pledged to defend the weak and oppressed. He is bound by solemn obligations to prove his devotion to truth and duty to be courteous, brave and magnanimous that so he may illustrate the character of a true man and a true Christian. Only as he is thus faithperforming some good service in the fulfillment of the duties ful of related life can he be a true and loyal Knight Templar, and only in this way can he show a worthy appreciation of an institution founded upon the Christian religion and the practice of the Christian virtues.
1905-6.
Ottawa Commandwas held June 8, 1905, when the following- officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year:
The
ery
Commander
Generalissimo
De
Forest Vincent
Captain General
Senior
George Craft Dunaway Milton Eben Blanchard Walter Briggs Titus Theodore Cunningham Gibson
Robert Lucien Smith
Philip
Treasurer
Recorder
John Wendel
Standard Bearer
The above
Created:
officers
were duly
June
15, 1905.
269
Hopkins Irwin, Charles Wallace Long, Edwin Randolph Spencer, Oscar John Ackerman, Emil J. Hoffman, Albert Lawrence Trager, John Lowe Barnard, William Holland Sindel, Henry William
Silver Blanchard, William
Herman
Demitted:
J.
T. Applegate,
J.
B. L, Bonar. C. C. Brooker, E.
Flick, J.
W.
L. D.
Howe, R.
Howells, D. E, Huggans,
Hugh
Hall,
M.
W. Jack, W. H. Jennings, W. B. Jones, Joseph Kopf, R. W. Law, M. J. Luther, L. O. Lorenz, S. McFeely, F. E. Mills, H. L. Manly, J. C. Pirkey, C. H. Rathbun, C. T. Rowland,
O. B. Ryon,
S.
W.
L. Ross,
W.
Reeves, R. S. Scharfenberg,
Smith,
W.
L. Smith, A. RL
Van
Skiver, C. R. Schurman,
J. N. Shinn, Jas. Sexton, T. H. Spencer, C. H. Williams and J. R. Williams. The above demitted for the purpose of
becoming charter members of Streator Commandery, then working under dispensation, and was chartered October 24, 1906, as Streator Commandery, No. 70, K. T. also S. E. Bergeson, H. M. Taggart, J. M. Stewart, A. E. Tyler. Affiliated H. Eugene Chubbuck.
;
John Charles Corcoran. John Fletcher Gibson, William Camp Hall, Louis Scheidecker, David Alpheus Cook, Clark Brading Provins
Died:
Suspended:
One of the most pleasing incidents occurring during the Templar year was the presentation, by the members of Ottawa Commandery, to Past Commander Theodore C. Gibson and his worthy dame, on their fiftieth wedding anniversary, February 26, 1906, of two purses, one to each, containing fifty dollars in gold, and in addition to Mrs. Gibson a beau-
_'7 (
'
HI E K
NIGHTS TEM
1'I.AK,
tiful
bouquet
oi
fifty
ruses.
A
in
pleasant evening
was spent
by those
who were
fortunate
being present
in
hearing the
Sir
Commandery
Em.
Nash
whom
only
1'.
and T. C.
ribson remain.
to
the
formation of a
of the
Streator,
111.
The formation
at
Streator deprived
of
fifty-eight
valiant and
magnani-
Forty-three swords
were represented.
Sir
The Commander)- was inspected May 10. 1906, by Em. William L. Sharp. Grand Sword Bearer. Sixty-five
The
inspection
Twenty-two visiting' Sir Knights was most creditable to the Commandery and reflected the wisdom of the Commandery
were present.
selecting
in
Em.
Sir Herbert B.
McKahin
for
Em. Com-
mander.
Memorial
At the stated
June
gers, G. C.
Sir
Dunaway and
fol-
to the
memory
of Sir Louis
Again there
is
vacant chair
of
in
from
our
an-
Louis Scheidecker,
who
summons and
in
Grand Encampment
of
2JI
17.
in
France January
1833, and emigrated to this country with his parents in 1840, settling near Somonauk, 111., where he has since resided.
He
March 6th of this age. He was buried at Somonauk on Blue Lodge with a Templar escort.
July
1883, and reof the
Sir
Red Cross
year, since
Commandery on
a
19,
of the
We
and character of onr deceased frater, and courteously extend onr knightly sympathy to his bereaved
family.
We
as a
recommend
memorial
to him.
Memorial
28,
Sir Clark
S.
Brading Provins.
Henry Mayo,
memory
in
this
Commandery,
Pennsylvania,
at
Masontown,
Fayette
county,
28, 1853.
1868.
He
then
came
R.
F.
col-
He
then settled
in
his
272
such
practice
until
by disease.
skill
The
in
him an ex-
tended practice.
He was acknowledged
well
skilled
in
to be a
man
of sound judgment,
all
his
who had
Later
cial
the
good fortune
his
make
his acquaintance.
in his practice
in
work
profession, and
purpose took a
Xew York
his special
judgment,
him,
made him an
from these
much from
a disease, the
skill
made
and the
way
to the shore oi
immortality.
XV
sentinel
Com-
will
he.
The
ties
sewered by the
in the
asylum of
Commandery
man.
In
is
fate of
Commander)' has
a
lost
life,
one of
most valued
fraters.
His was
strenuous
fatal disease
had fastened
its
The God that gave him existence has called him hence, and we shall newer more he able to extend to him the fraternal hand and welcome him into the asylum of our Commandery.
2/3
was immortal
shores of immortality.
him has watted its way to the We cherish his memory, and, under
in
may we
Though he
be dead,
may
good
To
the
we
We
cannot
call
back our
the protec-
we invoke
Commandery and
of
in
the
death
our
departed
Memorial-
Sir
At
28,
Dougall, C. J. Byrne and Joseph Allison, presented the following resolution of respect to the memory of Sir William
Camp
Hall, which
the
Again has an alarm come to the door of our asylum, and messenger was he who sooner or later will summon all
that in the midst of life
we
We
of another valiant, courteous and exemplary Knight Templar has been removed from the roll-call of the living that it might be inscribed upon the roll from which erasures are never made.
Sir Knight William Camp Hall was born at Hartford, Washington county. New York, December 4, 182 1. and was removed from life's activities at his home in Freedom township, in this county, January 22, 1906. He was received
name
274
was created
this
Commandery
Thou
And
Is
Memorial
morial tribute to P.
Sirs
The committee appointed to prepare and present a meEm. Sir David A. Cook, consisting of
Walter B. Titus, Al. F. Schoch and John F, Xash, presented the following" report October 12, 1905, which was
read before the
etc.
the preparation
memory
of onr
deceased frater, Sir Knight David A. Cook, would respectfully present the following report
Once
life,
we
David A. Cook, who, after many months of ill-health, though not very seriously interfering" with his business till very recently, when, after a short serious illness, he passed
quietly away, surrounded by his loved ones, at his
home
in'
Ottawa,
111.,
That
his
all
on the morning of September 21, 1905. our hearts were made sad as the knowledge of
think of
death
him being so near "that other shore." and, in away of our beloved Brother and Sir Knight, we realize that Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, has lost one of its most highly esteemed members. Sir Knight Day id A. Cook received the Templar orders
Little did
we
the passing
in
10,
February
5,
1867.
Later
with
St. John's
Commandery,
275
was a charter member, after which member of Bethany Commandery, No. 28, Mendota, 111., and was later Eminent Commander of Bethany Commandery. He re-affiliated with Ottawa Commandery on moving to Ottawa, March 8, 1877, retaining" his membership therein while he lived. While not especially active, after moving to Ottawa, in an official capacity in our Commandery, yet he had endeared himself to us, not only by his native manhood, but also by his genial companionship and his ever courteous treatment of all with whom he came in contact in every day life, always a loyal Templar, and a true friend whose memory we
of which he
immortal green.
with patriotic devotion to his
As
and
battle-scarred, yet he
friends,
returned to his
home and
and strength
later to
united country.
With business
life,
ability of a
to
fill
an important
in contact
many
years, bringing
him
with
many
men
an enviable record for himself and the government, he served as bank examiner.
whom
to
We
that
shall
measure the
loss of the
home
pleasurable sur-
roundings, where he was always a kind and loving husband and an affectionate and indulgent father, ever solicitous for
the best interests of each individual
member, manifested
in
And
while
we
mourn
his loss,
_'7 ()
III
KNIGH
IS
II
\l
PI.AK,
Kingdom.
Therefore,
he
it
Commandery, No.
[O,
hereby
hour of
Him who
doeth
He
alone
able to give.
and that
Memorial
Born March
June
24, 1906.
25, 1841
Samuel Richolson was for many years one of the most prominent attorneys of Ottawa. He came to Ottawa in 1868, and began the study of law with Charles Blanchard,
Sir
Judge of the Circuit Court for many years. After his admittance to the practice of law he formed a partnership with H. K. Boyle, a talented young man. and the same year the
firm of Dickey, Boyle & Richolson was formed. Judge Dickey being admitted to a partnership. Boyle soon had to retire from the firm on account of his health, and the firm
&*
of Richolson
Dickey continued
Dickey
moved
to Chicago.
Ottawa.
progressive, yet economical, administration.
He was
to the city
head of the hoard of directors of the public library for seven years, and, for three years was its presiat the
He was
dent.
277
Commandery
March
and greatly loved the teachings of the Order of the Temple and loved to observe the conferring of the Orders, especially when dune in a solemn, intellectual and
impressive manner, for he did hate slovenliness and assassination of the English language.
and
his
loss to Ottawa Comcommunity and the city in which he sudden taking off was a shock to all who knew
to the
him.
Samuel Richolson,
well
!
friend,
f rater,
Let the sublime principles of our order be acted and the world will be conquered, and humanity proclaim in trumpet tones the excellency of its plans, the utility of its triumph: and the time is not far distant when fraternizing principles will embrace the world, as the glorious rainbow, based on the ocean, spans the sky.
out
EXCERPTA:
1906-7.
The forty-fifth annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery was held June 14, 1906, and the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
Irving
De
Forest Vincent
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Senior
Wendel
Junior
Warden Warden
Prelate
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
JjX
Joseph
I
remplar year were duly installed June 28, 1906. Created: Herbert Lewis Kline, Albert John Weirick,
Erwin Christian Rabenstein, Charles F. Wilson, Circle Jay Cody, Everitt Anthony Sherwood and Frederick Alexander
Peebles.
Affiliated:
Denritted:
and
James
Henry Montieth.
Suspended:
Pruett.
Henry
Pied
Slag'le.
Commandery was
held
May
2,
Lehman,
inspection,
Sir
Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, of Illinois. Headquarters of Grand Commander, Ottawa, 111., June 5, 1907. Irving D. Vincent, Em. Commander Ottawa Commandery, No.
10,
Ottawa,
I
111.
looking over the inspection report of your than pleased with the results achieved by you and your fraters and the high mark attained, which shows that Ottawa still holds her position among the subordinate CommandIn
Dear Frater:
Commandery
am more
eries of Illinois.
Your percentage on military tactics was 96% per cent., and 98% per cent., making an average of 97% per cent., which is certainly a high mark and one which you can point to with pride and gratification. In closing I cannot help but quote the remarks of the inspecting officer for your benefit, in which he says: "The Grand Commandery of Illinois should feel proud of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, and I count it always as one of my most pleasant privileges of having been permitted to pass upon the proficiency of the home Commandery of the R. Em. Grand Comritual
mander."
279
you my appreciation, and with best wishes and welfare of your Commandery, I beg to
AL.
F.
Ottawa Commandery observed Christmas service in their asylum December 25, 1906, with thirty-six swords represented.
Commandery
in at-
tendance
at
Testimonial Presentation to E. Sir Al. F. Schoch. At a stated conclave of Ottawa Commandery, September 26, 1907. Past Em. Commander Bullen, of Siloam Commanderv. on behalf of his Commandery, presented R. Em. Sir Albert F. Schoch a handsomely bound certificate of honorary membership in Siloam Commandery. The presentation speech
esteemed
frater, to
was couched in beautiful language, lauding our which R. Em. Sir Schoch responded in a
feeling spirit.
At
Testimonial to Sir Walter Briggs Titus. the stated conclave of Ottawa Commandery, held
Januarv 2j, 1907, the following resolution, signed by Sirs George H. Haight, C. P. Taylor and W. L. Milligan, was presented to Ottawa Commandery and adopted by a rising
vote
frater,
Em.
this
Prelate
of
Commandery
for
felt
and.
his
Whereas, Through
in
long service
his efforts
fidelity,
in the
Commandery.
various
official positions,
skill
ized
by enthusiasm,
and
280
'relate) he has with performance of that important office pilgrim penitents who exceptional ability impressed upon all have had occasion to travel his way the wholesome, moral
I
and religious truths taught by the order; and, Whereas, As a private citizen his life has heen pure and his reputation such as to reflect credit upon this Com-
mandery
therefore, he
it
Resolved, That this body, while our frater is yet alive, in good health and able to be among us and fully understand and appreciate our motives, extend to him our grateful ac-
knowledgments and thanks for his long service, congratulations upon his useful and exemplary life, and express the hope that the Grand Commander of the L niverse will prolong his stay among us for many, many years.
Memorial
August
1906.
31.
Peacham, Vermont.
Having completed
Peacham
1848.
111.,
Peru,
Illinois, in
He
taught school at
and
Judge Treat at Springfield, 111., November 7. 185 1. He moved to Ottawa in 1861, was elected State's Attorney November, 1864, and served as such until December. 1872, from which office he retired as he entered it with the good will
of the people.
Through
recognition of his ability as a law1. 1884. one of the judges of Governor Hamilton, to fill the
At
was chosen by
in 1891,
28l
1897 and 1903 was again elected and served until his death. He was a man of strong mentality and possessed a
his decisions.
No.
13,
iated
17,
St. John's Lodge, July 18, 1867, and affilwith Occidental Lodge, No. 40, Ottawa, 111., August
Was
exalted a Royal
Arch Mason
in
Shabbona
7, 1875, and knighted in Ottawa Commandery, Knights Templar, January 22, 1885. and in all his long career as a man of family, as a citizen,
when
the end
came he could
The darkened universe defy To quench his immortality Or shake his trust in God.
should enter our sacred asylum who as well as belief, show the culture of a Christian character. As, to be good men and true, was the first lesson taught in Masonry, so to be the Christian gentleman is the most essential of knighthood.
does not in his
life,
EXCERPTA:
No one
1907-8.
The
elected
Ottawa Commandery
1907,
when
Commander
Generalissimo
Wendel
Captain General
Dunaway
Treasurer
2cS2
72
O 5
o o
<j
<
<
72
283
J
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Sword Bearer
\Yarder
Sentinel
Joshua P. Rodgers
Joseph
Adams Wilson
The above
Created:
der,
officers were duly installed June 27, 1907. Walter Madison Mathes, Felix Ernest Ma-
Demitted:
Gasser.
Suspended:
Died:
Sir
Charles C.
Order and was of make men good and true to their calling. He was Captain of the Guard of Ottawa Commandery many years. He is with us no more, for he
sturdy Scotch stock, the type that
is
risen as
He
said.
19,
1908,
at
at the Baptist
line.
Church,
Ot-
Ottawa Commandery was inspected by Sir Thomas A. Stevens, Em. Grand Sword Bearer, April 23, 1908. Sixty
swords were inspected.
the conclave
left
2,
Ottawa.
Saturday, July
1907. at 4 o'clock
i\
Grand Encampment,
9,
Em.
Albert
Com
284
mander
Grand Commandery
member and Past Commander of Ottawa Commandery, being the Grand Commander of the Grand ComSehueh,
Illinois.
Ottawa Commandery shown in picture at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., are, reading- from left to right: In background, I. 1). Vincent as Commander and P. J. In line from left to right, H. L. Arnold. M. L. Wendel. Sample. James Gentleman, J. W. Clegg, D. Refior, J. M. Ferrell, L. Go wen, C. J. Byrne, Hale Francis, C. McClure, C. A, Wiley, G. H. Haight. C. J. Metzger, E. Spencer, R. Farnsworth, J. P. Rodgers, R. L. Smith, J. J. Withrow, G. A. Mills, W. D. Duncan, E. E. Gladfelter, A. J. Roberts.
The members
of
Paul Teissedre, C. Barbour, C. J. Cody, A. C. Bradish ami B. Myers. W. D. Strawn was on the staff of R. Em. Grand Commander A. F. Schocb.
W.
Memorial
M.
David H.
FI.
Slagle.
in Marseilles
Lodge, No.
in
37,
and knighted
Templar,
at
Ottawa.
Ottawa,
at
November
20,
1873.
AYas born
Delta.
March
8,
1007, aged
days,
bis
years,
eleven
months
silent
and
fifteen
and
painless.
One
son
and
a loved
to
mourn
bis absence.
HISTORY OF OTTAWA
Resolved, That
O >M MANDERY.
285
in their trouble we offer our sympathy widow and son of our deceased frater and reverently commend them to "Him who is Lord of life and death," who in His all wise providence has removed the husband
to the
Resolved, That
we
cherish the
memory
of our deceased
David Henry Slagie, for his sterling qualities, rugged character and many virtues. "Not with the clash of sabers, not with the roll of drums or cheers that greet the hero when home from the battle he comes. Not to the sound of the bugle, mellow and clear and sweet, do they pass homeward march with never returning feet, but into the dim deep stillness, where never more war may come with never a footfall sounding the soldiers are marching home."
EXCERPTA:
chief
The perpetuation
aim
of
these graces
Templarism, the Christian graces its chief tenets. To alone has been reserved the pleasant task of elevating the degraded nations, of throwing the soft mellow light benevolence over the dissolving rigors of the heart's of widening the horizon of human happiness, and flingof promise across the distant sky of the future.
[908-9.
The
of
Ottawa Commandery was held June 11, 1908, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
.
George Craft Dunaway Commander Philip John Wendel ... Generalissimo Milton E. Blanchanl .Captain General William Harper Rollo, Senior Warden David Refior Junior Warden
.
.
GEO.
C. E. C. 1908-9, 1912-13.
DUNAWAY,
Joseph Newton Dunaway .... Prelate Treasurer Theodore C. Gibson Robert Lncien Smith Recorder
286
Hi.
KNIGH TS TEMPLAR,
Standard Bearer
Joshua
P.
Rbdgers
Historian
installed
The above
Created:
Charles
Beck,
officers
were duly
John Mathias Berg, George C. Borchsenius, William Conger, Ralph Jason Callagan,
Frank Burton Courtright, Harvey Louis Eastegord, George C. Hupp, Frederick Rudolph Kuhlman, John James Lacy, rustave John Malaise, Samuel Burritt Reed, George Wat(
son Thompson.
Demitted: Thomas Egbert Wheeler MacKinlay. Suspended: Philo Curtis Weaver. Died: George C. Borchsenius, Joseph Newton Dunawav (P. C), Samuel S. Pearson, Frederick A. Peebles, Ed-
W.
L. Milligan,
H. L. Arnold and Henry Mayo, presented the following memorial to deceased f raters S. S. Pearson, E. T. Read. F. A. Peebles and J. N. Dunaway, which was read and approved by the Commandery January 28, 1909:
service
at
the
II.
L.
Thornton, pastor.
Ottawa Commandery was inspected May 29, 1900, by Em. Sir Harris A. Wheeler. Grand Recorder, as special inspection officer. The Commandery had sixty-four swords
in
line
for
in
Knights
There were thirty-seven visiting attendance and a royal good time was had.
inspection.
The Silent
in
Voices.
memoriam.
"We
287
It
is
memory
magnani:
mous
uel S. Pearson,
SamEdwin T. Read. Frederick A. Peebles and Joseph Newton Dunaway, that we entered upon the task
soldiers of the Cross as our late beloved fraters
These valiant knights have unbuckled their armor and laid it aside forever, they have "uncovered" and deposited their chapeaus at the foot of the cross on which is inscribed
"In
"By
this sign
They have crossed the fabled river and penetrated the great unknown, that far-away land of infinite space. They have met and saluted with the Templar sign of the cross our beloved and immortal Commanders: Gray, Rhoads, Peckham, Wade, Burgess, Lininger, Gibson, McArthur and Trimble,
and the valiant fraters of our Commandery sojourning there, and with whom they will await our coming to meet and greet us on the Elysian fields in the Paradise of God, where
their silent tongues will plead
Justice.
shall
for
us
before the
Why
should not we
call
God of when we
of
spirits
and quit
this troubled
scene?
As we
flashed
reflect
upon
from
who
portals of eternity, comfort ourselves and make old age more tolerable, even delightful, when such as these have
to receive
and greet us
in that
What
delight
will
it
afford to renew
288
II
KNIGHTS TIM PL
VR,
lowed scenes
in
in that
we
shall
thnnie of
God
in
company and
join in the
symphony
of
angelic voices amid the splendors and fruitions of the beatific vision!
is
is
Knight Samuel
111..
S.
Pearson
the son of Dr. Pear-
\Yas born
a wav
in
Ottawa,
21,
November
1908.
He was
son, a
tawa.
When
his parents to
War, when he
and
war,
when he returned
in 1879,
to
Ottawa.
He
married Miss
Emma Congram
life.
which union
was blessed by
who were
was
and
minutes of
his
Knight Pearson was. up to within a few demise, engaged in the active pursuit of his
Knight Samuel S. Pearson was a member of Occidental Lodge. Xo. 40. A. F. & A. M., Shabbona Chapter.
Sir
No. ,^7. R. A. M., and was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10, K. T.. May 10. [898, and no man ever came with purer heart and cleaner hands to lav upon our sacred altar and assume the vows of Christian Knighthood.
289
manner, frank
in speech, yet
No more
in a
human
hreast.
He
had a keen perception of the right that gave him a contempt for anyone in whom he discovered any inclination to subPlain and outspoken himself, he ordinate right to policy.
could not endure deceit in others.
While he respected an open opponent, and held that difference of opinion was no
one
who sought
to
win
his favor
by pretense or chicanery.
He was
He
was frank and ready in his denunciation of was not, therefore, moved to concede an iota
wrong, and
of a principle.
He
it
might he followed
sin of ingratitude
was not
at his
He was
to
seemed
him
To
fails
the bereaved
family
we extend
the
sympathy and
10.
Language
fill
our
when we
realize the
us.
sudden severing of
his earthly
connection with
and there
let
it
his
Sir
Was
horn
home
13,
in
Ottawa, sur-
rounded by
December
1908.
29O
Sir ECnight
some
at
Although
dis-
warned by
trict
Metropolitan
his
Life
Insurance
work
our
as usual, maintaining
city
he had acquired
in
our community.
ness to business,
was
and attentive-
combined with
head
in the
placed
him
at the
insurance profession.
555, A. F.
He was
&
a
tal
member
of
S. R., in
Orien-
Valley of Chicago,
April
10,
25,
1907,
and
2,
knighted
1907.
K. T.,
May
Esteemed and honored as he was in his public relations it was the possession of those noble traits of character and finer qualities of heart which endeared him in so short time to his friends and gave him the highest claim to the admiration of those who fraternized with him in our
of
life,
Masonic circles. His kind and genial manners, his epiick and generous sympathies opened an avenue to every heart, and his straightforward honesty of purpose shone out so
clearly
that
who
ap-
proached him.
The genuine
was
always apparent.
sition of life
He was
who
are not
whatever po-
of service to the
man
next him.
of
full
20,1
to
reaved family
off in the
in
away. Cut
lost in
you a
The
great
work
laid
years
is
Sir
Knight Edwin
state,
T.
Read
22,
Was
1908.
born
in
New York
Sir
fifties
Knight Edwin T. Read came to Illinois in the early and located on a farm in Grand Rapids township, La
which had been his continuous residence to the He married Miss Helen Ebersol in was the daughter of Joseph Ebersol, one of the She She died a number of settlers of La Salle county.
Salle county,
years ago.
They had no
issue.
Sir Knight Edwin T. Read was a modest, unassumingman, kindly and gentle in disposition, and a well wisher for He was a thoroughly all he met in his daily walks of life. well informed man on all topics of value and enjoyed the He was a farmer by occusociety of well informed men.
man
of rare sagacity,
and
his efforts
was
member
Shabbona Chapter, No. $7, -R. A. M., and was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., September 1, 1887. His residence being so far removed from his Masonic affiliations he was unable to be an active member in our mystic rites. He was, however, devotedly attached to the Order
of the Temple, and in years gone by,
we
older
members
re-
J')-
member
pations
his frequent
in
He
we
in
it,
and.
which
it
professes.
in
We
to
and the hearts of his fraters who knew him best went out to him and he was lovingly enshrined in them all.
our fraternal
his
are
the
He now rests secure in his high immortality, alike in Commandery below and in the Heavenly conclave above. One by one, as fast as we are called, and as far as we prepared, we shall follow after him along the still way to asylum in that unknown world which opens only to the
degree of the resurrection.
Hail and farewell, dear brother, faithful knight!
P.
Our
late
in
Em. Sir Joseph Xewtox Dux away. f rater, P. Em. Sir Joseph Newton Dunaway,
Green county, Pennsylvania, October
life at his
was born
14,
1835;
departed this
home
in
Ottawa,
111.,
Jan. 9, 1909,
mourn
his loss.
in
Occi-
was Master
of the Holy
in
1899.
in
& A. M., August 2, 1880, and He was exalted to the August degree
37, R. A. M.,
July
'1,
Arch
He
passed the
&
S. AT.,
Ottawa Commandery, No. 10. T., June 28, 1883, and was Commander in [900, 1901 EC. and [902. He was constituted a Sublime Prince of the
[883,
in
Oriental Consis-
November
21,
1901.
Prelate of
Ottawa
293
Commandery
Templar
at the
Read and Frederick A. Peebles, and was most highly complimented on the excellent and impressive manner in which he led in this beautiful service. It was quite marked that in the ceremonials of conferring the Orders of Knighthood while Eminent Commander or rendering the beautiful Templar service for the dead, while Prelate of our Commander}', that he embraced all that is sublime, impressive and effective in the teachings and observances of
T.
Edwin
Christian Knighthood.
He
possessed
all
which are necessary for the appreciation of these orders; solemn and impressive ceremonies, their teachings to the heart and soul,
all
his
mind, and,
in
the hours of
when
over his heart and home, and he walked through the bitter
baptism of
tears, the
hood were a balm to his afflicted spirit. He was truly a "bright Mason," not in that common sense applied to him who has the verbiage merely of the order, one who can repeat the words only, without feeling or impress, but in that exalted sense where brightness is accompanied by mental brilliancy, where the refined taste and
intellect lend their influence to enhance the value of language and tend to- engrave on the heart and the conduct of the recipient what is meant by Free Masonry and Christian Knighthood. In his extemporaneous addresses and presentation speeches the well-formed sentences seemed to flow as smoothly and naturally as in the ritualistic work of our order, always surprising and delighting his hearers with both the brilliancy of his thought and the beauty of his lan-
guage.
_>(;4
gentleman," the
internal
ex-
evil,
but rejoiceth
in
doing good
to
"A good
Such were the high qualities that constituted him the "true man. the true gentleman, the honored citizen, the revered husband and father, the Chrishumanities of the world.
tian soldier of the Cross."
With such
man
it
home was
his
all
his,
would seek
To
his sons
his passing
memory
is
and
EXCERPTA: Breadth of muscle and fierceness of spirit no longer constitute the standard of greatness nor the test of virtue, but the whole length and breadth of human character is graduated by the scale of a higher, nobler philosophy, and shines in the light of a revealed immortality.
-'95
The
of
Ottawa Commander)- was held June 10, 1909, when the following officers were elected and appointed for the ensuing Templar year
:
Philip
John Wendel
Commander
.
William H. Rollo
Peter M. Campbell
.Captain General
.
.Senior
PHILIP
J.
WENDEL
E. C. 1909-10.
Samuel B. Bradford .Junior Walter Briggs Titus Prelate Theodore C. Gibson Treasurer Robert Lucien Smith Recorder
.
Warden Warden
John M. Berg Charles Beck Joshua P. Rodgers William Lee Roy Milligan
ddie above officers, elected
stalled July
1,
Standard Bearer
in-
1909, by P.
Em.
Henry
L, Arnold, as-
sisted
shal.
Created: Franklin Buehner, Harlev Elmer John Booker, Ole E. Benson, Frank Bruce Davidson, Herman Haines Elder, Elias Erb, George Lester Farnsworth, George John rleim, George Oliver Grover, Henry G. Gamber, Frederick William Gleim, Carl Clement Lawrv, Carl William Lutz, Robert Charles Lucas, Edward Farnsworth Peck, Samuel Congram Pearson, Charles Henry Stockley, Benjamin Franklin Tummel, Charles Paul Vaupel.
(
Affiliated:
James
:
B.
Herring.
Reinstated
Charles Schaulin.
Demitted: Herman Haines Elder. Frederick Rudolph Kuhlman, Edward Chase Lewis. Leman Aranah Rising.
_'(>f>
III
Died:
Schaulin,
Mm id.
Charles
Sylvanns
Wiley.
During
total
of
to
During this period twenty were knighted, one admitted membership and one reinstated, making a total gain of
The losses were:
demitted, four, and died, five; a total
twenty-two.
and
member-
This increase
ery; and
in
membership
in
Commander
Ottawa Command-
with the
of him.
we cannot let this opportunity pass without exCommander our hearty congratulations, and acknowledgment that it was just what we expected
His personal magnetism, his zeal in the interest of Templar Masonry, and his eloquent and impressive manner of exemplifying the beautiful and instructive ritual of
our order,
cessful
is
to a
showing
for the
not only
Commandery
Recorder.
is
to be congratulated
in
having such an
efficient
Commandery
29/
Episcopal Church,
March
Knight George
12, 19 10, by Em. The Commander)- was inspected Elwood Pierson, Grand Senior Warden of the Seventy-seven swords of Ottawa Grand Commandery. Commandery were in line for inspection. There were pres-
W. May
Farrar, rector.
Sir Stuart
ent
f<
irty-hve visiting
live in hearts
f raters.
"To
we
leave behind
is
not to die."
Ottawa Commandery we chronicle the death of rive of our most esteemed f raters. Their purity of life and honesty of purpose was devoted to the cause of truth and justice; and the impress of their characters has been left upon the history of Ottawa ComIn this chapter of the history of
mandery.
After having lived their lives of usefulness as citizens, Masons, Knights and Christians, giving practical evidences
of their faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to
all
illustrating
should
live,
we have no
away most
These
impressively demonstrated
Thus, as time
rolls
on,
events speak in language more emphatic and pronounced than mere words, and inculcate in us who yet are among
the living a lesson of deep significance.
consisting' of
M.
E. Blanchard,
W. H.
Rollo and C.
R,.
tribute to the
memory
of deceased Frater S. S.
Thompson,
May
26,
"Friend after friend depart," and each year grows dark and cheerless when we are compelled to bid farewell to
those
who
for
many
friends.
298
Another dark cloud has come over our asylum, and with it came that swift messenger, the relentless hunter of men. whose coming none can forbid, and whose demands are
always answered.
summons came and was answered by our late Frater Sylvanus S. Thompson, who died at his home in
The
last
Marseilles,
111..
Solemn is the silence of death, impressive the closed His life lips which do not tell us of the mysteries beyond. and its work is a matter of record among us, for it has heen
a
public
life.
Sir Knight
in
Washington county,
with his parents
Moved
1854 and
111.,
where he resided for thirty-eight 1881, was appointed postmaster by President McKinley July, 1898, appointed to succeed himself by President Roosevelt June, 1902, and reappointed by President Roosevelt May, 1906, and was again honored hv President Taft to the same in April, 1910. That he was always courteous and congenial, ready to
Salle
La
county.
years.
Moved
to Marseilles in
help or to comfort
funeral,
held.
was evidenced by
in
which
memory was
"The
memory."
Our
large
many kind
in
acts of a
life.
numbers formed
of the
Knights Templar formed a wide cordon in which a smaller square was formed hv members of the Blue Lodge, drawn up in close formation. After the rendering of the Masonic service and with the sprigs of evergreen dropping upon the
299
body of Sylvanus
S.
Thompson,
rest.
Marseilles' re-
Master Mason
1883,
in
was exalted to the August degree of the Holy Royai Arch in Shabbona Chapter, No. ^y. Royal Arch Masons. December, 1883, and created a Knight Templar in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., April 7, 1898. Sir Knights, the work of your committee is not a pleasant one.
To
is
like
communing with
the dead, and as we go down the dark valley into the very shadow of death to pen our last tribute to the memory of our beloved brother, the shadows thicken the gloom, and we feel, or seem to feel, the icy arms of the grim reaper about us, and we wonder how soon we may be living only in
lrfemory.
stars of faith,
and in the shadows of the acacia blooms the emblem of immortality, and we are reminded that
There But There But
must be some clouds foreboding, they bring refreshing rain; must be some night of darkness, the morning comes again.
of sorrow, our journey here below; But they brighter make the morrow, With its Heaven-light aglow. In
daily walk and deportment, and an unevery principle promulgated and every lesson taught, illustrate that you are worthy successors of those men who, fired by love and strengthened by hope, in support of these very principles, baptized in blood the vows of knighthood.
EXCERPTA:
By your
swerving
fidelity to
!<X>
Til E
KNIGHTS
[9IO- ]
I
I'K.M
PLAR.
The fiirty-ninth animal conclave of Mtawa Commandery was convened June 10. [910, when the following
(
officers
for
the ensuing
Templar year:
Captain General
Senior
Charles Beck
.
Warden
M. E.
BLANCH'D,
33
E. C. 1910-11.
Samuel C. Pearson. .Junior Warden Prelate Walter Briggs Titus Treasurer Theodore C. Gibson Recorder Robert Lucien Smith
Standard Bearer
Rodgers
Adams Wilson
I).
Organist
Historian
installed
officers
were
L. Milligan, assisted by P.
Em.
Sir
Henry
L. Arnold, as marshal.
Wilson Conard, Fred L. Jones. Adam Shufelt. Edward C. Brignon, Axel Heiberg, Lynn A. Bteardsley, Prosper J. Malaise. William D. Mundorff, Charles B. Daggett. John H. Goodell. George W. Sterrett. John G. Yenerick, William Robert Maxwell.
Joseph Hatheway
Pearson.
Alexander
Reed.
McLean.
B.
Charles
B.
Herring.
P.
Frederick C.
Praefcke, Jos.
Gaussin.
Wm.
Messenie, Chester P.
Affiliated:
Nathan G. Newport.
Francis P. DuPlain,
Reinstated:
Ahram
C. Godfrey.
3OI
D emitted:
Died:
Fifty
since
Ottawa Com-
Of those who were charter members of Ottawa Commandery fifty years ago, only two are among the livingPast Grand Commander John Fisk Nash and Past Commander Theodore C. Gibson, who have been crowned with honors by Ottawa Commandery, and wielded their Damascus blades in our asylum for fifty years untarnished by flight or shame.
When
the
late
who was
a charter
member
of Oc-
marked
"William,
list
ran
the
down
the
of
members
Occidental
Lodge,
So,
in
man
my
fraters,
shows that membership of the Commandery at the close of the year was one hundred and ninety-five, and that during the past year nineteen have been created, one affiliated and two reinstated, and two passed to their eternal rest.
report for the year closed
the
its
organization.
This
is
mander deserves
thanks of this
ComCommandery
fraters of
Commandery.
profitable
On invitation of Blaney Commandery, twenty Ottawa Commandery enjoyed a very pleasant and
visit to old
1,
and, on imi-
tation of Streator
royally enter-
32
Til K
KMCHTS TKM
I'l.AR,
3O3
Commandery
Ottawa
at
Streator on the
25th of April,
19 1
Sixty-one
Easter service
fraters
at
of
Commandery
attended
There have been held during the past Templar year thirty-five regular and special conclaves and one emergent
and one Easter conclave.
Of
The new Masonic Temple has been the foremost topic among the fraters of Ottawa Commandery during the past
Templar year; plans
for
proved by the Commandery on the 13th of October, 1910, and on the 20th of October following the Commandery authorized the issuing of eighty $50.00 4 per cent, notes to meet the Commandery's share of expense in the building of
the Temple.
On
lerton
in
the 24th of
November, 1910,
Sir William
I).
Ful-
interest
street to the
Commander)-.
On
amended
creating a Masonic
Temple committee,
to act in conjunction
& A. M., and Humboldt Lodge, No. 555, A. F. & A. M., and Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M., for the gov-
ernment of the temple, or holding body. Idie committee having in charge the construction of the
Commandery
for the
E.
on this work to its completion. Ottawa Commandery, under command Blanchard, Commander, attended the
Em.
Sir
M.
tri-
thirty-first
304
ennial
Grand Encampment of Knights Templar in Chicago August 9, 1910. rhe Commandery, with ninety-one swords in line, embarked on a G, l\. I. & I*. train at 6 a. m., and were joined by twenty-two fraters of St. John's Commandery, of Peru,
111.,
in
tawa Commandery participating in the parade, made a total of eighty-six swords in line to the credit of Ottawa Commandery.
The
picture herein
in
the
as
they
Sir
Em.
consisting of
W.
F'nllerton.
E.
C), H.
platoon.
Arnold and
W.
IT.
first
Other members
Ottawa Commandery participating, as shown in picture and records of the Commandery, are David Refior, James Gentleman, M. L, Sample, L. Gowen, E. R. Spencer, G. A. Crowden (then member of Bethany, No. 28, Mendota, 111.), J. L. Barnard, Charles Beck. J. 1- Becker, H. E. Brooker, R. J. Callagan, C. W. Campbell, l\ M. Campbell, C. B. Chapman, J. W. Clegg, Wilso.n Conard, \\ ni. Conger, F. B. Courtright, F. B. Davidson, Geo. C. Dunaway, W. D. Duncan, H. L. Eastegord, Elias Erb, Geo. L. Farnsworth, J. P. H. Francis, C. W. Fredenburg, H. G. Gamber, E, E.
Gladfelter, G.
J.
J.
Krnse.
1.
[.
Lacy,
C.
Wm.
.
McKahin,
B. F. E. Mader, G. J. Malaise, Carl Metzger, \\ Myers, J. H. Pearson, S. C. Pearson, E. F. Peck, S. B. Peed, A. J. Roberts, P. L. Smith, W. D. Strawn, C. H. Stockley, G. \\ Thompson, R. X. Thompson, A. L. Trager,
.
T. H. Trimmer. P. F.
ters,
Tummel,
11.
Waldecker, G.
J.
Wa-
A.
I.
305
Com-
mander's
of Illinois
staff
Commanderies taking
When Pompey
that
:
Rome
"More worshipped
When
carefully
its
an organization
is
known
to be prosperous
and
managed
it
is
meetings
if
hut
becomes involved
debt,
and particularly so
brought about by mismanagement, then much of the interest and pride felt by the members in its welfare is lost.
Let a
Commandery
to
known
to be involved in debt, or
few proselytes
fortune.
do
it
reverence or share
embarrassed
f raters,
in-
Com-
mandery
Chapter,
succeed.
as well as to Occidental Lodge and Shabbona when otherwise they had every opportunity to
The discussion of an indebtedness incurred in the building of the Masonic temple and Opera House block in the
early seventies produced discord and
tinual crimination
that, to
One
that
tions,
of the
first
is
lessons
we
are taught
in
Masonrv
all
is,
"harmony
especially
in
institu-
time
the history of
it
be-
officers to
admonition more
306
Commandery
in
as-
sisting in
the construction
adapted and dedicated Masonic purposes, and to which we point with and congratulate the building committee on their
in Illinois,
excellent
this
great
work,
to
makes
it
We
office to
trust that
you
and make
which
may have
been
elected,
will
attend
the
Commandery.
The welfare and success of Ottawa
Commandery
is
of
or
more of
qualifications.
We
trust
that
the officers
whom
for
you
shall he pleased to
show
their
in
the
confidence reposed
at all
the con-
Commandery,
as well as a diligent
and con-
and thus insure the exemplification of the Orders of the Temple in such a manner as to make a favorable and lasting
impression on the neophyte, stimulate the zeal of the fraters,
and
redound
to
the
mandery.
We
ery,
find
by
Command-
that
Templar year
eight
307
of Ottawa,
who were
nual conclave,
of six, and
we regret to Commander,
assist
him with
is
work of conferring
the orders.
This
not as
Com-
mandery abandons
officers
Com-
it
will
be for the
in
Commandery.
favor of nominations
being
bodies,
made
in
the
selection
of office-bearers of
Masonic
and
intelligently select
as office-bearers,
promiscuously
for
"Tom,"
"Dick" and "Harry." If a great many, yes, the large majority, of those who attend the annual conclaves of the Commandery would be
as punctual and zealous in their attendance on the regular and stated conclaves of the Commandery, and note the
officers,
am,
also,
one
who
is
from bottom toward the top each year, and limit the services of an excellent and efficient presiding officer to one year, and thus deprive the Commandery of one who, if continued, would still greater improve in proficiency, and increase the zeal of the fraters in their interest and attendance at the conclaves: but, instead, by our rotating process, we are often installing one as our presiding officer who, for lack of the necessary qualifications, destroys the interest and zeal attained by the fraters created under the magnetism of the officer whom you rotated out of office.
practice gotten into, of late years, of rotating officers
the
3< >8
III
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.AK,
Had
this
in
incumbency of
Em.
who
served as
P.
Km.
Sir
John
Commandery as Commander seven consecutive years, Ottawa Commandery would never have been honored hy the Grand Commandery in their seF.
Nash,
who
served the
lection
to
Em.
the
Sir Albert
Grand Commandery after having heen elected Commander of Ottawa Commandery the fourth consecutive term, and Em. Sir John F. Xash, Grand Commander, after
having" heen
elected
Commander
the
seventh consecutive
term.
Ottawa Commander)', Templar year thirty-seven stated and special conclaves of the Commandery. and that the average attendance of the fraters was only fourteen, and that at two conclaves there was only a hare quorum, and at several conclaves scarcely enough fraters present to form triangle guard in conferring the Order of
the records of
As gleaned from
the Temple.
The records of the Commander}" show roster of two hundred and fifteen, and of
the city
at
f
(
that
this
)ttawa.
Thus we
of
the
average absentees
the
the
conclaves
Commandery during
past
Templar year was one hundred and six. Can it he possible that in this beautiful city, with a population away above the average in what makes for good citizenship, that only 16 per cent, of the fraters of Ottawa Commandery are zealous and faithful members of Ottawa Commandery and the Order of Christian Knighthood? It cannot he possible that 84 per cent, of our membership have enlisted for personal and mercenary motives only.
309
Tt
is
We
cannot nor
will
true that
when
some
notable,
there
is
is
So, also,
public,
there
when
the
as on Easter day,
white
the breeze
swords glistening
Is this for the
in the
sunshine.
Commandery,
or that yon
etc.?
want
to
show
a disposition to
why
It
home membership?
is
an
injustice
for
Com-
mandery, with the reputation abroad for knightly achievements that crown Ottawa Commandery, to select officebearers and not support them in their endeavor to preserve
Ottawa Commandery. It is an imposition on the officers, detracts from the inspiration in the work and nullifies all efforts to make a lasting and
the standard of excellence attained by
We
do not believe
a single frater,
whose name
is
is
at heart a
we
of the
Commandery
ComIt
officers: but
is
^\
conferring
Com-
mandery behind guarded doors as it is to appear in public, with sword and baldric, and waving plume, attending Easter
service or any other public occasion or demonstration.
310
Til E
KNIGHTS TKM
I'l.Ak,
The Order
orable
faiths
of Knights
Templar
is
institution,
have deemed
a
and men, noted men, of all Christian it a high honor to become affiliated
organization,
is
therewith.
It
is
semi-military
allied
with
an-
cient
craft
Masonry.
its
It
fraternal
order and
of
its
basis
is
the
good
and morality
de\( !ees.
The
virtues
we
human
life
proves has been the might)' source which has developed and
As an order we neither
the rich
man nor
seek
man
in
seek the erratic scintillations oi the genius nor the unimpressionable apathy of the ignorant.
The Order
the practical
roster
solid
men
of
society
for the
in all
life,
who
our Redeemer
His
the
divinity of
birth, death
and resurrection.
welcome good men of all parties, and believe the oftener thev meet and fraternize in our asylum the better they will be for it. We welcome men of different Christian
faiths as
fairs.
We
we do
those
who
of
In
Commanderies
is
acter
man
worth and
Christian
faith,
and
in
We
there,
before.
Commandery
of
Knight'-
311
to
regenerate a deof
man
to a
man
wisdom, or a
rogue
such
to
an honest man.
men
she will
make
hetter
live.
citizens,
dav
We had hoped that the year would pass without the grim messenger of death paying our Commandery a visit:
but he
came on July
Fiske.
25,
Lyman
and community, lie left to mourn his passing away his widow and two daughters, to whom Ottawa Commandery extends its condolence and sympathy in their hour of
city
grief.
Sir Rezin Naylor Thompson was horn in Marseilles, 111., October 26, 1858. Was knighted in Ottawa Commandery March 26, 1903, and passed to his reward May 7, 191 1. Sir Thompson was a valiant and magnanimous knight and held in the highest esteem by those who had the pleasure of He left to mourn his loss a forming his acquaintance. wife and one son, to whom Ottawa Commandery extends its sympathy and condolence in their hour of bereavement. His funeral was under the auspices of the Commandery and
Of sleep and death; the frosts of trouble lay Their withered touch upon our happiness,
Even as the hoar-frosts of the Autumn kiss The green life from the unoffending leaves; And Love, and Hope, and youth's warm cheerfulness Age lonely sits and grieves, Flit from the heart;
his
J 12
111
KXCKRl'TA:
of our
faith,
admonish you of the saeredness Again to-day and remind you thai only in its sign may you con-
quer.
IQI I-I2.
The
8,
fiftieth
when
the
following officers
.Commander
George Craft Dunaway Generalissimo John Mathias Berg. Captain General George John Waters. .Senior Warden
.
.
John William Clegg. .Junior Warden Prelate Walter Briggs Titus WM. H. ROLLO, Treasurer Theodore C. Gibson E. C. 1911-12. Recorder Robert Lucien Smith Standard Bearer Albert Lawrence Trager Sword Bearer La Rue Perene Shaver Warder P. Rodgers Joshua Sentinel Harry Jndson Lee
William L. Milligan
Historian
P. G.
P.
The above officers were duly installed June 28, 191 1, Com. Albert F. Schoch, installation officer, assisted by Com. P. J. Wendel, as marshal.
Created:
A. Wilson.
Arthur J. Spaulding, Royal E. Willsey, John William Herbert Stockley, Oliver J. Belknap.
Perry G. Stordock, Henry C. Miller. John S. Edgcomb, Arthur I). Prichard, Frederick S. Prichard, Simon C. Geiger, William E. Berndt. Glenn W. Weese, Arthur J.
Shnte,
Carter,
Henry
David
I).
R. Conard,
313
J.
Lee,
Edward
Reinstated:
Eugene
Moffitt.
S.
Dcmittcd:
stein.
Merman
Suspended: Oscar J. Ackerman. Died: Theodore C. Gibson, Wilson Conard, Benjamin F. Trnmbo, Camillns McClure, Louis Rohrer. The fiftieth anniversary of the chartering of Ottawa
Commandery, No. 10, Templar year, together tion of the new Masonic in Templar Masonry in
October 30,
191
1.
K. T., falling within the present with the completion and occupa-
Temple, made
it
an auspicious year
Ottawa and
celebrated.
vicinity.
the
semi-centennial anniversary of
More than
six hun-
fair
Mendota, Pern, Streator, Princeton and Chicago. It was an elaborate affair and the program was carried out to the letter with the exception the rain eleminated the grand pageant or parade of Commanderies which was scheduled to
be the distinguishing feature of the celebration.
1,
1,
Fran-
Fiske, presented
a beau-
November
December
last
8,
Ottawa Commandery performed for Sir Benjamin Franklin Trnmbo. 191 1, Ottawa Commandery performed the
191
1,
February
29,
it)
12, a
3 J4
III E
K N
[GUTS
'I
'KM
'I.
Em. Com. William L. Milligan, on behalf of Commandery, presented Past Em. Com. Milton E. the Blanchard a beautiful Past Commander's jewel. A Templar ball was given by the Commandery and was largely attended
Past
fair,
April
7,
191 2,
April t8, 19
Sir
the
2. Ottawa Commandery Andrew Logan Anderson, Grand Standard Bearer of Grand Commandery. The Commandery passed muster
1
was inspected by
with
its
is
Commandery, No. m.
Ottawa Commandery has enjoyed one of its most eventful years, both socially and financially, and Em. Com. Rollo is to he congratulated on the success of his
On
the whole.
administration.
Commandery
and magnanimous Knights have sheathed their to the mandate of their Great Comworld of disappointment
this
memory must
weep,
Standing face
ism, that writes
upon the gates of our cemeteries, "Gone forever," and Templarism detests infidelity, which offers no consolation or comfort to dry the tears of sorrow when laid low by the "setting loved ones have been removed
valley.
316
ens to the "True
realms beyond the clouds and awaits with patience while a voice of
"Blessed are
who
raters
we
shining" as constellations in
The hardships
human heart yearns for a more serene home than affords, why should we not brush away the rising tear
soul has
when another
throng ?
gone
white-robed
The attempt
1
is
sorbing thought of
The hearse
bells
The merry
come
after
army
of strong
men
is
not the
home
of the soul.
new law of love. He called to him the humble and the poor "Pdessed are they that and announced the new gospel:
mourn
for they shall be comforted." lie
poured the
oil
oi
consolation
their afflictions.
life.
He
The
who
2)
Him
to the
Cross and
He
we
family which
man
as an inestimable inheritance.
That our beloved f raters who departed from among us during the past Templar year were firm believers in Him who died on the cross that mankind might he redeemed
not the least doubt whatever, because we had frequent talks of the future mysteries with Sir Knights Gibson
we have
and Trumbo, and we who knew Sir Knights Conard and McClure know well that they were not the men who would subscribe to that in which they did not have an abidingfaith.
Masonry and Templarism we cherish men like Louis Rohrer, Camillus McClure, Theodore Cunningham Gibson, Benjamin Franklin Trumbo and Wilson Conard; not to display them as rich jewels for the admiration of a profane
In
world, but for the sunshine they throw around our fraternal
gatherings; for our appreciation of their merit and the reflecting light
we absorb from
will
at
it.
Their memories
long linger
in
Sir
Sir Louis
Rohrer was knighted in No. 10, K. T., December 6, 1883, earthly existence on the 28th day of Sir Knight Louis Rohrer was one
a
this
farmers of the northern section of La Salle county and was man of more than ordinary intelligence. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors for a number of years and
also served his constituents as a
member
of the Legislature
3 [8
'I'M
KNIGHTS
i:
M PLAR,
a
more loyal friend than lie was faithful to his Sir Louis Rjohrer is seldom met. vows of Knighthood and took commendable pride in at-
A more
genial
companion nor
Commandery and
and devotion
to
also in ac-
companying
terized
all
the
Commandery
and we
a
went down
his
to the
grave with
that,
while
Sir
Commandery October
McClure was knighted in Ottawa [895, and passed from this earthly
1.
at his
home
in
was beloved by
will
who knew
him.
ate
so well by his
raters.
A
it
Commandery when
In symbolic
a
was heralded that Camillus McClure had passed away. Masonry he was Master of Freedom Lodge for number of years, and as a ritualist and executive officer
was unexcelled. Mis Masonic affiliations were with Freedom Lodge, No. 194, Shabbona Chapter, No. 37. R. A. M., and Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, 1\. T. 'fhe funeral services were conducted by Freedom Lodge.
No.
[94,
319
at the
Tims
acts of charity
and honorable life. His and of kindness and of love are treasured in
the hearts of
all
who met
Em. Sir Theodore Cunningham Gibson. When all is done that can be done, When all is said that can be said;
Naught then is left but memories Sweet memories of our dead.
P.
Em.
Sir
in
[831.
Was
in
youth of
[840, and
when he arrived
in
La Salle county
111.,
attendthe
When
spirit
of patriotism, be enlisted
Company
i,
command
of Captain
Reed, of Ottawa.
close of the
)n
war he returned
in
[850,
made
mained three
where, for a
civil
war,
when on
pany
11,
the
22d of April, [861, he enlisted tinder the first becoming captain of Comllliin is
11th
infantry,
II.
commanded by
the gallant
W.
L.
Wallace.
On
the expiration of
to
duty with
this
Company
B,
53d
Illinois infantry.
it
He was
with
regiment
took part
in until after
320
IN E K
NIGHTS TKM
I'l.
\K,
by which
lie
title
was
member
and
of
of [862.
filled
political positions
of
to himself
and
S.
ents.
He was
5,
Miss Susan
Sample on February
of Sir Knight and
1856.
A most
February
6.
life
when Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. home and presented them one hundred
dollars in gold.
Knight Theodore Cunningham Gibson was made a Mason in Occidental Lodge, No. 40, A. F. & A. M., in 1856; exalted a Royal Arch Mason in Shabbona Chapter. Xo. 37, R. A. M.. January 31, 1859. and Knighted in OtSir
10,
K. T., March
8.
dispensation, and
was one
knighted
in
7,
Thomas
Wade
March 8, 1861, John F. Nash, Levi Mason and Theodore Cunningham Gibson were knighted. Of this valiant and magnanimous company of men only Sir Knight John bisk Xash is numbered among the living. Theodore Cunningham Gibson served the ComSir mandery as Eminent Commander during the years 1884 and 1SS5, and was Treasurer of the Commandery at the time of his death, which office he had held for many years.
He was
cret,
thirty-second
in
Oriental
Consistory,
Valley
of Chicago. October
1884.
^2
Thus
a
briefly
have we glanced
at the history of
us.
one who
pur-
Although crowned
in the
which
life.
he
His
tion
life,
and imitation.
left
He was
earlv attracted to
Masonry,
and has
bedded
Illinois.
Order
in the
scribed
upon
its
records
"Loyal
to his
God and
which he was
called, loving
and Kindly and companionable by nature, his life was brightened by the love of many friends, and his grave is crowned with their
charitable to all.
sorrow."
Hail and farewell, valiant knight!
Sir
Sir
Benjamin Franklin Trumbo was born November 25, 1862, at the Trumbo homestead in Dayton township, La Salle county, Illinois. His ancestors were of Virginia stock and traced their settling in Virginia back to the seventeenth
century.
Fie was knighted in Ottawa Commandery Mav 15, 1905, and passed from his earthly existence on the 8th of November, 191
40, A. F.
also a member of Occidental Lodge, No. and Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M. & A. M., His entire life was spent on the farm, where his social
1.
He was
322
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of
of his popularity, he
in
was
elected Sheriff
when
the county
was Republican by
In keep-
term with
a clean record.
in years, full of
How
life
and
and
wel-
family, and
make
life
come, should
down
over,
in the full
But
his life
work
and he
em-
his
many good
As
the wavelet
made by
of
the quiet lake widens and widens as the pebble sinks and
sinks, so will the
memory
performed from a sense of duty and in true friendship, be realized and appreciated as time widens the
How
blessed to close
life's
Frank Trumbo is gone, but the world is better because in it, and hearts are truer and more tender because they came in contact with his true, earnest and noble life. Hail and farewell, dear friend and frater! Hail and
farewell
323
Sir Knight Wilson Conard. Knight Wilson Conard was born in Miller township, La Salle comity, 111., October 5, 1863. He spent his life work on the farm and had accumulated a handsome competency of this world's goods when, in July, 1904, he moved to Ottawa, where he at once became identified with the business interests of the city and was soon recognized
Sir
as one of the substantial
and
influential
men
of Ottawa.
He
was
a pleasant
position
and his friendly regard for others. He was knighted in Ottawa Commandery August 4, 1910, and passed from this life on the 15th day of Decem1.
ber, 191
in
of
moral worth, which constitutes a rich heritage for his surviving family and friends, and of which all who knew him and loved him may feel justly proud. Hail and Hail and farewell, dear friend and brother!
farewell
EXCERPTA: "By a larger growth in ourselves and a wider influence upon our fellowmen we must emphasize the meaning of our name and the signification of our symbols."
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t9I2-I3.
IM.AK,
The
fifty-first
Commandery
was convened June [3, 1912, when the following officers were elected and appointed For the ensuing Templar year:
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain General
Senior
Junior
reorge John
Waters
Warden Warden
Prelate
John Hubbard Goodell Albert Frederick Schoch Robert Lucien Smith Albert Lawrence Trager George Lester Farnsworth
Joshua P. Rodgers Harry Judson Lee
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Organist
Hist< rian
The above
officers
Commander Henry
L. Arnold.
Created: Charles T. Bradford, John R. Dale. Tyler A. Hoganson. Carlos 0. McCarty, Joseph M. Megaffin, James Milligan, Jr., Harry C. Spencer, Fred. Chas. Stoessinger, Harry L. Thrasher, Noah H. Thompson. Demitted: John H. Widmer, Charles F. Wilson. Pied: Fbenezer Barber, James M. Trenary. Royal E.
Willsey, John G. Yenerick.
EVENTS DURING THE TEMPLAR YEAR. 9 2. Ottawa Commandery attended the [8, annual conclave of the Grand Commandery at Peoria, and made a very creditable showing n the grand parade, and
August
1
325
the
Sir
19 12,
John George Yenerick. January 3, 1913, Ottawa Commandery acted as escort to Waltham Lodge, No. 384, A. F. & A. M., at the funeral
ceremonies over the remains of Sir Royal E, Willsey.
February
the
20,
Masonic Temple, and was a most enjoyable affair, and was pronounced a brilliant success by those in attendance, a characteristic of old Ottawa Commandery. Easter Sunday, March 2^, 1913, notwithstanding the inclement weather, fifty-two valiant and magnanimous Sir Knights of Ottawa Commandery formed in line and proceeded to Christ Episcopal Church, where they attended
Easter service on invitation therefrom.
the church
The
fraters
were
and
W.
April
15,
1913,
spection of Streator
Ottawa Commandery attended the inCommandery, Xo. 70, and was most
George C. Dunawav, Ottawa whole, had a most prosperous and
of Sir
Under
the
command
has, as a
Commandery
satisfactory year.
Empty
tues
barren eulogy
is
lips
of hypocrisy.
vir-
ory
we profess to cherish, vain are "the trappings and the suits of woe" which we display, and the eulogistic language which we utter. We can pass an infinitely higher encomium on our deceased fraters by our future lives than we can by the most
man
can pronounce.
326
lis
inscrutable
lite's
scenes and
the following
mandery
in
Ottawa Commandery
[869.
He
James Marshall Trenarv, affiliated with Ottawa Commandery November 26, 1891, and died September 22, [912. John George Yenerick, knighted in Ottawa Commandery March _\ 1911, and died October 2. 1912. Royal E. Willsey, knighted in Ottawa Commandery October 26, 191 1, and died January 1, 191 3. They performed life's pilgrimage in the duties which they owed to God, their country, their families and the practice of the undying principles of the Order of Christian Knighthood, and left to posterity a record more enduring than words of eulogy or monumental marble. It was their aim so to live that when life's duties had been honestly, fairly, faithfully, and acceptably performed,
they could look beyond death's cold river to the spirit land,
and, with faith in the promises of their Redeemer, boldly and
spirit land,
To
the
was
Asylum
To
behalf of
Ottawa Commandery, No. 10. Knights Templar. sincere sympathies and condolences. our Barber, Trenarv, Yenerick, Willsey, valiant and magnanimous Knights,
hail
and farewell!
Ottawa Commandery. we extend the condolence of Ottawa Commandery to our sympathy and
As Historian
of
327
hour
the
The most
is
when
to that
tiny of
more reconciled to the inevitable deswe reflect that all we most prized, most loved and clung to on earth has gone before us to "that country from whose bourne no traveler returns." What is the worst of woe that waits on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
Never do we
feel
man
than when
To view each loved one blotted from life's And be alone on earth, as I am now.
In the death of Mrs. Titus,
page,
who
Years had shared the joys and sorrows of our grief stricken
Commander,
words of sympathy
however sincerely they may be uttered, but we do assure him that the prayers of every f rater of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, were united with those that went up from his desolate home, that He who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" would strengthen and comfort him as he "in all the manliness of
grief" walked the remaining span of
life.
Jon x Fisk Xash. Our beloved and Most Eminent Past Commander, John Fisk Xash, lies at his home in a semi-conscious state, waiting, waiting, waiting for the final command from his Great Commander to cross to the great beyond from whence no
pilgrim knight has ever returned to
that await us there.
his sorrowing family, as Historian, we exon behalf of Ottawa Commandery, the sympathy and condolences of his Commandery, praying that his suffering
tell
us of the awards
To him and
tend,
328
KNIGHTS
'I'l-'.M
I.AR,
may
in
has a re-
offer, or
of Knights Templar has witnessed nations, and has dispensed its beneficent influences upon the lives of many generations of men. In its original purity of character and dignity of purpose, it is to-day our rich heritage. Let us not, then, show ourselves unworthy of this sacred trust, but realize ever the responsible position we occupy as the present depositories of this noble order."
I
KXCERPTA:
fall
he rise and
of
many
'
)PPI-P
The fifty-second annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery was convened June 12, 1913. when the following officers
the ensuing-
Templar year
Commander John Mathias Berg George John Waters. .Generalissimo George A. Crowden. .Captain General Arthur 1). Prichard. .Senior Warden
.
JOHN
.Junior
Warden
Prelate
M.
BERG,
E. 0. 1913-14.
Albert P. Schoch
Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
reorge P. Farnsworth
Fred P. Jones
Joseph
Adams Wilson
D.
1
Anthony
William
Simon
Milligan
officers
I
Organist
Hstorian
..
were installed June 26, 0)13. The above Charles Rodgers Stevenson, William Created:
Kirk
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George Clement Ford, Charles Edwin Jordan, Walter Rush Green, Samuel Emery Clegg, Clarence Edgar
Hulse, George
Affiliated:
Edward Ten Eyck, George Clarence Nelson. Herman Haines Elder, Charles Ferdinand
H. Eugene Chubbuck, Samuel U. Lawry,
Brenn.
Demitted:
Died:
John Fisk Nash, John Stout, Joshua P. Rodgers, Irving Hinton Trowbridge, Walter David Strawn, Edward H. Smith. We congratulate Commander Berg and his corps of efficient officers for the efficiency of their work and the prosperity of Ottawa Commandeiw during the Templar year
just closed.
Xot withstanding
f raters
by death and
two mem-
to
There were knighted during the year nine and admitted membership two, leaving a net membership of two hundred and thirty-six. The finances of Ottawa Commandery are in good shape. Three hundred and fifty dollars of the temple indebtedness has been paid, which now leaves a balance of only $2,500 on
this account.
The
show
that
Commandery
has been
in
excellent
During the holiday season a Knights Templar ball was given by the Commandery, which was largely attended and
proclaimed a terpsichorean success.
sixty-
swords
in
line,
at-
tended divine services on Easter Sunday at the Marseilles Congregational Church, and were edified with an appropriate
^O
The
THE KNIGHTS
TF.MPr.AR.
Commandery was
inspected by
There was a large and enthusiastic attendance of fraters from sister Commanderies. A banquet was served, and the feast of soul and flow of reason was greatly enjoyed by those in
Bearer Milton Everett Robinson on April 30, [914.
attendance.
A
ican
new American
flag-
flag
was purchased by
a
the
Command-
ever presented to
Templar, and your Historian is have been taken to preserve this historic
flag.
The Common
Lot of
A [ax.
To-day we live to-morrow die, and then, The world will move on without us and soon Forget that we did once exist. Then, naught will remain but grewsome relies Of souls forgot tenements deserted, Whence hath fled all that had honored and Ennobled us. Our forms will remain, but not Our souls the souls that now hold royal court In thought's mysterious seat within the Chambers of our skulls receptacles with Ethereal spirits filled. Mouldering canopies will but remain Where now the bright and busy eyes blaze Forth with fires of rage, or glow with
Beacon lights of love. Hollow caverns will denote where now The silver tongue holds sway, and charms With soft melodious speech loved ones at home. Or fires with burning words of truth the Busy marts of trade, or, please with shafts Of ready wit and keen retort Companions of the road. Dismantled by divine command derelicts Upon the infinite Sea of Time ghastly relics Only will remain to remind others of their Impending doom the common lot of man. Man may forget God never does nor
of the
tomb conceal us
Eye.
pause!
33I
your
light,
That,
when your
Of its tenement That flows from the Almighty's throne May reflect His benediction upon you, And your passing to the bosom Of the Everlasting God be like one who Draws the drapery of his couch about him,
And
lies
down
to pleasant
21,
dreams.
Ottawa,
111.,
Aug.
1913.
W.
L.
Milligan.
Memorial Tributes.
During" the past Templar year death has taken from our
ranks
five valiant
and magnanimous
fraters, Sir
John Fisk
Nash, Sir John Stout, Sir Walter David Strawn, Sir Joshua P. Rodgers, Sir Irving H. Trowbridge and Sir Edward II.
Smith.
Sir
at the
oldest living
senior
one of
member of Ottawa Commandery as well as the Past Commander. He had the distinction of heing the verv first men knighted in Ottawa Commandery,
a
having been created and dubbed on the 8th of March, 186 1, and had maintained
continuous membership
in his
Com-
mandery to the date of his death, July 6, 1913. He was Past Commander of Ottawa Commandery, and Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the state of Illinois. He was buried with knightly honors. Grand Commander Sir William L. Sharp officiating, Ottawa Commandery acting as escort to the Grand Commandery. When Zeno consulted the oracle in what manner he
should
dead.
live,
the
Words of eulogy may not add anything to the honor due name of John Fisk Xash, but may well stimulate those young men of the present generation, of our community, upon whom responsibilities in the present and may in the
the
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Sir Nash entered upon-this life at the threshold of the most wonderful era pending the most wonderful strides that
him and
lay
down
to pleas-
dreams
at
a time
when
is
the scientist
in
"There
and
and
left his
native state of
in 1840,
where he remained
in
until 1847.
when he came
to
more than
we can here pronounce, no tribute which we can bring to his memory, whose friendship it was our privilege so long
and so uninterruptedly to enjoy, can equal what should he awarded him by all who knew him and appreciated the
vigor and fertility of his intellect, and are cognizant of the
services he rendered the
community
in
Having known and admired him from my boyhood days, and having observed him as a model in all the daily walks i^i life, among the money vaults and in the busy marts of trade, in social life, when business cares were cast aside,
and
in
where our souls mingled in unison contemplations of the splendors and fruitions of the
in
fraternal circles,
beatific vision
and
in
when we should approach the throne of God symphony of angelic voices, as we took part scenes and ceremonies that take away the ''sting oi
join in the
^\
"victory"
scenes
beyond
the pale of the vulgar world and in which hut a comparatively few are fitted to participate.
In all these relations
we
333
him
its
man who
void of licentiousness.
eral
A man
any
trust reposed in
him, of
position.
infinite
Having
whom
who
his favor
by such prac-
He was
be
moved
to
pronounced
denunciation of a wrong.
Whatever he
supported or opposed
he
did
it
The
sin of ingrati-
and the
He was
us,
thoroughly
cultured gentleman of the old school, of which, unfortunately, there are but few
among
in the
club rooms, fraternal circles and the majesty of his home. In his extemporaneous as well as his prepared addresses,
for
at public
and fraternal
334
TH
KNIGHTS TEM
I'l.AK,
formed sentences flowed smoothly and naturally, always surprising and delighting his hearers with
functions, the well
the brilliancy
guage. Mis internal excellencies, his polished mind, his compassionate heart,
his
earnestness,
always alive
to
all
the
that
constituted
in
him
the
"true
who
never indulged
contemptuous
example of the
art of
Such were the high qualities that constituted him the man, the courteous gentleman, the honored citizen, the constant friend, the revered husband and father. It would he superfluous to add that his home, in which
true
he took so
much
pride,
own
hands,
was the abode of domestic affection and bliss, and elegant and refined excellencies such as his cultivated taste and mind
could acquire.
Sir
Sir
i
John Stout.
in
Springfield, Ohio,
January
i,
[829.
Came
to
Ottawa,
in a
Illinois, in
ox-team.
Clerked
term
of years
and eventually became one of the pioneer dry goods merchants of Ottawa, conducting a store on Court street until ittyj, when he retired and embarked in the grain business at Ransom, Illinois, then a new and flourishing town on the Santa Fe railroad, just completed through southeastern La He, however, maintained his residence in Salle county.
(
)ttawa.
335
Having
som, he engaged
real
estate
until his death. He was a memBoard of Education of the city of Ottawa a number of years, and was for several years City Collector. His capability and fidelity in positions of public trust was evidenced by his long official career. Sir Knight Stout was always a generous contributor to churches and charities, and was a prominent and influential citizen, respected by all who knew him. His strong and salient traits of character were such as commanded uniform esteem and confidence.
As
all
true to the
member
in
their welfare.
He
of
office in the
Comtern.,
that
Prelate,
in in
the
He was
knighted
Commandery October
We
Edward H. Smith.
Past
Edward H. Smith,
a native of
Commander
state,
of
Ottawa ComOttawa,
111.,
mandery,
New York
came
to
number
of
name
of Smith
&
Rising.
After the
Deputy Sheriff
under Sheriff Thomas Clark during 1881 and 1882, and until
the
first
when he
which
Chicago,
moved
to Streator
and established
when he removed
336
where,
in
ll
I.
KNIGHTS
I'
KM PLARj
ticket
was
ele-
vated lines
Sir
Chicag<
>.
Smith was
a
affiliated
A. F.
&
was created
Knight Templar
August
of the
tive
[8,
Ottawa
mandery, December
[869,
was
Commandery, which office he held for eight consecuyears, when he was elected Commander, which office he
was Commander
in
in [887.
Having served
through the
versed
in
civil
war with
the
commanding-
of Illinois, and
when
Sir
pay an
official visit to
constituent
Commandthe
Commandery, under
Ottawa Commandery the reputation of being the hest drilled Commandery in Templar Sir Smith was a man of tactics in the state of Illinois. strong personality, and. as Commander of Ottawa ComTemplar emhlems
mandery, exemplified the beautiful service in conferring' the Order of Knighthood in a manner that made a deep and He was one of the lasting impression on the neophyte.
earlier standbys of
Ottawa Commandery and was a long and faithful worker in the interest of Ottawa Commandery and Templar Masonry. He was a man of kind and genial manhis
ners, quick
all
and generous impulses and straightforward in It was the possestransactions with his fellowmen.
and
finer qualities of
337
him
to his friends
early
married a daughter of Jeremiah Wood, one of the and successful business men of Ottawa. To this union was born three sons who are successful business and professional men, one, the eldest, being general manager of the mining properties of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
He
railroad.
He
in
3,
19 14, and
was buried
Ottawa Avenue Cemetery with Masonic honors by Occi& A. M. To his bereaved widow and sons, who most mourn his passing away, as historian, on behalf of Ottawa Command-
erv,
we
Sir
Sir Walter D.
Walter
D. Strawn.
Strawn was born on a farm in South Ottawa township August 1, 1850. His father, David Strawn, was one of the pioneer farmers and cattle men of Illinois. Our deceased f rater grew to manhood on his father's farm,
and was educated
in
Normal,
Illinois.
He
where he devoted
his
farming and stock-raising to a successful issue. He retired from his farm in 1890 and moved to Ottawa, Illinois, where he had builded a fine residence in which to spend his declining years with his family.
getic
He was
man
all
his
life,
being
at
Bank
of Ottawa.
Sir Walter D. Strawn was full of life and energy, and whatever he undertook he invariably, by his push and ac-
338
tivity,
was always
Being of
in a
good humor,
met.
a
was greatly shocked on learning of his untimely death December 4. [913. Sir Walter I). Strawn was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., November 23, 1876, and held a continuous memhership until called by death. He never held any elective or appointive office, hut was always He was a valiant a willing helper at any fraternal doings. and magnanimous Knight. His burial was private.
Sir Joshua P. Rodgers.
best
Rodgers was one of Ottawa's oldest and He was horn in Luzern township. Knighted in Pennsylvania. May 6, 1836. Fayette county, Ottawa Commandery. No. 10, K. T., August 6, 1886, and passed to his reward February 8, [914, at his residence in
Sir
Joshua
1'.
known
citizens.
South Ottawa.
When
as a
From Pennsylvania
when
it
he
moved
to
Omaha,
Nebraska,
was
of printer, on the
Omaha
Bee. until
in
the
sixties,
chased the
when he came to La Salle county, Illinois, and purEli Strawn farm, three miles west of Ottawa,
agricultural pursuits, by habits of industry and
a
where
strict
in the
economy, he acquired
handsome competency
in
of this
world's goods.
He
in
retired
1890, taking
his wife
up his residence
and
HISTORY OF OTTAWA
COMM ANDERY.
life
339
of an honored
and respected
unimpeachable.
his
The word
bond.
of Joshua P.
He
never
made
He
was
charitable and
assist in
He
all
convic-
others
when convinced they were right. As a Free Mason and Knight Templar he was
true to
and was prominent in Masonic circles, and throughout his Masonic career strictly observed the precepts of Masonry and Christian Knighthood. He was a firm believer in the brotherhood of man and the
the teachings of the orders,
As an evidence
40, A.
F.
of his popularity as a
Mason he was
&
No. 63, R. & S. M., and to various offices in Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M., and the office of Warder of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., for many Years, and was one of the most faithful and prompt attendants at the communications and conclaves ol the various Masonic bodies in Ottawa. He took a great deal of pride in holding the office of Warder in Ottawa Commandery,
Council,
and
doubt
if
Com-
except on account of
340
1. Trowbridge. Trowbridge was born near Delta, Ohio, March [6, 1849, and was drowned in the Illinois river at Marseilles, 111., March 10. [914. Sir Trowbridge had resided in Marseilles since 1807. and was one of its most progressive citizens, lie took an
Sir [rving
II.
was
also elected a
in
the state of
Illinois
[898.
lie
was engaged in the drug" business for a number of years and was a highly respected citizen of Marseilles. He was a member of Marseilles Lodge, No. 417, A. F. & A. M., Marseilles, 111., Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M.. and Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, Ottawa, 111. He was knighted in Ottawa Commandery January 27, 1898, and was quite popular among his f raters. In disposition he was qniet and reserved, yet a genial and whole-souled companion, and one who wore well with long standing acquaintanceship. His was a sad taking off and was a shock to his family, his friends and his fraters. His funeral was under the auspices of Marseilles Lodge, \o. 417, and was largely attended. Xash, Stout, Strawn, Rodgers, Trowbridge, Smith knights of the valiant and magnanimous Order of Knights
Templar,
hail
is
and farewell
a
There
singular coincidence
in
the passing oi
Sir
John Fisk Nash and Sir Edward H. Smith, in that, while it leaves vonr Historian the senior living Past Commander of
(
Ottawa
Commandery,
successors.
there
is
line of
my
All are
among
Ottawa Commandery, \o. 10, K. T. This day witness the hand of time pointing to the beginning of another Templar year. The past is written in
their allegiance to
34*
The
future
is
who goes
So may
respective
about his task with chart and compass, which enables him
make his reckonings and locate his new officers elected to preside over tawa Commandery assume the duties
to
bearings.
the
of
their
and with chart and compass, be enabled to pilot old Ottawa Commander)-, No. 10, through another Templar
stations,
in
now
re-
corded
in history.
the worthy knight who feels the reverevery manly virtue becomes a part of knightly honor, whose mind is never swayed by conditions or considerations of fear or personal advantage, and who is ever ready to draw his sword in defense of that cause to which it has been so solemnly dedicated."
EXCERPTA:
"He
is
whom
I9H-I5-
The fifty-third annual conclave of Ottawa Commandery was convened June tt. 1014. when the following officers
the ensuing
Templar year
. .
.Commander George John Waters. George A. Crowden. .Generalissimo Joseph H. Pearson. .Captain General
.
.
.Senior
Geo. L. Farnsworth
..
Junior
Warden Warden
Prelate John Hubbard Goodell Frederick Schoch. .Treasurer Albert E. C. 1914-15. Robert Lucieri Smith Recorder Standard Bearer William EC Leverich
GEO. J WATERS,
342
Joseph
Organist
Historian
Milligan
officers
The above
J..
were installed by
19 14, P.
Anmld June
Created:
2^,
acting as marshal.
William
Griffin
Watson
Cowley,
Albert
Eichelberger, Talbert
Ray Mers,
Bert
HarSahl-
C.
berg.
Edward
X.
Deriitted:
William
John Rosene, Claude B. Suspended: Samuel Burrett Reed, Charles Secrist Roe. Died: Emil J. Hoffman, Henry Charles Miller. On December 10, 1914, Ottawa Commandery accepted an imitation from Streator Commandery. No. 70. K. T., to attend a reception to be tendered by the Commandery to Em. Sir William Henry Jennings, in honor of his election
by the Grand Commandery, K. T., of
of
of
Illinois, to the office
Grand Warder of
Illinois
the
to
be held on
state
large
number
of
invitation
Ottawa Commandery availed themselves of this and the Commandery was well represented on
14.
the occasion.
January
Peru,
19 15.
accepted an invitation
111.,
Ottawa Commandery received and from St. John's Commandery. No. 27.
annual
ball
to attend their
January
27,
[915.
Com-
always pulled
by the Peru
Knights.
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191
5,
Wendel was
years.
elected a
Control to represent
Em. Commander Philip John member of the Masonic Board of Ottawa Commanderv thereon for four
P.
5,
Commanderv to attend Easter service at the Congregational Church. The imitation was extended by the pastor, Rev. C. A. McKay.
February 25, 191 5. the annual
Besides a large membership of the
also
ball
success.
Commanderv
attending,
Commanderies enjoyed the Hospitality of old Ottawa Commanclery. The annual balls given by Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, are heralded with delight by
sister
many from
March
erv,
1,
Commandto be held
annual
ball,
March
of
was received and accepted and knights and their ladies attended.
a large
number
On
and
the
ball
Masonic temple was brought before the Commanderv for its consideration when the Masonic temple committee was authorized to obtain and submit plans and specifications
for said change.
April
C. A.
4,
19 1
5,
McKay,
in a
Com-
mandery donned
proceeded
their trappings of ancient knighthood and body to attend Easter service at the Congregational Church, and were highly entertained with a sermon exceedingly appropriate for the occasion, and your historian is confident that every f rater of Ottawa Commanderv who heard the sermon was glad that he was there.
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April
15,
Ottawa Commandery was inspected by Em. Sir Louis Lincoln Emmerson, Grand Sword Bearer of the Grand Commandery, and, as of old, Ottawa Commandcry maintained her high rank
riie
in efficiency in
every respect.
the afternoon,
in the
in
Commandery
taking place
evena
part
of the program.
The Grand Commandery was represented by the presGrand Commander, Grand Senior Warden, Grand Standard Bearer, and Grand Warder. There were also present, besides the eighty-four fraters of Ottawa Commandery, twenty from Streator, six from Bethany ^\
ence of the Deputy
Mendota, ten from St. John's, Peru, eight from Aurora. two from Kankakee, and one each from Chevalier Bayard. Chicago, Alt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon, 111., and Beaumanoir,
Decatur.
111.
Ottawa Commandery, No. 10. K. T., has reason to be proud of the work accomplished under the commandership of Em. Sir George John Waters, and we congratulate him
on
his excellent record.
In Memoriam.
The
last
enemy
in
of
man
is
all
of
us succumb.
our asylum
the past
Templar
Sir Emil J. Hoffman died August 5. 19 14. and Sir Henry Charles Miller December 12, 1914. As a man grows older he may always make it in some manner profitable unto himself to look back along the way
commune
mem-
\yell
for us
sometimes
to cast
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From
we have come, with the faces of the dead friends and fraters come the ghosts of lost opportunities to mock us, the memories of enmities and
and successes, of wise acts and and sorrows and disappointments, oi gains that seemed losses, and losses that seemed to he gains. It is a retrospect through a long vista of sunshine
reconciliations of failures
foolish ones, of cares,
fair
weather.
The
past
is
We
It is
live
in
it
as
we
journey westward.
interest for
all
It
is full
of living-
of us.
a land
a realm into
Templar dead is increasing every year, and it is with bowed forms and voices of melting tenderness and quivering pen that we add to the roll the names of our dead, and extend to their families our sympathies and conroll
The
dolences.
But no tribute or eulogium that we can here pronounce, or bring to their memory, can equal what should justly he awarded them by those who knew them longest and best.
They
is
Their work
is
among men
the call of
"We
Is
Avery Monument.
It is
clave of
that the
monument
to
mark
the last
3-1-6
C.
position at his
unmarked
And
it
is
names
of
of the fraters of
many
of all:
whom
W.
beyond.
Commander W. H. Oilman, W. D.
(). J.
Henrv
L. Arnold.
Belknap,
M. Berg, M. E. Blanchard, A. E. Butters. C. B. Chapman, William Conger, H. G. Cook. George C. Dunaway, George L. Farnsworth, Fred L. Fisher, William P. Fread. C. W. Fredenburg, W. H. Irwin, Charles Geiger, F. E. Gladfelter, George J. Gleim. J. H. Goodell, Clarence Griggs. John F. Nash, A. E. Herzog, Geo. F. Hills, Gustav Ivneussl, Alex. McLean, Duncan McDougall. F. J. Malaise. H. L. Miller. A. J. Roberts, J. P. Rodgers. Robert J.
Reid,
W.
FI.
Rollo,
George J. Waters. F. J. Wendel, William Wilson. As your historian ami senior Fast Commander, allow me a few words of admonition. Ottawa Commandery occupies a high and commanding position among the Commanderies of this Grand jurisdiction, one worthy of its
fair
Fet
it
as
it
to preserve its
high standing, to
which our
and ever
champions of
in the
Fet us
strive to culti-
vate the social virtues, and render our friendships and connections with each other of the most lasting character, and
let
JUS TORY OF
OTTAWA COMMANDERY.
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EXCERPTA:
May we keep
vigilant
and
faithful
sentinels
posted in all the avenues to our Heaven-favored institution; may we study its teachings with that faith and humility which will enable us to keep its principles and precepts everywhere alive and burning upon the altars of our hearts; may we nurture it with care; preserve its reputation unsullied, that great good may redound to our race, and the Orders of Christian Knighthood be preserved in all their purity to the latest posterity.
1915-16.
The
Ottawa
June
ficers
fifty- fourth
annual conclave of
10,
were
tor
the ensuing
Templar rear
George A. Crowden
Joseph H. Pearson Alhert Jay Roberts.
. . .
. .
.Commander
.Generalissimo
Captain General
CROWDEN,
.Treasurer
Recorder
Standard Bearer
Joseph
Historian
Organist
The above
stalled
officers, elected
5.
Em.
Sir
by Philip
Wendel, as marshal.
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Created: John Rutherford Ford, Benjamjn Kbcn Dale Frank George Yentzer, Fred Smith Keeler, Collins Eugene Knapp, Lester William Leipold, Henry Ward Conde,
James Chester Manning, August Ledrich, Franklin Stauffer Ebright, Clarence Miner Watts, John Charles Gleim, Xels Albert Fruland, Ami Manuel Markeson, Edward Rudolph
Clans, Carl Frederick Clans. William
II.
Springhorn, Floyd
Marsh DeLapp, George Henry Brandenburg, Henry Ehly. James Lindsay, Charles Sumner Cnllen, Lewis Henry Clapper, Leon Frank Levy, Oscar Albert Sieffert, Wilbur Grimes, Arthur M. Kile. Donald John McLeod, Frederick E. Beem.
Affiliated:
Briggs, Jr.
Suspended:
rell.
Pied:
Rohrer, George
Walter Briggs Titus, Joseph Allison, Celestine Ahlhorn and William Holland Sindeh II
.
Templar hall was given by Ottawa Commandery on February 25, [916, at the Armory, It was a successful affair,
as
all
Inspection of 1916.
eral,
K.
Em.
Sir
Ottawa Commandery was held April 6, James McCredie. Grand Captain Gen-
was the inspection officer. There were present sixtyeight swords of Ottawa Commandery, two from Apollo, No. 1. four from St. John's, No. 26, and thirteen from The inspection was followed by a banStreator, No. 70. which festive hoard the fraters participated in quet, around the usual (low of eloquence interspersed with wit and humor. Easter Sunday was observed by Ottawa Commandery
on April 23, 19 16. at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. (diaries Arthur liriggs officiating, and by whom a very in-
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was rendered. Eighty-seven swords were in line in full Templar uniform, the largest attendance by four swords that ever turned out for Easter Sunday serThe Eminent Commander was justly proud of this vice. display and manifested the same by his lofty carriage and military bearing as he marched down Columbus street. The discourse by Rev. Sir Charles A. Briggs was very appropriate for the occasion and was greatly appreciated by the Commandery. Ottawa Commandery has now on her roster a membership of two hundred and sixty-four, a net gain of twentythree since our last report one year ago.
of debtedness of Ottawa Commandery to $1,150 has been liquidated, which leaves only $1,000 due on that account, which, the same degree of prosperity the
in-
incoming year
ship in
in
will
wipe
Ottawa Commandery
its
memberare,
history and
financially
splendid condition.
The
records of the
Commandery
accuracy.
Of
well
the stewardship of
Em.
Sir
Commandery
it
can be
and truthfully
said, in the
faithful servant."
Crowden has been a faithful and energetic Templar Masonry and Ottawa particular, and the number of initiates, Commanden- in twenty-nine, was only excelled in Ottawa Commandery in 1886, when your Historian was Commander, when the number reported to the Grand Commandery, as having been
Em.
Sir
worker
in
the interest of
knighted,
was
thirty-seven,
thirty-six
of
whom
were
knighted between
May
35'
'
Til E
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
outside of the jurisdiction
Commandery
sation.
Em.
Sir
Crowden
is
an impressive
ritualist,
and impressive Templar ritual, a dee]) and lasting impression on the neophyte, unless he should he
so unfortunate as to
libertine."
lie
With a membership of two hundred and sixty-four, Ottawa Commandery, however, has not given the Commander
the support to which he
was
den.
to he congratulated
was entitled. The Commandery when it succeeded in electing one so Commandership as Em. Sir Crow-
who
It
Ottawa Commandery. True Templarism is not pomp, pageantry, ceremonial. is life. High moral purity is, always has heen, and we
always
will he,
trust
order.
Ottawa Commandery
bers choose to
a roster of as fine a
Men
of high
various vocations,
men
acter unassailable.
We
in the
mandery has on her roster a Knight who is not interested welfare of Ottawa Commandery and willing to sacrifice not only his time hut his energy and intellect for the honor and glory of Ottawa Commandery, and we can only
at the
conto
to
especially
make
the
when a good attendance is required work more impressive on the neophyte, than
35
veloped a feeling
will
among
Now
But
it
and good
if
not as
it
should he.
We
single
the
work
the
of
staff
put
forth
past
Templar
We
is
who would
if
him
to
of the
We
Ottawa Commandery
those
who do
not appre-
among our
apostles,
whose
mer-
for
Ottawa Commandery, instead of magnanimous Order of Knights Templar, Knight of Malta of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, has cast a pearl before a swine.
one, then
On
the contrary,
its
if
you
Commandery
is
not
in
maintaining
should bear as a
feel
Com-
mandery
of Knights
Templar;
you
fraternal
follow the reception of the orders, and are not given to the
352
practice
ritual
111 E
KNIGHTS TEM
virtues,
I'l.AK,
of
the
Christian
in
as
promulgated by our
in
and exemplified
you complain
claves of your
evils
Commandery and
of,
correcting the
and "Let your light so shine among men, that they, seeing your good work, may glorify our
Father which
is
in
Heaven."
Memoriam.
There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair!
The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying,
Will not be comforted!
These severe afflictions Let us be patient! Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume
this
dark disguise.
We
tapers
May
There
What seems so is no death. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call Death.
beautiful
transition;
One
J
Sunday afternoon,
usual
strolls
in
the
month
t^i
May.
took one of
my
1
cemetery, where
departed
parted
friends
spirits,
was wont to worship at the sepulchers of and fraters and commune with their dewhich seemed to he hovering around me,
on
vanished
days,
recalling
while
meditating
in
hallowed
scenes enacted
in
and im-
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in
Spring verdure
just
violets
green
walks
the foliage
carpeted
just
re-
the rose
and the
had
come
the
opened
festivities
New
Life,
among
day.
I
It
was
a beautiful
May
walked over
to the
on
it
its
the valley on
journey to the
great ocean.
infinite
sky,
and there was the great sun looking down earnestly invisible vapors rising from the river
eye but God's beheld those vapors as they rose.
they, in the higher atmosphere,
meet him.
No
Soon
clouds.
I
began to condense
into mist;
then, as
it
floated
ming around
the
Condensed still more by in the ambient air. change of temperature, those small clouds soon began to roll in huge black masses in the west, and the zigzag lightnings began to flash from the black masses, and the
thunder began
to roll
among
and reverberate up the valley, echothe glens and grottos along the
Soon
river,
God had
and which
came
354
I'l.AK,
rolling up the valley, and the trees and shrubbery began to sway and bend with the force of the wind as if bowing an acknowledgment to the iod of Heaven for the vapor he had taken from the river and condensed into the clouds from which was now falling the rain refreshing Mother Earth.
(
The storm and the rain soon passed away; the clouds
vanished, and the great sun again reflected his refulgent
rays upon the glad earth.
The grassy mounds were refreshed and all nature seemed brighter and newer after the storm. The birds were bathing their beautiful plumage in the little pods of water and singing more joyously than before.
and the storm passed over me, while monuments, symbolizing the affections of surviving friends and fraters, there,
the sunshine
As
standing
among
1
before me,
The uncertainty of
death,
picted
and the immutable evidences of an immortality were deall around and about me: The river, the vapor, the
clouds, the storm, and the rain to replenish the earth from
which arose
me.
New
Life
in
But our visions have told And our souls by the gate of
of its bliss,
its
When we
And
ticity,
so
it
is
human
life.
We
authen-
we
Perhaps
is
just as well.
I
know
the secrets of
lis
lie placed
us on this
all
God never intended we should Neither do we believe that terrestrial sphere intending that we
asylum.
all
should devote
in
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its
down
its
this earth
with
splendid
its
beauty,
its
thrilling interests,
glorious works,
noble
and holy
life
affections,
this earthly
as empty, fleeting
in seeking"
if
an inher-
itance in the
Kingdom
But
we
cultivate the
immor-
all
bosom
of every Knight
Templar and
eternal hap-
to
last
annual
of this
magnanimous Knights
Commander}-
Em.
Sir
Sir
September
1,
1915.
11,
1916.
March
3,
1916.
The
lives
Briggs Titus and Sir Joseph Allison were reviewed in a memorial by your memorial committee and presented to and
approved by
this
Commandery November
Ahlborn was knighted
11,
25,
1015.
and
is
appended hereto.
Sir
George
II.
in
Ottawa Com-
mander)- April
ville,
10,
Tenn., January
was
in
during
lie
his
a
few years
Gay carriage factory as a carman of a lovable disposition, and our city made a host of friends,
and we
its
was
departed from
tene-
ment of
clay that
it
took
its
flight to
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Life Eternal, and
life.
I'll
NIGHTS
KM
IM.AK,
is
now reaping
He
left
mandery extends
George
II.
sincere
Ahlborn, knight,
and farewell!
in
erv August
Ottawa CommandMarch 3, [916. Rohrer was a faithful member of Ottawa ComSir Knight mandery for more than thirty-two years. There are but few
Sir Celestine Rohrer
was knighted
of us old fraters
left to
were witnessed
in
our
Commandery
While Sir
of our
away back
in
the 8o's,
Com-
mandery Easter services and Templar pilgrimages. He loved the institution for the good there was in it. and. we
believe, practiced, as near as possible for frail
humanity, the
to
virtues which
it
professes,
We
meet
in
our fraternal
and
mourn
them
his passing
all.
enshrined
in
We
immortality
his family
have no doubt that he now rests secure in his high To those of in the Supreme Conclave above.
who remain
its
to
mourn
his passing
Ottawa Com-
mandery extends
sincere
He was
ternity,
Ottawa Commandery acting as escort. Sir Rohrer was born in France in May, [839. He was a brother to our
late frater.
Louis Rohrer,
who
at
this
35/
The
when
all
of
sudden,
from
their
mask
ly
away.
With
down
ful
to sleep in their
the
Above
beatific vision
upon them.
Suddenly, as
if
startled
the
guns
in their
The
lightning flashes
from
tle
smoke of
bat-
shrouded the bosom of the sky, and the roar and shriek The old world of a war of nations was all around them. was a pandemonium. The nations were called to arms, and
their great armies rolled their hideous
waves over
field
and
Men who,
only a short time before, were engaged in peaceful pursuits were now racking their ingenuity and tasking their inven-
powers in the development of infernal engines of deby which to more expeditiously and effectively tear and mangle human beings. Homes and hamlets were pillaged and plundered, and no
tive
struction,
358
respect of person
'I'll
NIGHTS
I'l'.M
PLAR,
was shown to age or sex. The nursing was snatched from its mother's breast and borne ruthlessly away. Gray hairs were dabbled in blood, and innocent maidens shrieked in vain for mercy. Works of art,
child
the admiration
of the world,
were destroyed.
rays of
and
reflected
its
farewell benedictions
among
the dust of
wondrous
men."
precepts of Christ
will to
God seemed
monites to reign
tianity,
to have abdicated,
Am-
in His stead. Laws, courts, treaties, Chrismercy and pity had disappeared, while the press and the pulpit and potentates of the contending nations, each, blasphemously claiming God on their side, alike exulted and
hellish engines of
In the
wake
we
ing infidel trying to cast the shadow of doubt upon the soul
that
would
and believe
a symbol.
in
that religion of
He
asks us,
in
the
God.
lie asks us
when swords
will
shares and spears into pruning hooks, and the reign of Em-
man
is
not after
all
but a
little
removed from
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and
all
when, as
a guide,
self-conceit
and
if
Pagans has not the same claim on our implicit which we have sworn
This
is
to wield
our
swords.
not a pen-picture painted by imagination.
Many
Tt
a thoughtful
mind
is
wavering
in
be-
hooves
us, then, as
a firm
disis
and unshaken
so well
wherever
never hear
our
souls.
who
shadow, which
the absence of
Divine Light.
Let
us,
and mag-
wherever dispersed
day when
ended and that sword against nation, up not thev learn war any more when the reign of
this horrible
war
shall be
shall
lift
and everlasting."
W.
The memorial committee,
H. L. Arnold and P.
J.
L. Milligan, Historian.
consisting of
W.
L, Milligan,
following-
Hoffman, H. C. Miller, W. H. Sindel, W. B. Titus and Joseph Allison, which were read and approved by Ottawa Commander)- November 25,
1915:
Tt
in
our ranks
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I'll
KNIGHTS TEM
fly
1'I.AK,
Death's shafts
thick;
it
by?
There
one, even
old age,
a burden.
is
when
with
Bttt
man
almost
how much more sad when the destroyer's hand strikes down manhood in the prime of life. A German philosopher conceived of the soul or spirit as
springing- from the
a flower.
How
lovely in
tint,
spirits,
whose bodies
its
The
"silence
in
mute music
Reviewing the long roll of departed worth, genius and trtte manhood in these memorial pages we are reminded that our lives are but as the sands upon the shore, our voices hut the evening zephyrs that dally the leaf for a moment, and
pass
away
forever.
'Tis the
wink
of an eye,
'tis
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud Oh! why should the spirits of mortals be proud?
a mystery.
\\
hither
we
tend
all
Beyond.
fall
As
place
is filled,
away
whom
time and harvest, the snow and the rain, the sunshine and
the storm, the flowers and the sweet music of birds shall
come and
are
still
go.
And although
the
"dewy
i)\
sis"
hath power to
all
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"dust to dust and ashes to ashes" there comes ever the injuring music of hope.
In the vacant council chamber, and even in the saddened
form more beautiful than the Diana of Grecian mythology, stands as an angel of consolation, and her every breath fragrant with the promise of final victory, and
heart, hope, in
when
that are
wedded.
if
Even
we cannot touch
is
still,
in
mind
made no breach
sympathy, in hope and trust: sign or sound our ears can reach; an inward, spiritual speech us still, though mortal tongue be dead, And bids do the work that they laid down."
Emil
Born
Ottawa,
Sir
in
J.
Hoffman.
September
14,
Ottawa.
Illinois,
1865; died
in
city
and
spent nearly
ill
his life in
this beautiful
valley.
He was
a shock
traits
was
to those
many manly
Co.,
in
of character.
in
He was
the
employment
of Marshall Field
&
the
drug
he
years
ago
town and obtained a position with the Western Cottage Piano and Organ Co., which position be held at the lie was united in marriage twenty years time of his death, ago and leaves surviving his widow and four sisters. His funeral services were conducted in the Masonic
362
I'll
K \
FGHTS
I'l'.M
1'l.AK,
tery,
as
A. M. The interment was in Ottawa Avenue CemeOttawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, acting escort to Occidental Lodge, No. 40. A. & A. M.
-
&
'.
Sir Knight
Emil
J.
Hoffman was
affiliated
with the
fol-
&
A.
M.
Ottawa
his
sonic duties he
in the
MaOtf
to assist
rat-
with Ottawa
is mourned by his many friends, who extend, Commandery, their sympathy to his bereaved widow and sisters, who more than any others feel keenly
His
loss
Emil
hail
j.
Hoffman,
valiant
and farewell!
Henry Charles Miller. Born February 20, 1865; died December 12, 19 14. Sir Knight Henry Charles Miller was knighted in Ottawa Commandery September 14, 191 1, and retained his
affiliation to the
He
his
home
He was a man of spotless character and was admired by those who knew him longest and best. His patience and perseverance, his constancy and courage, his faith and humility, have doubtless culminated in the rich
of blacksmithing.
fruition of the paradise of
God.
in
their last
resting place
Fox
363
To his aged mother and his two sisters, who survive him, and who most miss his genial smile and affectionate disposition, Ottawa Commanderv extends its sympathy and
condolence.
I
magnanimous Knight,
hail
and farewell
William
Born
in
[olland Sindel.
27, 1844; died in Marseilles.
111.,
Ohio January
May
30. 191 5.
Sir
veteran of
in
He came
in Marseilles in
married to Miss Alida C. Wilsey March 21, [872, and. besides his widow, leaves two daughters and one
He was
whom Ottawa Commandery extends sympathy and condolence. Sir Knight William Holland Sindel was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, Mav 17. 1906, and has ever been a consistent and valued member of
son surviving, and to
its
sincere
the order.
we would not awaken him, for we knowhaving discharged all the duties of life as a soldier, patriot, a peaceful citizen, an honored and affectionate husband and father, and a faithful and valiant Knight of the order, he has nobly earned his rest, and we entertain the hope that when the blare of the trumpet shall summons his surviving friends and fraters there will be a meeting on the other shore where tears and sorrows are unknown.
sleeps, but
He
that
William Holland
Sindel,
valiant
and
magnanimous
^>4
P><>rn
in
Titus.
i,
[824; died
in
Ottawa,
Illinois,
Sir old at
9 5. Knight Walter Briggs Titus was nearly 9] years le was married to Miss Mary the time of his death.
I
June
A.
Buell
December
25,
[850,
in
moved to Ottawa,
Illinois,
to
was
a contractor
when he came
Illinois
to
)ttawa and
was
assistant
superintendent of the
of years.
life in
and Michigan
canal for a
number
He
wa.
retired
from active
nieces
He
is
survived by two
Otta-
auspices of
in Ottawa Avenue cemetery under the Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar. He was raised in Occidental Lodge, No, 40, A. F. & A. M., November 23, 1874: demitted March [3, S79, and a few years prior to his death affiliated with Humboldt Lodge, No. 555. A. F. & A. M. He was exalted in Shabbona Chapter, No. $~, April 7, 1S75, and knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, He was elected ComKnights Templar, June 3, 1875. Ottawa Commandery December [3, iSSS. and remander of On January 17, 1881, he was elected December [2, [889. elected Prelate of his Commandery, which office he held. with the exception of three years, two of which he was Commander, until and including the Templar year 1911. nearly As Prelate he was considered the thirty consecutive years. most impressive ritualist in this grand jurisdiction, and we
Interment was
we became
better knights
his rendition
of
the
that he
was
a firm believer
HISTORY OF
OTTAWA COMMANDERY.
365
who were
fortunate
commutor of the Congregational Church, he was most thoroughly impressed with the principles and teachings of the Order of the Temple, and his appreciation and discerning inBeing" a truly Christian gentleman and a faithful
telligence rose to the highest conception of
all
that
is
in-
volved
truths,
in
mysteries,
the
sublime
and the deep foundations, the outward as well as the internal organization and government of the order. His
belief in the usefulness of the institution
effects in the elevation of
and its beneficent humanity and as an instrument for the promotion of good was abiding and founded upon an intelligent and thorough appreciation of its principles and
teachings.
Sir
Walter Briggs Titus was public-spirited to an unusual degree, kind-hearted and charitable in the broadest sense of the word, and unselfish to an extent rarely known in
these grasping and greedy times.
Through
all
the mutations
and
heritage an escutcheon
his
name revered by
those
who knew him longest and best. His honesty and probity was never assailed by the breath of calumy; his charity
and benevolence never failed to give relief to the needy, and sympathy to the suffering, and his generosity was so open-handed and unselfish as to subject him not unfrequentlv to the wiles of the sharper,
even to his
to
own pecuniary
in-
check the generosity and kindly sympathies of his nature, which secured for him the well earned fame "for deeds of charity and acts of pure
was impotent
benevolence."
366
Let ns
Til E
KNIGHTS
I'l'.M
I'l.AK,
bow lowly
>is.
to his knightly
deeds!
He
(
:f
the
Hint
Our esteemed
frater passed
away
as quietly as he lived,
which
He passed through
firm faith that his
his earthly
"Be thou
of life."
faithful
award awaited him on the other side. unto death and I will give thee a crown
To
its
his
and magnanimous
Joseph Allison. Born July jo. 1801, at South Church, near Bishopaukland. England; died September 1. [915, at Ottawa, Illinois.
Sir Knight Joseph Allison
came
to
to the
United Stales
Illi-
La
Salle county.
from
New York
City,
first
residing in Streator,
(
Illi-
Ottawa,
for the
lie
C,
B.
& O.
in
railroad, since
coming
to this city.
at
was united
marriage
to
Bishopaukland, England,
February 21,
this
was one of )ttawa's best known men. His was a lovable nature, and made him friends oi all his fellow workmen, who deeply mourned his untimely taking
(
away.
In the Masonic fraternity he held active
membership
in
367
Xo. 37,
&
A. M.
Knights Templar.
the year 1906.
He
held
his
many important
offices in the
in
Knight Joseph Allison was ever constant and devoted to his Masonic duties and performed them with marked ability. Fidelity was his prominent characteristic,
ever true to his Masonic obligations and trustworthy in
his dealings with
all
mankind.
His friendship was warm, his humanity broad and more maniall
those virtues
and magnanimous
his
His
faithful reliance
trust
in
mercy of
Redeemer,
his earthly
which
spirit
all
and vicissitudes of
and
light eternal.
pilgrimage to realms of
his
Our sincere sympathies and condolences are extended to widow and fatherless children in their hour of sorrow. Joseph Allison, valiant and magnanimous knight, hail
Alas!
and farewell
when
all is
said which
we can
say,
Above the
pallid, cold
and
silent clay,
When
throbbing, sobbing dirge and funeral song Their force have spent upon the mourning throng When tone, as well, from speaker's voice has sped, Naught then is left but memories of our dead.
EXCERPTA: As the handmaid of religion. Masonry (and Christian Knighthood) has an appropriate mission to perform, and as long as it confines itself to its proper sphere we have nothing to fear from the assaults of our enemies. But the disposition manifest in certain quarters to substitute Masonry (or Christian Knighthood) for the Church will, if persisted in, prove a deathblow to our institution. In its collective sense, the church em-
368
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KNIGHTS
TK.M
I'l.AK,
bracts all who profess to believe in Christ, and acknowledge Him With the different creeds of those to be the Saviour of mankind. who compos. the church universal, we, as Templars, have nothing to do; and when assailed by bigotry and intolerance, instead of condemning the church, we should remember there was a Judas among the twelve, who, by transgression, fell and betrayed his Lord and Master.
ADDENDA.
From June
8,
The
fifty-fifth
annual conclave of
were elected
the
JOS. H.
PEARSON,
1
for
ensuing
ROBERT
L.
SMITH,
to date.
E. C. 1916-17.
Templar year
Recorder 1901
Joseph
fatheway Pearson
Commander
Generalissimo
Captain
General
Prelate
Treasurer
Recorder
Senior
Standard Bearer
W
Warder Pro
arder
Tern.
369
Sentinel
Adams Wilson
into
Historian
their
re-
by
P. J.
Wendel, as marshal.
Commanders' night was held December 7, 1916, with W. L. Milligan, Past Commander, as Commander, when he conferred the Order of the Temple on F. C. Knowles. All the stations were filled by Past Commanders.
Past
Created:
Leslie
Edward
Stormont Knowles. Dec. 7; Sidney William Weise, Dec. 14; Walter Burnham Hartshorn, Jan. 4; Walter Clayton Lindemann, Jan. n.
Demitted:
Jan. 25.
E,
H.
Butterfield, Jan.
11; B. A.
Roath,
Geiger, Jan.
William R. Maxwell, Sept. 25, 1916; Simon C. 27,, 191 7; William Henry Oilman, Feb. 17, Albert T. Lardin, March 31. 1917; Ami M. Marke1917;
Died:
5,
son, April
191
7.
from the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. John F. Vonckx, Ottawa Commandery,
invitation
On
line,
The
pastor
welcomed the Commandery with a few well chosen words and delivered an interesting and instructive sermon, which, together with the excellent musical program, was greatly appreciated and most favorably commented on by the f raters
who
Ottawa Commandery on Easter Sunday afternoon performed the last sad rites for their beloved f rater Sir Ami Manuel Markeson.
Thus, on Easter Sunday, we close the
last
chapter of the
3J
I'll
K N
[GHTS TKM
I'l.AK,
History of Ottawa
fathers be with
Commandery.
bless you
yon and
A
I
EMORIAM.
that
When we had
ery June 8, [916,
to
its
we had hoped
beyond.
But death comes not
at call: justice divine
On
forest,
and sweeping with shadowy gusts the fields of ripening corn, the spirit of our beloved frater, William Robert
A lax well,
passed from
its
William Robert Maxwell was horn in Tazewell county, West Virginia, July 12, 1865. Moved to Missouri when a young man. where he resided until 1890, when he came to Ottawa. Illinois, and embarked in the mercantile business, which he conducted until his death, displaying a marked
business ability and enjoying the esteem and confidence of
all
who knew
him.
He was
member
of
F.
& A. M.; Shabbona Chapter, No. 37. R. A. M., and was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar,
March
5.
[9]
1.
and of him
it
exemplified,
in his
and
illustrated a chivalrous
magnanimous
(
order,
and we
ireat
dread or
371
widow and daughters, who most mourn his loss, Ottawa Commandery extend its most sincere sympathy and condolence, and commend them to Him who alone can af-
To
his
ford
them comfort and consolation in their hour of sorrow*. Sir William Robert Maxwell, knight, hail and farewell!
given us
byi
nature
is
memory
of a well-spent life
is short; eternal."
but
the
Ottawa more profoundly shocked than when, on the morning of January 24, 9 1 7 they had learned of the sudden death of Simon Conrad
Never were the people
of
1
less
than twenty-four
in his
place of
and in his and happy manner greeting his friends and patrons. Simon Conrad Geiger was born in Peru, Illinois, November 11, 1876, and came to Ottawa in 1890. He was
business, apparently in his usual robust health
jolly, care-free
engaged
business
in the
and conscientious attention to made himself one of Ottawa's most reliable and successful merchants. Aside from his personal affairs he
his habits of strict integrity
in
educational
at the
member
years, always
member
of
Humboldt
Lodge, No. 555, A. F. & A. M. Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M., and was knighted in Ottawa Commandery, No.
10,
18, [912.
our asylum know that he lived under the influences of a Christian life, walked in its light, rested in its shadows, and, when life's work was done, its last battle fought and won, he was crowned with glory and immor-
him
tality.
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I'M
PLAR,
his aged parents, who we extend the most sincere sympathy and condolence of Ottawa Commandery in their hour of sorrow, and commend them to the mercies of Him who alone
To
his
most mourn
Sir
animal conclave
we have
at
Troy Grove,
Illi-
May
10,
1849.
Was
40, A. F.
&
A. M., April
[881, exalted in
6,
Shabbona
were unin
[881,
and became charter member of Oriental Council. R. & S. M., when organized under the jurisdiction of the Grand Council,
R.
&
S.
M., of
Illinois.
He was
created a Knights
St.
Tem-
and Knight of Malta of the Order of Jerusalem in Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10, K.
plar
John of
T..
Novem-
And
in all
It was then that unbroken affiliation in all these bodies. we were brought into intimate relationship with each other,
and never once has our affection for each other been impaired. We knew him in the pride and glory oi his vigorous and athletic manhood, and after an unbroken friendship for nearly forty years his death comes to us difficult
3/$
all
and seems
too,
to herald the
moment when
of our
and we,
soon
shall
earned by the
toils
and cares of
"Billy" Oilman
was
faithful
and true
to his friends
and
loyal to
Free Masonry.
was never withdrawn from one in distress or want, charity and sympathy pulsated through his whole make-up with every throb of his big, noble heart, while his big bright eyes beamed with beacon lights of love. The last few months of his life were melancholy ones to Like a us who knew him in the prime of his manhood.
great oak stricken and paralyzed by the lightning,
its
leaves
dead,
its
with the
life
that
God gave
day the memory of Billy Gilman will be a who knew him when in his best estate in our secret and select chambers in Masonry and Knighthood. His presence was like the benediction of sunshine, and his cheery, hearty greeting an event to stir the blood of
To
our
latest
a stoic.
"His sunny spirit was like a stream, in whose depths the beautiful and pure alone are mirrored." But. alas! came the fateful summons, and obediently he laid down the armor he had worn so long and so worthily. He was devoted to his wife and daughter and sister, who are left to mourn his passing and to whom Ottawa Commandery extends its sympathy and condolence.
Farewell, old friend!
the
est
requiem over you; may the winter's purest snows rest spotless on your grave; may spring entwine her brightest garlands o'er your tomb and summer gild them with the
mildest sunshine.
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KNIGHTS TEM
l'l.AR,
Albert Thom
as Lakdix.
For the fourth time since closing the History of Ottawa Commandery are we called to chronicle the death of one of
our most illustrious
f raters.
Sir Albert
31.
Thomas
in
Lardin.
who
March
_\
1917.
Butler county.
Pennsylvania, February
Eliza
(Rigby) Lardin.
and
came with
his parents to
Illi-
nois in [870
settled in
He
acquired
Valparaiso.
Val1884.
gan,
when he came
to
Ottawa,
Illinois,
office of
He was
ical
in
administration of his
office,
Sir Lardin
was united
in
in
Morey
in
To
its
this one.
bowed
grief.
Thomas Lardin was raised in Lodge. No. 40. A. F. & A. M., April 2j, 1896:
Sir
Albert
Occidental
exalted
in
37,
R. A.
\l..
April
14,
1807. and
of
magnanimous order
St.
12,
375
its
upon
of
Immanuel,
Asylum
emphatically a greatwill.
He
was
was
charm
to his presence
where.
He was
admired for
his
So
pang of
per-
sonal bereavement, to
feel that
who knew
him.
Who
in his
does not
consecra-
here
is
manhood,
tion to noble aims, this fidelity to unselfish ends, this toiling" for human welfare, never so happy as when lifting some heavy burden from another's shoulders, truly cheered by the divine whisper, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one
my
it
unto
Me"?
Thomas
shadow appears;
footfall
is
whom
there.
Sir Knights,
it
behooves
recently
since
we have had
so
demonstrated
we
this
volume the death of Sir Ami Manuel Markeson. who was so recently among us enjoying the best of health and
37<
'I'll
make
life
worth living
will
for.
gone.
know
in
him no more
asylum, but
forever.
lis
our
happy
home, where
to return.
orphaned daughters
county,
To them we offer the sincere sympathies and conCommandery. Markeson was born in Miller township, La Salle He moved to Ottawa Illinois. November 19. 1805.
two years ago from his farm north of Seneca. He was chairman of the board of supervisors of Grundy county for
several years.
He
died April
in
5,
He was
ter.
prominent
Masonic
member
&
Xo. 37, R. A. M., and was created a Knight Templar, Knight of Malta of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, in Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10, K. T.. May 6, 19 16. Ami
hail
and farewell!
2>77
THE BEYOND.
seemeth such a little way to me Across to that strange country beyond; And yet not strange, for it has grown to be
It
The home of those of whom I am so fond. They make it seem familiar and most dear, As visiting friends bring distant regions near.
So close
I
it
I
lies
when my
sight
is
clear
almost see the gleaming strand. know I feel those who have gone from here Come near enough sometimes to touch my hand. often think but for our veiled eyes We should find Heaven round about us lies.
think
cannot make it seem a day to dread, When from this dear earth I shall journey on To that still dearer country of the dead. And join the lost ones, so long dreamed about. I love this world, yet shall I love to go And meet the friends who wait for me I know.
I
never stand above a bier and see The seal of death set on some well-loved face, But that I think one more to welcome me. When I shall cross the intervening space Between this land and the one over there, One more to make the strange beyond seem
fair.
And so for me there is no sting of death. And so the grave has lost its victory.
It is
but crossing with abated breath set face a little strip of sea, To find the loved ones waiting on the other shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.
And white
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If
WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD.
we knew the cares and
trials,
the efforts all in vain, And the bitter disappointment, Understood the loss and gain Would the grim, eternal roughness Seem 1 wonder just the same? Should we help where now we hinder?
Knew
Ah! we judge each other harshly. Knowing not life's hidden force-
Knowing
Is less
not the fount of action turbid at its source! Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good; And we'd love each other better If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motives That surround each other's lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives Often we would find it better Just to judge all actions good; We should love each other better
If
we
only understood.
Rudyard
Kipling.
DAUGHTER COMMANDERIES.
was chartered October 23, [866. Among its charter members were Joseph Mercer, Philo Hamlin Zeigier, Jefferson Harrison Fawcett, George Crossley and William 1. Moore, who were knighted in Ottawa Commandery and demitted for the purpose of becoming charter members of Temple Commandery. This is one of the staunchest Commanderies in IlliIn 1915 their returns to the Grand Commandery nois. showed a membership of 150, with an average of 88 points
20,
Princeton,
111.,
in
standing on inspection.
St.
26, Pern,
tered October 22, 1867. John Brevoort, Ira B. N. Bross, David A. Cook, Jonathan Duff, Henry D. Brown, P. J. Davis, George Emerson,
its
Among
charter
Reuben Evarts, C. A. T. E. Holmes and George W. Lininger, who were knighted in Ottawa Commandery and demitted for the purpose of becoming charter members of St:
John's Commandery.
Fraternal courtesies have been the distinguishing characteristics
and
to
St.
John's
Commander}* ever
pitality
organization.
According
in
Grand Commander}1
15,
standing on inspec-
tion.
2i>, Mendota, 111., was George Emerson, David A. Cook, Casper Ruedy, J. M. Liscom, P. S. Davis, C. B. Gould and W. V. Bromfield demitted from St. John's Commandery for the purpose of becoming charter members of Bethany
32
II
KNK.II
IS
ThM
I'l.AU,
Commandery.
(
The
at
first
four of
whom were
to
knighted
St.
in
Ot-
organize
John's
Commandery
Vru,
111.
Commandery
age of 90
in
1015. had a
points in
standing on inspection.
Bethany
is
royal entertainer.
70,
Streator,
111.,
was
and
[905,
Since Streator
Commandery
fifty-eight as valiant
magnanimous knights
around our sacred
as
ever wielded
Commandery as the child of Ottawa Commander}-. Those who demitted from Ottawa Commandery for the purpose of becoming charter members of Streator Commandery were
S.
J.
T. Applegate,
J.
C.
Ames,
L. L. Bennion,
H. Bourne,
J.
A. Blanchard,
S.
W.
A. Curry.
F.
W.
C.
B.
Cole-
houer.
M. Davidson, A.
J.
Daugherty,
I.
F. Echard,
W.
Flick, J.
W.
Howe,
Hall,
L.
I).
Howe,
Huggans, Hugh
M. W. Jack. W. It. Jennings, \Y. B. Jones, Joseph Kopf, R. W. Law. M. J. Luther. L. O. Lorenz, S. McFee ley. F. L. Mills, 11. L. Manly. J. C. Pirkey, M. C. Pirkey,
C. R.
II.
Rathbun, C. T. Ryan.
Scharfenberg,
R.
S.
S.
Smith,
J.
W. L. W.
J.
Smith. A.
R.
Van
Wil-
Skiver, C.
II.
Schurman,
II.
Silencer. C.
Williams, \Y.
Williams and
J.
R.
Harry M. Taggart and John M. Stewart afterward demitted from Ottawa Commandery and affiliated with
liams.
Streator
Commandery.
of this
company
oi
II
IS
383
have the honor to recommend new Commandery at Streator, notwithstanding the numerical loss to Ottawa Commandery, for
men, and
it
was
Ottawa Commandery
istics so well fitted to
well
knew
add
to the
Masonry
attain an
in
Illinois that
Streator
Grand Commandery
Commandery
to the
at the
annual conclave in 19
for 191 5
14.
The
returns
certainly
wonderful
membership had
10.
Ottawa
Commandery, No.
For hospitality and knightly courtesies Streator Commandery is unexcelled and has hut few equals. These exchanges are quite frequent between the "child" and its "mother" and are greatly enjoyed by the entire family.
La Salle county is the only county in the state of Illinois which there are located more than two Commanderies, in except Cook and Champaign, and Champaign has but two
Commanderies.
La
Commanderies,
Ottawa; St. John's, No. 26, Peru; Bethany, No. 28, Mendota, and Streator, No. 70, Streator, with a total membership per returns to the Grand Comin
mandery
[915 of
five
385
From
Organization, February
to
[861, A. O. 743.
February
1,
1917, A. O. 799.
To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence their conscience as their king, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity; Not only to keep down the base in man.
But teach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love the truth, and all that makes a man.
Charter Members.
Gray, Oliver Cromwell.
lawyer and poet; Avery & Bnshnell created in Pittsburg Commandery, No. i, Pittsburg, Pa.; Eminent Commander OttaBrilliant
member law
firm Gray,
wa Commandery under
mitted February
2,
dispensation;
de-
1869.
Deer Park
Illinois
lawyer
State's Attorney
1852-57;
served in Mexican
Infantry,
at
war;
Colonel
Eleventh
Brigadier
and
promoted
Landing,
10.
General
Pittsburg
where he was
1862;
5,
was created
and
first
in
K. T., Morris,
in
1858; charter
Captain General of
mandery, U. D.
38I
ill
In
NIGHTS
TI'.M
PLARj
111.;
PECKHAMj John
111.,
B.
Musician;
Utica,
5.
(
created
in
K. T., Morris,
member
'.,
ery,
No.
10.
EC.
t86]
Grand
RhoadSj James.
Sword
Bearer
9,
[875.
Farmer, residing
in
in
Dayton township;
1,
created
Pittsburg
Pa.;
Commandery, No.
Commander Ottawa Commandery [862, and held a continuous membership from charter member to date of death.
Pittsburg,
April
iS,
[goo; retired
from
farm several
man of the ild school. Stone. Daniel C. Ottawa; physician of high standing; charter member and Warder Ottawa Com1
mandery,
[868.
I*.
D.,
[86]
demitted
April
7,
Walker, David.
Came
to
Ottawa with
his
father.
Dr.
as
David Walker,
[826; druggist:
served
mayor
of Ottawa, and
of education several
and progressive citizen; charter member Ottawa Commandery Generalissimo [861, [862
;
and [872; demitted May 1, [866; reaffiliated February 9, 1K71 demitted February 8, [877.
:
Whitman, Qtjincy
1).
Ottawa; revenue
collector
created
in Blaney Commandery. No. 5, k. T., Morris, 111.. [860; charter member Ottawa Commandery; Sword Bearer [868; demitted May
9,
[872.
McMillan. William
B.
Ottawa; merchant:
charter
387
stricken from
[862.
in
111.,
Goodsell, Rier X.
Blaney Commandery,
[860; charter
Morris,
member Ottawa Commandery; Generalissimo [863; Grand Sword Bearer Grand Commandery [863; demitted Dec. 6,
[864.
Miner, Samuel
C.
in
Commandery, No. 5, Morris, 111., [860; charter member Ottawa Commandery and Warder [86] Standard Bearer [862 and
Blaney
:
Crane, Charles
S. C.
in Blaney Commandery, No. 5, Morris, 111., i860; charter member Ottawa Commandery and Captain of the Guard [86] and [862; Sword Bearer [865 demitted April 26, 1877.
;
Ashton, Daniel H.
Ottawa; merchant tailor created in Commander)-, No. 5, Morris, 111., Blaney i860; charter member Ottawa Command;
;
S.
1867.
Ottawa;
furniture,
drugs,
grain;
March
with
7,
[861;
Generalissimo 1867;
Commander
affiliated 19,
[868;
demitted Feb.
m. [880;
mem[888;
ber Ottawa
is
Commandery March
22,
buried
in
388
THE KNIGHTS
I'
I'M
I' I.
AK,
Mouse
Com-
mander [864 and [866; Prelate [865; demitted Dee. 14, 1876; was active in Masonic
circles, especially in the
symbolic branch.
to
Xasii.
John
Fisk.
Ottawa;
in
came
Ottawa
in
1847;
admitted to bar
and Recorder 1855 to 1861, inclusive; Clerk State Senate 1861 and 1865, inclusive; cashier
First
National
8,
Bank
;
thirty-five
years
created
Warden 1862and Junior Warden 1868; Commander 63, 1869-76, inclusive; Grand Commander Grand Commandery Illinois 1878; died July 6,
March
1861
Senior
Mason, Levi.
March
Bearer
8.
1861
Recorder 1862;
6,
Standard
1865,
1865;
demitted June
and
affiliated
business
Cunningham.
elected
member
Illinois
Legisla-
[862;
years,
and
8,
created
March
[861
eralissimo
1864;
Standard
Bearer
[866;
Warder
Sword Bearer
Commander
to
1880; Captain General 1883. 1893 and [894; 1884 and 1885; Treasurer [896
191
r,
inclusive;
died
Sept.
jt,.
; ;
389
his
civil
with
in the
country
war.
Lininger, George
\^C)y:
W.
Peru,
111.;
Warder 1862;
Prelate
[866;
1867,
Commander
as
demitted Oct.
St.
22,
charter
member
Peru,
John's
Commandery,
to
circles.
No.
26,
111.;
moved
in
prominent
Masonic
Walker, Samuel
C.
Walker,
Sheriff"
6,
of
;
La
Salle
county;
created Aug.
1861
1868, inclusive;
Lamb, John
F.
Sword Bearer 13. 1861 Warder 1863 and 1864; Generalissimo 1865 and 1866; Senior Warden 1867: demitted Nov. 9, 1871 moved to Kansas.
road; created Aug.
1862;
Avery, Julius
C.
Ottawa
law
member
bar;
ticket
lawyer
1870;
created Aug.
7,
1861
Junior
buried
Warden
Clark, Hexrv
F.
1862;
&
Ottawa; member firm Colwell, Clark Stebbins, contractors and builders; created
10,
Dec.
1861
Junior
Warden
14,
1864; Senior
Brown, Henry D.
late
Pre-
390
'I'll
NIGHTS TKM
I'l.AU.
created
Dec.
er
10.
1866;
died
[896;
was
ripe
La
Salle coun-
Perrin, C. C.
Utica,
merchant:
created
S.
Dec.
20,
[86]
March
4. 1S7S.
Colwell, John.
well,
Junior
& Stebbins; created Feb. 4. 1862; Warden [863, [865 and [866; StandS.
Aug.
21, 1877.
Groceries;
nursery:
dep-
[886, inclusive;
created
1882,
[862; Junior
Warden [878 to
8,
inclusive;
R.
demitted Sept.
1887.
1863.
Stout,
[ohn.
Ottawa:
3.
:
merchant:
187c);
Ik
insurance:
created
June
1862;
in part
Treasurer
[913;
mors.
;
Philo.
Ottawa: Circuit Clerk Quartermaster 53d 111. during civil war: created Oct. 4. [862; killed at Altoona, Ga., June 24, [864; buried with Masonic honors.
created
March
Commander
[869 and [872 to [880, inclusive; Generalissimo 1870 and 1871: demitted Jan. 2, 1SS2.
1
Km
11.
GuSTAVUS.
Ottawa;
druggist:
8.
created
[866.
March
24.
1,
39
Ottawa;
inclusive;
and 1862,
Williams, William H.
Ottawa; English capitalist: resided in E. Ottawa; created June 16, 1863; demitted May 3, 1864; returned to England where lie soon after died.
Ottawa; principal third ward school;
our old teacher; created June 23, [863; Recorder 1864 to 1870, inclusive; demitted Jan.
13,
Clark, Thomas H.
1876;
moved
111.:
to
cepted a position
Bross, Ira B. N.
ior
Peru.
Warden
26, Peru,
1867;
John's Commandery,
as charter
member.
created Sept.
187O, and re-
Wade, Edward M.
[8,
west bluff on
Townsend farm;
14,
turned to England.
Ciieever. Silas
W.
Ottawa;
Nov. 2.
merchant on Main
1863;
street;
2~j
created
demitted
Jan.
pillar in the
Methodist church.
Stover, Seymour.
1863.
Ottawa;
bv demit
minister;
affiliated
Dec.
1,
Xo.
5,
Commandery
sive;
Prelate
de-
mitted Jan.
13, 1S70.
PvAWSON,
De Witt
S.
Peru,
3<)-'
[867,
as charter
member
creat-
John's
Commandery,
Peru.
;
Palmer, William.
1877
had wagon
opposite
Columbus
street,
Bowman, William
E.
Ottawa;
photographer;
member
[3, [864; Warder [865; Sword Hearer [866 and 1867: Captain Gen-
1886; created
May
eral
demitted Nov.
blue lodge.
1903. by non-affiliation in
Maoill, Mathew.
mitted
Peru.
111.;
1
.
affiliated April 5,
[864; de-
May
Peru.
[866.
Duff, Jonathan.
mitted
111.;
created July
5.
[864;
de-
March
3,
[868.
111.
Ransom, Thomas
E. G.
Peru,
Illinois
during
civil
Wallace
to Brigadier General.
(ia.,
created July
hangs
in
the reception
room
of
side of that of
Ramsey, John
L.
Peru,
4.
111.:
Dec.
7.
[865; de-
mitted Dec.
Pi-.ll.
1800.
William
E.
tor;
March
6,
[866;
E.
Nov.
14,
1871.
Chapman, Frank
March
B.
[3,
Ottawa;
express
agent:
created
393
io,
created April
1866:
member Temple
111.
Commandery, No.
20, Princeton,
111.;
Fawcett, Jefferson H.
ter
Princeton,
member
of
111.
20,
Princeton,
Mercer, Joseph. Princeton, 111.; created April 10, 1866, and demitted same date to become charter member of Temple Commandery, No. 20,
Princeton.
111.
Moore, William
ter
I.
Princeton,
111.;
created
April
10,
member
of
Princeton,
111.
Crossley. George
ter
W.
Princeton,
111.
become char20,
member
of
Princeton,
111.
Gondolf, Joseph.
ed
May
and 1868;
BusHNELL, Washington. Lawyer; member linn Gray, Avery & Bushnell; State Senator i860 to
1864, inclusive; city attorney three years and
State's
1866;
Masonic honors.
5,
1867.
394
Til E
Holmes, Conrad A.
[867;
charter
Mendota,
St.
111.;
[867,
become
member
111.;
26, Peru,
Mendota,
111.
Mendota.
111.;
mem-
Commandery, No. Jo, Peru, 111.; was afterward charter member Bethany Commandery. No. 28, Mendota, 111.
F.
Stannard, George
[867;
charter
26,
Mendota,
111.:
created
1807.
to
Jan.
22,
become
member
111.;
St.
John's
Commandery, No.
Peru,
ber Bethany
111.
Commandery, No.
111.;
Emerson, George.
Mendota,
St.
1S07:
[867,
become charter
No.
26,
member
Pern,
John's Commandery,
111.;
Mendota,
5.
111.
Liscom, Jason M.
Mendota,
111.;
created Feb.
[867; de-
memPeru.
Commandery, Xo.
_>o,
was afterward charter member ^\ Betham- Commandery, Xo. 28, Mendota. 111.
Mendota,
111.;
moved
to
Ottawa
aminer
created Feb.
5,
[867, to
Commandery, Xo. 26, Pern. 111.; was afterward charter member Bethany Commandery, Xo. 28, Mendota, 111., of which
ber St. John's
395
Commander}- he was Captain General 1868. 1869 and 1870; he was also Captain General of St. John's Commandery, No. 26, Pern, 111., on moving to Ottawa, 111., in U. D. [876, he demitted from Bethany Commandcry, No. 28. Mendota, 111., and affiliated with Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, March 9, 1877; Warder Ottawa Commandery 1878; died Sept. 21, 1905: was one of Ottawa's most respected and honored citizens.
;
Davis, Preston
J.
Mendota,
111.;
created Feb.
to
5,
1867;
demitted Oct.
22,
1867,
become charter
No.
26,
member
Pern,
St.
John's Commandery,
111.;
member
111.
Mendota,
2,
created April
1867;
de-
mem-
Commandery, No.
created
1867,
to
26, Pern,
Brevoort, John.
Rutland.
Oct.
o\
St.
111.;
April
2,
[867;
demitted
22,
become charter
_'(,
member
Pern.
111.
Norris, George IP
years;
Came
to
bar
in
[839;
established
"The Bank
factor)-;
^i Ot-
tawa."
build
now
helped
to
the
Ottawa
moved
demitted Oct.
8,
1874.
creat-
Ottawa; physician;
1868; Junior
39^
Til E
[870; Senior
sive;
Warden
[884,
[2,
[87]
to
[876,
inclu-
and
inclusive;
[886;
Morrison, John Lyall. Ottawa; clerk in general store Win. Reddick several years; served for through civil war in Ilenshaw's battery;
created Feb.
[8,
[868;
Senior
Warden 1869
to 1875. inclu-
Generalissimo
1876;
12,
Captain General
[883.
3,
Ford, Joseph.
1868;
1875.
Stout. Charles.
1871.
5,
Trask, Ozell.
[868;
May
111.,
28,
1868;
Treasurer
1875;
22,
Generalissimo
to Clifton.
1873.
1874 and
(.lied
moved
1905
;
where he
May
Herrick, Ehward
eral
civil
L.
sev-
years; Quartermaster
during
war;
created
May
1872
28,
to
[868;
[876,
Warder
inclusive;
[869;
honors.
Recorder
11.
died April
[876;
buried
with Templar
Charles
P.
Clark.
Command-
39/
the
list
name
in
first
appears
among
of
oi
members
the proceedings
in
the
Grand
and
Commandery
[868 and
is
also contained in
Hapeman, Douglas.
Ottawa; created June id, 1868; Standard Bearer 1880; associate editor Free
Trader several years; proprietor news and hook store, now Kneussl Bros.; established
first
Ottawa;
civil
;
lien-
tenant-colonel 104th
during the
war;
was an upright and honorable citizen loved by all who knew him; died June 3, 1905.
Batcheller, David.
civil
Ottawa;
;
several years
in
war;
to
created June
1868;
Sword Warden
Captain
87 1
to
j
died
Dec.
2^>,
Fiske,
Francis Lyman.
Ottawa;
clothing,
18,
firm
& Beem
19 10.
created Aug.
1868;
Standard
Ottawa;
cigar
;
manufacturer,
1868;
Rising in the 70's created Aug. Captain General [869 to 1876, in1
&
clusive,
and
88
to 1890, inclusive;
Com-
mander
1877 to 1879, inclusive, and [882 1883; died Jan. 3, [914; buried with
398
Barber,
III
KNIGH
TS
TEM PLAR.
bridge
[9,
Ebenezer.
builder
;
Marseilles;
contractor
and
created Jan.
[869;
died
Aug.
30, 1912;
CoaNj Edwin.
Harris, Justus.
[869;
demitted Aug.
2,
[869.
Ottawa;
city
marshal
several
years;
[888;
A.
McCaleb, Hubert
Ottawa;
Sheriff
[867 and
[868;
war;
[869;
[878.
<j,
DeWolFj Erastus.
E.
Ottawa;
created
March
[869;
[871.
Gregg,
created David Robbins. Ottawa; musician; March in, [869; Captain of the Guard [870,
[871,
1878,
1879,
[881,
_>,:;,
[882,
[883,
[886,
Ma-
Simon,
Anthony
store
sic
;
David.
created
Music
March
for
30,
1869;
Commander}-
since
be-
coming' a member;
at the
the
Commandery
tinuous
with
conoi A.
D.
membership
forty-eight years.
SIMON.
399
farmer;
Feb.
11,
Nichol,
John
1
Tilton.
June
Rutland
4,
township;
demitted
created
[869;
880.
Todd, Walter.
_\
[869; demitted
Nov.
iSo(j.
&
1869;
Standard
near
with
list
in railroad accident
10,
Oct.
In
1870;
buried
Templar honors.
in-
&
creat-
15,
demitted March
minister;
14,
1878.
Fstabrook, William
Sept. 9,
W.
14,
Ottawa;
1871.
affiliated
[869; Prelate
mitted Dec.
Ottawa;
8,
druggist;
1877.
created
1869; S. Feb.
living
in
Sept.
17,
Brundage,
William
A.
created
LocKwooi), Arthur.
Ottawa;
of
the
peace for
many
Nov.
years;
18,
created
Feb.
24,
1870; died
Catlin, Charles M.
1870;
Ottawa;
14,
created
March
3,
1881.
on
I
III
KNIGHTS
TK.M
I'l.AK,
Black, Leverett
on
_'4.
).
Streator,
111.:
locomotive engineer
created
()..
().
&
S.
F.
R. V. R. R.;
<>.
March
1870;
Aug.
[883.
14,
Fulton, John
i:\xi no,
C.
Streator;
Robert.
Feb.
Ottawa;
[880.
manufacturer telegraph
1,
in-
struments;
1
1
created July
1870;
demitted
CarpenteRj Charles M.
lator;
i
Seneca,
111.;
created Sept.
15.
1.
1890.
Du
Plain, Francis P.
22, 1870.
Ottawa;
since
moved
to
Chicago;
Sept.
created
Ottawa;
years;
teller First
National Bank
many
moved
4.
to
Chicago; created
in-
March
Rising,
Leman Aranah. Ottawa: cigar manufacturer, firm Smith & Rising in the 70's; created Nov.
3,
demitted
1888:
Dec.
[879;
1901.
affiliated
March
1903;
22.
Sentinel
[902
and
demitted
Bohlander, John.
created
[876.
14.
Tyler, Alvan
H.
Streator,
17.
111.;
coal operator:
created
Nov.
906.
11.
1870; demitted
Sept. 22,
Nov.
13.
1884;
14,
affiliated
1
[892;
demitted June
Tyler, ADDISON
Streator.
1,
111.;
coal operator;
14,
created
Dec.
1876.
401
agent;
14,
Fuller, Dwight W.
1876.
Ottawa; C,
1870;
B.
&
O.
ticket
demitted
Sept.
Bull,
E,
Follett.
Lawyer; came to Ottawa from La created Jan. Salle, 111. was an able attorney Warder, 1873, 1874, 1875; died 12, 1871; Dec. 4. 1888; buried with Templar honors.
; ;
Aug. 15, 1871 demitted Feb. n, 1880. Beatty, George. Ottawa dry goods merchant created
;
Sept.
15,
1871
Tillson, William C.
Earlville;
demitted Feb.
11, 1875.
1,
Moore, William H.
Dec.
.
.
1872; died
1876.
Affiliated
Fusselman, Henry M.
Waite, John Henry.
Tillotson,
Aug.
10,
1871
de-
13,
1878.
Edward
J.
J.
Marseilles;
merchant;
4,
created
1875.
De Motte, John
June
Marseilles,
111.;
physician;
..,
created
12,
1881.
Dent, William H.
Ottawa;
capitalist;
11, 1877.
Ryan, Patrick.
Ottawa;
grain buyer;
created Oct. 9,
Slagle, David H.
later
Marseilles,
111.
postmaster at Marseilles
8,
created Nov.
20,
1907;
buried with
Masonic honors.
|t
>2
Til E
KNIGHTS TEM
Streator;
l'l.AK,
C.
grain
dealer;
created
Mendota,
created
Sheriff La
inclusive;
May
[876;
11.
1874;
Standard
Sept.
[3,
Bearer
[877.
1875 and
demitted
Wn.Kixs, Charles.
11.
Streator;
S.
carpenter;
_'-\
created
June
1S74:
Nov.
1894.
;
Thomas, William.
ed Feb.
creat-
1,
14.
1882.
E.
created Feb.
WidmeRj John H.
ity;
Ottawa;
lawyer of exceptional
abil-
Major 104th Illinois during civil war; created March 4. 1875; Sword Bearer [877,
1878 and 1879; demitted Jan. 23, [913.
( )
I
)oxxell, James.
Ottawa;
18,
moved
to Joliet;
created
March
Mayo, Henry.
1875;
demitted Jan.
13. 1876.
Ottawa; lawyer of extraordinary ability and strong advocate before a jury; postmaster
for several
years
is
prior
to
election
of
Woodrow Wilson;
of
now
serving as Judge
Comity Court; is a most remarkable man. and carries his eighty years with a mentality
and physical
ability apparently
unima
paired;
boon companion and a hale-fellow well met: true to himself ami loyal to his friends:
created
March
25,
403
to triennial
Grand Encampment
C.
Boston
in
[895.
Hall, William
Prairie Center
Tins, Walter
Briggs.
retired;
[875; Junior
inclusive,
Warden 1878;
Preto
Senior
late
Warden [877
to
to [880, inclusive;
[88]
[885,
and
1892
[893, inclusive,
sive,
to 1007, inclu-
910 to 1913, inclusive; Commander 1889 and 1890; after years of devotion to Templar Masonry he died June 20, 191 5, and was buried in Ottawa Avenue cemetery with Templar honors.
and
1
ii
i.man,
Charles Henry.
ty
Ottawa
Court
in
the seventies;
man
of
marked
La
April
honors at
Nov. 24, 1875 died and was buried with Masonic 1880, Mendota, 111.
;
Haeberlin, August.
Ottawa;
hardware;
created
Jan.
Trimble, Cairo Darius. Ottawa; Clerk Supreme Court, Northern Division, of Illinois; manufacturer affiliated of bottles; editor Ottawa Journal
;
1875; Junior Warden 1877: Captain General 1879 and 1880; Commander [881;
Dee.
9,
Exsminger, Henry W.
Ottawa;
affiliated
Dec.
9,
1875;
Campbell, John
C.
404
created
Feb.
14.
[876;
S.
March
14,
[878.
Hawley, Charles A.
demitted
Streator;
affiliated
April
13,
1876;
May
25,
[882.
II.
May
[876, and
holds an unbroken
affilia-
tion with
Ottawa Commandery.
painter;
EwiNG, Robert G.
j
Streator;
S. Jan.
1.
created
May
18,
S-f
>
1900.
LandeSj George W.
Streator;
created June
1.
1876; de-
mitted June
9, 1881.
Moon, Jacob W.
Streator;
capitalist;
18,
created
June
8,
1876; died
March
Ma-
sonic honors.
Stephens, Charles E.
Phillips, Lester O.
Streator:
musician;
affiliated
demitted
May
25,
1882.
i_\
1876:
Strawn, Walter D.
counties:
Ottawa:
La
and Livingston
a persevering-'3,
created Nov.
1913.
Lewis,
Edward Charles.
Deer Park township: lawyer: prominent citizen: chairman board of supervisors several terms:
created Jul}-
[9,
1877;
demitted Sept.
0,
1909.
Mow
land,
K/.KkiKL.
Prairie
.
Center:
farmer;
created
Nov. 2
1878;
In
buried
with Masonic
mors.
Hoffman,
Asa
Manx.
4.
Ottawa;
[878;
County
Treasurer:
created \K\\
inclusive;
died
May
4O5
Ottawa;
superintendent
Gas
Co.;
member board
department
Senior
Warden 1882
and 1883; Captain General 1884; died Sept. 17, 1884, and buried with Masonic honors
and Templar
escort.
Marseilles
111.,
Plow Co. factories; created April 2X, 1881 Warder 1882; Junior Warden, 1883; Senior
Warden
1888;
Commander
1886,
1887,
1891
and
1892;
American
Templar.
flag to a
Commandery
of Knights
Arnold. Webster Wesley. Ottawa Warden County Asylum; created Sept. 22, 1881 S. Feb. 28,
: :
1889.
Ottawa; farmer
1881
;
retired
created
1883; Junior
eral 1885
Sword Bearer 1882 and Warden 1884; Captain Gen1888; a zealous Templar
1887; Commander
marked
ability;
attendance.
B.
;
Wilbur, George
R.
Ottawa; C,
13,
& Q.
station agent;
created Oct.
1891.
1881
demitted
Dec.
24
46
(
Til E
KNIGHTS TEM
l'l.AK,
ii i.:\i
w, William Henry.
Ottawa; painting contractor son of Judge Charles II. Gilman; created Standard Bearer [882, 1883, Nov. 23, [88]
;
[885,
[886,
[887,
1888.
1895,
[896,
1
[897,
and Color Bearer [892, and as such tears the honor of having received and carried the first
American
Command-
Teissedre, Paul.
1,
Ottawa: dry goods clerk created Dec. Standard Bearer 1884 and 1902: 1881
;
Warder
1886,
1887 and
1891
;
[896;
Senior
1894 and
Warden 1889. 1890. [892, 1893. [895; Sword Bearer 1897 and
officer
1898; as an
Ottawa;
plumber
and
30,
steam-
contractor;
created
May
1882;
Sword Bearer 1884 and 1885; Warder [891; Senior Warden 1912; Junior Warden 1911
;
always punctual
in
attendance.
MacKinlay, Thomas
3.
E.
1882;
Captain General
to
March
12.
Woodward, Walter M.
[882;
S. April
r888.
MiLLiGAN, James.
[882;
ior
Ottawa;
tailoring;
DunawaYj Joseph
Newton.
Ottawa;
farmer;
grain
Commander
407
9,
1902; Prelate 1908 and 1909; died Jan. 1909; buried with Templar honors.
Ottawa;
St.
retired grain
Commander
111.;
John's
Com-
mandery, Peru,
died Oct.
10,
affiliated
[886;
buried
with Templar
honors.
Donaldson, Garyy. Ottawa; photographer; moved to New York; affiliated Feb. 28, 1883; demised March 1. 1886.
1
Stormont, William.
Ottawa; foundry and machine work; created April 14, 1883: died -@et. 'I2, 1894; buried with Masonic honors; a true Templar, an honored and respected citizen
a Christian
and
Pettit,
gentleman.
firm
Charles
E,
Member
;
Republican-Times
;
Printing Co.
21, 1883;
civil
40, A. F.
&
secutive years.
Morgan, Jesse
E.
Ottawa;
dry goods
S.
clerk;
created
March
8,
2,
1896.
re-
Farnsworth, Richard.
tired;
created
May
[883;
Sword Bearer
created
1886;
Rohrer,
Celestine.
Somouauk,
1883;
111.;
farmer;
3,
Aug.
Rvbi'rx,
(),
died March
101O;
buried
John
Stewart.
23,
Ottawa;
physician;
created
Aug.
with
[883;
buried
Templar honors.
Sheridan.
111.;
Murphy, John
S.
J.
}<>X
Scheidecker, Louis.
Oct. 30,
fanner:
(>,
created
March
1906:
buried
111.
Daniel Fletcher.
Mexican. Black
onel 53d
111.
Ottawa;
civil
engineer:
in
Hawk
civil
and
Civil
wars;
col-
in
war
until
incapacitated
valley:
surveyed
Northern
Illinois
ment;
Nov.
8,
one of nature's
noblemen;
14.
created
[889.
RohreRj Louis.
6,
Somonauk.
1883;
farmer;
member
:
Illi-
created Dec.
191
Masonic
fu-
neral with
Commandery
escort.
Reedy. Thomas. Ottawa: Superintendent County Asylum; created Dec. 8. 1883: died March 4,
[889;
buried with Templar honors.
retired
Gibson,
farmer
creat-
buried
White, Abel M.
nent
minister; created
is
May
8,
now promi-
Prichard, William
& Trust
[886,
Co.; created
May
27, [884;
Prelate
and [894.
elected Attorney-
Stead, William
nent
II.
Ottawa:
political
lawyer:
Illinois
General state oi
in
circles:
Nov.
13,
[884;
4OQ
14,
Warren
C.
1884;
May
19.
1902.
Hodgson, Martin
C.
er of draft horses;
Blanchard, Charles.
terms;
Ottawa:
Judge
several
Suppes,
Christian.
Northville,
111.;
farmer:
14,
created
demitted Dec.
1899.
;
McKenxey. Foster H.
and 1894;
Ottawa;
retired farmer
created
demitted April
1905.
;
Hammond, John
D.
creat-
ed Sept.
1885; demitted March 24, 1904; crown and cross over the
throne
in
wa Commandery by
Fullertox, Thomas Coxy.
Oct.
1,
Hammond.
lawyer;
created
Ottawa:
Warden 1886;
he died Aug.
Grand Army
circles.
Watts, William H.
Nov.
10.
South
1885.
Ottawa
farmer
created
Hanna, Alexaxder. South Ottawa; retired farmer: created May 27, 1886; Captain of the Guard
1887 to 1892, inclusive, and [896
clusive,
to 1903, in-
except
1900;
died
May
24,
[908;
Ottawa;
retired;
2,
created June
1886;
died
May
1905:
buried
with
Masonic honors.
4IO
P.onak.
Streator;
physician;
created June
as
3.
[886;
demitted
Streator
Nov.
1,
1905.
charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
[886;
Sword Bearer
1887.
Gay, Simeon
(in. ford.
Ottawa:
created June
[886;
Junior
Warden 1890: demitted Jan. 25, 1908. RocKwooi). Harry Earl. Farm Ridge township; tanner
and stock raiser: created June
ior
8,
Warden
E.
1888; S. Sept.
Iowa.
19,
to near Clarion,
Dunbar, Charles
[886;
1904.
8.
Junior
Warden 1888;
Ottawa;
1886;
S.
Sept.
19.
PuRRUCKERj
John
clerk:
Michael.
railway
1903. in Chicago.
Ames, John
C.
Streator;
U.
S.
17.
Revenue
1880
;
June
demitted Nov.
mem-
ber Streator
Commandery, No.
Ottawa;
[886;
17,
photographer:
11,
demitted Sept.
890.
Streator; insurance: created June
[886;
22,
demitted Pec.
1904;
1.
[901
affiliated
Dec.
demitted Nov.
Streator
1,
1005.
as
charter
member
Sloan.
Commandery, No.
coal
Cherry,
William
Streator;
operator;
4II
1,
1905.
member
Commandery,
created July
as
1,
No.
Lctii
er,
70.
Milo
J.
[886;
demitted
Streator
Now
1,
1905,
charter
70.
;
member
ed July
charter
70.
Commandery, No.
demitted Nov.
Streator
event-
1886;
1,
1905, as
member
Commandery. No.
created
1905,
as
Griggs, Oakley.
1886;
Streator;
druggist;
1,
July
8,
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
70.
member
Jack,
Commandery, No.
Mathew
William.
1905,
member
Streator
Commandery,
creat-
No.
70.
Streator; manufacturer
May
18,
1900; buried
Gay, Frederick
W.
Ottawa
carriage salesman
created
buried
Sweet, Benjamin
Schmidt, Henry.
22,
F.
Streator;
coal operator;
created
July 22,
1886;
created July
[886; demitted
May
_'_',
K>oo.
;
Marseilles
physician
creat-
1880;
Junior
1907;
eral
Senior
Warden
[908;
[909; Generalissimo [910; Commander 1911; demitted Aug. [2, 1915: moved to
Cal.
Los Angeles,
4i-
>
Reeves, Walter.
tional
lawyer;
terms;
politics;
member
prominent
created
National
in
Congress
na29,
and
July
demitted
charter
70.
Freedom township
[886;
farmer;
14.
demitted
Nov.
190 1
Rodgers, Joshua P.
Ottawa;
1886;
retired
farmer;
to
created
Aug.
sive,
5,
Warder 1892
1
[896, inclu1,
and 1900 to 91 3, inclusive; died Feb. 1914; buried with Templar honors.
Ransom; farmer;
died July 14. 1888:
created Aug.
1886;
buried with
Masonic honors.
VVylie,
Alexander.
Utica;
farmer;
12,
created
Aug-.
30,
1889.
;
Cleave. John Francis. Grand Rapids township farmer: created Aug. 30. 1886; died March 4. 1887: buried with Masonic honors.
Neff,
Frank Thomas.
Aug.
Aug.
30, 1886.
Marseilles;
banker;
created
31, 1886;
1900;
affili-
[905;
Moffitt, Eugene.
Cope, [srael C.
Marseilles;
druggist;
created
Aug.
31, 1886.
Streator;
2,
U. S. Deputy Marshal;
died Feb.
2,
;
creat-
ed Sept.
[886;
1902.
Anderson, James.
2.
created Sept.
Anderson.
ChIarles
Branson.
Streator;
hardware;
413
2,
1886;
demitted
May
I.
12,
904.
Streator;
2,
I.,
I.
&
station
1886;
demitted Dec.
McFeely, Samuel.
Streator;
lumber;
1,
created Sept.
2,
1905, as charter
70.
mem-
Commandery, No.
:
Gapen, Timothy
10,
E.
Sparland
druggist
affiliated
March
1887;
demitted March
12,
1903.
May
12,
moved
to
1889;
lawyer;
1,
created
May,
70.
1887;
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905, as char-
ter
member
Commandery, No.
Streator;
retired farm1.
May
19.
1896;
Streator;
glass
flattener
1,
created
May
70,
26,
1887;
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905. as
charter
member
Commandery, No.
jeweler;
11,
Streator;
created
May
Davidson, John
Nov.
26,
1887;
demitted Dec.
Streator;
2.
1902.
Marshall.
1,
carpenter
and
contractor;
created June
1887;
demitted
Streator
1905, as charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
Modes, Edward Clark. Streator; assistant manager botcreated June 2, 1887; died March tle works
;
15,
1899.
4 14
Daly,
Reed,
Edwin
T.
Marseilles;
died
fanner:
_'_'.
created
Sept.
1,
1887;
Nov.
[908;
buried
with
Templar honors.
Samson,
ECoeppen,
Luman Seward.
created Sept.
8,
Freedom township;
1NN7.
bottle
farmer;
John Arnold.
ed Sept.
S,
Ottawa;
[887;
moulder
1892.
clerk
creat-
S. April 28,
creat-
Streator:
;
&
S.
F.
1888;
demitted
May
25,
SteeNj Charles Hexry. Streator; superintendent water works A.. T. & S. F. created May 3, [888;
;
S<;4-
Smith.
William
Lloyd.
24.
Streator;
physician;
1.
created
1905, as
May
70.
[888;
demitted Nov.
charter
member
Streator Commander)-,
No.
[888;
buried
Streator;
ice
dealer;
created
[6,
Aug.
1
_\
[888;
094;
Sanson. Henry.
30,
[888;
demitted Jan.
[899.
[888;
demitted March
[901.
415
Stewart, James.
Rosene, John.
Streator;
S.
sand dealer;
22, 1902.
tailor;
1.
created Nov.
22, 1888;
Aug.
Streator;
merchant
created Nov.
22, 1888;
demitted Jan.
1915.
Cooke, James
F.
Ottawa;
Junior
:
insurance;
1888;
Warden 1889;
April
8.
1890
S.
1897.
tile
Thomas Corwin.
created
Streator;
29,
manufacturer;
2^,
Nov.
1888;
S.
May
1903.
Griggs, Clarence.
Ottawa:
lawyer;
County
Attorney
Pre-
several years;
late
1888;
1895;
Generalissimo 1897.
creat-
Teetzel, John William. Ottawa; manufacturer; ed Nov. 29, 1888; S. Jan. 11, 1900.
Stewart,
William Kellogg.
contractor;
Jan.
1
Ottawa;
carpenter
and
1900.
Byrth, William
S. F.
10.
J.
;
Streator;
&
1896.
Williams,
William
created
James.
Streator;
transfer
line;
1,
March
14.
1889;
demitted Nov.
1905, as charter
ery,
member
Streator
CommandMarch
No. 70.
Streator;
hanker;
1,
created
1905, as charter
70.
member
Sexton, James.
1889;
Commandery, No.
retired;
1,
Streator;
created
1905,
April
as
11,
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
70.
member
Jones,
Commandery, No.
boiler
William
Batik.
18,
Streator;
maker; created
1,
April
1889;
demitted Nov.
1905, as
416
member
Streator
Commandery, No.
Spencer,
Thomas H.
Streator;
farmer; created
1,
May
2,
1905. as charter
memglass
17,
Streator;
foreman
May
9,
Long
Point; merchant
17.
May
as
1889;
de-
1905,
charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
Utica
;
Wilson, William.
created
farmer;
Waltham township;
factory;
May
2$, 1889.
Waldecker, Henry.
June
Cask,
3,
Ottawa;
1889.
cigar
created
Frank W.
11.
Streator;
yard master;
10,
affiliated
April
1889;
S. Sept.
1890.
affiliated
Postox, Newton.
Fisher, Charles E.
Streator;
bookkeeper;
April
Ottawa
creat-
William
Ellis.
Streator
accountant
created
S. April 8, 1897.
Streator;
[9,
created Sept.
[889;
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905, as charter
70.
member
Com-
mandery, Xo.
I
loon.
Samuel.
Utica;
farmer;
3.
Waltham
died
township;
14,
created Oct.
[889;
May
1910;
41 /
created Oct.
Chicago;
grocer;
1889.
1889;
demitted
Dec.
14,
Kneussl, Gustav.
14,
Gentleman, James.
Peniiallegon,
28,
1889; Junior
Warden
Hitt.
5,
1891. Streator;
minister;
9,
William
created Dec.
1890.
Forbes, George A.
Ottawa; tailoring;
;
firm Carmichael
&
Boys,
Forhes
created Jan.
3,
1890.
William Henry.
id,
Streator;
lawyer;
1,
created Jan.
1890;
demitted Nov.
1905, as charter
70.
member
Fornof, John W.
master
1890;
Streator
Streator;
Commandery, No.
editor
;
Free
Press;
post30,
under
McKinley
1,
created
1905,
as
Jan.
demitted) Nov.
charter
70.
10,
;
member
Streator
Commandery, No.
1890.
created
2=,,
[89a; demitted
May
9,
25,
[893.
in. branson,
Hans.
Oct. 9,
Ottawa;
organ
tuner;
1904.
created
JIigbv,
William Herbert.
Ottawa; druggist;
lawyer;
affiliated
May
9,
8,
1890;
McDougall, Duncan.
189 1.
Ottawa;
418
I'LAU,
HugganSj David
23,
engineer;
1,
created
April
1891;
demitted Nov.
1905, as charter
70.
affiliated
member
Nov.
Streator
Commandery, No.
Ottawa;
retired;
189
Sword Bearer
[892
and
1912;
1893; Sentinel 1895; died Sept. 22, buried with Templar honors.
Streator;
;
coal operator;
1,
May
7,
1891
demitted Nov.
1905,
as charter
No. 70.
Smith, Samuel
C.
;
May
7,
1891
demitted Nov.
1,
1905, as charter
70.
mem-
ber Streator
Commandery, No.
Streator;
May
3,
Graves,
Lewis
Lyall.
11,
Streator;
machinist;
1,
created
[905,
as
June
70.
1891;
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
member
Commandery, No.
2T,,
Schaulin, Charles.
[89]
:
[891;
demitted
Streator
1,
1905, as charter
ery,
member
Command-
No.
70.
Streator;
painter;
1,
created June
[891;
demitted Nov.
1905, as charter
70.
;
member
Streator
Commandery, Xo.
demitted
Streator;
;
sand dealer
creat-
[89]
May
24,
1906,
419
;
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905, as charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
created
Warden 1893; S. May 14, 1908. Hatton, Albert Henry. Peru, 111.; physician;
April 26,
1
affiliated
891
demitted
civil
May
S.
12,
1904.
Angell, Andrew H.
Streator;
1891
May
28, 1903.
Ottawa;
physician;
created
Templar honors.
Ottawa
dentist
created
James
Albert.
1
Streator;
physician;
1,
created
1905, as
April i ^,
[892;
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
Colley, Lisle R.
1892;
demitted
Streator
Nov.
1,
1905,
as
charter
70.
member
Miller, Lou
Commandery, No.
Hanson.
Streator;
watchmaker; created
May
12,
1892;
created
May
70.
12,
1892;
demitted
Streator
Now
1.
1005, as
charter
member
Commandery, No.
created
Carpenter, Guy
12,
C.
Streator;
;
conductor;
1
May
1892
S. Jan.
1,
njoo.
capitalist; created
Ottawa;
May
420
dairy
farm;
1,
June
70.
13.
1892;
demitted
Streator
Nov.
1905, as charter
ery,
member
Commandcreated
No.
Brown,
William
June
Morell.
13,
Wedron;
farmer;
1892.
Wilmarth, George
ship;
A.
Seneca;
farmer,
13,
Miller
died
town-
created June
;
1892;
May
5.
1901
Barber,
John
L.
1892;
demitted Dec.
1899.
Pope, Milton.
Ottawa;
capitalist;
created
June
13,
1892.
Duffy, Christopher
C.
since 1890;
1892.
Warden
MacKinlav,
William
[909.
E.
W.
13.
Ottawa;
U. S. army;
Jan.
14,
created June
[892;
demitted
traveling sales-
Millington,
111.;
physician;
8.
[893; died
May
1904;
Ottawa;
lawyer;
created Oct.
1893;
Schoch,
Albert
Frederick.
Ottawa;
9,
hanker;
ex-
[893; Generalissimo
42 T
Warden
1897.
Warner, Jacob
r,
Isaac.
1893: demitted
S.
May
111.;
14,
1914.
Moraiin, Edward
23.
Sheridan,
missioner under
1893.
Cow Dunne;
Nov.
Van
Skiver,
Andrew
1,
Ritchie.
Streator;
11,
editor
Free
member
Com-
mandery, No.
Ottawa
traveling-
salesman
Ottawa;
created
Feb.
22,
1894;
groceries; created
James.
Streator;
cashier;
March
8,
10,
Richolson, Samuel. Ottawa; lawyer; ex-Mayor Ottawa; created March 24, 1894: died June 24,
1906.
Heath, Wilrur
F.
Ottawa;
manager clothing
store;
affiliated
n,
Bawden, Thomas.
10.
insurance;
1,
created
May
1894;
demitted Nov.
1905, as charter
70.
member
Streator
Commandery, No.
(.22
Till'.
K NIC, ITS
I
TEMPLAR,
minister;
created
am mom),
P.
K.
[894;
Streator;
May
:
24,
Bach,
manufacturer creat-
Fleming, Nathan.
created
farmer
and
capitalist;
May
10.
9,
1895;
1
day Jan.
Refior,
19
7.
David.
Ottawa;
Senior
1897.
hardware;
created
May
16,
1895;
eral
Francis,
John
P.
Hale.
1895.
created
May
30.
23,
Pool.,
Carlisle M.
I895-
Ottawa;
retired;
created
May
Werner, Charles
*3.
G.
l8 95-
Taw Paw,
111.:
;
locomotive
demitted
Wylie, John.
Utica; farmer;
La ex-member Legislature
creat-
ed July
5,
1895.
2.
Lawrv, Samuel U.
Bird, [osepb
William.
8.
1895;
Aug.
21, 1902.
McClure, Camillus.
10.
Freedom;
died Aug.
farmer;
19,
created
Oct.
1895;
191 1;
buried with
Masonic honors.
Wright, Alonzo
P.
;
[895
May
28,
1903.
423
created
1905, as
Manly,
Harry Lewis.
Oct.
_'4,
Streator;
accountant;
I,
1895;
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
70.
member
Commandery, No.
glass worker;
Streator;
1895.
Flick,
William Carl.
bank clerk: elected Treasurer La Salle county in 191 2 moved to Ottawa; created Nov. 22, 1895; demitted
Streator;
;
Now
i,
1905, as charter
70.
member
Streator
Commander)-, No.
1895;
to 1900, inclusive.
Heidler,
Samuel Hogen.
created Feb.
1,
1900.
1897;
Templar honors.
Marseilles;
15,
paper
manufac-
created April
1897.
Eldredge, Edgar.
created
May
and 1899;
2y, 1897; Junior Warden 1898 Captain General 1900 and [90]
Commander
accountant;
1902.
Ottawa;
Oct.
Deputy
14,
Sheriff
4-'4
druggist;
ex-
member
died
Ik
Legislature;
to,
[898;
March
[914;
buried with
Masonic
mors.
John
Joseph.
_4,
Marseilles;
1898.
butcher;
created
March
Marseilles;
postmaster;
[910;
[898;
Allison, Joseph.
April
created
;
[898;
died Sept.
i.
1915
buried
with
Templar honors.
Ottawa:
merchant;
(>,
created
[898;
died Aug.
1903.
Fischer, Frederick L.
2
1
,
Gladfelter, Elmer E.
Ottawa;
Arnold,
Henry Lincoln.
Salle count}-;
ex-Treasurer La Ottawa Banking & Trust Co.; member Board of Education of city of Ottawa; created May 5. [898; Gen-
Ottawa;
secretary
eralissimo
(one year);
and sterling
Pearson, Samuel
10,
S.
1898;
Ottawa; hardware: created May died Nov. 21. [908; buried with
Templar honors.
425
the office of
ments of estates;
created
May
March
hanker;
12,
[898;
died
111.:
31, io>7affiliated
Earlville,
May
i_\
[898.
Campbell, Charles W.
his
Ottawa;
livery;
city
commis-
"eternal vigilance"
watchword; created
May
26,
[898.
Commandery
igoi
to
1917,
inclusive;
his
Moline,
111.;
general
man111.;
ex-Mayor of
900-1
Marseilles,
Junior
1901-2;
Warden
Senior
Warden
1905-6. created
Commander
lawyer; General
Ottawa;
Captain
Warden
1904-5;
Generalissimo
[906-7;
Commander
accountant;
Omaha:
Pierce.
1,
1898; Senior
Warden
1900-1.
Hatiiewav,
Tryon,
Elnathan
created Dec.
Ottawa;
life
physician:
1898.
Clarence
Edward.
6,
Ottawa:
1898;
insurance;
created April
426
Gasser, Christian.
[899.
Ekkkki.l.
Jonathan M.
R.
agent C. R.
1899;
S.
R.;
created
May
25,
K)l6.
Ottawa;
1904-5;
grain merchant at
18,
created Jan.
1900;
Warden
Senior
Warden
1-
T900;
Senior
Warden
Captain
General
1905-6;
1903-4 and
1904-5;
1906-7.
Generalissimo
Commander
Clipper, George A.
Ottawa;
merchant
tailor;
9,
created
demitted April
:
1906.
:
Nattinger, Edward A.
created April
1.
1903.
Weese, Walter
Ins.
F.
Ottawa
Co.;
created
May
31.
1900;
Sword
June
Rearer 1901.
Deenis, Charles G.
7,
Ottawa; Ottawa;
12.
veterinary;
created
1900.
FarraRj George
W.
rector
Episcopal
church
affiliated April
mitted April
14.
1903.
Byrne, Christopher
schools;
J.
Ottawa;
superintendent public
Cook. Harry G.
in
1
affiliated June 28, [900. Ottawa; lawyer; has served as Master Chancery several years; created Oct. 12,
000.
427
;
Hatheway, Fred
Nov.
A.
tary Building16,
1900.
22,
Palmer, Enos
E.
1900.
Duncan, William
Yentzer, Enoch.
1
Ottawa:
druggist;
created Jan.
24, 190
Ottawa;
electrician;
created Feb.
7,
900.
Streator;
Mills, Frederick E.
14,
merchant;
1,
created Feb.
1905, as charter
70.
;
member
Weaver, Piiilo
C.
Commandery, No.
Jamison, John A.
La Grange,
Ottawa;
28, 1901
April 4. 1901.
Bergeson, John.
oculist
;
and
aurist;
created
March
demitted Oct.
10, 1907.
Killelea, William G.
Marseilles:
traveling salesman;
Butters, Albert
E.
it,
190 1.
demitted Jan.
10,
1907.
dealer;
Belrose, Charles L.
April 25,
Wedron;
1 901.
grain
created
Trimble, George M.
Ottawa;
life
insurance;
created
May
Howe, Orion H.
1901
23, 1 901.
Streator;
;
demitted Nov.
1905,
as
charter
70.
428
7,
demitted Nov.
Streator
1,
1905, as charter
\<>. 70.
1
;
member
Hall, Hugh.
Nov.
Commandery,
charter
70.
demitted
Streator
1905,
as
member
Commandery, No.
Haight, George 90
1
II.
1
:
3,
Pirkey, Milton C.
[902
;
3,
demitted Nov.
1.
mem30,
ber Streator
Commandery, No.
piano tuner;
Larson
Eric.
Moline;
created
Jan.
[902.
Graves,
Edward
Feb.
A.
6,
Streator;
civil
1.
engineer;
created
1902;
died Jan.
Masonic honors.
Wiley, Herbert
tion;
C.
:
Ottawa;
secretary
\Vilev
Schurman, Chari.es
March
charter
70.
R.
Streator;
ice
dealer;
1.
created
1905. as
13.
1002;
demitted Nov.
Streator
member
Commandery, Xo.
created
Ahlborn, George
11.
II.
Scharfenberg, Robert
April
17.
Streator;
clothing;
i.
created
1905. as
[902;
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
70.
member
Streator;
Commandery, Xo.
created April
17.
Echard, Isaac
F.
optician:
429
as
1905,
charter
70.
member
8,
Commandery, No.
clothing-;
Bergeson, Samuel E.
1902;
Ottawa;
created
May
28,
Neilson, John N.
1902.
May
Jennings. William H.
Streator;
created
1905, as
May
70.
28,
1902;
demitted Nov.
Streator
charter
member
Ottawa;
Commandery, No.
Hills, George P.
lawyer;
member Board
18,
of
Education;
created Dec.
1902.
Williams, James R. Streator; transfer line; created Nov. 20, 1902; demitted Nov. 1, 1905, as charter member Streator Commandery, No.
70.
Rowland, Charles
Dec.
charter
70.
T.
j
Streator;
drug'
clerk:
1,
J
created
iS,
902;
demitted
Streator
Now
905, as
member
Commandery, No.
Buss, George
F.
Gatiss, Joseph F.
1903.
Freedom;
farmer;
created Jan.
15,
'Thompson, Rezin N.
for
Sell's
Marseilles;
Bros.' circus;
1903:
died
May
7,
191 1;
Ma26,
sonic honors.
Kiusk, George
J.
Marseilles;
tinner;
created
March
1903.
Wiley, Charles A.
1903;
Freedom;
died
farmer;
1909;
created June
X,
May
6,
buried with
Ma-
sonic honors,
430
Hah n,
Ottawa;
1903.
J.
city
waterworks
created June
Wendel, Philip
Ottawa:
dentist:
created June
11,
1903: Standard Hearer 1904-5 and 1905-6; Captain General Senior Warden 1906-7;
1007-8:
Commander
1908-9.
artist:
Ottawa:
created Sept.
1903:
Sword Bearer
1911-12.
Myers,
William
Beighel. Ottawa: merchant: firm Fisher & Myers: created Nov. 5. 1903: deice
dealer
now
and
wheat
ranch,
Hobson,
Captain
Mont.:
General
Senior
1
Warden 1909-10:
1
9 o- 1
1
Geiger,
Charles.
1904.
Ottawa:
grocer;
created
Feb.
18.
Reynolds,
Samuel
Wallace.
Utica;
farmer.
Deer
Park township; was for several years auditor Illinois Traction System: created March 3.
1904.
Marseilles:
hank
17,
teller:
now
credit
Agency
[904; Stand[907-8;
Junior
Warden
Captain
1
;
Senior
Warden
1908-9:
General
Command:
)ttawa
physician
11,
creat-
May
5.
1917.
43
;
Streator
lawyer
i,
created
May
70.
20,
1904;
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905, as
charter
member
Commandery, No.
superintendent
Ross,
Walter Link.
railways;
Streator;
railway
and manager;
Nov.
president
Clover
1904;
Leaf
line
created
May
70.
20,
demitted
Streator
1,
1905. as charter
member
shop;
Commandery, No.
Metzger, Carl Joseph. Metzger,
Ottawa;
ladies'
created
Charles Joseph.
April 28, 1904.
Ottawa;
retired;
created
Ottawa; broker;
affiliated
March
904.
Waters,
George John.
affiliated
Ottawa:
28,
traveling
salesman;
April
1904;
Senior
Warden
Gen-
1911-12;
eralissimo
Captain
General
1912-13;
1913-14; Commander
1014-15.
14,
Roberts, Albert
J.
1904;
Warden
1014-15;
Captain
General 1915-10;
Generalissimo 0)10-17.
1,
Herzog, Albert E.
1904.
Brooker, Charles C.
demitted
Streator
Streator;
1904;
Nov.
1.
1905, as charter
70.
member
created
[905, as
Commandery, No.
Blackstone;
Applegate, James T.
Dec. 28,
charter
70.
grain buyer;
1.
1904;
demitted Nov.
Streator
member
Commandery, No.
432
Bavxk,
[oward IIalsev.
9,
[905.
koATii.
Byron Allen. Marseilles; Justice of the Peace; demitted Jan. 2^, created March [6, [905
;
1917.
J
[owells, Richard
2 3>
J.
March
1905, as charter
70. 23,
member
Bennion, Louis.
1905:
Commandery, No.
clerk;
Streator;
created
1.
March
as
70.
demitted Nov.
Streator
1905,
charter
member
Commandery, No.
1905.
Carr,
Jesse
Wasson.
Sheridan;
physician:
created
Ottawa;
farmer. Day-
ex-Sheriff;
1 :
created
May
15.
[905;
buried with
Tem-
plar horn
Marseilles;
created
May
1905.
(iowKx. Louis.
Ottawa;
salesman
25,
Illinois
Printing Co.;
created
;
I
May
[905.
oi.i.ktt,
Frank
KJ05.
F.
Ottawa;
lawyer;
created June
1.
1905-
Mo.vi 'kith
Ik win.
[ames A.
9,
Ottawa;
;
insurance:
[3,
created Nov..
[905
demitted June
1907.
William H.
Surveyor;
Ottawa;
civil
engineer;
County
433
25,
19 12.
Marseilles;
1906.
L.
Barnard, John
Illi-
1906.
Ackerman, Oscar
8,
J.
Ottawa;
S.
insurance;
19
1-'.
created Feb.
1906;
J.
Ma v
9,
Hoffman, Emil
Ottawa;
died Sept
buyer;
5,
1
created
;
Feb.
15,
1906;
914
buried with
Ma-
sonic honors.
Tracer, Albert L.
22,
Marseilles
salesman
created Feb.
1906.
Chubbuck, H. Eugene.
Ottawa;
electric
engineer; vice-
now
residing in
Peoria;
2-),
1
created April
12,
913
;
Johnson, Henry W.
ex-Judge County Court; ex-State Senator; president Ottawa Banking & Trust Co., and
also Central Life Insurance Co.
to,
;
created
May
May
1906.
II.
Sindel, William
17.
Marseilles;
fanner;
30,
created
;
[906;
died
May
E915
buried with
Masonic honors.
Bradish, Albert C.
[906.
Ottawa;
lumber;
created
May
31,
Marseilles;
physician;
created
1,
1906.
434
Tlll :
'
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
Ottawa;
civil
WilsoNj Charles
Kline,
F.
engineer;
[3,
created
demitted June
.Marseilles;
1912.
Herbert Lewis.
created Dec.
retired
farmer;
[3,
[906.
Freedom;
fanner;
created
Dec. 20,
March
C.
1907.
Rabenstein, Erwin
Ottawa;
bank
teller:
11,
created
1912.
Peebles, Frederick A.
2,
1907;
Dec.
13.
1908;
buried with
Templar honors.
Sherwood, Everitt A.
22, 1907.
Ottawa;
student;
created
May
Mathes, Walter M.
Dec.
19,
created
Trimmer, Thomas H.
Bruce, Clayton
S.
Marseilles:
retired farmer;
creat-
Payson, Utah;
6,
traveling salesman:
created Feb.
1908.
Elgin,
111.;
electrician: creat-
Sheridan;
retired;
created Sept.
24,
908.
Berg,
John
Math
10 and
as.
Ottawa;
3,
mechanical
engineer:
created Dec.
1910-11;
Captain General
1911-12;
19 1314.
Generalissimo [912-13;
Commander
435
Dec.
17,
Conger, William.
1908.
Ottawa;
retired;
created
Malaise, Gustave
J,
Jan. 28,
Borchsenius, George
Jan.
7,
C.
Sheridan;
died
Feb.
merchant;
_'4,
created
[909;
[909;
buried
Eastegord, Harvey L.
4, 1909-
Kuhlman, Frederick
Beck, Charles.
Reed,
Ottawa; superintendent
creat-
May
6,
1909;
Senior
Warden
1910-11.
;
;
created
1909.
;
Thompson, George W.
merchant
created
May 2j, 1909. Courtright, Frank B. Sheridan; created May 2J, 1909.
Cal lagan, Ralph
1909.
J.
May
27,
Stockley, Charles H.
24, 1909.
Ottawa:
retired;
created June
Peck, Edward
F.
24, 1909.
Herring,
James
B.
Ottawa;
proprietor
sand
Freedom;
physician;
created
436
'I'll
KNIGHTS
I'l'.M
I'l.AK,
Ottawa;
druggist;
created July
Davidson,
Marseilles; superintendent Frank Bruce. Howe & Davidson Co.; created Sept. 23,
1909.
Ottawa;
retired:
created Oct.
[909. C.
Pearson,
Samuel
where he resides;
Junior
Nov.
18,
1909:
Warden
19 10-11.
2,
Brooker, Harley
1909.
E.
Joliet;
created Dec. 9.
Tummel, Benjamin
16,
F.
1909:
Sword Bearer
Ottawa;
i_\
[910-11.
created
Elder,
Herman Haines.
Dec. 23,
reaffiliated
bookkeeper;
14.
1909;
Feb.
demitted April
[914.
[910;
Buchner, John
I
F.
3.
>.
Ottawa;
[910.
'"eh.
(
Grover, George
&
Ottawa;
E.
retired:
created
March
[9 to.
8,
[911.
Benson, Ole
Ottawa;
:
ex-Sheriff;
member
Legisla-
ture
created
March
to,
PEARSON, [OSEPH H.
17.
eralissimo
Commander
[916-17.
created
titter;
437
Camber, Henry
G.
March
Gleim, Frederick
W.
May
12,
1910;
demitted June
[913.
civil
Farnsworth., George L.
created
13
Ottawa;
26,
city
engineer;
May
1
[910;
and
013- 14;
Senior
Warden
[915-16.
retired
U)
1 1 ; ;
Conard, Wilson.
died
Ottawa;
Dec.
15.
buried
with
Templar
lioni >rs.
Heiberg, Axel,
Ottawa;
druggist;
County
Auditor;
Mundorff, William
1,
1
D.
Wedron;
grain;
created Dec.
910.
J.
Malaise, Prosper
1910.
8.
SiiiFELT, Adam.
created
Bbignon. Edward
1910.
C.
farmer
Tones,
Fred Lamb.
12,
191
Warder
19 13- 14.
:
Marseilles
machinist and
2.
in-
March
191
Pre-
and 1916,
inclusive.
Ottawa;
191
1 ;
retired farmer
2,
creat-
March
2,
died Oct.
1912: buried
Maxwell, William
R.
..
438
5,
1916;
buried with
Templar honors.
Newport, Nathan
23,
G.
Morris;
grain;
affiliated
March
created
i9 J iMarseilles;
10,1
[.
Sterrett, George W.
April
6,
millwright;
McLean, Alexander.
13, IQII.
Ottawa:
farmer;
created
April
Daggett, Charles B.
Blardsley,
Marseilles;
railway
clerk;
Lynn
A.
Sheridan;
Herring, Charles B.
created
Ottawa:
4,
May
C.
[911.
Prafcke, Frederick
4.
May May
191
1.
Gaussin, Joseph P.
25,
191
Messenie, William P.
Marseilles;
1
;
electrician;
12,
created
May
Reed, Chester P.
191
1
25, 191
demitted Aug.
;
1915.
Ottawa
salesman
created
May
Miller,
Henry
C.
1
14,
K)i
died Dec.
J.
2,
0)14.
Spaulding, Arthur
[911.
Stocklev,
William
11.
Earlville;
12,
farmer,
[911.
Waltham
12.
Belknap, Oliver
u)
1 1
I.
Ottawa;
Ottawa;
retired;
created Oct.
Storimkk, Perry
101
1.
(i.
dentist;
created Oct.
[9,
439
Royal
E.
Utica
farmer,
Waltham township;
died Jan.
1,
1911;
1913
Wilson, John A.
Prichard.
Utica;
farmer,
1.
Waltham township;
and
breeder
Arthur
D.
Ottawa;
importer
draft horses;
Junior
Warden
Prichard, Frederick
19 13- 14.
S.
Ottawa
draft horses;
Stand-
Crowden, George W.
Captain
1914-15;
affili-
Junior
Warden 1912-13;
Generalissimo
General
1913-14;
Commander
;
1015-16.
;
Reed,
Edward
A.
Ottawa
affiliated Jan.
1912.
real estate;
Osgood,
Henry
11.
D.
Marseilles:
created Jan.
1912.
Geiger, Simon C.
Ottawa;
1917.
1,
Berxdt, William
1012.
F.
Edgcomb, John
101
S.
2.
created
Feb. 29,
Weese, Glenn W.
1912.
14,
Ottawa
St.
farmer
created
March
created
Russell, William
April
C.
18,
Louis;
bookkeeper;
1912.
Carter,
Ray
A.
Ottawa;
auditor;
created
April
18,
440
Til E
NIGHTS
TI'.M I'l.AR,
[912 Junior
;
Warden
[915-16; Senior
WardApril
en 1916-17.
Fread, William
[8,
P.
Ottawa;
physician;
created
[912;
[916-17.
Roe,
Charles
S.
Ottawa;
S.
[912;
May
J.
[914.
McKahin, William
Shltk, Arthur
Lee,
J.
Marseilles;
foreman;
8,
affiliated
1914.
Ottawa;
created
May
iS.
Harry
J.
June n,
1912;
[912-13.
creat-
McCarty, Carlos O.
Stoessinger. Fred C.
12.
ed Nov. 16,
Ottawa
druggist
created Dec.
1912.
Marseilles; bookkeeper; created Dec.
Spencer, Harry C.
19, 1912.
Hogaxsox, Tyler A.
23, 19 1 2.
Morris;
merchant;
created Nov.
Milligan, James,
'4-
Jr.
created Feb.
1913:
Senior
Warden
[913-
M loaf li \. Joseph M.
6,
Ottawa shoe
;
store: created
March
19 1
3.
Bradford, Charles T.
Dale, John
insurance:
created
Thompson, Noah H.
(
>
)i3-
44I
Thrasher, Harry
19 16.
L.
Ottawa:
assistant
17.
manager Tent
S.
[913;
May
jr.
Brenn, Charles
F.
affiliated
Stevenson, Charles
tor
:
l\.
oil
opera
created Nov.
E.
3,
[9 3.
1
Clegg,
Samuel
[
Ottawa;
_'_>,
plumber
iol|:
and
steamfitter;
created Jan.
5-
Green,
Walter
Rush.
Dayton;
11)14.
and
dairy;
Hulse, Clarence
E.
12.
1914.
Leverich, William K.
5,
Jordan, Charles E.
Marseilles
Howe
5.
&:
)avidson press-
1914.
E.
ed April
C.
1914.
Marseilles;
1914.
Villisca,
la.;
Ford, George C.
tailoring
created April
30, 1914.
McReynolds, Claude
Cowley, William
10,
B.
Ottawa
salesman
affiliated
March
11,
1915.
19
4.
Ottawa;
electric
engineer
creat-
44-'
Sahlberg, Walfred
Chicago;
accountant;
affiliated
Sept. 24, 19 4.
Ottawa: Ottawa;
1914.
F.
Scoffern, Robert
manager Pioneer
created
Fire17.
Dec.
Ottawa.
111.;
salesman: created
lot;
ansox, Talbert L. R.
Ottawa:
4.
automobiles
and
1915.
4,
Eichelberger, Clifford
C.
created
Sword Bearer
1915-16.
Briggs, Robert
J.
W.
1915.
20.
Harden/ William
1.
A.
Ottawa:
electrician:
created April
[915.
Harrington, Bert.
Ott. John.
Des Moines,
1
la.; traveling'
salesman:
created April
5,
igi 5.
2-,
1015.
De Lapp, Floyd M.
Co.;
0)1(1-17.
Valley
:
Printing
1015
Sword Bearer
Springhorn, William
Sept. 9,
11.
[915.
Edgcomb, John
Harold.
Ottawa;
acting
physician;
affiliated
Sept. 23,
[915;
(I.
Warder 0)10-17.
farmer; created Sept.
BrandenberG; Harry
30, 1915.
Serena:
443
T4.
Ehly, Herbert.
1915.
Ottawa;
blacksmith;
created Oct.
Ford.
Thomas
R.
Ottawa
superintendent
Gas.
Co.
Dale, Benjamin E.
I9I5-
Joliet
printer
created Oct.
28,
18,
Lindsay,
Frank
J.
2,
1915.
Kxaim', Collins E.
1915.
created
Dec.
2,
Briggs,
Charles Arthur.
Dec.
9,
Ottawa; minister;
Prelate 1916-17.
affiliated
[915;
Ottawa;
telegraph operator;
Ottawa;
5.
Manning, James
C.
engineer;
Warder
;
1916-17.
created Dec.
Conde, Harry W.
Ledricii, August.
1
Ottawa
automobiles
23, 1915.'
30,
91 5S.
Ebright, Francis
30, 191 5.
Mercer, Edward
ated
Z.
affili-
March
Watts, Clarence M.
23, 1916.
Ottawa; Ottawa;
6,
farmer:
created
March
1916.
444
May
Markeson, Ami
6,
6,
[916.
Manuel
[916;
died
Ottawa;
April
5,
retired: created
May
n> 7
1
buried with
Templar honors.
Claus, Edward
ed
R.
Ottawa; King
6,
& Hamilton
Co.
creat-
May
6,
[91 6.
Ci.Ais.
Carl
F.
Ottawa;
1916.
May
Cullen, Charles
ney;
S.
created
May
9.
1916.
Clapper, Lewis H.
1916.
May
9,
9,
Sieffert, Oscar A.
K) 1 6.
May
9,
Grimes, Wilbur.
1
Ottawa;
Ottawa:
insurance:
created
May
iS.
9 1 6.
dentist:
Kile,
Arthur M.
1916.
created
May
;
18.
May
Beem, Fred
C.
2j,
19 if).
created
May
1
2j, 19 16.
:
Randall, Leslie E.
Nov.
23,
Ottawa
9 16.
traveling-
salesman
created
Kxowles. Frederick
Weise, Sidney
S.
Ottawa:
7,
[916.
W.
Ottawa;
floor
14,
H)\(k
445
created
Hartshorn, Walter
B.
Ottawa;
accountant;
Jan. 4, 1917.
Lindemann, Walter
11,
C.
1917-
44^
HOPEi.
What song is well sung not of sorrow? What triumph well won without pain? What virtue shall be, and not borrow Bright luster from many a stain?
What birth has there been without travail? What battle well won without blood? What good shall earth see without evil
Ingarnered as chaff with the good?
Lo! the Cross set in rocks by the Roman, And nourished by the blood of the lamb. And watered by tears of the woman, Has flourished, has spread like a palm.
Has spread in the frosts and far regions Of snows in the North, and South sands, Where never the tramp of his legions
Was
The birth, the privations and scorn, The Cross, and the parting of raiment, Are finished. The stars brought us morn.
Look starward; stand
far and unearthly, Free-souled as a banner unfurled. Be worthy, O brother, be worthy! For a God was the price of the world.
Joaquin
Miller.
447
ESCARIOT.
will
ye give me,
will deliver
him tor
the
feast
thirty
him unto you? And they covenanted with And from that time he pieces of silver.
to
sought opportunity
betray
him.
bread,
Now
the
first
day of
to
of the unleavened
the disciples
came
Jesus,
And
at
hand;
will
my
disciples.
And
the
made ready the passover. Now when the was come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they even
them, and they
did eat, he said, Verily
shall
1
betray me.
And
and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord is it I ? And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hands with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, as it is written of him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been good for Then Judas, which bethat man if he had not been born.
trayed him, answered and said, Master,
is
it
1 ?
He
said
unto him.
Thou
hast said.
Matt,
xxvi., 14-25.
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beside
in the
it,
The
loneliness that
mocks me
as
find
the
sacred place
O, mother,
is
of silence
To
let
me know
cannot
Grace
Duffield
Goodwin.
TN'AAEMORJAM
t^mr
InHocl
Cfc!
WE DEDICATE
WITH REVERENCE
THIS PAGE TO THE MEMORY OF OUR MOTHERS.
A22gj
A4EMORIAM
1_^>
'
If
mo*'
ese Pages
ed to the
Memory
of
IN vV\E/v\ORJA/\4
fv!NCES
William Hervy
Philo Lindley
Lamme
Wallace
June
25,
1864
Thoman
George Samuel
.1
E. G.
S.
Ransom
Stebbins
Nov.
Nov.
July
29,
1867
C.
alius C.
Walker Avery
Clark
1870
Charles
P.
1871
Dec.
April
.,
1876 1880
1881 1881
14,
Ryan
June
Jan.
13,
.
John J. DeMotte Lothrop Perkins Washington Bushnell Robert M. McArthur Corydon C. Halladay John Francis Cleave Asa Mann Hoffman John Lewis Summers
.,
June
Aug.
30, 12,
1885 1886
March
4,
4,
1887 1887
1888
May
July
14,
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Justus Harris
E. Follett Bull
Nov.
Dec.
27,
4, 4,
1888
1888
1889
Thomas Reedy
Augustus H. Jennings Frederick W. Gray
Albert
'
March
May
Aug. Aug.
6,
1893
1894
16,
1894 1895
March
Feb.
Oct.
23,
24,
1,
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Dec.
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18, 28,
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March March
April
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Aug.
Feb.
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19,
2,
1901
Cope
1902
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27,
6, 1,
1902
Aug.
.
1903 1903
Edward
Ezekiel
A. Nattinger
'
Sept.
Howiand
Julius A.
Oct.
25,
8,
May
Oct.
12,
1.
Jan.
John R. Cameron Douglas Hapeman David Alpheus Cook William C. Hall Louis Scheidecker Clark Brading Provins Samuel Richolson.
May May
June
Sept.
2,
22,
5,
21,
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June June
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V1NCES
Charles Blanehard
David H. Slagle
Charles Christian Modes
March
Dec.
8,
17, 24,
Alexander
Hanna
May
Nov.
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Samuel
S.
Edwin
T.
Pearson Reed
21, 22,
13,
9,
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1909
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10,
1909
Berkley
Gillett Barrett
S.
Sylvanus
Francis
Thompson
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July
14,
25,
7,
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June
Aug. Nov.
Dec.
28, 19,
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McClure
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15,
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Jan.
30,
1,
1912
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Joshua
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July
Oct. 21 1913
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Jan.
4
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Feb.
1914
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March
Sept.
10 1914
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J.
Hoffman
1914
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C. Miller
Dec. 12 1914
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1
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March
30 1915
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Jan. 11 1916
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1916
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31 1917
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1917
rM'MEMORIAM
457
THE CRUCIFIXION.
When
rather a
saw that he could prevail nothing but tumult was made, he took water and washed his
-
Pilate
am
innocent of the
all
it.
Then answered
and on our children. the people and said, His blood be on Then released he Barabbas unto them; and when he had
us,
scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall,
and gathered unto him the whole hand of soldiers. n him a scarlet robe. they stripped him, and put
<
And And
upon
platted a
in
crown
his
it
hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying. Mail, king of the jews! And they spit upon him, and took- the reed
his head, and a reed
right
and smote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him and put his own
raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
they came out they found a
And
as
;
man
of Cyrene,
come unto
a place called
Golgotha, that
to say, a place of
a skull, they
gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall, and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink'. And they crucified him. and parted his garments, casting lots. And sitting down, they watched him there; and set up over
his
head
This
is
the Jews.]
Matt: xxvil,
24-38.
458
THE RESURRECTION.
In the
it
began
to
dawn toward
the
first
other
Mary
came and rolled back the stone from the door, it. His countenance was like lightning", and And for fear of Him the His raiment white as snow: keepers did shake, and become as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the woman. Fear not ye; for knowleaven, and
sat
and
upon
which was
said.
crucified.
He
is
risen,
as
He
Come,
where the
Lord
is
lay
risen
and go quickly, and tell His disciples that Lie from the dead; and, behold, lie goeth before yon
:
Him:
lo,
And
And
went to
tell
His
met them,
And
they
came and held Him by the feet, Then Jesus said unto them. Be not
AIatt. x.wiii, i-io.
My
45Q
in
and said (the number of the names together were ), Men and brethren, this Scrip-
must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy (most, by the mouth of David, spake before, concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained a part of this ministry. Now this man purchased a held with the reward of his iniquity; and, falling headlong, he burst asunder
in
the midst,
all
and
all
his
And
it
called
is
blood.
For
let
it
is
written in the
Book
re,
of
man
another take.
Wherefi
all
men which
Lord Jesus
us,
went
in
us,
And
the_\-
Justus, and Matthias. And they prayed Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts oi all men,
shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas
by transgression
fell,
that
be might go
to,
his
fell
own
place.
And
Acts
lot
upon Matapostles.
thias;
i.
4^0
THE KNIGHTS
TI.MI'I.Nk.
The other
disciples, there-
We
I
and put
my
thrust
my hand
And
after
were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said Peace be with you. Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy ringer, and behold my hands: and
reach hither thy hand, and thrust
faithless,
but believing.
unto him,
it into my side; and he not And Thomas answered and said My Lord and my God. John xx. 24-28.
46
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Sir Oliver Cromwell Gray. Eminent Commander Under Dispensation, Ottawa Commandery.
First
Cromwell Gray descended from an old English family of the same name, of which Thomas Gray, poet and author of the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," was a branch. His father was David Gray, the author of several poems, among which is "The Golden Wedding."
Sir Oliver
The
was
most beautiful poems. One who knew Sir Gray, in a finely written review, under the head of "Gossip With the Poets,"
thus spoke of
him
"We
What may
be called a per-
haunting our memory now, from the 'Song of the Cable,' by Gray, of Ottawa: 'Drop me down in the deep, while the sea is asleep, And a spell is upon the tide.'
"The same
writers says
in
Dream'
portals,
home
life's
for races hid oasis; Let the base be laid in silence, let the summit rest in light!'
An August domain
Tenants of
"We
the
oftener to
lyre when such strains flow from his touch." Sir Oliver C. Gray was admitted to practice law
in
1841
at Cleveland,
Ohio, and continued in the practice until war was declared with Mexico. At this time he was first lieutenant of the Jefferson Grays, of Steubenville, Ohio, and left with the organization for the seat of war.
4^2
1861.
463
commanded
during the
war Major General of volunteers. Sir Gray came to Ottawa in 1853 and entered into a law partnership with Washington Bushnell, and later was senior member of the law firm of Gray, Avery & Bushnell, the
civil
La
Salle county.
In [868 Sir
for
Con-
Cromwell
in
in
the
Mexican war,
his
adventurous career
California in the
all
and then
his trials
and triumphs as a leading lawyer at the local and Supreme Court bar of Illinois, would he of absorbing interest, and
we
a
regret that
we cannot
itself.
affiliated
& A. Was
of
1854, and
was
elected
charter
Priest,
Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M., Ottawa, 111., [856^7. and was one of the promoters and charter members of Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, and was the Eminent Commander while working under dispensation. He demitted from the Commandery February _\ 1860, and passed to his reward July 31, 1871, and was buried with
Masonic honors. Tresdav morning, August 1, 1871, the day following the death of Mr. Gray, the announcement of his death was made in the Circuit Court at Ottawa. There was a large attendance of the bar as well as many promient citizens.
4 r 4
TIIK
KNICHTS TEMPLARj
the
ct
[mmediately after Judge Leland had taken his seat upon bench the Hon. Washington Bushnell addressed the
nirt
as
t"(
illows
It
has fallen to
my
sad
lot
within
months
to
announce
Julius Avery, a
member
of this bar,
who
was
our
he-
son, a
office,
lung' rears
was
It
in
whom we mourn.
to
now
comes
my
solemn
tint}'
to
announce
have
was not
word
of unkindness spoken
between
any unkind
feeling-
tween Mr. Gray. Mr. Avery and myself during the time we were partners together. Mr. Gray was an active practitioner
of the law.
duty.
lie
was
man
munity and
in
who were
in the habit of
assembling
this court-room,
lie will he
will
all
as a social
and agreeable
intellectual
it
may
he
do
remarkable man.
as a lawyer
Remarkable
in all
remarkable as an
equals
man; remarkable
lie
if
had perhaps
he had superiors,
Kind
in his
engagements,
of us, in the
moment
of heat, in the
moment
of excite-
465
if
may
he did
moment
of excitement had
all
that
For
this
Mr.
Gray was remarkable. 'To err is human to forgive, divine." "Mr. Gray was a man whose intellect was not confined within the practice of the law. His mind was cultivated in He was at home in the all the various fields of intellect.
law. at
home
in
mental philosophy,
all
at
home
in
I
the various
languages
they were
familiar to him.
know
that
to
many
all
Gray
consult
him
In
memory was seldom, if ever, at fault. We have learned many lessons from him. He is gone! We shall go to him, hut he will not return to us! By the decree of an unalterable We who have seen him natural law he passed away. more. Mr. Gray was a man whose here shall see him no
his
intellect
was
It
firm, grasping,
and unyielding.
When
he met
man
in legal
battle.
was
strife
the very
moment
he entered this
court-room.
The
He
never
will
again!
He
many
a shrewd, keen
and
re-
advocate
in this
room.
He
The grasp
of his intellect
and
The a power superior to his own. Gray yielded; after victories, he is no longer a victor; death has become his victor. Feace to his Long may his memory live; long may the work of ashes.
have had to yield to
word was
given, Mr.
466
will be
said oi Gray,
ment
ing,
to his profession!'
members
was willing
to assist
members
to give
oi the bar, to
them freely information which had accrued to him from long years of labor and study. 1 do not think that any cue ewer approached Oliver C. Gray and asked him for
gave it most would tend to reveal some of the features of his own case. I say he was kind. particularly so was he to the younger members of the bar, his bearing towards the younger members was always kind, indulgfent and forbeariner."
assistance, or information, or advice, but that he
when
it
Sir
Born
at
[82]
killed at battle of
Shiloh April
1862.
first
came with his parents to Illinois in 1834, Deer Park. La Salle county. Illinois. In [845 he came to Ottawa and entered as a student of law
Sir Wallace
locating
in
in
in
184(1,
he
company
made
din's
tenant,
and
regiment.
He
distinguished himself
the battle of
Buena Vista by his bravery and heroism. At the close of the Mexican war Sir Wallace resumed his studies in the office of Col Dickey, whose daughter he subsequently mar-
HISTORY
Oh'
OTTAWA CUMMANDERY,
467
1861.
468
ried.
it
(
it
is
was eminently honorable and successful. On the breaking out of the rebellion he was invited to command the
Eleventh
regiment of
call
Illinois
volunteers.
He
cheerfully
yielded to the
self to his
of his companions in
country.
For
vanced
his
bravery
at
Major General just before the battle of Pittsburg Landing. At this battle he bore himself nobly and safely through perils of that unlooked-for and overwhelming Finding his division assault on Sunday till about 4 p. m. liable to be flanked on either side he had just given command to his brigade commanders "to fall back steadily."
to
act
as
its
execution
the
fatal
messenger
ear along
The
ball
left
He
disengaged
to
dismount, and
to the
ground.
He was
supposed to be dead.
Dickey, and two
leave
them to him on the field. The next day our troops recovered the held and found him unconscious, but alive, his pockets He was immediately rifled and a blanket tossed over him.
columns
till
who
had not
at last
sorrow, and
motion of
Heaven
The very last acts, coupled with above were his last acts. bis >olemn written resolve after bis seemingly providential deliverance at Donelson. to this effect. "For this almost miraculous preservation of my life amid such dangers I am
469
am
General
inan_\-,
life,
in
most respects
model of manly dignity and honor, and yet of engaging He had occupied a simplicity and unaffecting modesty.
in
prominent position
in public
La
Salle county
and held
high place
esteem.
Mason
and
&
A. M.,
in
[846,
in [848 and [849. Was Arch in Shabbona Chapter, No. 37, R. A. M.. July 17, 1856, and was High Priest of his Chapter in 1859. He was created a Knight Templar in Blaney Commandery, No. 5, K. T., Morris, 111., in 1858, and at the time Ottawa Commander}' was organized demitted from Blaney Commandery and was a charter member of Ottawa
exalted to
Commandery, No.
10,
K. T., Ottawa,
111.,
time
When
his
met at the Rock Island depot, at Ottawa, at 4 o'clock a. m. Monday, April 14th. The tolling of the church bells having announced the hour of arrival, the citizens turned out en masse to do homage to his memory. An escort of Ottawa Commandery, Knights Templar, and a delegation of citizens accompanying them met the remains at the depot and accompanied them to his residence, from whence, at two p. m., they were laid in state in the Supreme
of battle they were
the
Masonic
the
fraternity,
from which,
17"
III
\~\
for inter-
was taken
ment
ground of
residence,
"The Oaks," on
die
it
is
die nobly
is
boon granted
[Gen. Wallace's
We
"On
pressive.
({note
Miss
Isabel
Wallace's
Decoration
Day,
1874, at Ottawa,
the
Knights
W.
II.
L.
hearing of the
Commandery was
very imposing.
Wreaths
a delegation
if
ladies,
form
though
fallen
comrade.
greens rested
crown
(a knight) gave an
Look upon
that he
is
dead.
Heboid his tomb, but do not imagine form so erect and manly may rest in the
yet abroad workremembers him but Exalted in his manners and
It is
Who
472
FLAG OF THE ELEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY REGIMENT, NOW IN THE LIBRARY AT "THE OAKS."
473
this leafy
impulses?
Look through
him walking from that front door to yonder gate with form erect, counteance beaming with kindness and hashing with thought and intellect? Be not deceived, for looking again you see him not, for here he
see
lies.
'
'And here
let
me
say to the
widowed
your
grief, forget
woman
has had
bequeathed to her a legacy so rich as the name and fame of him of whom I speak, and who yet liveth in spirit to comfort and protect you.
'The inanimate form which his tomb confines was hut
a short time
ago the abode of one of the purest patriotic He was one of the first volunteer in the Mexican war and won unextinguishable
officer in the First United States regiAt the breaking out of the rebellion he was the first
1
honors as a brave
ment.
it
is
as familiar as
household word.
April,
how hallowed
surroundings!
how
glorious, yet
how
sad,
the
Whether making
up the
friends
in
ma-
upon
his shoulder
bluff to beautify
an early
home, or wearing upon the same shoulder the glittering epaulets upon the field of strife and carnage to victory and
ultimate death, yet he was Wallace ever, he was Wallace
still.
Oh! how
like
upon
his
his
mournful news!
of those
Around
tomb to-day
best
To
it
them and his country his death was a calamity, but was a glorious fading into immortality.
him
474
THE KNIGHTS
TK.M
l'J.AR,
IN
THE
475
warm
in
friendship, he ever
and truth.
his equals.
marched straightforward in line of duty As a man to be judged in private life few were Never was he charged with broken faith or vio-
lated trust.
'And now at eventide, as the shadows lengthen toward the East, where he loved to sit so well and from whence
"
we have often obeyed his gavel call, let us turn again to the West and behold his sepulchre, fully realizing" that the Grand Supreme Commander of the Universe has by His
gavel called our comrade to his
tle
final
and peaceful
rest.
Gen-
and again
"As
the
were uttered
uncovered
with
heads
showed
word,
tears
told
dead hero.
As
the last
'farewell,' fell
was gathered
memory
at the
Wallace
at her residence
"Some
of
spect
Ottawa Commandery Author), thus showing their reand esteem for her no less than the loving memory
"For many years Mrs. Wallace had
a desire to place
in
memorial window
in
the church at
Ottawa
memory
Europe.
of
her husband.
ing
the
many
churches
her
own
country and
In
especially
476
4/7
fine.
They
are
memorials given
years 1861-1863.
committee
selected of
Glasgow
citizens
recommended
uniform plan
of Glass Painting,
Munich, was selected to carry on the work, and many of the most eminent artists in Germany were the designers of
the windows.
lace.
It
One window
Wal-
was
finest artists in
Germany.
She made
design a
window
for her.
She
told
in
her
to
As
America, he
would charge nothing for it, only for the mechancal part of His work consisted principally of large canvasses on historical and biblical subjects which hang on the walls of many public and private European galleries. Occasionally he made designs for memorial windows, some
of which were placed in the royal palaces near Dresden, to
work and
a
visit
"He made
for Mrs.
Wallace's window.
the figure of
the
On
the halo
is
is
the text:
'Grave, where
thy
After the
Airs.
ner
made
4/8
book cases
in
home in Ottawa. "The window was placed in Christ Episcopal church in The lower section of the window represents the [872.
of
"It
(
life
ieneral Wallace.
less
is
was executed under Mrs. Wallace's direction by a no renowned artist than Professor luhner. The first scene
1
home with
the
full.'
date
may
be
The next
third
'Take
fast
hold of instruction.'
his
The
profession, Justice
me
thy statutes.'
On
is
his
connection
with
in
that
order.
The next
scene
the
Mexican war
my
the
head
in the
day of
last one, is
smoke of
picture, and the Landing with boats and in the distance, and the riderless have put my trust. I the Lord
1
The lower
hi the
right
in full
a beautiful
in
oak tree
twain; cling to
lie
is
a vine
'Thy
will,
not mine,
done.'
The oak
in his
manhood
cut
down
same
woman's
both
and
in
death.
"Thus
of this
truth of a risen
earthly
patriots find a
life, where the noble deed of heroes and reward more exalted than the plaudits of
its
entirety by noble
4~<)
General
trait
E. G.
Ransom.
Conn.,
November
Ransom, whose porof our asylum, was horn at Norwich, 1834. where he was educated for the
Greenfield
in
profession of a
civil
engineer.
On coming
to Chicago,
west he settled
Tern,
111.,
removed thence
Fayette county
in
business
in
war broke out. Enlisting in the volunteer service of the army, he was at once elected Major, and soon after was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eleventh
the civil
when
regiment
Illinois
infantry,
which he
led
at
the
battle
of
Immediately
command
of Shiloh.
of his regiment
was commissioned Colonel, and while in was again wounded at the battle
ity,
more than ordinary abilwas conspicuously demonstrated in Ranks' Red River expedition, and where he was again severely wounded at Sabine Cross Roads. In acknowledgment of his superior promoted to the command of the ability he was finally Seventeenth Arm}- Corps. While thus his brilliant fame was attracting the attention of his country he was attacked with camp dysentery and died near Rome, Ga., )ctober 20, [864,
General
as
a
(if
(
Ransom was
man
He was
and
T. E. G.
knighted
in
23, [864,
in consideration of the
Ransom
in the
Command-
ery declined to accept from him the usual fee for conferring
the orders of knisrhthood.
4$0
Knighted
23,
in
[861, and
8,
Ottawa Commandery, No. m, EC. T., (ulv Eminent Commander [867; died at Omaha,
1
Xeb., June
107.
He demitted from Ottawa Commandery October 22, [867, and was a charter member of St. John's Commandery,
No.
2(),
at
Peru. Illinois.
for St. John's
The dispensation
Commandery, No.
26,
was issued to Em. Sir George W. Lininger, Commander; Sir George Emerson, Generalissimo, and Sir David A. Conk,
(
aptain
ieneral.
Em. Sir Lininger was active in other Masonic bodies and was Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Illinois in 1868. On account of poor health he
removed from Peru. 111., where he had resided since 1848, when he came to Illinois from Franklin county, Pa., where he was horn December 14, 1834. to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Grand Masonic bodies of Iowa, having been Grand Senior Warden in the Grand Lodge and Deputy Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery and Grand Captain of the Guard of the Grand Council, and would have undoubtedly presided over these Grand bodies of Iowa had he remained within their jurisdiction.
active in the
He was
On January
the
1,
same
activity
to
Omaha,
Xeb.. where
mat-
ters pertaining to
and Iowa.
which
were
light
in
comparison
record
in
in
important,
offices
lodges,
and com-
manderies as
ritualist,
Ma-
sonic jurisprudence
ative
trips
he carried
successful
to
and remunerextensive
make
He
established the
48
Omaha and
was
justly
city.
home
citizen of integrity,
political
well
de-
482
)F
\\
L.
MILLIGAN.
F.
Accidental Lodge,
No. 40, A.
&
A. M.. Oc-
tober [3, [879. Exalted in Shabbona Chapter, No. 37. R. A. M.. December 17. 1X71). Passed the Circle of Perfection
in
l\.
&
S.
M.,
March
2,
[881.
a Knight Templar and Knight of Malta in Ottawa Commandery, No. 10, K. T., April _>S, [881. Constituted a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, 32' in Oriental Consistory. Valley of Chicago, October 7. Crowned [881. Sovereign Grand Inspector General. 33d and last degree A. A. S. R., at Providence, R. I., Sept. 20, 1SS7. Master Occidental Lodge, No. 40. A. F. & A. M., [885 to [887, in-
Created
clusive.
to S.
High
Priest
Shabbona Chapter,
R.
A.
M.,
[88]
[887, inclusive.
10, K. T., 1886, [887, [89] and [892. Grand High Priest Grand Chapter, R. A. M., [895. Grand Master Grand Council, R. & S. M., 1899. District Deputy Grand
mandery, No.
district,
and
S<;-.
Member
1
of the
Board of Trustees
sonic Orphans'
Home
in membership No. Illinois Masonic Home for Aged Masons for several years. Honorary member Fortitude Lodge, No. 47, La Grange, Ky. Representative of the Grand Lodge. South Australia, near the ('.rand Lodge of Illinois, with the honorary rank of Past Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of South lias represented the Grand Chapter Australia since [886. of Quebec near the Grand Chapter of Illinois and the Grand Council, R. & S. M.. near the Grand Council of [llinois, for
several years.
Author of the "White Apron," a History of Occidental F. & A. M.. and the "Knights Templar," history of Ottawa Commandery, Xo. 10, Knights Tem-
plar.
"
is
:
Eg
-
I
-
ELobe
485
ERRATA.
Last word of "or." Page 60 Last word "Scotland." Page 73 Last two
Page 57
instead
"England"
lines
should read:
"Prepared by mother's love and prayers to live; Prepared by mother's love and prayers to die."
Page /() Third line after semi-colon should read "though there is no proof" instead "though there is proof." Page 151 H. F. Clark, H. D. Brown and J. B. Riee should he added to names of created in 1862. Page 163 Among the created should read "James Neil
(A
read
"stated
conclaves
Page 196
"fifty-five"
Third line of third paragraph should read swords instead "twenty-five" swords, etc. Page 248 Last of sixth line should read "midnight
Should read David Refior Generalissimo Milligan's history Page 405 W. Recorder should read Generalissimo 1885 Generalissimo Page 422 Should show David Refior
Page 253
stead of Albert F. Schoch.
In sixth line of
in-
L.
it
instead of
1888.
as
William Stormont's date of death, on pages 229 and 407, and on memorial page, should read December 12. [894. Dr. J. S. Ryburn's date of death on memorial page
should read September 21, 1892.
486
Til E
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,
F.
Gibson, Feb.
(i.
[906';
Charles A. Wiley,
_\
i<ji->,
May
6.
Yeneriek, Oct.
by error, were
omitted.
487
INDEX.
Page.
American
Flag", first
presentation to a
Commandery.
18,
217
23
345 61
25
182
Chivalry
$J
123
Commanderies under
Illinois
jurisdiction
Grand Commandery
357 106
^y^,
European
War
(
Grand Commanderies, list of Grand Council, )ttawa Commandery. No. 10 Grand Commanders, Illinois, list of (hand Recorders, Illinois, list of Grand Encampments, U. S. A Grand Masters, list of Grand Masters Ancient Order Knights Templar lu Hoc Signo Vinces Introduction of Templar Masonry in America Introduction of Templar Masonry in Illinois Introduction Templar Masonry in Ottawa, 111
Introductory
124
124
101
108 55
31
74
112
139
Knights of Malta
Knights Templar and Free Masons Masonic Temple, dedication of
Molay, death of Obsequies James A. Garfield
64
70
137
54
182
Commandery o-f Knights Templar Ottawa Commander}', organization of Ottawa Commandery under dispensation, [86] Ottawa Commandery, under charter, 1862
Oldest
80
139
141
147
488
Oti
489
Page.
Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa
244
251
Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery, Commandery,
2^2
255 258
260 268
277
281
285
295 300
312
32^
328
341
charter, 1915-16
347 368
385 196
Commander}-,
St.
214
231
1907
303
17
hir
Flags
111.
)
129
60
490
St.
John's
>ay,
(
[867
157
48
7
32
148
The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The
Civil
War. [86]
Cross
Cross, as an instrument of punishment
27
30 34
59 61
Crusades
Chapter of Clermont
43
^J
60
Knights Templar, our daughter Commanderies .381 Knights Templar, Princeton Commandery, Xo. 20.381
Knights Templar,
St.
^OJ
ILLUSTRATIONS.
American Flag
Ascension scene
Battle Flag of
1
[7,
Page. 221
9
ith Illinois infantry
Buffalo Rock
Christ before Pilate
472 30
1
448
128
City of Ottawa
...
J.
140
Lininger, George W. Rho'ads, James. Peckham, John B. Gibson, William L. Wade. Thomas J. 162 Commanders of Ottawa Commandery (group) Trimble, Cairo D. Nash. John F. Gibson, Theodore C. Smith, Edward H. McArthur, Robert M. Commanders of Ottawa Commandery (group) 194 Milligan, William L. Mayo, Henry. Mills, George A. Schoch, Albert F. Titus, Walter B. Dunaway, Joseph N. Commanders of Ottawa Commandery (group) .256
. . . . .
. .
.
Eldredge, Edgar.
Vincent, Irving
B.
1).
Arnold, Henry L.
Berg. John
Fullerton, William D.
McKahin, Herbert
328 300
347 285
312
Pearson, Joseph II
368
341
295
|92
Deer Park
ilen
II
136
Gilman, William
(
220
iia\
Hiver
C
looking east
462
from Starved Ruck
134
[35
Illinois valley
Illinois valley
[38
at
"The Oaks"
474
47(1
3
1
16
Commander}- en route
to St. Louis,
[886
210
222
232 282
Commandery Commandery
302
118
D
L..
398
Recorder
y>><
Smith, Robert
"The Oaks"
Wallace, General William H.
470 467
493
MEMORIAL TRIBUTES.
Page.
Ahlborn, George
Allison, Joseph
355 366
166
David
Follett
Blanchard, Charles
Bull,
238 280
208
190
Eliphalet
264
168
201
Cleave,
John Francis
Colly, Allien
Atwood
>n
228
^2^ 274
Conard, Wils<
292
254
31
]
229
371
Gibson, Theodore
Cunningham
319
1S0
Gilman, Charles
Hall, William
llalladay.
371
Camp
2j^ 200
258, 283
)<
265
Harris, Justus
207
[99,
207
344, 36]
T
II
Lukins, William
374 248
^yz,
Markeson, Ami
49
'I'"
|
Maxwell. William R
370
197
318
363 262
2t,()
Henry C
Daniel Charles
Modes, Edward
Xash. John Fisk
Charles
243
241
331
288
289
188 271
Perkins,
Lothrop
Read. Edwin
291
246
235 276
33 s $S ()
Samuel
Rodgers, Joshua
1\(
ihrer, Celestine
317
22^ 2yo
William
Slagle,
David
H
H
3^3 284
335
158
Smith,
Edward Henry
Stebbins, George S
Steen. Charles
228
Stormont, William
Stout,
228
334
I)
337 206
3 I]
297
495
Page.
.*
Trowbridge, Irving
Tryon, Clarence
II
364 340
321
E
C
249
163
Walker, Samuel
Lamme
150
251
Wilmarth, George
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Page.
Gray, Oliver Cromwell
Lininger, George
461
W
G
480
115
Ransom, Thomas E.
479
117
482
Lamme
466
SC R
1
1 1
T U RAL
READING.
Page.
The Apostasy Judas Iscariot The Bitter Cup The Crucifixion The Election of Matthias The Resurrection The Unbelief of Thomas
f
447 26
1
457
45<j
458 460
496
PO
At
Last
for the
Page.
483
Truth
Crusaders
1
47
lope
446
(
If
We
)nly
Understood
38]
111
Illinois
Lines Inscribed
Upon
Die
a Skrll
79
yj
r6
21
Not Afraid
(
to
)ld
Xesl.it
Rock
Me
to Sleep
Mother
Sextennial
69
Beyond
Common
Rising Gi
Lot of
Man
)
377 330
13
Prayer of Nature
>d
(
hymn
99 42
33
Thy
Done
for
Who
Speaks
This
Man
185