Grand Lodge of Michigan
The Grand Lodge of Michigan of Free and Accepted Masons, commonly known as Grand Lodge of Michigan, in tandem with the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan govern the practice of regular Freemasonry in the state of Michigan.
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| Formation | 1826 |
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| Coordinates | 43.389892°N 84.666753°W |
Region | Michigan |
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History
It is uncertain when Freemasonry came to the Great Lakes area. Though it is known that it was first brought to the area by the French at a time when it was Indian Territory. The earliest documented Lodge west of the Allegheny Mountains was warranted in Detroit on April 27, 1764, by George Harison, Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of New York, with Lt. John Christie of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Royal American Foot Regiment as Worshipful Master. By 1772, there were at least three Lodges functioning at Detroit: Lodge No. 1 and two Irish Military Lodges, Nos. 299 and 378, warranted to Masons of the 10th Regiment, then stationed at Detroit. The next three Lodges warranted for work in Michigan were also started by members of the visiting military. These were Harmony Lodge in Detroit, St. Johns Lodge No. 15 on the island of Mackinac and Zion Lodge No. 10 (now No. 1) warranted in 1794 for work in Detroit.[1]
In September 1817 Zion Lodge provided much needed support for the newly created University of Michigan. The idea first took shape in the minds of Augustus Woodward, a Mason and the first Judge of the Territorial Supreme Court; the Reverend John Monteith, a Presbyterian clergyman and Father Gabriel Richard, a Roman Catholic Priest. On September 15, Zion Lodge met and subscribed the sum of $250 in aid of the University of Michigan, payable in the sum of $50 per year. Of the total amount subscribed to start the University two-thirds came from Zion Lodge and its members.[2]
The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe. These five Lodges laid plans for a Grand Lodge in the Territory to handle the growing plans for Masonry in the area, and in June 1826 a Grand Lodge for the Territory of Michigan was established in Detroit. There are 274 Lodges in the State of Michigan at the present time.[3]
List of Grand Masters
List of past and current Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Michigan
| Grand Master | Year(s) Served | Death |
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| Lewis Cass | 1826-1829 | June 17, 1866 |
| Leonard Weed | 1842 | June 30, 1848 |
| John Mullet | 1843-1845 | January 15, 1862 |
| Ebenezer Hall | 1846 | July 2, 1865 |
| E. Smith Lee | 1847-1848 | April 12, 1857 |
| Jeremiah Moors | 1849-1850 | July 6, 1854 |
| Henry T. Backus | 1851 –1853 | July 13, 1877 |
| George W. Peck | 1854-1855 | June 30, 1905 |
| George C. Monroe | 1856 | August 16, 1883 |
| Levi Cook | 1857 | December 2, 1866 |
| William M. Fenton | 1858 | November 12,1871 |
| J. Adams Allen | 1859 | August 15,1890 |
| William L. Greenly | 1860 | November 29, 1883 |
| Horace S. Roberts | 1861 | August 30, 1862 |
| Francis Darrow | 1862 | April 11, 1873 |
| J. Eastman Johnson | 1863 | March 14, 1883 |
| Lovell Moore | 1864 | November 24, 1882 |
| William T. Mitchell | 1865 | February 6, 1916 |
| Salathiel C. Coffinbury | 1866-1868 | September 20, 1889 |
| Abram T. Metcalf | 1869-1870 | October 8, 1916 |
| John W. Champlin | 1871 | July 24, 1901 |
| Henry Chamberlain | 1872 | February 9, 1907 |
| Hugh McCurdy | 1873 | July 16, 1908 |
| William L. Webber | 1874 | October 15, 1901 |
| George H. Durand | 1875 | July 8, 1903 |
| Matthew H. Maynard | 1876 | December 27, 1907 |
| William Dunham | 1877 | June 30, 1905 |
| John W. Finch | 1878 | April 4, 1906 |
| Daniel Striker | 1879 | April 12, 1898 |
| John W. McGrath | 1880 | December 9, 1905 |
| Oliver L. Spaulding | 1881 | July 30, 1922 |
| Alanson Partridge | 1882 | July 7, 1900 |
| Charles Fritz-Roy Bellows | 1883 | April 16, 1907 |
| Arthur M. Clark | 1884 | October 26, 1903 |
| James H. Farnum | 1885 | January 19, 1917 |
| Michael Shoemaker | 1886 | November 10, 1895 |
| Rufus C. Hatheway | 1887 | December 9, 1896 |
| William B. Wilson | 1888 | January 24, 1911 |
| W Irving Babcock | 1889 | March 31, 1908 |
| John S. Cross | 1890 | September 18, 1899 |
| John Q. Look | 1891 | October 22, 1920 |
| William P. Innes | 1892 | August 2, 1893 |
| George E. Dowling | 1893 | March 30, 1896 |
| William H. Philips | 1894 | February 13, 1906 |
| Edwin L. Bowering | 1895 | October 26, 1900 |
| John J. Carton | 1896 | August 26, 1934 |
| Lou B. Winsor | 1897 | November 8, 1936 |
| James Bradley | 1898 | February 6, 1914 |
| Frank T. Lodge | 1899 | December 10, 1930 |
| Lucien E. Wood | 1900 | June 5, 1916 |
| Frank O. Gilbert | 1901 | November 26, 1929 |
| Neal McMillan | 1902 | December 11, 1920 |
| Roscoe W. Broughton | 1903 | July 5, 1930 |
| Fletcher E. Turrell | 1904 | July 2, 1935 |
| John Rowson | 1905 | April 26, 1927 |
| Charles L. Stevens | 1906 | January 30, 1907 |
| Charles E. Sweet | 1907 | July 11, 1913 |
| Herbert Montague | 1908 | June 15, 1931 |
| Arthur M. Hume | 1909 | February 14, 1955 |
| G. Roscoe Swift | 1910 | July 12, 1944 |
| James E. Dillon | 1911 | December 24, 1927 |
| James H. Thompson | 1912 | December 19, 1943 |
| Francis D. Clark | 1913 | September 7, 1913 |
| William M. Perrett | 1914 | August 28, 1930 |
| George L. Lusk | 1915 | January 6, 1942 |
| John H. Hawks | 1916 | November 12, 1952 |
| Louis H. Fead | 1917 | February 4, 1943 |
| Hugh A. McPherson | 1918 | September 20, 1945 |
| Charles B. Eddy | 1919 | October 10,1938 |
| Ira A. Beck | 1920 | August 19, 1947 |
| Robert P. Anderson | 1921 | May 14, 1932 |
| Clark W. MacKenzie | 1922 | February 11, 1967 |
| Charles A. Durand | 1923 | November 13, 1945 |
| Ben J. Henderson | 1924 | January 16, 1949 |
| Arthur J. Fox | 1925 | October 1, 1940 |
| Charles A. Donaldson | 1926 | September 10, 1951 |
| George W. Graves | 1927 | October 29, 1937 |
| F. Homer Newton | 1928 | April 18, 1966 |
| Roscoe O. Bonisteel | 1929 | February 25, 1972 |
| George B. Dolliver | 1930 | January 18, 1961 |
| Albert J. Young | 1931 | October 18, 1947 |
| Louis E. Anderson | 1932 | September 9, 1954 |
| George A. Ferguson | 1933 | September 22, 1959 |
| Frank S. Gould | 1934 | March 26, 1951 |
| Harvey A. Sherman | 1935 | October 10, 1949 |
| Neil E. Reid | 1936 | May 4, 1956 |
| William H. Parker | 1937 | February 2, 1955 |
| Wirt I. Savery | 1938 | January 24, 1939 |
| Francis B. Lambie | 1939 | August 5, 1962 |
| Charles T. Sherman | 1940 | July 12, 1970 |
| Dewey H. Hesse | 1941 | November 22,1974 |
| Orie E. Brown | 1942 | June 19, 1955 |
| Albert A. Hughes | 1943 | January 21, 1949 |
| J. Kenneth Lyons | 1944 | October 29, 1948 |
| Roscoe J. Burch | 1945 | November 29, 1970 |
| Paul O. Strawhecker | 1946 | March 13, 1970 |
| Clarence A. Hooper | 1947 | March 28, 1983 |
| Hazen P. Cole | 1948 | October 26, 1954 |
| Hugh J. Johnston | 1949 | May 16, 1966 |
| Morgan J. Smead | 1950 | April 3, 1962 |
| Guy C. Powell | 1951 | August 28, 1980 |
| French C. Shell | 1952 | July 2, 1968 |
| Horace B. Whyte | 1953 | December 2, 1967 |
| Howard L. Taylor | 1954 | October 19, 1988 |
| Henry R. Ruusi | 1955 | November 17, 1995 |
| Francis M. Dodge | 1956 | May, 1, 1993 |
| Raymond M. Douglas | 1957 | August 30, 1980 |
| Joseph L. Hunter | 1958 | November 12, 1979 |
| Rex P. Sackett | 1959 | August 20, 1983 |
| W. Wallace Kent | 1960 | May 28, 1973 |
| Willard Saur | 1961 | June 7, 1984 |
| Glenn L. Alt | 1962 | December 17, 1971 |
| Newton S. Bacon | 1963 | December 7, 1987 |
| C. Fuller Dorr | 1964 | January 26, 1997 |
| Percy H. Williams | 1965 | April 30, 1992 |
| Robert A. Hockstad | 1966 | January 16, 2011 |
| Ivan E. Addis | 1967 | September 21, 1972 |
| Milo E. Underhill | 1968 | May 16, 1995 |
| William H. Harmon | 1969 | October 22, 1977 |
| Charles Solmo | 1970 | October 20, 1973 |
| Raymond A. McPhee | 1971 | June 9, 2006 |
| Robert E. Lake | 1972 | March 15, 1986 |
| Wilfred E. Adams | 1973 | November 28, 1980 |
| Royce E. Curlis | 1974 | June 1, 1997 |
| John G. Polzin | 1975 | May 22, 2017 |
| Vincent A. Vatter | 1976 | August 9, 2000 |
| Ronald Schwartz | 1977 | September 29, 2010 |
| Holm A. Swenson | 1978 | April 14, 1985 |
| Charles S. Moulthrop Jr. | 1979 | May 15, 2013 |
| Robert N. Osborne | 1980 | June 14, 2008 |
| Carl C. Worfel | 1981 | January 21, 1998 |
| Robert W. Sanborn | 1982 | February 26, 2019 |
| Russell C. Wells | 1983 | December 6, 2020 |
| Henry A. Wilson | 1984 | N/A |
| Richard H. Sands | 1985 | N/A |
| Ernest Hoffman, Jr. | 1986 | January 31, 2004 |
| Donald P. Heming | 1987 | July 23, 2002 |
| Kenneth Bolton | 1988 | N/A |
| Thomas C. Cross | 1989 | August 21, 2005 |
| Wayne E. Turton | 1990 | N/A |
| William Skrepnek | 1991 | March 3, 2012 |
| Leonard R. Noechel | 1992 | February 5, 2002 |
| W. Don Baugher | 1993 | N/A |
| Donald L. Reno | 1994 | March 15, 2000 |
| Dale C. Edwards | 1995 | March 4, 2007 |
| Donald J. Van Kirk | 1996 | March 12, 2019 |
| Robert W. Stevens | 1997 | N/A |
| Douglas F. Hegyi | 1998 | N/A |
| David H. Flucke | 1999 | May 27, 2018 |
| Robert P. Conley | 2000 | N/A |
| Paul N. Cross | 2001 | N/A |
| David R. Bedwell | 2002 | July 17, 2016 |
| Lary R. Smith | 2003 | N/A |
| Robert G. Helmic | 2004 | N/A |
| Richard P. Ruhland | 2005 | N/A |
| Walter F. Wheeler | 2006 | N/A |
| Ira S. Slaven | 2007 | N/A |
| Michael J. Jungel | 2008 | N/A |
| Donald L. Carman | 2009 | N/A |
| Frank T. Praria | 2010 | N/A |
| Frederick E. Kaiser Jr. | 2011 | N/A |
| Dean A. Barr | 2012 | N/A |
| Raymond C. Lemons | 2013 | N/A |
| William E. LeVeque | 2014 | N/A |
| Richard D. Wisley | 2015 | N/A |
| William R. Finkel | 2016 | N/A |
| Joshua M. Woodwyk | 2017 | N/A |
| David M. Hill | 2018 | N/A |
| Mark A. Manning | 2019 | N/A |
See also
References
- http://www.michiganmasons.org/cms/index.taf?_function=History%20of%20Masonry History of Freemasonry
- http://vpcomm.umich.edu/aboutum/ About-U-M: Home
- https://www.grandlodgemi.org/lodges/lodges-in-districts/
