change, of New York ; American, of Provi-
dence; Atlantic, of New York; Atlantic F.
& M., of Providence; Aurora, of Aurora;
Beekman, of New York; Brewers', of Milwau-
kee ; Capital City, of Albany ; Charter Oak, of
Hartford ; Citizens', of New York ; City, of
Hartford ; Cleveland, of Cleveland ; Commerce, of
Albany ; Commerce, of New York ; Connecticut, of
Hartford ; Continental, of New York ; Detroit, of
Detroit ; Enterprise, of Philadelphia ; Excelsior, of
New York; Firemen's Fund, of San Francisco; Frank-
lin, of Philadelphia; Fulton, of New York; German,
of Cleveland ; Hartford, of Hartford ; Hibernia, of
Cleveland; Hide & Leather, of Boston; Home, of
Columbus; Home, of New York; Hope, of Providence;
Howard, of New York; Illinois M. & F., of Alton;
Independent, of Boston; International, of New York;
Irving, of New York; Lamar, of New York; Liverpool
& London & Globe; Lorillard, of New York; Lycoming,
of Pennsylvania; Market, of New York; Mercantile, of
New York; Merchants', of Hartford; Merchants' &
Mechanics', of Baltimore; National, of Boston; New
Amsterdam, of New York; North American, of New
York; North British & Mercantile, of London; Nor-
wich, of Norwich; Occidental, of San Francisco;
Peoples', of San Francisco; Peoples', of Worcester,
Mass; Phenix, of Brooklyn; Phcenix, of Hartford; Put-
nam, of Hartford; Reaper City, of Rockford; Security,
of New York; Springfield F. & M., of Massachusetts;
Sun, of Cleveland; Teutonia, of Cleveland; Union, of
San Francisco; Yonkers & New York, of New York.
Fire & Marine: Albany City, of New York; Alps, of
Erie, Penn.; Andes, of Cincinnati; Buffalo City, of
Buffalo; Buffalo, of Buffalo; Commercial Mutual, of
Cleveland; Hibernia, of Cleveland; Manhattan, of New
York; New England Mutual, of Boston; Pa< ific, of
San Francisco; Phenix, of Brooklyn; Roger Willi. mis,
of Providence; Security, of New York; Washington, of
New York; Western, of Buffalo. I. in.: .Etna, of
Hartford'; Amicable Mutual, of New York; Anchor, of
New Jersey; Asbury, of New York; Atlantic Mutual, of
Albany; Berkshire, of Massachusetts; Brooklyn, of
New York; Charter Oak, of Massachusetts; Cincinnati
Mutual, of Cincinnati; Commonwealth, of Boston; Con-
RUINS, INSURANCE BUILDINGS.
necticut Mutual, of Connecticut; Connecticut, of Hart-
ford; Continental, of New York; Economical Mutual,
of Providence; Empire Mutual, of New York; Equitable
Life Association of the United States; Excelsior, of New
York; Globe Mutual, of New "York; Government Secur-
ity, of New York; Hahnemann, of Cleveland; Hartford
Life and Annuity, of Hartford; Hercules Mutual Life
Association of the United States; Home, of New York;
Home Mutual, of Cincinnati; Homoeopathic Mutual, of
New York; Hope Mutual, of New York; International,
of New Jersey; John Hancock, of Boston; Knicker-
bocker, of New York; Life Association of America;
Manhattan, of New York; Massachusetts Mutual;
Merchants', of New York; Metropolitan, of New York;
Missouri Mutual, of St. Louis; Mutual Benefit, of New-
Jersey; Mutual, of New York; New England Mutual,
of Boston; New Jersey Mutual, of Newark; New York,
of New York; North America, of New York; Pacific
Mutual, of Sacramento; Penn Mutual, of Philadelphia;
Phcenix Mutual, of Hartford; Security, of New York;
St. Louis Mutual, of St. Louis; the National, of New
York; Travelers', of Hartford: Union Mutual, of
Boston; United States, of New York City; Universal,
of New York; Washington, of New York: World Mutual,
of New York. Marine: Albany City, of New York;
Independent, of Boston; New England Mutual, of
Boston. Steam Boiler: Hartford Steam Boiler
Inspection & Insurance Company.
6,2
HISTORY OF CHICAGO.
The Niagara Fire Insurance Company, of New York,
was established in 1S50, and was mulcted about $200,000 in conse-
quence of the Chicago tire. Since its establishment it has paid
losses amounting to nearly ten millions, and, on January 1, iSSs,
had assets amounting to §1,851,597, and a net surplus of §331,448.
It is at present under the management of Mr. Blackwelder, who
controls its Western department, he having, in April, 1SS1, become
connected with it, and, since that date, has largely increased its
Western business. As is well known the year 1S84 was one of
peculiar and unprecedented hardship to tire insurance companies;
nevertheless, the Niagara, under specially careful and skillful man-
agement, is able to report — what very few companies can do — an
increase of net surplus, and a very slight decrease of assets from
the effect of shrinkage in market values. Moreover, the company's
premium receipts were larger in 1S84 than in 1SS3, while the reserve
is larger by nearly §41,000 than a year ago. And, better than all,
the Niagara, after so severe a year, is able to exhibit that, after
paying fifty thousand dollars in dividends to stockholders, the entire
disbursements of the year were kept down to a point considerably
within the income. This statement is one which is greatly to the
credit of the companv.
I. S. Blackwelder, manager of the Western Department of
the Niagara, is an insurance man of over twenty years' experience,
and comes of an old German family which emigrated to America
prior to the War of the Revolution. There were three brothers, all
of whom were active in the little army of patriots under General
Gates in the South. His father, Peter Blackwelder, married Miss
Nellie Scherer — both natives of North Carolina — and moved into
Montgomery County, III., in 1833. Mr. Blackwelder is a native of
Illinois, born near Litchfield, Montgomery County, March 8, 1S40.
He was attending the academy at Hillsboro', the county seat, at
the age of twenty-one, when he was nominated for the office of
county clerk, and, upon his election, left school and filled that
office for four years, from December, 1861, to December, 1865.
He was urged to accept a re-nomination, but preferring a mercan-
tile life, he declined, and went into business in Hillsboro'. After
some experience as local agent, in January, 186S, he began to
travel as special agent for the .Etna Insurance Company, of Hart-
ford, and continued to travel for that and other companies until
the 1st of April, 1SS1, when he took .charge of the Western Depart-
ment of the Niagara. One week after the great fire, Mr. Black-
welder came to Chicago in the interests of the Franklin Fire
Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, and assisted in adjusting
the losses sustained by that company, and has made Chicago his
home since that time.' On April 5, 1877, he was married to Miss
Alice Gertrude Boughton. the daughter of Rev. A. Boughton, a
Baptist clergyman of Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y. The wedding
took place at Lawrence, Kan., Chancellor Marvin, of the State
University, officiating. Two children have been born to them —
Paul on April 7. 187S, and Eliot, on June 4, 1880. Mr. Black-
welder, although not unsocial, is yet too domestic in his tastes and
habits to care for club life; and though a member of the Union
League and Indiana clubs, a Mason and a Knight Templar, yet he
rarely attends, and is not at present in affiliation with the Masons.
He is an attendant at Professor Swing's church.
The German American Insurance Company is represented
in Chicago by Judge Eugene Cary, manager, and J. S. Belden, as-
sociate manager. The Western Department was inaugurated on
October I. 1873, since which time the following have been the
yearly exhibits of the company on January 1st of each of the years
specified:
1874
1875
1-7'.
'-:;
1879
1880
i - i
1 - 2
1884
sr/,72,
1 867.
2,062,
2,226,
2.325.
2.471.
2,619
3-004,
3.453.
3.7"4.
4.065,
362 59
131 83
968 68
552 97
007 77
7'" 73
36b 64
029 59
74' 19
274 73
9»8 31
Net Surplu
§ Ic
247 69
558 41
678 09
837 53
561 25
.,;-; = 4
666 16
,090 66
240 08
578 18
010 26
Both the gentlemen who are at the head of its western manage-
ment are of long experience in the insurance business; Judge Eu-
gene Cary having been therein about twenty-five years in various
capacities He came to Chicago in October, 1871, in the interest
of the Imperial Insurance Company of London, and was manager
of the Western Department of that company until called to his
present position.
Judge Cary was born in the town of Boston, Erie Co., N. Y.,
and came West in 1854, and located in Sheboygan County, Wis.
Before the War, he was county judge of that county, and at the
outbreak of the War entered the service, as captain, with the 1st
Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry Yolunteers; subsequently serving
in the capacity of judge -advocate of the First Division, 14th
Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. After the War, he settled
at Nashville Tenn., in which State he served one term as member
of the State Senate and one term as judge of the Circuit Court of
the First Judicial Circuit in that State. In Chicago, he served one
term as member of the Common Council (known as the Reform
Council), in the years of 1877 and 1878. He was che Republican
and Peoples' candidate for mayor of Chicago in the spring of 1S83,
but was defeated by Carter H. Harrison, the Democratic nominee.
J. S. Belden came to Chicago in 1S62, and first engaged in in-
surance in 1S65, under J. R. Payson, general agent of the Security
Insurance Company, and with his present company in November,
1872, for which he was assistant manager for seven years, and was
then appointed associate manager, in 18S1, which position he now
occupies.
Asa fitting addendum, the following table of losses of
the insurance companies of New York and Hartford in
this city, for the years specified, is given; and from it
may be gathered the tact that, anterior to the fire of
1871, this city was ripe for conflagrations, and that they
arrived with increasing frequency, until recklessness in
building and utter carelessness as to fire limits culmi-
nated in the disaster of 1S71 :
Year.
Fire.
Losses.
Insurance.
1S63
186
193
243
315
515
46S
490
700
$355,660
65I,7qS
1,216,466
2,487,973
4.215,332
3,138,617
1.241,151
2,305,595
$272,500
485,300
94I,6g2
1,646,445
3,427,28S
1,956,851
841,392
2,052,971
1864
1865 - -
1S66 -
1867
1S6S
1869
1870
Total
3,"0
§15,612,592
$11,624,439
Amount of Loss by Fire of 187 i. — The amount
of loss entailed by the fire has been variously estimated.
C. E. Lippincott, auditor of State, estimated the
Value of property in the burned district to be $282,000,000
Deduct estimated value of land .$94,000,000
Property not destroyed 35,000,000 $129,000,000
Total amount of loss $153,000,000
Total amount paid by insurance companies 50,178,925
Loss to property owners. $102, 82 1,075
In another estimate, Mr. Lippincott figures as fol-
lows: The amount at risk in burned district was $100,-
225,780. An estimate that the property actually in-
sured was covered by risks, on an average, to the extent
of two-thirds of its value, would make the amount of
the insured property $150,338,670, or worth $50,112,890
over amount for which it was covered by insurance,
Making (exclusive of real estate) $200,451,560
Deduct as before for property not destroyed 35,000,000
Amount of loss -$165,451,560
Amount paid by insurance companies 50,178,925
Loss to property owners $115,272,535
Mr. Colbert estimates the loss at $192,000,000, or
$140,000,000 above insurance; while C. E. Rollins
INSURANCE
computes the loss at $185,510,000, or $135,331 07; net
oss to property owners. A golden me^betweS "he
approx.mat.on of the auditor and these amounts would
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about convey a fair idea of the amount destroyed and
the loss suffered by the owners.
The precise amount of risks written at the time of
the dre, in the burned district, was $100,225,770 9 o dis-
tributed among companies as follows ;
Illinois
Connecticut . .
California
Great Britain..
Massachusetts.
.Missouri
Michigan
Maryland
Minnesota .
Maine ~_.
New York
New Jersey. .
Ohio
Pennsylvania...
Rhode Island..
Wisconsin
West Virginia..
Total
amount of r
i.. the
burned distr
2\ §34.4=6,474 4')
.2,229,625 '»,
4.694,530 c»>
11 t09,78. 71
4,845,636 11
410,825 00
202,150 00
415,975 00
M'',200 00
S7,5°° 00
25,009,528 77
25,000 00
5.709.5S8 88
2.517,3=0 71
2,312,822 00
74S.932 91
33,SS 3 33
Total
Ipprox-
|imate amount
paid.
IOO,225,77g go
S3". 700.632 Si $1
.2,229,625 00 -,| 10,830
01 2,477,590
6,409,78. 71 6,046,438
4,814,727 2; 3 299,590
400,825 00 90,410
202,150 00 189,377
415,975 00 332.575
140,200 00 137,806
52,500 00 51,875
!4, 484,194 00 .6,242,970
25,000 00 25,000
5,611,943 52 2,799,520
2,492.413 03 2,030,830
2,312,822 00 1.162,538
520,518 29 498,433
33,883 33 3 3iI3 3
S96.553,720 94850,178,925
1'he first loss paid was liquidated by the Phenix
Insurance Company, to Hart, Asten & Co., a fac simile
ot the draft being given herewith
shoL he . nU T, ber ,°, f , com P anies P'aced in liquidation is
shown by the following table to be sixty eight-the
Chicago companies being of the number. 'The Ameri-
can however, only had a loss of $972.90, and went on
with its business uninjured by the conflagration that
wound up the affairs of the rest, some of -which, how-
ever, d.d not go into liquidation, but paid out all their
money and retired from business.
New York
Illinois .
Connecticut..
Ohio.
Rhode Island..
Massachusetts..
California .
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Total 6S
Paid-up cap-
And pertinent to this table is the remark made by
the Insurance Times :
"Azrael* came to some of our insurance companies and car
ned away the ignominy, as well as the fruits, of low rates and bail
management. 1 o a few the Chicago lire was a god-send. It ena-
bled them to fold the drapery of death around them and die with
honor Low rates, had practices, and imbecility had been doing
their slow but sure work, and failure sooner or later was in
The following companies, still in business, report, as
below, the amount of their losses paid to the insurers
on account of the Chicago Fire :
ILLINOIS.
American S 972 9"
CALIFORNIA.
Firemens' Fund
Union _
529,364 92
55S.423 35
/Etna
CONNECTICUT.
3,773,423 Ot;
Connecticut 490,875 00
Hartford 1,812.000 00
1>hcenlx - 936,579 23
MAINE,
5,000 00
Union
* Azrael is the angel of dca
1 the Persian Theology.
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HISTORY OF CHICAGO
MARYLAND.
Maryland Ins. and Sec - - iS.ooo oo
National 35.000 00
Peabody 10,000 00
Peoples' 17,000 00
Potomac - 10,000 00
MASSACHUSETTS.
Bovlston 13,00000
Eliot - 12,500 00
Franklin 59 2 5° 00
Firemen's — 35.°°o 00
First National 2,500 00
Manufacturers' 115. 949 39
Neptune - 60,00000
North American . - - 10,000 00
Springfield .. - - 526,360 31
Shoe and Leather - 24,70s 34
Washington 25,000 00
MISSOURI.
American Central 277,406 17
Citizens' 25,000 00
MICHIGAN.
Detroit 1S9.377 35
MINNESOTA.
St. Paul - 137, S06 34
NEW JERSEY.
Firemen's - 10,000 00
Merchants' - 15,000 00
NEW Y'ORK.
American Exchange. 5S,ooo 00
American - 36.765 4°
Buffalo German .- - 5,00000
Citizens' 62,100 00
Commercial - 4.145 19
Commerce, of Albany 395, 0S3 00
Continental ... 1,550,187 So
Exchange...- 2,437 5°
Firemen's 74,952 00
Firemen's Trust - 4,953 33
Germania.. 276,861 19
Glen's Falls 7,82669
Greenwich 9,086 S6
Guardian.- 58,077 42
Hanover 276,861 19
Home.. _ 3,071,390 01
Howard 473,16000
Importers' and Traders' 22,500 00
Jefferson 36,830 36
Kings' County — 42,500 00
LaFayette ..-". 7.354 17
l.orillard - 1,400,00000
Mercantile 107,92566
Mechanics' and Traders' 35,Sg8 21
Mechanics' 24,184 09
Merchants' 9,600 00
National- 40,988 62
New York 14,632 94
Niagara — 276,861 19
Pacific 12,100 00
Phenix ._ 425.925 59
Sterling — 7.457 23
Tradesmen's 30.160 06
Williamsburg City 61,710 00
OHIO.
Aurora. 6,975 00
Cincinnati 48,170 64
Commercial 13,000 00
Farmers' - - 5, 000 00
Firemen's 3, 500 00
Germania - 3,50000
Globe 38.365 89
Merchants' and Manufacturers' 14,500 00
Miami Valley - - 20,00000
National 3,000 00
Union 25,00000
Washington 21,000 00
Western 35.472 76
PENNSYLVANIA.
Franklin 636,905 22
Girard 12,136 40
North America 623,545 31
State of Pennsylvania 24437 4°
RHODE ISLAND.
Atlantic -s - 226,319 00
Merchants' _ 5, 000 00
Providence- Washington 496,170 00
WISCONSIN.
Northwestern National 250,766 88
GREAT BRITAIN.
Commercial Union 65,000 00
Imperial . 217,589 91
Liverpool and London and Globe 3,290,779 63
North British and Mercantile. 2,328,380 42
Royal.. 96,893 27
MASONIC HISTORY.
The period treated of in this volume, 1858-71, was
one of increasing prosperity and augmentation of num-
bers. In 1S63, an edict was issued from the Grand
Lodge, at Freeport, 111., directing that all mnemonics,
cyphers, notes, keys, characters, and excerpta should be
destroyed, and that if this edict were not instantly
obeyed, those transgressing the law should be subjected
to Masonic discipline by the preferring of charges and
proceedings subsequent thereto. In order to perpetuate
the unwritten work, twenty-two grand lecturers were
appointed, whose duty it was to visit the lodges and
illuminate those who were not thoroughly conversant
with the work ; among them were J. Herman Bird, of
Lafayette Lodge, No. 18, and Frank G. Green, of Cleve-
land Lodge, No. 211, of Chicago. In 1863, also, an
attempt was made to constitute a quasi-Board of Con-
servators of the Grand Lodge by legislative enactment,
such board to be composed of certain past grand mas-
ters ; but the attempted arrogation of authority was
. sly resisted by the subordinate lodges of the State.
The Grand Lodge also rel 5ed to anyone adhering to
said " Conservators' Association "any Masonic recogni-
tion, and generally excommunicated its inceptors or
supporters. In consequence, that Association demised
after a brief existence.
A. F. & A. M.
Lafayette Lodge, No. 18. — The Masters of this lodge were
W, H. Dobson, 1857 ; W. W. Jackson. 1S5S-59 ; A. W. Hitch-
cock, 1S61 ; Edward Robbins, 1862 ; A. W. Hitchcock, 1S63;
Charles Cohen, 1864. In 1864 the lodge surrendered its charter,
and its members were re-invested with charters as Chicago Lodge.
No. 437, and H. W. Bigelow Lodge, No. 438.
James Augustus Marshall was born in London, England,
on June 9, 1809. His father was an officer of the British army,
who came to Perth, Canada, to take command of troops there,
while James was an infant. James graduated at the University of
Maryland ; was married, in 1836, to Miss Andalusia Shattuck, who
died shortly after her marriage. In 1838, Mr. Marshall married
Rosanna M. Shattuck. They have the following children — James
Frederick, Emma Catharine, Osborne Hanford and Cornelia Ro-
sanna. Mr. Marshall was initiated as an entered apprentice in
Lafayette Lodge, No r8, A. F. & A. M., and then took the sub-
sequent degrees in Lafayette Chapter, in Council No. 4, and
Apollo Encampment, No. 1, also taking the 32 . He left LaFayette
Lodge with Apollo Lodge, and upon the surrender of its charter
by the latter body, re-united with LaFayette, in preference to join.
ing the newer and inure popular lodge.
Oriental Lodge, No. 33. — The officers of Oriental Lodge
MASONIC HISTORY.
655
occupying the East since its organization, have been W. F. Wal-
ker, 1S45 ; J. V. Z. Blaney, 1S46-47 ; George Davis, 1S4S-49 ;
J. Herman Bird, 1850 ; Carlton Drake, 1851 ; Thomas Shirley,
1852-53 ; William B. Derrick, 1854 ; Enoch B. Stevens, 1S55 ;
George W. Deering, 1S56 ; William C. Hunt, 1857-58 ; James E.
Dalliba, 1S59 ; George F. Haines, 1S60-61 ; Benjamin F. Patrick,
1S62 ; R. W. Dunham, 1863-64 ; Joseph A. Bunce, 1865 ; Wil-
liam A. Thrall, 1S66 ; John W. Clyde, 1867 ; William G. Swan,
1868; Edwin Powell, 1869-71. After the erection of Oriental
Hall, at No. 122 LaSalle Street, the vested interests of the breth-
ren required administration, and to meet this necessity A. G. Bur-
ley, Mark Kimball and Samuel Brown were appointed as trustees,
and held such office from 1S67 until 1872, the lodge having been
incorporated by act of the Legislature, February 28, 1867, and
thereby become empowered to hold real estate, etc.
The dedication of Oriental Hall occurred July 25,
1867, and is thus described in the Chicago Tribune of
the ensuing day :
" The Oriental Building, on LaSalle Street, opposite the
Chamber of Commerce, is in itself one of the finest specimens of
street architecture to be found in the city, and, for a business build-
ing, is the most complete and substantial of any yet finished. The
offices are all large and well lighted, and the stairways and halls spa-
cious, light and airy. The building is complete, with all modern
conveniences.
" In this splendid building is located the hall, or lodge room,
of the Oriental Lodge, No. 33, A. F. & A. M., which has just
been finished in the Oriental style of architecture, and a degree of
success has been attained, in the peculiar fitness and harmony of
its combinations, seldom realized before."
The cost of the hall was about $35,000, and the loss
entailed by its destruction, in the fire of 187 1, was about
$30,000.
Garden City Lodge, No. 141. — This lodge has had some of
the celebrities in the fraternity among its members, the earliest one
being Carding Jackson. And in the present roster of members ap-
pears Carter H. Harrison, as a perfect ashlar. The Masters of the
lodge, from 1857, have been Francis Hudson, 1857 ; Peter C.
Lusk, 185S ; Eben C. Hurd, 1859-60; H. M. Wilcox, 1861 ; W.
B. Bateham, 1S62 ; John W. Norris, 1863 ; W. B. Bateham,
1864-65; Edward Addy, 1866; Gil. W. Barnard,* 1S67-6S ; H.
F. Holeomb, 1869-70 ; George R. McClellan, 1871. This lodge,
suffered from the fire to the amount of about $5,000, meeting, un-
til that time, in Oriental Hall.
Gilkert Wordsworth Barnard was born on June 1, 1834,
in Palmyra. Wayne Co., N. Y., the son of George Washington Bar-
nard and Sabrina (Deming) Barnard. He came to Michigan when
an infant, with his mother, where he lived until he was fifteen
years old, when he came to Chicago. He then worked for John C.
Williams, in his genera! store, and subsequently was in the book
and stationery business, and was then in the general commercial
business, until recently. He was an active member of the Volun-
teer Fire Department, from 1849 to 1858. He was made a Master
Mason, on December 7, 1S64, by Garden City Lodge, No. 141 ; took
the Royal Arch Degree, on October 2„i866, in Corinthian Chap-
ter, No. 69 ; took the Council degrees, in Siloam Council, No. 53,
on March 25, 1871 ; and the Knight Templar degree, on May 13,
1S70 in St. Bernard Commandery, No. 35. He took the 32 on
April 25, 1S68, and the 33° on November 13, 1873. He was a
member of the first Board of Grand Examiners of the Grand
Lodge, for five years, and has been secretary or recorder of nearly
all the side issues that were termed Masonic, and has re-
ceived over three hundred degrees that were known as Masonic.
He was the Master of Garden City Lodge, the High Priest of
Corinthian Chapter, the Eminent Commander of St. Bernard
Commandery, and Commander-in Chief of Oriental Consistory.
He was also D.D.G.M. of the Grand Lodge for the First District,
and is Grand Secretary of the Grand Chapter, Grand Recorder of
the Grand Council and Grand Commandery, and Grand Secretary
of the Council of Deliberation, S P.R.S., of Illinois. It is a work
of supererogation to pen any words of eulogy upon the courtesy,
kindness and industry of this exemplary Mason. He still lives
among us, and each new acquaintance he makes is another friend
added to the long list of those who delight to honor him.
Waubansia Lodge, No. 160. — In 1S58, the meetings of this
body were held at Oriental Hall, on LaSalle Street, and about the
same time the charter was surrendered. On October 3, 1S60, a
new charter was granted to J. E. Church, Myron C. Parsons,
Samuel E. Underhiil, "and several other brethren, for a lodge, to
* To the courtesy and kindness of this eminent Mason, tin- collaborator is
indebted, not alone for these data, but also for other
Masonry.
be termed Waubansia Lodge, No. 160." " After the re-organiza-
tion," says the hand-bunk of this lodge, " the meetings were held
for a time in Blnney Hall, corner Randolph and LaSalle streets;