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Title: "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Copeland, Alfred Minott, 1830- ed
Subjects: Hampden County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Boston : Century Memorial Pub. Co
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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s conferred in the ScottishKites bodies. Twelve 32d degree Masons secured a dispensationto form a lodge of Perfection and confer the fourth to fourteenthdegrees inclusive, and the first meeting under this permissionwas held February 1, 1866. The following month three candi-dates were given degrees in the body. The first Thrice PotentGrand Master was \V. H. Spooner. The lodge has a member-ship of more than 200. The charter, which was dated May 18,1866, was destroyed by the fire in the Masonic home in the Massa-chusetts Mutual Life Insurance building in 1891, Massasoit Council Princes of Jerusalem, which confers thefifteenth and sixteenth ineffable degrees, was formed in Spring-field by eight 32d degree Masons, who met in the fall of 1867 andpetitioned for a charter. The first meeting under a dispensa-tion granted then was held January 8, 1868. The charter whichwas granted by the Supreme council of the 33d degree of theNorthern jurisdiction of the United States was dated May 19, ( 479 )
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(Teorge W. Ray FREE MASONRY 1868. This was lost in the tire of February 9, 1891. The coun-cil has been prosperous since its organization and now has over100 members. The late Albert E. Foth was the first MostEquitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master. The seventeenth and eighteenth degrees of the Ancient andAccepted Scottish Rite, N. M. J. U. S. A. are conferred inSpringfield chapter of Rose Croix. This chapter was institutedin 1894, its charter being granted September 20 of that year. Ed-mund P. Kendrick, a 33d degree Mason, is at the head of thischapter. There are in the county a large number of Masons who havereceived the 32d degree, and a smaller number who have receivedthe high Masonic honor of the 33d degree, a degree conferred forspecial zeal or signal service for the institution of Masonry, andaccordingly prized as the summit of Masonry. In the early days of Masonry in the county the meetingswere held in the day time. Usually the full of the moon wasselected as the time of meetin

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