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member. He was also a member of the Sunday school and faithful in attendance upon all the services, both on Sunday and during the week. He also served as trustee of the church. Mr. Wolfe was a member of Boonville Lodge, No. 165, F&AM. He was a trustee and also a member of the board of governors of the Masonic club. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. J. Frank Pease and a grandson, Jay Henry Pease, who have the sincere sympathy of many friends in the bereavement which has come to them. The Boonville Masonic Lodge took part in the services. Roman Hatheway Lodge No. 223, Rome, New York http://www.romanhatheway.org/OurHistory.html In 1798, Oneida County was created from a part of Herkimer County. This county was larger than the current Oneida County, including the present Jefferson, Lewis, and part of Oswego Counties. Shortly after the creation of the current Oneida County; Roman Lodge was created. Warrant: 13 Feb 1799 Roman Lodge No. 79. Signed by M.’.W.’. Robert R. Livingston, Grand Master; R.’.W.’. Jacob Morton, DGM; R.’.W.’. Dewitt Clinton, SGW; R.’.W.’. Martin Hoffman, JGW, naming Joshua Hatheway as Master; Stephen Whites as SW; Chester Gould as JW. The original warrant in possession of the Lodge is dated 13 Feb 1799. The name has since been Roman until the merger with Hatheway Lodge 869 in 1998 which is why we are now known as Roman-Hatheway. Roman's number was 79 until 4 Jun 1819 when it became No. 82 and upon its revival in 1851 received its present number 223. Minutes: Intact from 1799 to 1831, and intact since 1851. Roman Lodge was organized during the winter of 1797-1798. The proceedings of the Grand Lodge under date of March 7, 1798 contains the following in reference to petitions for warrants. "From William Colbreath and others to hold a Lodge in the Town of Rome, County of Oneida, by the name of Roman Lodge and the said petition was referred to the Grand Presiding Officer" The petition was recommended by Steuben Lodge No. 54 from the Herkimer County on 11 Jan 1798. On 13 Feb 1799 a warrant was issued, with: Master Joshua Hatheway SW Stephen White JW Chester Gould Brothers within Petition also included: William Colbreath, Sheldon Logan, Zenas Gould, Jesse Pierce and Calvin Gould. Col. William Colbreath (aka Colbraith) held the office of Sheriff of Herkimer County, in 1791 and 1796. At the organization of Oneida County, in 1798, he was chosen Sheriff, and was the first officer who ever served a process on what was known as the Military Tract. Though he had served in the War of the Revolution, his title was acquired after the war in the service of the State. In social life he was full of humor and took great delight in scenes of mirth. His manners grew out more from a mind naturally strong, rather than from one educated in the schools or the courtesies of life in society. His interesting Journal, kept during the siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777, may be read in the present work at Appendix IV, wherein he also gives an account of the first raising of an American flag in battle. By 19 Sep 1799 the Lodge membership had almost doubled and the Treasurer was instructed to purchase lamb skins for thirty aprons and also a carpet. The first labor of the Lodge was the passing of N.J. Visscher; the first initiates were Rufus Easton and Michael Frost. The Lodge had many abiding places during the first 25 years of its existence. From Solomon Rich’s coffee house it’s passed to David I. Andrus’s; thence to Stephen White’s, now the site to the long room of Will aim McCarthy (1800); thence to Moses Wright’s (1805); thence to the third loft of Brother Lee’s house, the site of the American Hotel; thence to Enos Gilbert’s (1814) ; thence to Brother Merrill’s (1815); thence to Stephen White’s (1816); thence to Charles C. Graham’s the coffee house (1817). In 1814 it voted to build a new hall, but nothing came of it. On 3 Aug 1824 a resolution to purchase a site and build a hall was carried and a committee was appointed to procure the necessary finds. The Contributions aggregated the sum of $240.50. All but $20.00 was given in lumber, lime, iron ware, produce, printing, shoe making goods and labor. As a result of this effort the building was erected on the corner of Liberty and Washington Street and a deed taken to Numa Leonard, who gave a declaration of trust to the Lodge, etc. On 21 Feb 1825 the new hall was occupied for the first time. LaFayette visiting Rome during the year, the name of LaFayette was applied to the new room. It continued to be used by the Lodge until 1831. The hall later was occupied by The Jewish Synagogue, The Universalist Church and The Zion Church. (Not necessarily in this order) Of the social life and practices of the Lodge a hint appears here and there. 13 Dec 1803 the Secretary records a resolution to celebrate the feast of St. John’s day at Brother Andrus’s and have a sermon preached; that twenty five cents a member be paid for the dinner and seventy-five cents a bottle for wine. On 23 Sep 1826 the corner stone of the Baptist Church at Rome was laid with Masonic ceremonies by Benjamin P. Johnson, who at that time was Master of Roman Lodge The last returns on file are dated June 1829. It then had 23 members. . 32
Grand Lodge requested that the warrant for Roman 79 be surrendered. Numa Leonard, Master of the lodge, refused to do so in hopes that Masonry would be revived once again in Rome. (Roman-Hatheway still holds this charter) Tradition informs us that after 1829, owing to the persecutions occasioned by the Morgan episode the meetings of the Lodge were held at infrequent intervals in secret places, mostly in the room in back of Alva Mudge’s store, but it was finally forced to cease work and for almost 20 years Masonry slumbered in Rome. On 3 Jun 1835 the Grand Secretary reported that no returns had been made by the Lodge since 1829 and that Grand Lodge declared the warrant forfeited. The first movement to revive the Lodge was made during the winter of 1850-1851 by Selden A. Emerson and Samuel B. Stevens who induced others to join in re-organizing the Lodge. On 5 Feb 1851 a meeting was held in Odd Fellows Hall when a petition was prepared and arrangements made to complete the organization. Four of the petitioners were survivors of the old Roman 82 Lodge who on 16 Jun 1851 were issued a warrant: Four original brothers: Samuel B. Stevens, Jesse Armstrong, Joseph D. Cage and James Halbert. First officers of the revived lodge: Seldon A. Emmerson Master Samuel B. Stevens SW Soloman [sic] Purdy JW The first meeting place of the Lodge after its revival was in the Armstrong Block on South James Street and the Erie Canal ,where it remained until 5 Nov 1853, when a fire destroyed the building. Once the original 1799 warrant resurfaced in 1851 the following petition was made to Grand Lodge F & A. M. of the State of New York: Proceedings read as follows: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - “A Petition was submitted on behalf of Roman Lodge No. 223 to re-issue to the Lodge the charter of Roman Lodge No. 82, granted in 1799, as of 1851, the date of the charter of Roman Lodge No. 223. The Committee adopted the following preamble and resolution: Whereas Roman Lodge No. 223 has filed a petition to re-issue the charter of Roman Lodge No. 82 granted in 1799 as of 1851, the date of the charter of Roman Lodge No. 223, and as the charter issued to Roman Lodge No. 82 has been the property of the Grand Lodge since its forfeiture and cannot be re-issued under No, 223 and, whereas, there is a Lodge No. 82, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge it is resolved, That the Committee recommends that the petition of Roman Lodge No. 223 be denied at this time without prejudice. All of which is fraternally submitted. Robert Judson Kenworthy Charles F. Adams Nathan T Hewitt Edward Booth William Kilingenstein Harold J Richardson Luis E Bomeisler William S. Riselay - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jerome L. Cheney Committee” As they continued the craft as Roman Lodge No. 223, it afterwards occupied the Odd Fellow Hall No. 133 West Dominick St., until 25 Jun 1856 when it moved into rooms over the Fort Stanwix Bank (now Rome Savings Bank) where it remained until 14 Feb 1870, when it moved into a building owned by Samuel B. Stevens who had been an active member of the Lodge since 1828. On 11 Feb 1880 it moved into rooms which had been specially arranged for Masonic purposes in the Clessman-Hower Block where it remained until 11 May 1908, when it moved into the Masonic Temple which had just been erected on the site of the Washington Street Opera House. Roman Lodge was also represented at the Laying of the Corner stone of the Home at Utica, NY, 21 May 1891 and at its dedication 5 Oct 1892. The Lodge participated in the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of the City Hall at Rome by M.W. John Hodge, Grand Master, 4 Oct 1894. On 6 May 1899 the Lodge celebrated its Centennial Anniversary, the affair was held in the Washington Street Opera House and Attracted a large assemblage of Masons and their friends. It also participated in the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of the Federal Building at Rome by M.W. William A. Sutherland past Grand Master, 6 Jun 1903. 11 May 1908 it moved into the Masonic Temple which had just been erected on the site of the Washington Street Opera House. In 1909 Roman Lodge 82 requested dispensation to warrant Hatheway Lodge No. 869. In which created a second Masonic Lodge in Rome. 33
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