Craft Masonry in Orange and Rockland Counties, New York

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grandchildren, Shane, Jennifer and Rebecca Gore of Milford, Frank Duffy of Dallas, TX And Patty Duffy of Little Elm, TX, J.R. and Carol Duffy of Lake Wallenpack, PA, Bonnie Clark of Cherry Hill, NJ and Julie Kohn of Mountainside, NJ; also several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Francis “Pete” Skinner and 2 sisters, Martha Kent and Joan Kent. Burial was at Pine Hill Cemetery, Sparrowbush, NY. Hoffman Lodge No. 412, Middletown , Orange, New York Warrant - 16 Jun 1857 210 Prev. No. 300, 1817; see also Mount Moriah 189 Ref. “A Masonic Portrait of the Empire State,” 2002. page 210. “A History of Hoffman Lodge No. 412 – The First 150 Years” may be read at: http://www.hoffmanlodge412.org/HistoryOfHoffmanLodgeByAlDenninger.pdf “Master Builders of Middletown: Hoffman Lodge, No. 412, F&AM” by Seese, Mildred Parker & Ethel Blanchard Gage. 1957. Alexander Wilson, 1856-1858; 1862- 1868; DDGM - 1861-64 Silas R. Martine, 1859 [prev. SW of Goshen Lodge] Joshua Draper, 1860 John G. Wilkin, 1861 Albert H. Corwin, 1869-1871 Moses D. Stivers, 1872 Willis L. Bagley, 1873-1876; DDGM - 1880 Moses H. Van Keuren, 1877-78 Theron N. Little, 1879-1882 Charles V. Puff, 1881 Amos D. Seaman, 1883-1884 Samuel G. Beyea, 1885-1886 Samuel M. Boyd, 1887-1890 John A. Wallace, 1891-1892 Wilbur M. Combs, 1893-1894; DDGM - 1895 Julius F. Korn, 1895 Henry C. Corwin, 1896 Ira L. Case, 1897-1898 Jeremiah, E. Barnes, 1899-1900 Eugene B. Quick, 1901 William H. Biggin, 1902 Moses A. Stivers, 1903 Isodor Budwig, 1904-1905 Nathan D. Mills, 1906-1907; DDGM 1911 John H. Galloway, 1908 Burton L. La Mont, 1909 Delbert D. Townsend, 1910; AGL 1911 Fred B. Williams, 1911 Warren J. Adams, 1912 John Bright, 1913; DDGM 1921 J. Harry Ward, 1914 Harry T. Crist, 1915 Irving W. Davey, 1916; AGL 1921 J. Noble Wood, 1917 Charles H. Pickard, 1918 Fred S. Rogers, 1919 Charles E. Taylor, 1920 Masters Frank T. Chambers, 1921; AGL 1930 Harmon F. Mentley, 1922 Thomas C. Rogers, 1923 Walter J. Seeley, 1924 John M. Gaynor, 1925; DDGM 1930 Harold W. Mailler, 1926 Howard W. Weale, 1927 Rainey S. Taylor, 1928 Fred J. Hodge, 1929 William B. Cornelius, 1930 Franklin H. Kramer, 1931; DDGM 1946 Edward White, 1932 John H. Arfmann, 1933 R. Edgar Clarke, 1934 Janes E. Lyon, 1935 Edward T. Van Gorder, 1936 E. Laverne Peck, 1937 Clarence E. Worden, 1938 Philip Van Keuren, 1939 Charles H. Borland, 1940 Clarence E. Wilson, 1941 Charles W. Hess, 1942 George J. Tischner, 1943 Harold M. Birdsall, 1944 Alton F. Bradner, 1945; AGL 1955; GSB 1964 Earl W. Jacobson, 1946 Stuart L. Wright, 1947 Frank M. Sears, 1948 James E. Evans, 1949 Elwood A. Thorn, 1950 Richard M. Gregory, 1951 Richard H. Morse, 1952 Clarence V. Seeley, 1953; DDGM 1957 Russell S. Gowdey, 1954 Raymond E. Sherwood, 1955 Joseph A. Groh, 1956 Edwin L. Starbuck, 1957 Robert Taylor, 1958 Henry A. Itzla, 1959 William Speirs, 1960; AGL 1968-1969; DDGM, 1972 Meyer Miller, 1961 Rodney Martin, Jr., 1962 Samuel Warycka, 1963 * Ralph C. Haynes, 1964 William H. Reed, 1965 * Martin Ercoline, 1966 Laurence Tweksbury, 1967 Jacob Schloss, 1968 Robert S. Murray, 1969 Alexander M. Hogg, 1970 Roy I. Hutchings, 1971 Frederick M. Baker, 1972 Kermit W. Lewis, 1973 Richard A. Hutchings, 1974 * Charles E. Stewart, Sr., 1975 * John Gordon Smith, 1976; DDGM 1981 Franklin W. Redner, 1977 * Albert Bruno, 1978 * Milton L. Kuhlman, 1979 R. Barry McPhillips, 1980 George P. Tingus, 1981 Allan D. Ackerson, 1982 * Dean W. Connell, 1983 * William C. Robacker, 1984 * Charles W. Smith, 1985 * DDGM Paul G. DiMaggio, 1986 * John N. Nattress, 1987 * William C. Cuddy, 1988 * Bernard M. Levy, 1989; 1997 * Rudey S. Levey, 1990 Charles D. Vandemark, 1992 * Richard A. Heip, 1993 * Don L. Bates IV, 1994; 1999 * Harrison W. Keesler, 1995 * Richard G. Bull, 1996; 1998 William J. Fitzhenry, 2000 - 2005* Alfred H. Denninger, 2005-2006 * Eugene McGill, 2006-2008 * http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2002/09/29/obituaries.html FREDERICK MARTIN BAKER SR. Otisville, N.Y. Frederick Martin Baker Sr., a retired plumber of Local Union 373 in Mountaindale and a resident of Otisville since 1920, died Friday, 27 Sep 2002 in Levindale Geriatric Center, Baltimore, Md., after a long illness. He was 89. The son of the late Cornelius and Grace Dunn Baker Sr., he was born January 2, 1913 in Wallington, N.J. He was a 50-year member and Past Master of Hoffman Lodge No. 412 F & AM, in Middletown; Midland Chapter No.240; thrice potent master of Middletown Lodge of Perfection; director of the Fellowcraft Club of Hoffman Lodge, and he received the Dedicated Service Award from Grand Lodge; 32nd Degree Mason in the Council Chapter Consistory Valley of Binghamton; Shrine Cyprus Chapel, Albany; Orange County Shriners' Club; chairman of the advisory board for the Middletown Assembly No. 16 Order of Rainbow; past patron of Order of Eastern Star Queen Esther Chapter No. 163 in Middletown. 42
He was also a member of the Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church; member and past member of the Otisville Fire Company; 15- year member and past president of the Board of Education of the Otisville Union Free School; past trustee of the Village of Otisville; over 50-year member of Plumber's Union Local 373; as well as a 47-year member and past president of the Black Brook Rod and Gun Club. Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Carlys Cutlip Baker at home; three sons, Raymond Baker and his wife, Betsey, of Cold Springs, Earl Baker and his wife, Geneva, of Otisville, and Frederick Baker Jr., and his wife, Deborah, of Otisville; three daughters, Freda Clawson and her husband, Robert, of Otisville, Darlene Allen and her husband, Gerald, of Ferndale, and Saundra Hansen and her husband, Hans, of Port Jervis; 12 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by three brothers, Cornelius Baker Jr., Howard Baker, and Bruce Baker; and sister, Alma Palmer. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope Plains Cemetery, Otisville. ----- http://books.google.com/books?id=Pjv_DkWD83wC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22Hoffman+Lodge+No.+412%22&source=bl&ot s=5uvbG-A- Vs&sig=OFrTfTMsqRtqDBTqUWOgb_cVMiw&hl=en&ei=EreeTK3OLcTflgfYvcnsAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ve d=0CBYQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=%22Hoffman%20Lodge%20No.%20412%22&f=false page 141, William Clemson, son of William Clemson (2), was born at Penn's Mills, Warwickshire, England, 27 May 1821. He received a thorough elementary training in the schools of his native town, but was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to the wire drawing trade in which his father was an expert, and which at that time was one of the most remunerative in all England. He mastered the art of fine wire drawing but was ambitious for a larger career than that promised an English operative or mechanic, and in Mar 1844, he left his native land for America. He located first at West Cambridge, MA, but later worked for several months at his trade in New York City. Returning to West Cambridge he accepted a position in the saw manufacturing plant of Welch & Griffiths at Arlington, where he was employed during the next four years, leaving this firm to start in business on his own account. He formed a partnership with Joseph Woodrough, under the firm name of Woodrough & Clemson, to manufacture saws. Both were good mechanics and knew the art of saw making, but their capital was limited to their humble savings from daily wages and at first they had a struggle to make headway. The firm was strengthened financially by the admission of Richard W. Henshaw, and the name became Henshaw, Woodrough & Clemson. From the small shop in West Cambridge, the business was moved in 1852 to Woburn, where it occupied the old factory of the Goodyear Rubber Company. A year later Mr. Woodrough withdrew from the firm and the name became Henshaw & Clemson. Mr. Clemson inherited much mechanical skill and had an aptitude for research and invention. Many nights, after working in the shop all day, he toiled over his experimental work until after midnight. He was constantly studying, elaborating and developing ideas on machinery that had suggested themselves to his busy brain. His first invention of practical usefulness was an apparatus for simultaneously flattening and tempering saws, and after using it in his shop for seven years, he had it patented. Some idea of the value of this device may be gained from the fact that it saves nine-tenths of the labor required by the old method of flattening by hand. Two years later he patented a grinding machine which was equally valuable in economizing labor and also in producing better work. He continued to invent and patent devices and machines for making saws better and more cheaply and for improving the saws themselves. In 1860 his work had become so well and favorably known to the trade that a proposition was made to him to become a member of the firm of E. P. Wheeler and E. M. Madden, the owners of the Mohegan Saw Works at Middletown, NY, after the retirement from the firm of Mr. Bakewell. The offer was accepted and until 1871 the business was continued under the firm name of Wheeler, Madden & Clemson. Then the business was incorporated under the title of Wheeler, Madden & Clemson Manufacturing Co. When Mr. Madden died his share of the business was bought by Mr. Clemson, who in 1886 turned it over to his sons, George N. and Richard W. Clemson. Mr. Clemson was modest, unassuming and never sought prominence socially or politically. He was a Republican, but the only office he ever accepted was on the board of trustees of Middletown, where he served the municipality faithfully several years. He died 12 Jan 1890. He attended the Protestant Episcopal church; was a member of Hoffman Lodge, No. 412, Free Masons, of Middletown. He married (first) at West Cambridge. 3 Aug 1844, Amelia Wright. She died in 1885. She was the daughter of Joshua and Margaret Wright, of England. Children: 1. Francis William, 2. George Nathan, b. 1 Jun 1854. 3. Maria Amelia. b. 11 Jul 1856. m. William W. Taylor. 4. Richard Walter, b. 16 May 1858. 5. Lillian Louise, m. Jesse Bird. The child of William Clemson and his second wife (married 22 Feb 1887, Esther Smith, daughter of Jacob F. Smith, of Middletown) was: 6. William. 43
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