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July Stated Communications: 7:30 PM 1st & 3rd Wednesdays Home 2018 September through June Edition 3rd Wednesdays July and August Meeting at: 375 Highway 67, Dousman, WI 53118 Mail to: P. O. Box 284, Hartland, WI 53029-0284 Secretary’s Phone: 262.367.2309 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.lodge42.net

Worshipful Master Bruce Boland 262.354.4394 Senior Warden Timothy Behling, PM 414.254.3060 Junior Warden Tim Zellner, PM 414.588.5169 Treasurer Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106 Secretary Gary Pilgrim, PM 262.367.2309 Chaplain Craig Wiggins, PM 267.416-0788 Senior Deacon James Lukas 262.370.4356 Junior Deacon Robert Staley 262.309.9111 Senior Steward Scott Millikin 262.490.6023 Junior Steward Aaron Marjala 414.975.9770 Counselor Henry Pynakker, PM 262.370.2665 Organist Volunteer Opportunity 555.555.5555 Tyler Robert Jewell , PM 262.212.4616

Trustees Daniel Bast, PM 414.333.1412 James A. Johnson, PM 414.651.2072 Charles Gastrow, PM 262.370.1149 Thomas Ewald 414.429.5904 Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106

Sickness & Distress: Please notify the Senior Warden of Brothers in Sickness or Distress.

Page 1 of 9 or helping out at the event as a volunteer. All are needed. Merrill Hills is a beautiful venue, and one of the prettiest golf courses you will see. Our golf committee has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this a first rate event, and it will be much fun.

It is good to see some of our new brothers’ step up and take on some roles. We also have an upcoming FC degree, and a possible EA degree in the near future. As WM, I would encourage some time and practice by each brother. Memorize a line or paragraph in one of the degree. Help and tutoring is available upon request. Good for all

Summertime allows you some rest, relaxation and reflection. Take some time to reflect on what is

truly important, and Thank - the Grand Architect for his grand design. We are all part of his plan, All roles and participation is important. Grab the Master's Message position that you are currently occupying and play it with all the gusto you can generate. Brethren, WM Boland Summer is in full bloom and half the year is gone. [email protected] or 262.354.4394 Einstein had a theory that time moves faster each second, but we have no way to prove it. It sure seems that it does. While we only meet once each

month in the summer, we are busier than ever, as a Lodge. It does not seem like 1/2 of our year is completed.

To all who participated in this weekend’s annual Pancake Breakfast on the Beach, a heartfelt thank you. It was good to see the usual hard work and fun spirits of many brothers’ and a few worthy ladies. Also to see some families show up and enjoy the breakfast.. No reports of food poisoning as of today. To the P-Cake, Flap-Jack, Butter, and Batter-men, you did not burn down the lakefront and arm hair grows back. Special Thank you to Br Tim Z and MaryLee. You have kept a great tradition alive and well and it is one of the From the Secretary’s Desk highlights of each year.

To the trustees, most notably Br Tom E, Thank you My Brothers, for rolling up your sleeves and making smart, I am taking a break from my usual current dues nag, judicious decisions on behalf of our Lodge. You but be assured that I will not refuse any attempts at are doing amazing work and I truly believe we are a payment: model for some future lodges. We are most  By check: Checks are to be made appreciative of your efforts and selfless dedication. payable to Oconomowoc-Hartland Also some help and guidance from Grand Lodge. Lodge No. 42, and mailed to me, Gary Our Golf Outing just around the corner, I encourage Pilgrim, 506 E Capitol, Hartland WI all to participate to your fullest extent. Playing golf, 53029. Please do not mail cash. Page 2 of 9  By cash:  Pay Pal – Direct Pay Me: Calendar - June 2018 https://www.paypal.me/WILodge42Dues Wed 04 Independence Day. Celebrate freely  Pay Pal on our website: but remember “Freedom is not Free” https://lakecountryfreemasonslodge4 Wed 11 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman No. 315. 2.org/ sign in to access the member th section, payment can be made under Mon 16 9:00 AM 15 Annual Lake Member Check Out Country Masonic Golf Outing. The Legends at Merrill Hills, W270 S & F S3425 Merrill Hills Rd, Waukesha, Br. Gary, (Your Friendly neighborhood Secretary) Wed 18 7:30 PM No. 42 Stated Meeting Wed 18 7:00 PM Bethel No. 35 at Dousman st Sat 21 1969 1 Moon walk by Buzz Aldrin Lodge mailing address: and Neil Armstrong. Lake Country Freemasons Lodge No. 42, F & A M Wed 25 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman P. O. Box 284 No. 315. Hartland, WI 53029 Fri 27 1953 Armistice signed in Korea.

Sat 28 8:30 AM Officers and Trustees Meeting at Compass Point. Happy Birthday Brothers *VOS Represents Village on the Square, Glenn L. 07/05 ERIC A. EWALD Humphrey No. 364, Dousman Facility. Hereafter 07/07 WILLIAM J. RUNYAN known as VOS. 07/08 CHARLES R. GASTROW 07/14 JAMES A. JOHNSON Important Planning dates: 07/17 JAMES D. LUKAS 07/17 BENJAMIN D. JARVIS Aug 15 7:00PM No 42 Stated Meeting 07/19 CRAIG A. EWALD Aug 18 Noon, Master’s Picnic – Woods of 07/19 HAROLD D. SPEED III Pillars, Family and Friends. 07/24 JAMES R. MAHANEY Plan ahead, reservations requested 07/27 MARK RIESINGER by Aug 15, 2018 07/27 JONATHAN G. PRESTON Aug 25 8:30 AM Officers and Trustees 07/28 DARYL M. HIVELY Meeting at Compass Point. 07/28 TODD A. STACH Aug 29 Third, Fifth Wednesday of 07/29 ERWIN A. JULIEN JR Refreshment and Fellowship. 07/31 ARTHUR G. SCHWIBINGER Watch for details. 07/31 TIMOTHY T. BEHLING

Masonic Anniversaries

58 ROY A. BRAATZ 16 W. JOHN M. WERNER 16 W. JAMES G. PRESTON 1 JAY E. EWALD 1 ERIC A. EWALD 1 RYAN J. HASLBECK 1 BRETT J. EWALD 1 AARON R. MARJALA 1 KEVIN A. EWALD 1 DONALD J. MITCHELL

Page 3 of 9 United States Masonic Founding Fathers Of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence, it appears that only nine were Freemasons, or masons with verifiable records of association. While the nature of the declaration is consistent with the ideas of Freemasonry, it seems a stretch to think that the fraternity influenced directly the creation of the document. It is, however, likely that as the ideas of the freedom, independence, liberty, equality (and perhaps fraternity) were at hand in it’s creation and quite possibly included as its framers may have had these associations in their subconscious considerations.

Whatever the case, these men and the 47 others who penned their name to this document, had the foresight of a brave and uniquely free country.

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

1. Whipple 2. Walton 3. Ellery 4. Paine 5. Hooper 6. Hewes 7. Franklin 8. Stockton 9. Hancock

William Ellery

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Joseph Hewes (or Howes)

William Hooper Richard Stockton

William Ellery Declaration of Independence was second in size to John Hancock’s famous signature. He went on to be (1727-1820) a signer the Articles of Confederation. First Lodge of , 1748 In 1785 he was an active supporter of Rufus William Ellery was the son of a successful merchant King in his effort to abolish slavery throughout the and politician in Newport, Rhode Island. Like his country. King was a Congressman who added father, Ellery attended Harvard, graduating in 1747 provisions to the 1785 Northwest Ordinance which and later engaging in business and practicing law in barred the extension of slavery into the Northwest Newport in 1770. Territory. Denslow’s 10,000 Freemasons says that Ellery was an influential member in the Continental it cannot be said for certain that Ellery was a Congress in 1776. As a signer, his signature on the Page 5 of 9 Freemason but that there is record of a “William on the list of members of St. John’s gives the date Ellery” being made a Mason in St. John’s Lodge of of reception, but under the column for withdrawal Boston on Oct. 12 and also Oct. 25 of 1748. It goes or death, no entry was made, indicating they had no on to say, “The same Ellery was present at the knowledge of what became of him. There was also celebration of St. John the Evangelist Day by the such a name on the rolls of St. John’s Lodge No. 4, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts on Dec. 27, 1753 Hartford, Conn., showing he was admitted Feb. 8, and also attended a sermon with the grand lodge at 1763 and was treasurer of the lodge later in the Boston’s Trinity church on Oct. 1, 1755. His name year.”

Franklin’s Masonic career began in 1727 when he Benjamin Franklin organized the “Leathern Apron Club” as a secret

Pennsylvania (1706-1790) society in Philadelphia (non-Masonic) printing an Grand Master of Pennsylvania, 1734 article in his paper pretending to reveal Masonic mysteries in Dec. 8, 1730. Denslow’s 10,000 American statesman, scientist, philosopher and Freemasons says of Franklin’s Masonic career that, author, Franklin began his career as an apprenticed in February, 1731, to his brother, James, a printer, when only 12. Five years later, he left the employment of his brother [H]e received his degrees in St. John’s Lodge of over disagreements, settling in Philadelphia where Philadelphia and became active in its work from the he was first employed as a printer then the very beginning. He was secretary of the lodge from proprietor of a printing business and publishing The 1735-38; elected junior grand warden of the Grand Pennsylvania Gazette, 1730-48 and gained wide Lodge of Pennsylvania on June 24, 1732 and the recognition with his Poor Richard’s Almanack, grand master on June 24, 1734. He was appointed 1732-57. In 1727 he organized the “Junto” club provincial grand master (first native born) by which became the American Philosophical Society, Thomas Oxnard, q.v., of Boston on June 10, 1749. and in 1731 laid the foundations for a library which He was deposed as provincial grand master by developed into the Philadelphia Public Library. He William Allen on March 13, 1750, but immediately was instrumental in improving the lighting of city appointed deputy grand master. On March 12, 1752 streets, invented a heating stove about 1744 (which he was named to a committee for building “the is still being made), and, becoming interested in Free-Mason’s Lodge” in Philadelphia and on June electricity. In 1748 he sold his business to the 24, 1755 took a prominent part in the dedication of foreman and retired to devote himself to public life. the same as the first Masonic building in America. In 1760 he was named provincial grand master of In 1754, Benjamin Franklin the was Pennsylvania Philadelphia. In 1734 he printed Anderson’s delegate to the Albany Congress and from 1757-62 Constitutions as Mason Book, which was the first was in England representing nascent state in efforts Masonic book printed in America. In 1759 he was a to enforce taxes on proprietary estates. In 1766 he visitor to Lodge Saint David at Edinburgh, Scotland was called before the English House of Commons and on Nov. 17, 1760 was present at the Grand to explain colonial opposition to the Stamp Tax. He Lodge of England, held at Crown & Anchor, returned to Philadelphia when war became London as “provincial grand master.” An April 7, inevitable in 1775. Franklin became a member of 1778 he assisted at the initiation of Voltaire, q.v., in the second of 1775 and was the Lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris, and affiliated on the committee to draft the Declaration of with that lodge the same year. On Nov. 28, 1778 he Independence, being one of its signers. In 1776 he officiated at the Masonic funeral services held by was sent as one of a committee of three to negotiate that lodge for Voltaire. On May 21, 1779 we find a treaty with France. him elected master of the Lodge of Nine Sisters. He

He became immensely popular during his stay served as master for two years. On July 7, 1782 he which lasted until 1785, during which time he was was a member of the Respectable Lodge de Saint U.S. minister. In 1781 he was named with Jay and Jean de Jerusalem and on April 24, 1785 was Adams to negotiate peace with Great Britain and elected honorary master of the same. He was also returned to Philadelphia in Sept. 1785. From 1785- elected honorary member of the Loge des Bon Amis 87 he was president of the Pa. executive council. of Rouen, France in 1785. d. April 17, 1790. Page 6 of 9 More on Franklin’s Masonic History.

John Hancock that George III (or John Bull) may read it without putting on his glasses.” Massachusetts (1737-1793) Became a Mason in Merchants Lodge No. 277 In 1776 Hancock was commissioned a major general of militia in Massachusets and in August, The first signer of the Declaration of Independence; 1776, he commanded the Mass. troops in the first Governor of Massachusetts; Major General of effective Rhode Island expedition. His military the . leadership, however, was not as outstanding as his Hancock graduated from Harvard University in abilities in the political field. Hancock nominally 1754. He entered the countinghouse of an uncle by commanded 6,000 militiamen in the campaign, the same name, who adopted him, and at his uncle’s although he let the professional soldiers do the death in 1764, he fell heir to his business. Hancock planning and issue the orders. His command ended was, perhaps, the wealthiest man in Boston at the a fiasco. Yet, Hancock went on to be elected the time. Notable of Hancock, he was chairman of the first governor of the commonwealth of committee which protested the Boston Massacre Massachusetts in 1780, and served nine terms from and demanded the removal of British troops from 1780-85 and 1787-93, at the time of his death. the city. He was also the president of the first and Hancock went to London in 1760 on business and, second provincial congresses and was one of the while on a similar trip to Quebec, was made a few men excluded from the offer of general Freemason in Marchants Lodge, No. 277, in 1762. amnesty by the British as he was “too flagitious a On his return to the colonies, Hancock affiliated nature to admit of any other consideration,” and the with St. Andrew’s Lodge in Boston on October 14. expedition sent by General Gage to Lexington and 1762.

Concord in April, 1775 was to capture Hancock, as Interesting to note, Hancock’s name was printed, well as destroy the materials of war. He was a not signed, on the Dunlap broadside; his signature member of the Continental Congresses from 1775- appearing on a different document—a sheet of 80, being its president from May, 1775 to Oct., parchment that was carefully handwritten sometime 1777. Its been an American urban legend that when after July 19 and signed on August 2. asked why he wrote his name so boldly on the Declaration of Independence, Hancock replied, “So Washington for the ensuing conflicts. He was again (or Howes) chosen a delegate to congress in 1776, but illness prevented him from serving. He was again returned (1730-1779) to congress in 1779, but died in the second month of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, visited in 1776 his term.

A native of Princeton, , Hewes and his Hewes mother lodge is not known, but he is family were members of the Society of Friends recorded as a visitor at a meeting of Unanimity (Quakers). At the beginning of the Revolution, he Lodge No. 7 of Edenton, N.C. on Dec. 27, 1776, abandoned his ties with the Society of Friends and just after his return from the Continental Congress. devoted himself to the creation of the new country. Hewes was as buried with Masonic honors in a In 1776, Hewes was a member of the secret funeral that was attended by , committee on claims, and was, unofficially, the first and buried in Christ Church, Philadelphia. secretary of the Navy. Having lived in Philadelphia where he was a businessman, Hewes moved to Edenton, North Carolina, in 1763 where he became a a member of the legislature. In 1774, Hewes North Carolina (1742-1790) Member of Hanover Lodge in Masonborough became a delegate to the Continental Congress and assisted in the preparation of the report on “The A graduate of Harvard in 1760, Hooper studied law Statement of Rights.” Hewes conceived the plan of under the popular attorney in Boston James Otis, operations for the ensuing campaign with General settling in Wilmington, North Carolina. He Page 7 of 9 represented Wilmington in the general assembly of become a member of the state executive council in 1773, and in 1774 was elected to the Continental 1768, and was raised to the supreme court bench of Congress. New Jersey in 1774.

After the Revolution Hooper returned to his law Prior to signing, Stockton tried first to effect a profession, but fell out of favor with the public reconciliation between the colonies and England. because of his political positions. Politically, Sent to Continental Congress in 1776 by the Hooper supported the because of provincial congress, Stockton was arrested and held his political connections, his disdain for the lower prisoner Provost Prison in where he was class and his soft dealings with Loyalists of Britain. starved and subjected to freezing weather. After

Hooper was a member of Hanover Lodge at being held for five weeks, Stockton’s health was Masonboro, which ceased to exist in 1787. compromised, his property and library pillaged and burned and his fortune eradicated.

Robert Treat Paine Stockton was charter master of St. John’s Lodge at Princeton on Dec. 27, 1765, having possibly been Massachusetts (1731-1814) made a Mason while in England or Scotland in Massachusetts Grand Lodge 1766-67.

Robert Treat Paine was a Massachusetts lawyer and A lackluster founding father, Stockton once wrote: politician, best known as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of The public is generally unthankful, and I never will Massachusetts. become a Servant of it, till I am convinced that by neglecting my own affairs I am doing more Robert Treat Paine was born in Boston, Mass. on acceptable Service to God and Man. March 11, 1731. Graduate of Harvard in 1749 where he studied theology and law and practicing in George Walton Boston. Paine was a delegate to the provincial congress in 1774-75, and the Continental Congress Georgia (1750-1804) from 1774-78 signing the Declaration of Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, Savannah, GA Independence. Not only was Walton a signer of the Declaration of Paine went on to become speaker of the Independence and Articles of Confederation, he was Massachusetts house of representatives in 1777, and also a War officer, a Governor of later the attorney general of the state. In 1780 he Georgia, a Chief Justice of Georgia and U.S. founded of the American Academy of Arts and Senator.

Sciences and then going on to become a judge of Born in Virginia, Walton moved to Savannah, the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1790- Georgia, in 1769, where he studied law and was 1804. admitted to the bar in 1774. He served as secretary Its believed that he was a member of Massachusetts of the Provincial Congress in 1775, as a member of Lodge, Boston. He was among those present at a the committee of intelligence, and served as a Roxbury, Mass. meeting of the grand lodge on June member of the council of safety in 1775, going on 26, 1759. to become president of that body. Served in Continental Congress, 1776-81. He was twice Richard Stockton governor of Georgia, 1779 and 1789. He was also twice chief justice from 1795-96. In the war, he was New Jersey (1730-1781) wounded and captured at Savannah as a colonel was Charter Master of St. John’s Lodge in Princeton, held captive for the British army for two years. New Jersey, 1765 Walton was a member of Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, A graduate of College of New Jersey located in Savannah, Ga., but his dates of initiation are not Newark (now ) in 1748, known. He is mentioned in the minutes immediately Stockton was admitted to the bar in the state and after the close of the Revolution in 1785 and several earned a reputation in the legal field. He went on to times thereafter. When Solomon’s Lodge was

Page 8 of 9 reconstituted in 1785, Walton took his degrees over again and was then made an “ancient.”

William Whipple

New Hampshire (1730-1785) St. John’s Lodge, Portsmouth NH 1752

Born January 14, 1730, in Kittery, Maine, he was the brother of Abraham Whipple, q.v. He commanded a ship before he was 21 and engaged in the European, West India and African trade, bringing many slaves from the latter continent.

In 1759 he abandoned the sea and went into business in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with his brother, Joseph. Whipple went on to be elected a delegate to the Continental Congress from in 1775 and served until 1778, declining his reelection. In 1777, Whipple was commissioned brigadier general Did you know?... is located and commanded a brigade of state troops at the in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Founding battles of Saratoga and Stillwater. Following fathers of the United states used the Burgoyne’s surrender, Whipple signed the articles Independence Hall building to debate and then of capitulation on behalf of General Gates. He create the most important documents of the participated in Sullivan’s expedition to R.I. in 1778 government and for the people of America. and resigned his commission in 1782, but went on The Declaration of Independence was debated to be the state superintendent of finances from and then adopted in Independence Hall. The 1782-84. United States Constitution was also created in Whipple was initiated, passed and raised in St. Independence Hall. Independence Hall is a John’s Lodge No. 1, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, building of great historical significance to the on January 2, 1752 at the age of 21. The notes of his American people. initiation reading in Denslow’s 10,000 Freemasons, “At a Lodge held at Mr. James Stoutley, this 2d Jan. 1752, being the first night of the Quarter, Mr. Don’t just wear the pin, William Whipple Proposed & by Dispensation Balloted for & Unanimously Voted to be made a member of this Society.”

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