&nbsp;<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4">History of Fairhaven Lodge 
#73</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4">Bellingham WA</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The history of 
Fairhaven Lodge no. 73 has for its background, the early history of the city of 
Fairhaven, now referred to as South Bellingham. Fairhaven in the early 1890's 
had grown from a village of 150 persons to a city of 8,000. Many businesses 
which began then are still in existence, including the successor to the 
Fairhaven Herald, the Bellingham Herald.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1890 there 
were five hundred businesses in Fairhaven. Two years before 1890 there were no 
firms or business prospects. Residents of Fairhaven were forced to travel almost 
exclusively by steamboat - thus Fairhaven 73's close affiliation with seafaring. 
During the rapid growth of the city, it was natural that among the inhabitants 
there were Masons, with a result that a movement to start a Masonic Lodge in 
Fairhaven was begun. </font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A prayer for 
dispensation was written and submitted on May 3, 1890 to Bellingham Bay Lodge 
no. 44, for avouchment and permission to organize a lodge of Masons in 
Fairhaven. The dispensation in full can be found at the end of this history. At 
a stated communication of Bellingham Bay no. 44, held at Whatcom, Washington, on 
the 2nd day of August, 1890, the following resolutions were adopted: </font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Resolved, that 
this lodge do recommend the petitions of Brothers D.L. Hopkins, C.H. Allerton, 
J.C. McLennan, W.C. Allerton, Edwin W. Fraser, John H. Ware, H.B. Bateman, M. 
McKechnie, Edgar Lindsey, George A. Kellogg, L.E. Bailey, Morris Jones, C.W. 
Howard, Samuel Curry, Sydney Foster, and August F. Baatz, praying for a 
dispensation to establish a new lodge at Fairhaven, Washington, by the name of 
Fairhaven Lodge, and do avouch for said petitioners as being Master Masons in 
good standing; and being the nearest lodge thereto, do recommend that the prayer 
of the petitioners be granted. </font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Resolved: That in 
the judgment of this lodge each of the Brethren named in said petition as 
Officers of said new Lodge is competent to properly confer the three degrees and 
impart the lectures thereunto appertaining. </font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In witness 
whereof we have caused our Lodge seal to be affixed hereunto, and our Secretary 
to attest the same, this 2nd day of August, A.L. 5890. R.S. Bragg Worshipful 
Master attest: James P. DeMattos Secretary, &quot;pro tem.&quot;</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The petition was 
presented to the Most Worshipful Grand Master James E. Edmiston of the Grand 
Jurisdiction of Washington, who under the seal of the Grand Lodge of Washington, 
dated at Olympia on the 25th day of August, 1890, granted the dispensation and 
appointed David L. Hopkins Worshipful Master, C.H. Allerton Senior Warden, and 
J.C. McLennan Junior Warden. The First communication under dispensation was held 
September 19, 1890, with an attendance of 23 Masons</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To finance the 
Lodge a note for the sum of $500.00 endorsed by Brothers C.H. Allerton, J.C. 
McLennan, and M. McKechnie was deposited in the First National Bank of 
Fairhaven, September 24, 1890. Captain W.C.B. Grahame presented the Lodge with a 
set of jewels and a handsome case, suitably engraved.&nbsp;Captain Grahame had 
been a British soldier, a veteran of the Crimean War, participating in the 
Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, the brigade immortalized by the 
poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Colonel W.L. 
Visscher, then editor of the Fairhaven Herald, was the first to petition and 
receive the degrees, being initiated as a Entered Apprentice Mason on November 
12, 1890, passed to the degree of a Fellowcraft mason on January 7, 1891, and 
raised to the sublime of a Master Mason on February 5, 1891. Charles H. Hinges 
and Anderson J. Borie were also elected, initiated, passed, and raised during 
the year the Lodge was under dispensation. From the start the Lodge was very 
busy accepting new members by initiation and affiliation. The Lodge met in the 
G.A.R. Hall, at 10th and Larrabee above the B.B. Steam Laundry.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Worshipful Master 
D.L. Hopkins attended Grand Lodge June 9, 1891, at which communication of the 
Grand Lodge, charter was granted to Fairhaven Lodge no. 73 by Most Worshipful 
Grand Master James E. Edmiston, dated at Seattle, Washington, June 11, 1891. On 
July 22, 1891, the Lodge held its' first communication under the charter.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This account 
taken from the Fairhaven Herald of July 23, 1891, read as follows: </font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Last night was 
the occasion of a very interesting event among Free and Accepted Masons of 
Bellingham Bay. It was the institution of Fairhaven Lodge no. 73, which 
heretofore has been working under dispensation, installation of the Officers and 
dedication of the new hall in the Knights of Pythias block on Eleventh Street. 
By 8:30 p.m., the spacious and elegant new hall, which is probably one of the 
handsomest on the Pacific Coast, was well filled with Free Masons from the bay 
cities. Deputy Grand Master A.A. Plummer, Port Townsend, acting Grand Master, 
assisted by PGM J.A. Kuhn, Port Townsend, as Deputy GM; W.S. Porter, Fairhaven, 
as Deputy Senior Warden; R.E Helms, Fairhaven, as Deputy Junior Warden; and 
Carmi Dibble, New Whatcom, as Grand Chaplin performed the ceremony of 
instituting the Lodge, and the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master, assisted by 
the by the entire assembly, installed the officers of the Lodge, as follows: 
David L. Hopkins Worshipful Master; C.H. Allerton, Senior Warden; J.C. McLennan, 
Junior Warden; John H. Ware, Treasure; E.H. Smith, Secretary; J.C. Barnes, 
Senior Deacon; W.D. Hurlbut, Junior Deacon; George McCoy, Senior Steward; and 
A.J. Bone, Junior Steward. The Lodge was named and numbered Fairhaven no. 73.&quot;
</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Petition</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;To the 
Most Worshipful Grand Master of Ancient Freemasons of the State of Washington.&nbsp;The 
petition of the undersigned respectfully&nbsp;showeth that they are regular 
Freemasons, and are at present or have been members of regular lodges, that 
having the prosperity of the fraternity at heart, they are willing to exert 
their best endeavors to promote and diffuse the genuine principles of 
Freemasonry; that for the convenience of the respective dwellers, there now 
being resident&nbsp; in Fairhaven where the new lodge is prayed for, fully three 
thousand people, and having upward of sixty brethren, and as it is impossible 
for the majority to attend the nearest lodge at Whatcom, necessitating as it 
generally stopping overnight at that place, hence for the welfare of Masonry, 
and for other good reasons, they have agreed to form a new lodge; that in 
consequence of this resolution they pray the Most Worshipful grand Master for 
dispensation to empower them to assemble as a regular lodge at Fairhaven and 
there to discharge the duties of Freemasonry in a regular and constitutional 
manner according to the ancient usages of the order, and the rules and 
regulations of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of the state of Washington; 
and they have nominated and do recommend David L. Hopkins to be the first 
Master, and Charles H. Allerton to be the first Senior Warden, and John C. 
McLennan to be the first Junior Warden of the said lodge; and the prayer of this 
petition being granted, they promise strict conformity to every regular edict, 
and command of the Grand Master, and to the constitution, laws and regulations 
of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of the State of Washington.&quot; This 
petition was signed by:</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">David L. Hopkins&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Columbia 14, Colorado&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Chas H. Allerton&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bellingham Bay 44, 
Whatcom</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">John C. McLennan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Union 9, New Westminster BC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; George A. Kellogg&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Bellingham Bay 44, Whatcom</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">H.B. Bateman&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
St. Paul 14, Newport, RI&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
John H. Ware&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Nodaway 470, Marysville, MO</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">Morris Jones&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Devotion 76, Ipswich, SD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Edwin W. Fraser&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Burlington 442, Burl. jct, 
MO</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">C.W. Howard&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Mt Pleasant 8, Iowa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Samuel Curry&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Bellingham Bay 44, Whatcom</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">Sydney Foster&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Keystone 50, Altoona, SD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Edgar Lindsay&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Bellingham Bay 44, Whatcom</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">W.C. Allerton&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Mt Pleasant 8, Iowa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
M. McKechnie&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Cheyenne 1, Wyoming ter.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="4">August F. Baatz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Bellingham Bay 44, Whatcom&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; L.E. Bailey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Bellingham Bay 44, Whatcom</font></p>