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Griffith, W. L. Wotkyns, J. A. Jacobs, E. E. Gaylord, C. H. Rhodes, W. 

 D. McGilvray, A. H. Conger, Dr. R. J. Mohr, E. T. Howe, E. H. May, 

 C. J. Willett, E. Groenendyke, C. H. Keyes, Dr. A. H. Palmer, J. E. Smyth. 

 First principal officers : Dr. Frary, W. M.; E. H. May, secretary; Willett, 

 treasurer; Rev. Dr. Wyllys Hall, chaplain. [Charter to be confirmed and 

 number assigned by Grand Lodge in December, 1895.] 



The Masonic lodge room was at first in the A. O. U. W. hall in the 

 Public Library building. Then they leased and fitted up a room of their 

 own in the Williams hall block. But on February 28, 1895, ^^^ five 

 different bodies of the order took formal possession of their elegant rooms in 

 the magnificent block now known as the 



MASONIC TEMPLE, 

 corner of Raymond Avenue and Colorado street, they having taken a long 

 lease on the entire upper floor — divided the space into rooms adapted to all 

 their various needs, and finished, furnished and decorated them in a style of 

 artistic taste and elegance not excelled even in San Francisco — some Masonic 

 rooms there being larger, but none finer. The building cost $40,000, and 

 was erected by Col. E- P. Hansen, J. S. Torrance and M. E. Wood, in 



1894-95. 



temperance orders. 



Pasadena Lodge, No. 173, Independent Order 

 OF Good Templars. — The first meeting to talk up or- 

 ganization was held February 24, 1879, at the little old 

 schoolhouse which was moved from Orange Grove Av- 

 Avenue to the corner of Colorado street and Fair Oaks 

 Avenue. Nearly all of the old settlers of the colony 

 were present. The lodge was instituted on the same 

 day, by Mr. Leland, Grand Lodge Lecturer, I. O. G. T. of California, 

 assisted by members of the order from Merrill Lodge of Los Angeles, 

 with the following as charter members : P. G. Wooster, C. C. Smith, F. S. 

 Woodcock, I. N. Mundell, S. M. Cambell, Charles McAffrey, H. G. Bennett, 

 S. D. Bryant, H. L. Bryant, Ella Bryant, A. S. Hollingsworth, Mrs. A. S. Hol- 

 lingsworth, Delia Washburn, Ward B. Swartzell, Nettie Millard, Elisha Millard, 

 Iva Millard, Dell Millard, Ed. E. Millard, Esther Turner, Charles Turner, F. H. 

 Heald, N. M, Townsend, John Lowe, Elisha Lowe, John Lowe, Jr., Frank 

 Lowe, Alex. F. Mills, William G. Persing, W. H. Townsend, Dennis Prinz. The 

 first officers were : Worthy Chief Templar, P. G. Wooster ; Right Hand 

 Supporter, Miss Iva Millard ; Left Hand Supporter, Miss Jennie Masher ; 

 Vice-Templar, Mrs. Esther Turner ; Secretary, Frank Lowe ; Assistant 

 Secretary, Miss Ella Bryant ; Financial Secretary, H. G. Bennett ; Treasurer, 

 Mrs. Anna Mundell ; Marshal, S. M. Cambell ; Deputy Marshal, Miss 

 Delia Washburn ; Inside Guard, Mrs. C. C. Smith ; Outside Guard, Herbert 



