| Elias Hall E. McMillan A. L. Chaffee William S. Herrick James Locke |
Josiah Cass Samuel Aiken David D. Parker Dan Allen George H. Hall |
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The petition nominated as officers:
| Elias Hall William S. Herrick David D. Parker |
Master Senior Warden Junior Warden |
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and was recommended by Hanover Lodge. No. 152
On November 28. 1851, a dispensation was issued by NELSON RANDALL, Deputy Grand Master. The first meeting under the dispensation was held December 8th. In selecting a meeting place and time of meeting the following was adopted: "RESOLVED, That our regular meetings be held in Gowanda, and for the present in the Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday of the full of the moon or the first after, and also in two weeks from the meeting at or after the full of the moon at 2 o'clock P.M." The Lodge continued to meet regularly until the warrant was issued in June. The first meeting under the warrant was held August 3, 1852, when the Lodge was constituted and the following officers installed by W\ ALBERT H. CAMP, Past Master of Hanover Lodge, No. 152:
| Elias Hall William S. Herrick David D. Parker James Locke Amasa L. Chaffee Samuel Aiken Josiah Case George H. Hall |
Master |
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CHARTER MEMBERS
| Elias Hall Ephraim McMillan Amasa L. Chaffee William H. Herrick. |
James Locke Samuel Aiken David D. Parker George H. Hall |
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The first meeting place was in Odd Fellows Hall (now known as the Crawford Annex), where it remained until November, 1884, when it moved into its present quarters, which were dedicated by M\W\ WILLIAM A. BRODIE, Grand Master. In reporting this affair the District Deputy Grand Master, LAURENS G. RIPLEY, spoke of it as a most notable event. "The four hundred guests who assembled to witness the ceremonies, conducted by the Grand Master assisted by other members of the Grand Lodge, and who afterward gathered around the bounteous table spread in the adjoining Opera House, will abundantly testify as to the liberal and brotherly greeting extended to the visiting Brethren."
Elias Hall, the founder of the Lodge and its first Master, was made a Mason in 1802 in the State of New Hampshire. When Phoenix Lodge was organized he was seventy-three years of age. He died, September 2, 1868. The Lodge was represented at the laying of the corner-stone of the Home at Utica. NY, May 21, 1891; the dedication of same, October 5, 1892; the dedication of the Masonic Temple at Salamanca, NY, September 12, 1905, and the dedication of the Masonic
Temple at Dunkirk, N. Y.