Woodstock Lodge #639

History

For the past127 years Woodstock has been in existence, a working active lodge in this community. From the Grand Lodge Archives, Woodstock Lodge U. D, (now No. 639), was issued a Charter Under Dispensation, October 22, 1889 and began meeting on the Friday before the first and third Saturday in each month.
In 1889 James Black was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky and from May 19, 1919 through December 9, 1919 served as the 39th Governor of Kentucky when Governor Augustus O. Stanley was elected to the U. S. Senate. Brother Black was a native of Kentucky being born September 24, 1849 on the farm of his father, nine miles east of Barbourville in Knox County, on Big Richland Creek.
Alfred J. Pike was the first Master of Woodstock Lodge and served as such from 1889 to 1893 until being succeeded by W. F. Baker.
At the time of Dispensation the officers of Woodstock Lodge U. D. were:
Alfred J. Pike, Master
C. D. Burnett, Senior Warden
J. B. Abbott, Junior Warden
John Riddle, Treasurer
H. H. Beatty, Secretary
W. B. Smith, Senior Deacon
Martin Owen, Junior Deacon
Huston Osborn, Steward and Tyler

-- Most of the information above was adapted from a speech given by Brother George Pennington Kingston #315 and information provided by Tim Anderson.