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Chapman, p. 953
Ten charter members, named — the town's oldest surviving civic roll in the works. "In Lakeville there is a Masonic lodge. It was started in 1867 with the following charter members: Robert Moor, W. Clenny, John Cunningham, Mahlon Heston, Michael Hupp, Isaac C. Price, Alexander Reynolds, Henry Van Lien, M. Mahon, W. Roberson. They now have a good society of about 52 members." Chapman names charter members, not officers — no 1867 officer list is printed in any work read, and none is constructed here. Howard's second volume adds the lodge's later anchor: Dr. John Moore was "master of the Lakeville lodge at the time of his death" in 1904 and "for many years… the life of the lodge". The lodge's institutional course belongs to the civic legs of a later pass; its founding roll stands here, where the people record keeps it.