Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23 A.F & A.M. Longmont Colorado
Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23
The gatherings of the Brethren at Auraria were interrupted in the spring of 1859 by news of the gold strike in Gregory Gulch, forty miles northwest in the High Rockies. Thousands of prospectors hurried there and again Masons sought their kind. Here the first Masonic “Temple” in Colorado was soon constructed. W. M. Slaughter, one …
HENRY ALLEN The life of Henry Allen, father of Colorado Masonry, is replete with accomplishment in fraternal and business circles. He was a pioneer in Masonry in Iowa, Colorado, Idaho, and Montana. In Auraria and Colorado he organized many constructive projects. An owner of stock in the Auraria Town Co., in 1859 he was the …
The Gold Rush fever of the Pikes Peak region in 1858 was intoxicating. It entranced men of all descriptions, fortune-hunters, prospectors, and rovers, eager for quick wealth and excitement. Its hurriedly-formed wagon trains departing from Missouri river outposts threw together for 700-mile, month-long journeys, men of every ilk, many of them fleeing from the rigidity …
Long ago Tacitus remarked that the principal office of history is to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten. This volume has been assembled to preserve some of the romance of the founding of Masonry in Colorado – of the organization and development of its Grand Lodge and constituent Lodges during its first century.
LEON H. SNYDEH, EI Paso No. 13, Colorado Springs – Grand Master ELLIS LATIMER, Mount Lamborn No. 102, Hotchkiss – Deputy Grand Master CLARENCE L. BARTHOLIC, Highlands No. 86, Denver – Senior Grand Warden CHARLES L. THOMSON, Salida No .57, Salida – Junior Grand Warden THOMAS F. VARDIE, Palestine No. 151, Denver – Grand …
