CARBONDALE, COLORADO
Grand Master Bridwell issued dispensation to nine brethren at Carbondale, Garfield County, Colorado, on May 6, 1890 to be known as Carbondale Lodge U. D. with Brother Benjamin B. Hill, Worshipful Master; Marshall H. Dean, Senior Warden and James W. Campbell, Junior Warden.
The petition was recommended by Glenwood Lodge No. 65 at the Grand Lodge Communication in September. Grand Master Bridwell recommended the lodge be chartered. The committee on returns and work finding the records fairly kept, in fact to the extent of being a model set, and 12 initiated, 11 passed and 10 raised, making two changes in the bylaws, recommended that Carbondale Lodge No. 82 be chartered.
Carbondale Lodge No. 82 had in its bylaws the first reference to complete secrecy of the ballot, and the committee recommended this be spread in the minutes of the Grand Lodge and every lodge adopt this section. This was the original of our Grand Lodge bylaw regarding secrecy of the ballot, Section 183.
Worshipful Brother F. H. Demman was commissioned by Grand Master Foster to constitute Carbondale Lodge No. 82. This duty was performed October 21, 1890. He installed Benjamin B. Hill, Worshipful Master; Marshall H. Dean, Senior Warden, and James W. Campbell, Junior Warden.
The charter also had fifteen other names on it. Marshall H. Dean was Grand Master of Masons in Colorado in 1902.
Membership in 1960 was 89
