Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton




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1851, FEB. 136 PLATTE LODGE. PLATTE LODGE, No. 56, A. 11. & A. M. This lodge was incorporated by the Legislature, with N. M. Shrock. Y. )I.; V. E. Black, S. T; and J0l111 E. Pitt, J. W. The lodge had been incorporated or chartered by the Grand Lodge as early as 1816, and this legislative charter was to enable the lodge to hold the real estate it acquired the following year, when the Presbyterian Church and the lodge built a meeting-house and hall. The meetings of the lodge were held each Saturday night be- fore full moon, in the upper story of Johnston & Lewis store, on Lot 13. Block 29, in Platte Cit), until about 1853, when the new hall was built over the Presbyterian church, on Lot 6, Block 31. The lodge became Very prosperous, but was in debt. This was more onerous from a. division made by the members from Todds Creek "taking (limits. and forming a new lodge. chartered as Zerubbabel Lodge. No. 191. The colony consisted of the Darnalls, Braselds. Swaneys, Moores, and De Berrys. But the war came on; the brethren were scattered; and. July 14, 1864. the hall of Platte Lodge. No. 56, with all its records. was burned. and little left but 1 he debt. A few of us determined this should be paid. and we brought about a reunion. The charter of Platte Lodge. No. 56. was surrendered. and the colony took in the members of the mother lodge. under the name of Zerubbabel Lodge. No. 191. This name ma) still be read on the tablet on the front wall of Platte Fitv Lodge. No. 504. After the reunion. we worked in the upper rooni of the brick warehoizse, in the rear of the Virginia Hotel. i\e applied to other lodges for help to rebuild. and about $100 was mnti-ilmted. After working for twenty years under the charter to Zerubbabel Lodge. it. too, was surrendered. and Platte Cit) Lorlge. No. 504. was e.hartered. ]"e7;. ...2H. S. Geyer. elected to the United States Senate, re- 1-eiYillQ 80 votes. to 55 for Benton. PL.J.TE CITY MALE ACADEMY. This an-;ulem, was incorporated 1)) the Legislatiire. with the Jollowin- lloard of Trustees: 1. R. Green: 2. V1n. Baldwin: ii, I{. I), .lohnston: 1. -mos Lees; N. M. Sln-oek: (3. W111. Trip ls-II: 7. John \ilson. Lots 1] and 1;. llloek 30. in Platte Cit). \:-re purelnased and a briek two-story sel1ml-llouse. 315x50 feet. ol1-rlt-1]. and sq-:11cel. .Hhilv:ll(l Patterson. a seholar and a learned .i:I. l was the tin-st tea:-her: Prof. \1n. Dit-ke was ihe next. and I:-of. H;I)inli the last. The house was burned. .TYil) 14. 1864. by I:-all-l;Il n1lel.~. MAIICH. lIm-w// /. :14-I approved establishiiig a eourt of common pleas at \e.10]l with jurisdietioll over \es1o11 and Marshall ln\1l.iIl[n.~. - iml;"e10letlejIel the iirst .londa in August.