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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.