This encampment was chartered April 11, 1852. The officers first elected were:
Robert P. Cummins, C.P.
William Roddy, H.P.
Alexander Stutzman, S.W.
John D. Roddy, J.W.
H. P. Snyder, Scribe
C. F. Beam, Treas.
William B. Coffroth, Guide
This encampment went down, but no data have been furnished of the time.
On the 30th of April, 1872, the encampment was reinstated on the application of Patriarchs:
Alexander H. Coffroth
Josiah Keller
William B. Coffroth
William S. Harrah
John H. Uhl
Charles A. Kimmel
At the same time, the following were initiated:
Alexander H. Coffroth, Jr.
A. C. Davis
Ed. W. Rhodes
F. C. Sampsell
Jacob Fleck
H. .J. Picking
H. F. Knepper
F. A. Smith
M. A. Rulter
George M. Holderbaum
The present membership is forty-one.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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