Somerset Lodge No. 358, F. and A. M. was organized September 20, 1865. Its first W.M. was Andrew J. Colborn. His successors have been: N. P. Kerr, W. A. Garman, William H. Sanner, A. Thomson Ankeny, Elias Cunningham, Frank Stntzman, Henry C.Beerits, Lewis C. Colborn, Jonathan H. Fritz and William J. Baer.
The present officers are: James L. Pugh, W.M.; Charles P. Holderbaum, S.W.; Edward E. Patton, J.W.; Lewis C. Colborn, Treas.; John Bills, Sec\’y; Martin H. Hartzell, S.D.; James A. Nichols, J. D.; John R. Scott, S.M.C.; George M. Holderbaum, J.M.C.; William S. Morgan, Chap.; Henry Keister, Purs.; Frederick Gilbert, Tiler.
One hundred and forty-three have become members of the lodge since its organization in 1865. The present members (eighty-five in number) hold regular communications Tuesday evenings on or before the full moon. Their names at the commencement of the present year were as follows:
Baer, Wm. J.
Barnes, Albert
Beerits, H. C.
Benford, Geo. W.
Bills, John
Brubaker, Henry
Caldwell, Charles
Coffroth, A. H.
Colborn, A. J.
Colborn, C. B.
Colborn, L. C.
Cole, John
Coleman, L. J.
Cover, J. M.
Cunningham, Elias
Dayton, Park
Earl, E. F.
Fisher, C. H.
Foust, W. P.
France, R. Lee
Friedline, H. J.
Friedline John
Fritz, J. H.
Gilbert, Frederick
Gorsuch, J. Q. C.
Grof, Frederick
Hartzell, J. S.
Hartzell, M. H.
Hartzell, W. W.
Heffley, Albert
Holderbaum, C. P.
Holderbaum, G. M.
Kiernan, Edmund
Kiester, Henry
Kimmel, J. P.
King, S. P.
Knable, W. W.
Knepper, H. F.
Kuhn, H. H.
Kyle, Edgar
Landis, R. C.
Lichliter, N. B.
Lichty, S. H.
McMillen, J. R.
McMillen, R. S.
McMillen, S. J.
Miller, E. D.
Miller, S. W.
Miller, Wm. H.
Moore, H. D.
Morgan, Wm. S.
Nichols, J. A.
Patton, E. E.
Patton, J. W.
Pearson, S. W.
Postlethwaite, J. C.
Pugh, J. L.
Reilly, John
Roberts, John
Sanner, W. H.
Saylor, George M.
Schlag, Henry
Schmutz, G. J.
Scott, John R.
Snyder, George
Stanton, J. F.
Stutzman, Frank
Turney, G. W.
Walter, G. H.
Walter, J. R.
Wilkinson, W. H.
Williams, Crampton
Yutzy, E. D.
Zimmerman, J. H.
Zorn, Jacob J.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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