As part of Humber Lodge’s 150 Anniversary taking place in 2024, we will be sharing excerpts from historical documents and photos from the archives.
Did you know that a former Mayor was a Past Master of Humber Lodge? S.J. Totten, who was Master of the Lodge, was also a volunteer fireman, a Manager of the local Bell Telephone Office, and member of the municipal council and Mayor of Weston.
In Freemasonry, he was in initiated in 1905, Past Master of Humber Lodge in 1919a charter member of Mount Dennis Lodge in 1922, First Principal of Humber Chapter in 1928, received his 32nd degree, and was Grand Steward in 1948. That’s one busy fellow!
We did some additional digging into the Weston Newspaper Archives (Thank you to the Weston Historical Society for granting us access) and found the newspaper article below from .April 21, 1955:
