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Northwest Lodge 1434 A F & A M

Chartered 12/04/75

First Worshipful Master was Charles Mahaffey.

Meeting place was in the Aldine Lodge Building on West Road. Later moved to Spring Lodge Building. Then about 1993 moved to present location on Strack Drive with Henry D. (Hank) Adair as Worshipful Master.

Membership showed some growth at the Aldine location but by the time of the move to the Strack Drive location the membership was showing a decrease in numbers. At Strack drive the membership began to show an increase.

Current membership is about 165.

Masonic membership was often the one common denominator among the early settlers and adventurers that came to Texas in the early 1800's. Men of different backgrounds and cultures often found a hearty welcome in the "friendly grip" of a brother Mason's handshake. The first Mason known to have entered Texas was Major Zebulon M. Pike, a member of Lodge No. 3, Philadelphia. He came in 1806 and 1807, scouting the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, and the Spanish settlements of the Rio Grande.

As the winds of Texas' war of independence began to blow in the fall of 1835, there were many Masons in the foremost positions of authority, both military and political. The Texans' first shot was fired by Eli Mitchell on October 2, 1835, near Gonzales. He and his commander, Colonel John H. Moore, were both Masons.

Masonic historian Dr. James D. Carter counts twenty-two known Masons among the fifty-nine signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, signed at Washington-on-the Brazos on March 2, 1836. Records from the early 1800's are often incomplete and sometimes non-existent. As a result, some memberships cannot be verified and many Masons are left uncounted.

On March 6, 1836, after thirteen days of siege, the fortified Mission San Antonio de Valero, known as the Alamo, fell to the final onslaught of Mexican troops under the dictator General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Among the 188 Texans who died that day, only a handful can be reliably identified as members of the fraternity.

Famous Masons
AUTHORS: Robert Burns Rudyard Kipling Irving Batcheller Mark Twain Sir Walter Scott	ASTRONAUTS: Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr. Leroy Gordon Cooper Donn F. Esele Virgil I. Grissom Edgar D. Mitchell Walter M. Schirra Jr.
CLERGYMEN: Daniel A Polling Norman Vincent Peale	COMPOSERS: Franz Joseph Hayden Wolfgang Mozart Jean Sibelius Beethoven John Phillip Sousa
CINEMA: David Sarnoff Cecil B DeMille Lauritz Melchior Audi Murphy John (Duke) Wayne	DOCTORS: Charles W. Mayo Sir Alexander Flemming
PATRIOTS: Benjamin Franklin John Hancock Paul Revere John Lafayette Simon Bolivar Giuseppe Garibaldi	EXPLORERS: Richard E. Byrd
MILITARY LEADERS & HEROS: Douglas MacArthur John J. Pershing Omar Bradley Audi Murphy Ernest J. King Jonathan M. Wainwright Edward V. Rickenbacker Eugene A. Barham William Westmoreland William B. Travis Sam Houston Stephen F Austin Charles Lindbergh	PRESIDENTS & POLITICIANS: George Washington Andrew Jackson Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Harrry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Gerald Ford Robert J. Dole
PHILOSOPHERS: Will Rogers Voltare	SPORTSMEN: Arnold Palmer
STATESMEN Simon Bolivar Edward the VII George the VI	AND OTHERS: James Boswell Johann Wolfganng von Goethe Lord Kitchner Louis Kossuth Giuseppe Mazzini Jose Rizal Manuel Fernandez-Juncos Cecil J. Rhodes Thomas P. Stafford Paul J Weitz James B. Irwin Daniel Carter Beard J. Edgar Hoover Thomas J Watson Jose Antonio Navarro Lorenzo de Zavala Lewis A. Armistead Henery H. Bingham

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