Zif Lodge Membership Roll

Footnotes:

1) Transferred from Lodge #130, Geneva, New York.

2) Installed as Treasurer, Sept 20, 1820. Transferred from Clark Lodge #51, Louisville, Kentucky.

3) Transferred from Clark Lodge #51, Louisville, Kentucky. First merchant established in New Albany. Operated a dry good business. Helped establish the First Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Seminary on Elm St between 6th and 7th streets in New Albany. Was a patron of education. Died 1842. Buried at Fairview Cemetery.

4) Petition, January 16, 1821.

5) Petition, January 16, 1821.

6) On May 17, 1819, appointed road commissioner for western Floyd and part of Harrison Counties.

7) Petition, February 20, 1821. Transferred from Abraham Lodge #8, Louisville, Kentucky.

8) Was from New York State. Deceased March 1, 1820. Buried New Albany Burying Ground by Masonic Rite.

9) Installed as the 1st Zif Lodge Worshipful Master August 17, 1819. He was born October 5, 1792 at Hubbardstown, Massachusetts and arrived in New Albany and began his practice in 1818. He was the first doctor and pharmacist in the city. In 1822 he moved his home and office to the building built by Nathaniel Scribner near the corner of Main and State Streets near the Scribner House. He practiced there until 1862. He was also New Albany’s first volunteer fire chief, Indiana’s first Botanist and was elected President of the Indiana State Medical Society in 1820. He became the guardian of a young Lucinda Scribner after her father Nathaniel died in December 1818 on his way to Corydon. In 1818 he married Mary Scribner daughter of Joel and Mary Scribner. She died in 1821 during childbirth. Dr Clapp died December 17, 1862 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery beside the Scribner plot.

10) Transferred from Pisgah Lodge #30, Corydon, Indiana.

11) Settled in New Albany in 1815 and ran a ferry across the Ohio River. He donated land on 11th Street between Spring and Market Streets for the first St. Johns Methodist Church.

12) Was a debt collector. Transferred from Harmony Lodge #52, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

13) May 1819, appointed as commissioner to divide all lands belonging Lucinda and Anne Scribner heirs of Nathaniel Scribner deceased.

14) Petition, August 22, 1821.

15) Was a shipbuilder in New Albany with Humphrey & Dowerman Company.

16) Was a tavern keeper in New Albany.

17) Petition, January 16, 1827.

18) Petition, February 21, 1826.

19) Was a New Albany attorney.

20) Transferred form Friendship Lodge #273 New York State.

21) Born, Oct 8, 1764. Died Nov 23, 1819 New Albany, Indiana. Buried New Albany Burying Ground by Masonic Rite by his request.

22) Was proprietor of Hales Tavern, “The High Street House” (now Main Street.) He married Ester Scribner and was Floyd County Tax Collector in 1824.

23) Petition, November 15, 1825.

24) Petition, April 25, 1821.

25) Brought up on charges for switching counterfeit money as Treasurer. Expelled May 18, 1824.

26) Transferred from Abraham Lodge #4, Washington City. Was a shipbuilder in New Albany.

27) Settled in New Albany 1815. Expelled on charges Nov 22, 1823.

28) Was a Tavern Keeper in New Albany.

29) Petition, April 25, 1821.

30) Petition, May 26, 1824.

31) Petition, January 16, 1821. Transferred from Ohio Lodge # 136. Demitted July 17, 1821.

32) Petition, June 24, 1822.

33) Petition, January 16, 1821.

34) Petition, December 19, 1820.

35) Was attended by Dr. Clapp for high fever and died on March 6, 1822 of “mania temulate” according to his medical diary. Buried at North Burying Ground (Fairview Cemetery.)

36) Petition, February 20, 1821. Transferred from St. John Lodge #6. He was born March 11, 1792 and died June 23, 1847. Buried Fairview Cemetery.

37) Petition, February 20, 1821.

38) Transferred from Lodge #41, Fort Ann, Livingston, New York.

39) Petition, August 22, 1821. Deceased April 19, 1822.

40) He was appointed captain of the 5th Regiment of Indiana Militia on March 5, 1812 and again on January 11, 1813 under the command of Major John Tipton. He was a tavern keeper and lived in the eastern part of Harrison County annexed as Floyd County in 1819.

41) Petition, December 22, 1819. Died September 7, 1822.

42) Petition, July 17, 1821.

43) Charter Member of Zif Lodge. Installed as 1st Sr Warden August 17, 1819. He was the wealthiest person in New Albany and helped grow the cities position as a Midwest trading center. He was from Philadelphia and operated sawmills, gristmills and his own steamboat the “Cincinnati.” Mr. Paxson owned most of the land above New Albany where Edwardsville is today. He died October 16, 1822 of yellow fever while on a business trip to New Orleans and is buried there.

44) Petition, June 24, 1822.

45) Born 1772. Deceased, February 5, 1821.

46) Died, October 16, 1822.

47) Charter Member expelled for bad conduct September 5, 1820.

48) Petition, May 20, 1823. Transferred from Morning Sun Lodge.

49) Petition, May 26, 1824.

50) Petition to transfer to Zif Lodge November 30, 1819. Transferred from Lodge #802, New Forest, England. Began a steamboat building business in New Albany in 1826.

51) Petition, June 24, 1822. Transferred from Union Lodge, Tioga Point, New York.

52) Abner Scribner was born in 1788 in Putnam County, New York. Petition, November 16, 1819. With his brothers Nathaniel and Joel Scribner came to Indiana from New York State and and founded New Albany, Indiana in 1813. He was married to a Mrs. Deval and was considered the most business minded of the three brothers. He was the father of Colonel Benjamin Franklin Scribner who commanded the 38th Indiana Infantry formed in New Albany during the Civil War. Abner spent several years trying to rescue his failing shipping business in Memphis, Tennessee. He contracted yellow fever and died impoverished there on May 21, 1827. He was buried in Memphis.

53) Steamboat builder in New Albany with Shreve and Blair Company from 1817.

54) Petition, March 2, 1822.

55) Transferred from Saint Louis, Missouri Lodge #1.

56) Transferred from Saint Louis, Missouri Lodge #1.

57) Born at Rochelle, France in 1795. After coming to the United States he lived in Baltimore, Maryland and married his wife there. He came to New Albany in 1817 and transferred from Lodge #130 in Baltimore. Was a shipbuilder in New Albany as the owner of Tellon & Company. He was a highly respected citizen and died December 8, 1862. He is buried in Fairview Cemetery.

58) Died, February 5, 1825.

59) Mr. Thompson was the first to petition Zif lodge after it was formed. His petition is dated September 13, 1819.

60) Transferred from Pittsburgh, Ohio Lodge #11.

61) Transferred from Temple Lodge, Albany, New York. Died, September 4, 1822. Buried in New Albany, Indiana.

62) Petition, February 20, 1821.

63) Petition, March 21, 1825.

64) Transferred from Rising Sun Lodge, Madison, Ohio.

65) Died, May 21, 1825. Buried by Masonic Rite, New Albany Burying Ground (Fairview.)

66) Petition, May 26, 1824. Was in the Tool Manufacturing business with Benjamin & Elias Woodruff. They operated the Plane Manufacturing Company in New Albany 1821 to 1827.

67) Was in the Tool Manufacturing business with Benjamin Woodruff. They operated a manufacturing business in New Albany.