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Lost Grass Valley Gold Rush History of the Wilhelm & Binkleman Pioneer Families by Waldo C.F. Potter (2024) (374 pages)
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A lodge of the [Improved OrGrass Valley. Great chiefs were present from San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton. Among the officers were Cornelius Taylor, P. H.j.
Paynter, S. Tyrrell, A. B. Dibble, .
David Binkleman, C., W. Smith andj
W. C. Pope, all prominent citizens of .
those days.
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July 21, 1870
David Binklemann was incredibly involved with early Grass Valley and was an early prominent citizen of
Grass Valley. He was among the first members of the local Improved Order of Red Men, Weimer Tribe
34 and Nevada Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Nevada County (Masons). Society, socials, dances,
and fraternal and charitable orders were particularly important in the frontier towns since they were so
removed from larger cities and had no TV, computers, recorded music, or phones to occupy their spare
time.
The Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal order, was started on December 16, 1773, when a group of
men—all members of the Sons of Liberty—met in Boston to protest the tax on tea imposed by England.
When their protest went unheeded, they disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, proceeded to
Boston harbor, and dumped 342 chests of English tea overboard. However, for the next 35 years, the
original Sons of Liberty and Sons of St. Tamina groups went their own way under many different names.
In 1813, at historic Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, several groups came together and formed one
organization known as the Society of Red Men. The name was changed to the Improved Order of Red
Men in Baltimore in 1834. Their rituals and regalia are modeled after those assumed to be used
by Native Americans. The organization claimed a membership of about half a million in 1935 but has
declined to a little more than 15,000.
Freemasonry consists of fraternal organizations that trace their origins to the local fraternities
of stonemasons, which regulated the qualifications of stonemasons from the end of the fourteenth
century and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three
grades of medieval craft guilds: Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master
Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these
organizations are known as Freemasons or Masons.
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