CHAPTER VIII
SECRETARIES OF UNION VILLAGE LODGE No. 545, F. & A. M.

Union Village Lodge has been blessed with a succession of efficient secretaries who took their job seriously. Their minutes of the various meetings throughout the years are most interesting and revealing of the lodge activities to this present day. Of course, some stand out as doing a neater and better reporting job than others, but the research found only one man who failed to take the job seriously. His case was handled in accordance with Masonic rules and regulations and known only by the brethren.

 
Secretaries and dates of their service:
* 1. W.B. Garr........................................................1877
* 2. W. T. Rivers ...........................................'78, '79, '80
* 3. T. C. M. Perry ..............................................'80, '86
* 4. Jesse T. Harris .................................................1881
* 5. Dr. William M. Province ...........................'82, '83, '84, '85
* 6. James T. Gilmore ............................'87, '88, '89. '92, '93,
 '96, '97, 1901
* 7. Willis M. Deer ..................................................1891
* 8. J. M. Ragsdale ..................................................1894
* 9. J. W. Simpson ...................................................1895
*10. E.W. Selch ......................................................1898
*11. Dr. J. G. Tressler ........................................1899, 1900
*12. John Hall .......................................................1902
*13. John C. Weddie ..................................................1903
*14. Robert J. Johnson ...............................................1904
*15. Grover Rivers ...................................................1905
*16. Byron Miller ..............................................1906, 1907
*17. Chester O. Bridgeman ............................................1908
*18. Roy F. Rund .....................................................1909
*19. George Thompson .................................................1910
*20. Charles O. Wagsman ..............................................1911
*21. James A. Selch ..................................................1912
*22. Ezra Brawner ....................................................1913
*23. Chalmers J. Brown .........................................1914, 1915
*24. William B. Selch ....................................1916, 1917, 1918
*25. Arthur G. Brown .................................................1919
*26. John Selch ......................................................1920
*27. John Hall .......................................................1921
*28. Frank M. Park .................................1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
*29. Ralph E. Deer (suspended) .....................1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
 30. Hazael O. Blackwell .....................1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934
*31. Tilford Spicer ......................................1935, 1936, 1937
*32. Albert Barnett ................................1938, 1939, 1940, 1941
*33. G. Marvin Merriman .........................................1942-1977
 34. Ernest H. Vandiver .........................................1978-1982
 35. John H. Coffing ............................................1983-1986
 36. Noble T. Spicer ......................................1986-2004, 2006
 37. George Fetterman ................................................2005

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