Lodge No.4
News & Events
Members of Distinction
Our lodge has attracted some of the most distinguished men in Connecticut over the course of its history. We are indebted to their affiliation and contributions to the craft.
Samuel Colt
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Raised March 12, 1851
Inventor
Businessman
Founder ofColt's Manufacturing Company
Gideon Welles
Initiated February 1826
United States Secretary of the Navy - 1861-1869
Marshall Jewell
Initiated November 17, 1869
25th Postmaster General of the US
Chair of the RNC
Minister to Russia
44 & 46 Governor of Connecticut
Thomas H. Seymour
Initiated October, 1849
36 Governor of Connecticut
US Congressman
US Ambassador to Russia
Francis Pratt
Raised July 10, 1863
Founder of Pratt and Whitney
Col. Samuel Wyllys
Initiated March 1763
Founder and Captain of the First Company Governor's Footgaurd
-Siege of Boston
-Battle of Long Island
CT Secretary of State 1796-1809
Herman P. Kopplemann
US Congressman
Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
Raised November 4, 1784
2nd US Secretary of the Treasury
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit
24th Governor of Connecticut
Fifth Grand Master of CT
Morgan Bulkely
First President of the
National League
First Non-Player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
54th Governor of Connecticut
Mayor of Hartford
US Senator
President of Aetna
Civil War veteran under MacClellan in the Peninsula Campaign
Joel Barlow
Initiated January 9, 1788
American Poet and Diplomat
Ambassador to France
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Thomas K. Brace
Initiated March 1805
First President of Aetna
Director of The Hartford
Henry C. Deming
Initiated July 23, 1851
US Congressman
Mayor of Hartford
Provisional Mayor of New Orleans
James Dixon
Initiated February 1856
US Senator
US Congressman
Edwin McNeill
President of Union Pacific
John R. Buck
US Congressman
Julius L. Strong
US Congressman
John A. Porter
Raised February 7, 1894
First Secretary to the President
Henri R. Van Zelm
Founder of van Zelm Heywood & Shadford, Inc. (Engineering Firm)
Everett J. Lake
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67th Governor of Connecticut
George B. Hawley
Initiated June 1848
Founder, Hartford Hospital
Joseph Webb Jr.
Affiliated July 23, 1783
Merchant - Host to George Washington
