ADMINISTRATION OF JEREMIAH MOORS.

GRAND MASTER 1849-1850.

No name is more prominently identified with the early history of the Grand Lodge of Michigan than that of Brother Jeremiah Moors. He came from New Hampshire to Western New York, and from there to Michigan in the early part of the century, and was initiated into Masonry in Zion Lodge, Detroit, in the year 1819. The following year he visited Rochester, New York, and there learned the work and lectures, and when he returned to Detroit in 1821, he gave much attention to disseminating the work in which he had been instructed, which was substantially as taught at the present day. He was active, with others, in obtaining a charter from the Grand Lodge of New York for Detroit Lodge, No. 337, (Now No. 2) and was the Worshipful Master thereof when work was suspended in 1829. We find him among those who organized the first Grand Lodge of Michigan in 1826, and he was appointed Senior Grand Deacon, by General Lewis Cass, the first Grand Master. He remained an active member of this Grand Lodge until the "lights went out" in 1829. When the anti-masonic excitement of those early years had died out and the fires were re-kindled upon the altars of masonry, we again find him in the Master's chair in Detroit Lodge, and an officer and active worker in the Grand Lodge that existed from 1841 to 1844, being elected Grand Visitor and Lecturer at the June meeting in 1844.

He was an active member of the present Grand Lodge from the time of its organization, serving in various official positions, and nearly always being on some of the most important working committees, and in 1849 was elected Grand Master, and re-elected in 1850. He served the Grand Lodge with marked ability and retired from the exalted office with the well earned esteem and affection of his co-workers.