Month: August 2021

Charles E. Pike

Is he the prohibitionist mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Estabrook

http://www.prohibitionists.org/history/votes/WI_can.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_Party

Is this him? Different parent but right birth town? 8/15/1816 Calais

https://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Pike/6000000018087822438 quote:

Charles Edward Pike
Birthdate:August 15, 1816
Birthplace:Calais, Washington, Maine, United States 
Death:December 27, 1899 (83) 
St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States
Immediate Family:Son of William Pike and Hannah Pike 
Husband of Mary Helen Pike and Unknown Pike 
Father of Edgar Wallace Pike; Charles Eliot Pike; Francis Wallace Pike; Hannah (Annie) Shepherd Pike; William Robert Pike and 2 others 
Brother of Elizabeth Ann Chandler 

This is in Mass Historical report:

“Charles E. Pike (1816-1899) was born in Calais, Maine, the son of Samuel T. Pike and Susanna Day. He graduated from Bowdoin College and after two years teaching in a private school in Machias, Maine he began his law studies in the offices of attorneys in his native town before obtaining a degree at Harvard Law School. He returned to Machias to practice law and represented his town in the Legislature of Maine in 1847. By 1853 he was a counselor-at-law in Boston and living there with his wife Mary Bowles (b. 1833), also born in Maine, who he had married that year. They moved to Newton Center the following year, and in 1856 Pike was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature.4 Mary Pike’s poor health led to their decision to move to Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1859.5 By then the couple had four children, Charles (b. 1855), Frank (b. 1856), Anna (b. 1857) and Willie (b. 1858). A fifth child, Frederick, was born in Wisconsin in 1863. Charles E. Pike served as solicitor of internal revenue in Washington, D.C. in 1865 and 1866, and the family was enumerated living in Boston in 1870. By 1880 they were back in Oshkosh where Charles E. Pike died in 1899.”

1914 Asa Jewett at Grand Commandery meetings

Asa Jewett is mentioned as attending several grand commandery meetings in PA and ME in the 1912-1917 proceedings

https://books.google.com/books?id=3jowAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA902&ots=sq5YVKJEKR&dq=(%22Asa%20Clark%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20C.%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20Clarke%20Jewett%22)%20knights%20templar&pg=PA902#v=onepage&q=(%22Asa%20Clark%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20C.%20Jewett%22%20OR%20%22Asa%20Clarke%20Jewett%22)%20knights%20templar&f=false

1911 photo of Asa Jewett?

From this entry in Scottis Rite Masonic site:

“State Grange [Patrons of Husbandry] Deputies
1911
Maker not marked
USA: New Hampshire
Photograph on paper mounted on card
overall: 13 3/4 in x 17 5/8 in
Museum Purchase
2006.009

Black and white photograph of State Grange [Patrons of Husbandry] Deputies mounted on dark gray cardboard. The photo has a painted backdrop with a column and drapery. There is a patterned carpet on the floor. The photograph shows a group of men wearing dark suits, white shirts, sashes and medals or jewels. The men in the front row are seated on side chairs; the three rows of men behind stand. Printed at the bottom of the mat in black is

R.L. Mackie J.E. Eastman Geo. Earl Parkman /

Frank P. Cheney A.S. Andrews Chas. A Rollins A.G. Weeks H.L. Wiggin W.H. White /

F.A. Rogers A.O. Harrington W.O. Field Leon N. Bayon Frank H. Corning Harvey A. Jewett I.J. Smith /

C.B. McClure Geo. L. Flanders Orville P. Smith H.B. Worthen E.G. Arlin Fred W. Dudley /

State Grange Deputies 1911.”

Based on this Jewett would be in the 2nd row, 2nd from the right:

Asa Jewett Bio

Some biographical info from the blog post on the addition of his sword to a museum collection:

“Asa Clarke Jewett was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, on March 20, 1860.  According to his obituary, he was in the decorating business with an office in Newton Center and “was one of the best known men in this line in Greater Boston.”  Jewett was raised a Master Mason in Dalhousie Lodge in 1881 and joined Gethsemane Commandery in 1884.  He was also a Scottish Rite Masonand a member of Boston’s Aleppo Temple, part of the Shrine.  In October 1924, Jewett was elected Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  The sword, which was presented to him in November 1924 by his home commandery, seems to recognize this achievement.  

Sadly, Jewett’s time in office was brief.  He died on July 23, 1925, while leading a party of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Knights Templar members to the organization’s 36th Triennial Conclave (or national meeting) in Seattle.  The group had stopped for the night in Glacier National Park, Montana, when Jewett passed away.”