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Grand Masters of the Lodge

Wyllys-St. John's is honored to be the Home Lodge of 12 Grand Masters of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons in the State of Connecticut

"...it is scarcely possible to find a man in the United States, more competent to the duties of that station than himself—few who could be equally so…"

Alexander Hamilton's recommendation of Oliver Wolcott to George Washington

-April 17, 1791

Grand Masters of

Wyllys-St. John's #4

Oliver Wolcott Jr. - 1818-1820
Elizur Goodrich Jr. - 1825
James Goodwin - 1828-1830
Horace Goodwin - 1846-1847
Benoni A. Shepard - 1850
David Clark - 1853-1854
Theodore Spencer Jr. - 1855

William Storer - 1867-1868
William E. Hanmer - 1940
Irving E. Partridge Jr. - 1964
William F. Carpenter – 1997
Melvin E. Johnson - 2019

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