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    Case 1 · The first hall · Cassopolis

    Who told James M. Shepard the story of the 1846 lodge? He wasn’t there, and he put a question mark in it.

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    Opened 15 Oct 2026.

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    “Somebody lost a lodge. It was here.” Read the whole post on Facebook ›

    Page 253 of Rogers’s 1875 History of Cass County, with the paragraphs on the 1846 lodge boxed in red.
    Rogers, 1875, p. 253: the first printing of the 1846 lodge, as James M. Shepard told it.
    Page 254 of Rogers’s 1875 History of Cass County, the end of the lodge story boxed in red.
    Rogers, p. 254. Just below the box: “the charter (?) members.” Whose doubt was that?
    Page 174 of Mathews’s 1882 History of Cass County, Michigan, the lodge story under its own heading.
    Mathews, 1882, p. 174: the same story seven years later. The question mark is gone.

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