Centennial history of the city of Newark and Licking County, Ohio. 
by Edwin M. P. Brister

1909 History of Newark and Licking County, Ohio.
Volume One
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Chicago-Columbus. 1909
reprinted in 1982

page 496

FARMERS' LODGE NO. 153, F & A.M., FREDONIA, OHIO
    Farmers' Lodge No. 153 was organized under dispensation issued in 1847 to Brothers Syrene Hall, Timothy Spellman, Bryant Thornhill, Crandall Rosecrans and others, and in 1848 it was granted a charter.

   Dr. Syrene Hall, its first Worshipful Master, was a brother of Sarah Josepha Hall, the poetess and author.  Crandall Rosecrans was the father of General Rosecrans, eminent in his services as a patriotic officer in the Union Army during the Civil War.  Brother Crandall Rosecrans was also the father of Bishop Rosecrans late of Columbus.  . . .
 
   

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