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     William Murray presented the lodge the lot heretofore mentioned, where
 the first "Masonic Hall" stood, 1795.  This year also saw the first brick house
 in Lexington built by Bro. January; Transylvania library was also founded
 through efforts of citizens who were all or nearly all Masons, with Brother
 Andrew McCalla, an apothecary, asits first librarian.
     In 1796 the first Episcopal church was founded and its first Fastor, the
 gentle James Moore, of "Flute and Violin" fame, is said to have been a mem-
 ber of No. 1. Portrait from miniature painted by Peale in Philadelphia, 1795,
 and owned by Misses Mattie and Florence Love, 203 W. Broadway, Louisville,
 Ky. Shown with Morrison above.
                   1797. ALEXANDER MACGREGOR

   First Deputy Grand Master 1800. Probably came with Januarys to Ken.
tucky 1780. One of lodge Trustees under Murray deed. Representative to
Virginia Grand Lodge 1798. Master of early Mark Lodge. Early member of
St. Andrews Society and probably charter member of the "Lexington Emigra-
tion Society," formed this year with Bro. Thorras Hart as President.  First
Deputy Grand Master and Member of the Danville Convention.
                         1798. HUGH M'ILVAIN

                   Grandfather of H. P. M'l1vain, P. H. P. ef Kentucky and
               probably came to Kentucky with Alex Macgregor. Portrait
               by courtesy of Bro. B. Wilson Smith, 2122 N. New Jersey St.,
               Indianapolis, Ind. Hugh M'llvain's sister married Jas. Rankin,
               the grandfather of Bro. Smith's wife. Top head in above cut
               is M'lvain.
                          1798. GENERAL THOMAS BODLEY
                   Portrait shown at bottom of above cut. Born July 4, 1772,
               in Pennsylvania and died June 10, 1833, in the great Cholera
               Plague in Lexington. Served in Wayne's Indian campaign
               and came to Lexington in 1787. First Secretary of the "Dem.
               ocratic Society" of 1793, of which Bro. John Breckinridge was
President; and one of the founders of St. Andrews Society 1798 and Captain
of the Lexington Light Infantry. First Circuit Clerk. Commissioned by Gov.
Garrard 1803, to restore burnt county records of Fayette; surveyed "Main
Cross Street" now Broadway; Deputy Q3uarteimaster General in War 1912;
elector from Kentucky 1817; Grand Master 18f8; Trustee Transylvania Univer-
sity.
                          1799. JAMES BLlSS

  Secretary for part of the year.  Nothing else known of him. The State
Constitution was revised this year. Bros. John Breckinridge and Buckner
Thurstot. of Lexington Lodge being delegates to the convention. Bridges
across Town Branch repaired and holes in street filled.