As with any organization, the current leaders of the Lodge must rely on the events, history, and opinions of those that have gone before. Listed here is the leadership of our history which provides the strong backbone of our lodge through today.
We thank them for their dedicated service to Chandler Lodge, and overall devotion to our ancient craft.
* Denotes Knight of York Cross of Honour
1846 | W.H. Squires | 1847 | W.H. Squires | 1848 | H.J. Eager |
1849 | H.J. Eager | 1850 | H.J. Eager | 1851 | H.J. Eager |
1852 | Toland Jones | 1853 | Toland Jones | 1854 | John Dungan |
1855 | David Haskell | 1856 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1857 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1858 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1859 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1860 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1861 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1862 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1863 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1864 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1865 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1866 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1867 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1868 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1869 | Jeriah Swetland |
1870 | Jeriah Swetland | 1871 | George Rowland | 1872 | George Rowland |
1873 | Samuel F. Marsh | 1874 | Samuel F. Marsh | 1875 | A.C. Watson |
1876 | A.C. Watson | 1877 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1878 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1879 | Oliver P. Crabbe | 1880 | Harry Fellows | 1881 | Oliver P. Crabbe |
1882 | James B. Sprague | 1883 | Jacob March | 1884 | Richard McCloud |
1885 | John D. Maddux | 1886 | John D. Maddux | 1887 | John D. Maddux |
1888 | John D. Maddux | 1889 | John D. Maddux | 1890 | E.P. Fisher |
1891 | John D. Maddux | 1892 | Bruce P. Jones | 1893 | L.R. Watts |
1894 | John D. Maddux | 1895 | John D. Maddux | 1896 | E.P. Fisher |
1897 | Robert W. Boyd | 1898 | J.W. Cartzdafner | 1899 | Colburn W Farrar |
1900 | Jeriah Swetland | 1901 | C.E. Arbuckle | 1902 | George W. Clark |
1903 | George W. Clark | 1904 | Job J. Clark | 1905 | Job J. Clark |
1906 | Payton R. Emery | 1907 | William A. Jones | 1908 | Walter Converse |
1909 | Organ K. Stroupe | 1910 | William H Riddle Sr | 1911 | Jacob Yerian |
1912 | Thurel A. Creamer | 1913 | Maxey B. Cannon* | 1914 | Harry Hathaway |
1915 | Ralph V.D. Coons | 1916 | Richard H. Robison | 1917 | Joe A. Gardner |
1918 | B.F. Wildman | 1919 | William Culpepper* | 1920 | Clinton Morse |
1921 | Edward S. Neese | 1922 | Rueben S. Piatt | 1923 | Ross J. Dingman |
1924 | Frederick Fischer | 1925 | Albert B. Rankin | 1926 | Joe F. Rasor |
1927 | Henry P. Ford | 1928 | Harvey B. Edwards | 1929 | Forrest E Sidener Sr |
1930 | Bruce D. Lewis | 1931 | Oren E. Peters | 1932 | Robert L. Chaney |
1933 | Raymond Landsittel* | 1934 | Maynard C Dickerson | 1935 | Fred S. Rowand |
1936 | Frank C. Farquhar | 1937 | Floyd Williams | 1938 | Austing Chenoweth |
1939 | William H. Riddle Jr | 1940 | Marcus A. Cornwell | 1941 | Myers W. Jones |
1942 | Edmund L. Denison | 1943 | Paul B. Reid* | 1944 | Paul K. Evans |
1945 | Kermit M. Creamer | 1946 | Harry W. Dickerson | 1947 | Troxell Laybourne* |
1948 | Harry K. Turvy* | 1949 | Glenn V. Sponsler | 1950 | Stephen C. Edwards |
1951 | Richard Slagle | 1952 | James Littler | 1953 | Harry Elton |
1954 | John Lammi* | 1955 | James M. Cannon* | 1956 | Lloyd R. Willman* |
1957 | Frank F. Jenkins* | 1958 | David Laird* | 1959 | Neil Roddy |
1960 | Kermit Parks | 1961 | Walter Turvy | 1962 | James E. McBride* |
1963 | John Ruggles | 1964 | John Owsley* | 1965 | Richard Johnson |
1966 | Robert Adkins | 1967 | Richard McSavaney | 1968 | Charles Hedges* |
1969 | Donald Cox | 1970 | James Sesler | 1971 | Donald Shoemaker* |
1972 | Robert H Kelly Sr* | 1973 | Sanford B. Lacey* | 1974 | Earl R. Ballenger |
1975 | Herbert C Eades Jr | 1976 | Paul T. Selby* | 1977 | Elden L. Ice* |
1978 | Robert L. Johnson | 1979 | James R. Bowen* | 1980 | Robert S. Collier |
1981 | Walter R. Brown | 1982 | William J. Stokes* | 1983 | Dewey Hildebrand |
1984 | R. Paul Keeton* | 1985 | Darrin Stromquist* | 1986 | James R. Bowen* |
1987 | Theodore Eisleben | 1988 | Jerry W. Kerr* | 1989 | Robert W Stapleton* |
1990 | Richard Ballard* | 1991 | Michael B. Barlow | 1992 | Donald B. LeFavour* |
1993 | John T. Turvy | 1994 | Robert H. Kelly II* | 1995 | Paul H. Dillard |
1996 | Roger Dillion | 1997 | Paul H. Dillard | 1998 | Nelson McLarkey* |
1999 | Jeff Stanford | 2000 | Nelson McLarkey* | 2001 | Charles Herrnstein* |
2002 | Jason Adelsberger | 2003 | John W. Green* | 2004 | John W. Green* |
2005 | Robert Kelly II* | 2006 | Brian M. Knoll | 2007 | Donald Wilt |
2008 | Michael D. Beres | 2009 | Paul Thompson* | 2010 | David L. Waggoner |
2011 | Paul Thompson* | 2012 | Don Wilt | 2013 | Gary Mathias |
2014 | Roy Kelly | 2015 | Roy Kelly | 2016 | Josh Rogers |
2017 | Acting-Tyler Smith | 2018 | Tyler Smith | 2019 | Tyler Smith |
2020 | Tyler Smith | 2021 | Dow Voelker | 2022 | Dow Voelker |
2023 | Dow Voelker | 2024 | 2025 |