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Cyrus Field Willard[1, 2, 3]

Male 1858 - 1942  (83 years)


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  • Name Cyrus Field Willard 
    Birth 17 Aug 1858  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1860  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Role: Son
    Member From 1928 to 1941  [6] 
    the Philalethes Society
    • He served as President from 1928 through 1930 and again from 1930 through 1941. In between he served as Executive Secretary.

      On October 1, 1928 a handful of writers, authors and editors organized this Research Society that has stood the test of time. The founders read like a "Who Is (Was) Who In Freemasonry." They include: Robert I. Clegg of Chicago, Illinois, revisor of Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry; George H. Imbrie of Kansas City, Missouri, a foremost Masonic researcher; Cyrus Field Willard of San Diego, California, another excellent Masonic
      researcher whose work is still read today; Alfred H. Moorhouse of Boston, Massachusetts, editor of The New England Masonic Craftsman; Henry F. Evans of Denver, Colorado, editor of the Square and Compass; and William C. Rapp of Chicago, Illinois, editor of the Chicago Masonic Chronicler.

      The name selected was "Philalethes" (pronounced fill-a-lay-thees), a Greek word meaning "love of truth." It was certainly a meaningful title, but because of its foreign relationship, difficult to "sell."

      http://owmg.org/Education/STB/STB-1997/STB-JA97.txt 28 Aug 2002
    Death 17 Jan 1942  San Diego, San Diego, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 6] 
    Person ID I19265  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2015 

    Father Sgt. Elijah Willard, Jr.,   b. 1816, Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1894, Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Mary Theresa Donovan,   b. Abt 1825, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Sep 1894, Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1844  [2, 7, 8] 
    Census 1850  New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Census 1860  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 1880  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Family ID F6597  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Alice A. Whiteley,   b. Apr 1863, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1898 (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Marriage 26 Nov 1884  Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F6666  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Family 2 Elizabeth H. ________,   b. Abt 1856, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1935, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1898 
    Family ID F13100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Aug 1858 - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1860 - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 26 Nov 1884 - Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 17 Jan 1942 - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 

    • Nationalist Clubs and the Nationalism Movement
      Around the nation some of the readers of Looking Backward desired to discuss the social implications of this novel and to promote its vision of the future. "Bellamy Clubs," soon to be called "Nationalist Clubs," were organized throughout the nation. Eventually 167 clubs were formed, a few of them were headed by people still famous, such as Clarence Darrow of the Chicago Nationalist Club. Thus, Looking Backward led to the formation of a movement which had an important influence on the politics of the 1888-1892 period and, later, on the reforms of the Progressive Era.

      The first Nationalist Club was formed in Boston. On September 18, 1888, two Civil War veterans, Captain Charles E. Bowers and General A. F. Devereux formed the "Boston Bellamy Club." Bellamy had received correspondence from other people in the Boston area interested in the same subject, and he had invited Cyrus Field Willard of the Boston Globe and Sylvester Baxter of the Boston Herald to a December meeting at Captain Bowers's office. Also attending were five Christian socialists, Alzire A. Chevallier of the Christian Science Monitor, Frederick White, Reverend W.P.D. Bliss, Edward Everett Hale, and William Dean Howells.

      On December 15, 1888, they formed the Boston Nationalist Club. Edward Bellamy, who attended this meeting, insisted that his name not be used, and at Captain Bower's suggestion the name "Nationalist" was substituted. This "Nationalism" signified not "my country over others" but "nationalization" or public ownership and management of the economy.

      Cyrus Field Willard had been a member of the Socialist Labor Party but had become discouraged by their disputes and dissensions. He was labor editor of the Boston Globe. Sylvester Baxter was an editorial writer on the Boston Herald. Both men were also leaders in the American Theosophist Society, a small religious movement that tried to combine the best of the religions of the Far East with Christianity. Baxter soon became president of the Theosophical Society in Malden, the town James Upham lived in.

      Eventually this Nationalist Club was called the Boston Nationalist Club Number One to distinguish it from the Boston Nationalist Club Number Two, which was founded in 1889. The Boston Nationalist Club Number One held discussions on theory and values. Its activities included lectures, discussions and contacts with various world-wide socialist and reform movements in conjunction with its religious auxiliary, the Christian Society of Socialists.


      Many of its club's members were men of letters, like William Dean Howells, Edward Everett Hale, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. It published The Nationalist (1889 - 1891), a monthly edited by Henry Willard Austin. Contributors included Edward Bellamy, Higginson, Hale, Bliss, Sylvester, and Baxter.

      from http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/pdgech3.htm extracted 28 Aug 2002.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S666] Rev. Elijah Willard - Methodist minister, 00665.

    2.  2.  [S532] Willard Genealogy, 645, 00625.

    3.  3.  [S643] California Death Index, 1905-1997, Cyrus Field Willard, 00643.

    4.  4.  [S499] Census on CD and Online, MA:1860:495:930, 00095.

    5.  5.  [S499] Census on CD and Online, 1860:MA:Essex:Lynn Ward 6:480 (930), 00095.

    6.  6.  [S724] Paul M. Bessel, philal.htm, 00724.

    7.  7.  [S499] Census on CD and Online, 1860:MA:Suffolk:Boston:Dist. 690:133c, 00095.

    8.  8.  [S499] Census on CD and Online, 1850:LA:Orleans:New Orleans:Roll 237, Page 64, 00095.

    9.  9.  [S499] Census on CD and Online, MA:Suffolk:Boston:Dist. 690:133c, 00095.