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William H Upton Naval & Military Lodge

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Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-WA · Washington
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
F&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
https://www.whupton206.org

Public contacts

email: ssageser@gmail.com personal published by org
phone: 3602289929 public organizational

Addresses

mailing Bremerton, WA, 98337-1431
physical Bremerton, WA, 98337

Officers (public)

Junior Warden: WB James Huston
Marshal: Bro John Gifford
Marshal: VWB Kelly Combs
Senior Deacon: Bro Will Lewis
Senior Steward: WB Wade Gore
Senior Steward: Bro Jerimiah Maxwell
Treasurer: VWB Scot Sageser
Treasurer: WB Phil Liggett
Worshipful Master: VWB Todd Mears

Website

Website liveness

live siteOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.

Current site
WHUPTON206 HTTP 200
William H Upton Naval & Military Lodge HTTP unchecked
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #150 worldwide · score 79.4 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed69.0
Distinct hosts12.8
Social accounts00.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)4 / 08.0
Last verified (site-like)2026-09-20 (0d)6.0
Description corpus chars17339.6
Officers listed publicly96.0
Meeting schedule publishedyes6.0
Hall / addressphysical · geocoded8.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions116.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID eb571b29-4041-58d0-a53c-d2dfbb045b32

Lodge lifecycle

Number
206
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A.M.
Opened
unknown
Closed
unknown
Successor
unknown
Meetings
the third Tuesday of the month

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Historical lineage

Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.

This body traces through / was chartered by

SourceTargetDatesEvidence
Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A.M.charteredWilliam H Upton Naval & Military LodgeunknownunknownSourceautomatically_extracted

Current recognition

Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.

This organization recognizes

None documented.

Organizations that recognize this one

None documented.

Classifications (attributed)

Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.

None documented.

No attributed classifications.

Other documented relationships

None documented.

Primary-source corpus

URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.

official website · primary
WHUPTON206

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200

historical sketch · locator
Our History

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator entity 1 — Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A.M.

William H Upton Naval & Military Lodge No. 206 listed under Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A.M. as active at 878 5th St., Bremerton, WA, 98337 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

Our History Home Lodge Officers Calendar of Events Support/Resources Our Work Our History More Home Lodge Officers Calendar of Events Support/Resources Our Work Our History Home Lodge Officers Calendar of Events Support/Resources Our Work Our History our lodge history Our Lodge was named for Honorable Judge William H. Upton.  William H. Upton was a son of William Upton, who was a Chief Justice of Oregon and Comptroller of the United States Treasury under President Hayes. William H. Upton was the sixth of eleven children. He graduated from Yale College in 1877, spent three years in the Navy Department at Washington DC, and afterward graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School. Mr. Upton came to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1880 to practice law. In 1888 he became a member of the Territorial Legislature and in 1889, and again in 1892, he was elected Superior Judge of Walla Walla and Franklin counties.   Judge Upton was Master of Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 13, F. & A. M., of Walla Walla in 1892. He was known as a Masonic scholar, becoming Grand Master of the MW Grand Lodge of Washington in 1898. Judge Upton made many significant contributions to Masonry; his most significant being his committee report of 1897 on Black Masonry and his efforts as Grand Master passing a resolution recognizing Prince Hall Masons in the State of Washington, however most of the other white Grand Lodges in the United States and Canada withdrew Masonic relations with

Assertions

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